Company Quotes
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The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.
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The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.
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We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
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I built a company, a team, and a brand that started right here. It was an American success story, and it started right here in Arizona.
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Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.
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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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Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.
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Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.
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My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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It's not available in America, we don't have a distribution company or a label yet, but in Denmark, at the first of the year, I recorded with a group called the Alligators.
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The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock.
