Erik Qualman Quotes

Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.

Erik Qualman

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• No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Company
  • Leave
  • Citizen

• You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Change
  • Creative
  • Company

• Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Start

• When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Worry
  • Company
  • Cake

• I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Great
  • Think
  • Company

• To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Game
  • Company
  • Escape

• Edible Arrangements will have to beat back some rivals, including a handful of mom-and-pop vendors and a company in Pennsylvania called Incredibly Edible Delites. And there's always the chance that a deep-pocketed national florist like FTD will decide that pretty produce is profitable and jump into the mix.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Pretty
  • Mom
  • Deep

• In married life three is company and two none.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Company
  • Married

• Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Young
  • Company
  • Teenager

• I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Social
  • Social Life

• I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • More
  • Social
  • Russia

• There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Internet
  • Social
  • Momentum

• I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Proud
  • Company
  • Rules

• I don't do social media.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Media
  • Social
  • Social Media

• I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • See
  • Security
  • Social

• Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Security
  • Social
  • Debt

• If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Company
  • India
  • Fast

• I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Change
  • Social
  • Medicine

• Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • World
  • Men
  • Art

• Laziness is the mother of all evils.

  

  Sophocles
  • Mother
  • Laziness
  • Evils

• The classic rules of American politics are dying, if not dead, if you look at the last two presidential elections. An African-American could never be president until one was; a TV reality star couldn't become president until one was.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Reality
  • Politics
  • Rules

• Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

  

  Karel Appel
  • Art
  • Play
  • Childhood

• The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

  

  Judith Krantz
  • Write
  • Try
  • Find Out

• Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.

  

  Erik Qualman
  • Company
  • Social
  • Balloons