Quotes About Company

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.

The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.

Your customers are responsible for your company's reason for existing.

Though you may be paid minimum wage, to the customers you are the face of the entire company.

Every startup is a SME but every SME is not a startup.

If every company becomes a technology company, business models and transitions are going to occur. From a CEO's perspective, this is going to be the biggest technology transition of all times.

When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

If any job should give you a company car, it's the car bomb business.

I want TNA to grow as a company, it's better for me as a performer and me as a businessman. But how can they grow if every chance they get they are constantly talking about up north and the WWE?

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

This was a serious matter. No one was permitted to engage in business with Hunne. He would be without company, because no one would wish to be seen with an excommunicate. He would also of course be assigned to the fires of damnation for eternity.

In the Next Society's corporation, top management will be the company. Everything else can be outsourced.

The idea that growth is by itself a goal is altogether a delusion. There is no virtue in a company's getting bigger. The right goal is to become better. Growth, to be sound, should be the result of doing the right things. By itself, growth is vanity and little else.

A company that is not able to attract, motivate, and hold men of talent and competence will not survive. Increasingly, this will mean attracting, motivating, and holding the knowledge worker. Unlike the manual worker of yesterday, the knowledge worker does not, however, look just for a job. He looks for a career. He looks for an opportunity.

Nothing succeeds like concentration on the right business. And if the company is not in the right business, diversification will no more make it a "growth company," than a man with a broken hip will be restored to health, by being taken on a twenty-mile forced march with an eighty-pound pack on his shoulders.