“Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.” ThinkingNeedsWellsUsedCompanyExcuseWell BeingShareholdersStakeholder Author:Simon Mainwaring
“I just like to think rather than talk. But I enjoy everyone's company.” ThinkingEnjoyCompany Author:Thia Megia
“I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.” ThinkingNeedsCompanyDisciplineModelsPerformancesInnovationCaptureMetricsTypology Author:Indra Nooyi
“There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.” PeopleThinkingWantJobsGivenCompanyComfortProveBuiltTasksMajorityStructureMinorities Author:Mark Pincus
“Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.” ThinkingGodCitiesCompanyKnownEasierHarmonySeekersDwellersTruth Seekers Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.” ThinkingCompanyPrideOrganizationCriticalDrivingBoatOwnersOwnershipBusiness Owners Author:Aaron Levie
“I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.” ThinkingMayChanceCompanyThousandSellingInvestorsChances AreEnron Author:Arthur Levitt Jr
“If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.” PeopleIfsThinkingCareCompanyPaintingObligationIf You Care Author:Daniel H. Pink
“Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.” PeopleThinkingWayGivingWellsArtistCompanyCreativeFieldsSucceedPicksIndependentEntrepreneurMedicalEmployeePaychecksOperatorsMedical Insurance Author:Steven Pressfield
“My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.” ThinkingBigsCompanyProtectWeaponsWorkersIronWorking ItGrandfatherMy GrandfatherPipeHunkHow Far We've Come Author:Larry Page
“People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.” PeopleThinkingUsedCompanyEfficientSchemesEquityCompensationPrivate Equity Author:David Rubenstein
“Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.” ThinkingCompanyMediaVisualsInstagram Author:Kevin Systrom
“Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital and all of the jobs that they killed I'm sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips.” IfsThinkingFeelsEnoughHandsHappensRunningPainJobsCompanyRichDoubtRepublicanUltimateVictimSouthWorriedNo DoubtInsultSlipsRomneyGet RichCarolinaSouth CarolinaDownsizingSticking It Author:Rick Perry
“I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged buyout) business. The LBO business is about how to strip cash out of old, long-in-the-tooth companies and how to make short-term profits. All the jobs that he talks about came from Staples. That was a very early venture stage deal. That, you know they got out of long before it got to its current size.” ThinkingKnowsLongJobsTermDealsCompanyStageRepublicanSizeProfitCurrentsTeethCashVentureShort TermRomneyStaples Author:David Stockman
“I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.” PeopleThinkingBigsCompanyRichBeatsRich PeopleBig Companies Author:Sam Wyly
“For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.” ThinkingMatterMotherCompanyOfficialsPublic HealthPharmaceuticalErosionVaccinationsPharmaceutical Companies Author:Paul A. Offit
“Most people don't understand that at a thought has a frequency - every thought has a frequency. We can measure a thought, so if you're thinking about a thought over and over and over again, or if you're imagining in your mind, having that brand new car, having that money that you need, building that company, finding your soul mate, if you imagine what that looks like your're emitting that frequency on a consistent basis.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsMindLooksSoulCompanyImagineCarBuildingLike YouFindingsBasesAttractionBrandsLaw Of AttractionYour SoulConsistentMatesFrequencySoul MateBrand NewNew Car Author:John Assaraf
“I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.” ThinkingIdeasCompanyPlansSellsGood Ideas Author:Elon Musk
“I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.” ThinkingCompanyAssetsGreat Company Author:Jack Ma