Company Quotes
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The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.
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Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.
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Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in reserve, so we have to go. And if we’re shelled, we’re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
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The beauty of social media is that it will point out your company's flaws; the key questions is how quickly you address these flaws.
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I think big data companies only like good news. So I think they're just hoping that they don't get sued, essentially.
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Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company...
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How could anyone ever build a company if they didn't have investments? It doesn't make any sense.
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I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.
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There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.
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Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.
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I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.
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One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'
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Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to sugar. They've discovered that the brain lights up for sugar the same way it does for cocaine...
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I have also made this a point in our company: We need to stop taking baby steps and start thinking globally. It really seems to be helping.
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My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.
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But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.
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I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.
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It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.
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One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... Having someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.
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The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
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Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.
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To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.