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Quotes About Company

I've learned that while the finance goals are important, they're not the most important. Finance can hit all our objectives, and the company still can fail. After all, the best accounts receivables team on the planet can't save us if we're in the wrong market with the wrong product strategy with an R&D team that can't deliver.
~ Gene Kim
They read in an airline magazine that they can manage their whole supply chain in the cloud for $499 per year, and suddenly that's the main company initiative.
~ Gene Kim
One is that it matters. it is not just a department that I can delegate away. it is smack in the middle of every major company effort we have and is critical to almost every aspect of daily operations.
~ Gene Kim
We all know the threat the company faces is real, she thinks. The job of the bridge crew is to ensure the company strategy is viable, not to remind them of the strategy or to micromanage everyone to death. Their job should be to ensure everyone can get their work done.
~ Gene Kim
IT is not just a department. IT is a competency that we need to gain as an entire company.
~ Gene Kim
Awareness is learning to keep yourself company
~ Geneen Roth
But people with good manners never, ever do it in public, or when company is over. Especially when that company is an evil little worm.
~ Geoff Rodkey
What the company staff interpreted as a ramp in sales leading smoothly "up the curve" was in fact an initial blip—what we will be calling the early market—and not the first indications of an emerging mainstream market.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
We do not have, nor are we willing to adopt, any discipline that would ever require us to stop pursuing any sale at any time for any reason. We are, in other words, not a market- driven company; we are a sales-driven company.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
When pragmatists buy, they care about the company they are buying from, the quality of the product they are buying, the infrastructure of supporting products and system interfaces, and the reliability of the service they are going to get. In other words, they are planning on living with this decision personally for a long time to come.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
When pragmatists buy, they care about the company they are buying from, the quality of the product they are buying, the infrastructure of supporting products and system interfaces, and the reliability of the service they are going to get.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
One of the most important lessons about crossing the chasm is that the task ultimately requires achieving an unusual degree of company unity during the crossing period.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
The company failed because its managers were unable to recognize that there is something fundamentally different between a sale to an early adopter and a sale to the early majority, even when the company name on the check reads the same. Thus, at a time of greatest peril, when the company was just entering the chasm, its leaders held high expectations rather than modest ones, and spent heavily in expansion projects rather than husbanding resources.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
Thus it should appear to everyone that the best pastime of all is to be often in good company, far from unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no good can come.
~ Geoffroi De Charny
Ballet is the one place where art flourishes because of a woman; woman is the goddess, the poetess, the muse. That is why I have a company with beautiful girl dancers.
~ George Balanchine
Matias!" Nadira said into the ensuing silence. "Why did you sell our company to Ramona Adler?" "Because it's customary to exchange bridal gifts before the wedding," he said. Everyone screamed at once.
~ Ilona Andrews
We just drifted apart . . . I began to find his company extremely tiring . It was extremely tiring, but we were all addicted to it.
~ Iris Murdoch
Since parting company with the priesthood he could almost be said to have become demoralised. Almost, for somehow he remained someone, a slightly mysterious someone, whom they respected, and they gave him the benefit of every doubt.
~ Iris Murdoch
She did not understand music and it upset her, it had only sad, tragic things to say. These leaping forms, these pursuits and insistences, these elusive desperate repetitions, always seemed to her like one long cry of agony. She could not, in this company, allow herself the luxury of self-pitying tears, which was her highest tribute to the art. She looked about her and let the music gather to her the people with whom she was so deeply concerned.
~ Iris Murdoch
Planet Ay The Apes hus insinuated hissel intae the company. The thought ay that cunt shaggin wee Maria Anderson is not aesthetically appealing. The thought ay that cunt shaggin anybody isnae aesthetically appealing. If he tries tae talk tae ma Ma, ah'll gless the fucker's primate pus.
~ Irvine Welsh
As leaders, we've all seen the painful effects of team members not keeping pace with company growth - it's called up-leveling, and it's all too common when a company goes from zero to something to hopefully an IPO.
~ Jennifer Hyman
Zimbabwe is an unusual case study in African colonialism in that it was invaded by a private company under Royal Charter.
~ Petina Gappah
We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home.
~ Ken Patton
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?
~ Paul Getty