Company Quotes
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You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
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We’re the only entertainment company that tours this much. And we keep expanding.
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The reality is the only place a company's culture is going to start and end is at the beginning of that company. And it always starts with the founders. So if you can't create an environment of founders and founding employees who are going to represent the company you want, then you are never going to get there. You have to look at your own network and find what you are missing. So if you don't have a female or someone who has an international perspective or a person with a bio degree, but those perspectives matter to the firm or product you want to create, then it's never going to work out.
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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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Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.
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The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.
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I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?
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You are my counterfeit mystery. My artificial company. My forged reality. My imaginary friend I can’t eradicate.
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The concept of why is already in the vernacular. It is now a noun. "That company doesn't know their why." "They need to learn their why." "That politician needs to understand his why." We talk about it as a noun. That never existed prior to 2009. That never existed prior to 2006 when I first started articulating it. This is the most amazing thing to me. It has now become a concept. It's part of the way we think about businesses and transactions and decisions.
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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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My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation.
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As a designer, you are not only a designer, you are also a celebrity, an entertainer, and a spokesperson that speaks on behalf of the company. So you need to realize that you have to embrace all those sides.
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The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.
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I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.
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Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
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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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Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
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You are all great, and everything about your company is wonderful!
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I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
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Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.
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I'm only looking at it in the context of what it does for my company.
