Company Quotes
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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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I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.
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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
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Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.
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You never know when a new job isn't going to pan out, or circumstances change, and you'll want to return to your previous company. I myself have done this. While being a hothead about leaving a job may seem satisfying at the time, it's just not very likely to serve you well in the long-run.
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Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.
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If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?
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The (threshold in the) prospectus is at 90 percent. We want the whole of the company.
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Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.
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Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company...
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There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?
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The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.
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Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.
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The fate of your company is in the hands of your people. Train them well.
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I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.
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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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The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.
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A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
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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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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
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There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more successful.
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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.
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Quality control which cannot show results is not quality control. Let us engage in QC which makes so much money for the company that we do not know what to do with it.
