Dave Allen Quotes
It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand
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No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.
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I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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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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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.
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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.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.
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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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In married life three is company and two none.
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What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.
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One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.
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If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with our own company.
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I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.
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My Safari bookmarks only sync intermittently across my Apple devices. Unlike Amazon's Kindle app for Apple products, the company's iBooks doesn't remember where I left off unless I set a bookmark.
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When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.
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I have to physically attracted to someone. But I can't just be with someone just because it's great sex. Because orgasms don't last long enough.
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Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.
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Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.
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It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand
