Companies Quotes
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The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.
Bill Gates
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The practice of creating chartered joint-stock companies of a modern type seems to have begun at the commencement of the seventeenth century; and the formation of the East India Company is one of the earliest, if not the very earliest, examples. At first, it appears, the 'joint stock' of the company was separately made up for each ship; perhaps for each voyage. But, in the year 1612 the Company made the momentous resolve to have one joint stock for the whole of its affairs, and thus inaugurated a new epoch. The East India Company, or Companies, (for there were two of them), were followed by the Hudson's Bay Company (1670), the existence of which was recognized by statute in 1707, and by the Bank of England and the notorious South Sea Company.
Edward Jenks
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Provocative and challenging The Social License makes a compelling case for why companies must look to increase their positive social impact as an integral part of their core business strategies.
Paul Polman
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Clients, the wider community, and the environment. Said differently, companies are human communities. If we once begin to think of our places of work not as something divorced from the rest of life, but as communities that are a vital dimension of our existence as people, and in fact at the heart of a meaningful life, a fundamentally different idea of how a company should operate enters the picture.
Catherine Bell
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If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.
Rick Renzi
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The eight months I took off between 'Teen Vogue' and 'Lucky' afforded me such amazing opportunities, and I learned so much from so many different people - the brands that I worked with, the companies that I was consulting for.
Eva Chen
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Politics has become very unpredictable, making things so very difficult for individuals and also for companies.
Nicholas Bloom
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There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.
Bill Gates
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We have doubts, and we would like to be assured that there will be enough investment. With deep respect to Russian companies, they need help.
Andris Piebalgs
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In Indian companies, people aren't too worried about the pace of growth as long as you're setting up a business which will survive for years.
Ravi Subramanian
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As mayor, I've traveled to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico to meet with heads of state and business leaders to promote trade with L.A. companies and through L.A.'s seaports and airports - because that generates L.A. jobs.
Eric Garcetti
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China, Russia and India are shooting for the Moon. United Arab Emirates says Mars. Other private citizens and companies are heading either to Mars, asteroids, or the Moon.
Rick Tumlinson
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In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They're awash in overhead, and it's pinning them down, and they know it.
Mike Binder
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Figure out what you do best, and build a team second to none around that... # 1 Requirement in building first class companies.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
