Mike Wilson Quotes
Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.
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Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.
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The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.
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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.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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I need to be able to explain myself in context.
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I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
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Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
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To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
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Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.
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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.
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Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)
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I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.
