Company Quotes

At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.

~ Gelsey Kirkland

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

~ Thomas Mann

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

~ Mark Twain

Communism is like one big phone company.

~ Lenny Bruce

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

~ John Desmond Bernal

With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

~ Ma Jun

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

~ Hedy Lamarr

When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.

~ Eddie Murray

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

~ Bruce Springsteen

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.

~ Patrick Lencioni

Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

~ Olga Kurylenko

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

~ Elon Musk

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

~ Kevin Mitnick

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

~ Marc Andreessen

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

~ Larry Page

In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and that was all any telecom engineer worried about.

~ Vint Cerf

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

~ Will.i.am

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

~ Ralph Nader

I'm sponsored by the solar company Goal Zero, and they were gracious enough to install panels on my van and a nice battery system for the inside. I have lights and a fridge inside the van. And of course I had panels installed on my mom's house.

~ Alex Honnold

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

~ Christie Hefner

When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for 'The King and I,' and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going.

~ Lea Salonga

The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!

~ Wilbur Smith

Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders rose up in arms: making this politically charged offering wasn't the reason they had entrusted Kodak with their money. The donation was withdrawn.

~ Noreena Hertz

I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for themselves... They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company.

~ Ashton Kutcher

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

~ Anita Roddick

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

~ Arthur Rock

The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!

~ Gunther Schuller

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.

~ David Packard

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

~ Michel De Montaigne

I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience.

~ Howard Schultz

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

~ Carly Fiorina

At a European auto show, I had someone from a German car company come up to me and say the Karma should cost $125,000, not $87,900, but our development process lets us lower the costs. I guarantee it's profitable.

~ Henrik Fisker

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

~ Christine O'donnell

My dad was phenomenal. Born in Mexico, lived poor, didn't graduate from college, and becomes head of a car company and then governor of a state. I can't imagine I would have ever thought about running for office had I not seen my dad do it.

~ Mitt Romney

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

~ Elon Musk

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

~ Oliver Goldsmith