Company Quotes

When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.

~ John Sculley

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

~ Phil Schiller

I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump.

~ Tre Cool

A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.

~ Caroline Leavitt

I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'

~ Karolyn Grimes

We had been to a couple really awkward office Christmas parties, including one at our production company. It's just a really interesting place, an event that hadn't really been captured.

~ Will Speck

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

~ Peter Drucker

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

~ J. Paul Getty

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

~ Simon Sinek

Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards.

~ Robert Gottlieb

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.

~ David Oyelowo

io9 was the last standalone site that Gawker Media ever launched. It was born at a time when many of the company's other famous sites, from Consumerist and Wonkette to Fleshbot and Idolator, were being sold off or shuttered.

~ Annalee Newitz

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

~ Steve Wozniak

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

~ Jarvis Cocker

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.

~ Casey Kasem

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

~ W. H. Auden

I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.

~ Feisal Abdul Rauf

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

~ David Hume

Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this, too, right along side of him.

~ Ivanka Trump

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

~ John B. S. Haldane

The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

~ Zac Hanson

In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.

~ Tim O'brien

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

~ Henry David Thoreau

I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'

~ Uday Kotak

Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.

~ Yuri Milner

Founding a company is a sheer act of will and tenacity in the face of immense skepticism from everyone - investors, customers, friends, family, and employees, to name a few.

~ Steve Blank

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

~ Ben Horowitz

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

~ Zoe Foster Blake

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

~ Cole Younger

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

~ Zoe Saldana

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

~ Peter Thiel

In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.

~ Jay Samit

Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.

~ Patrick Lencioni

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

~ Samuel Johnson

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

~ Michael Pollan

To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.

~ Heston Blumenthal

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

~ Warren Buffett

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

~ Larry Page

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

~ Harold S. Geneen