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

Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.

A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.

A startup is a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed.

Kris [Jenner] and the family, they have the power of communication. This is the number one communications company.

People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.

Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.

Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.

Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance.

If I lost everything and had to start again, I would find myself a great network marketing company and get to work!

When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.

It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

We have a president [Barack Obama] that can't sit them [companies] around a table and get them to approve something.

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

Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.

He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.

Customer-centricity should be about delivering value for customers that will eventually create value for the company.

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

It's just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you've held up the Stanley Cup.

I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.

Even if your company’s financial condition can withstand the inefficiency of quality service, your brand likely won’t.

Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.

The world is changing. We all know this. And as that world changes, if you don't transform your company, you're stuck.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

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

It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.

A simple rule applies: if you don't quickly comprehend what a company is doing, then management probably doesn't either.

You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

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

The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.

How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

A company finds its destiny by answering three questions: 'Who are we?,' 'What do we stand for?,' and 'How do we serve?,'

I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.

We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.

We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.

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