Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.

Jeff Mathews

We have not received those numbers in writing from the company yet.

We haven't decided which way to go. We really haven't looked at the financial situation of the company.

Ben Horowitz

The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.

Zeljko Ivanek

What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

We all owe, and I especially owe, a huge debt of gratitude to the man who steered this company to phenomenal success over the past 16 years.

Those are things that are going to unfold over time. We're still a little way away from determining what the size of the company needs to be, and there's no target numbers, per se, yet.

Srikumar Rao

Personal ambition is 'I want to be CEO.' Greater vision ambition is, 'I want to lead this company so that people want to work here.'

We are in the midst of the largest expansion in company history.

We are in the midst of an exciting expansion that will move our company forward. As we increase our capacity, these hires and promotions will help us provide the needed sales support to our customers.

Brian McFadden

We are increasingly a software company ... we've kind of hit a tipping point.

We are disappointed that sales have not materialized to the degree we had expected, but we point to the fact that the company is expected to show between 12 percent and 22 percent growth in revenue versus the same quarter last year and that we are serving customers exceptionally well this holiday season.

We are determined to do everything that we can do as a company to help the region rebuild and help our employees return to their normal lives as quickly as possible.

Well, everybody knows I used to work there, so I think I know the company pretty well. I also have stock and options from my days as an employee.

Tyco is not Enron. The fundamentals at the company were what they should be.

Unfortunately, the company decided to do something like this.

You haven't heard one story in the last ten months, 12 months, of any company saying, hey, we have intentions of hiring. We're going to be hiring. No company has said that.

You know you hear the layoffs of 75,000 people, but when you realize how big the company is, it's not quite as dramatic as you might think, ... But I still haven't heard a fact that it's 75,000 people.

You did a great job' is great. 'You lost the order' is bad. 'We' as a company is a much more consultative word.

Though we were originally planning to set up a spin-off company to exploit the project results, we're now looking to collaborate with other firms to introduce our technology into existing products and others that are still in development.

Doug Wilson

we didn't come together as a membership and just wanted the company to come back to the table.

We don't have any specifics from the company yet.

Henrik Fisker

Once investors come in, it's hardly your company anymore!

Heston Blumenthal

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

When you see the words 'chief executive officer,' it makes you think that it's big company experience. But it turns out it's a small, little company. She's embellishing her resume.

Susan Taylor

We are a company laser-focused on PCs -- period,

We remain cautiously optimistic on Microsoft as the company slowly transitions itself from its reliance on desktop software and continues to roll out its higher growth, server side software.

We're really not counting on any huge moves with the portfolio. I think we like the company the way it looks today.

We're really looking for an international company recognized around the world who would do it every year.

Peter Thiel

One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.

Richard Branson

We have always felt that a company with music at its core rather than technology could do so much better for music fans. It is so user friendly that even I could use it.

Carlos Ghosn

When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.

There are studies that show participants in a 401(k) plans are less likely to leave the company and are better workers.