Company Quotes - page 89

I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want. (Dhani Harrison)
What may be very entertaining in company with ignorant people may be tiresome to those who know more of the matter. View quote
James Burgh
If you want to gain any man's good opinion, take particular care how you behave the first time you are in company with him; the light you appear in at first, to one who is neither inclinable to think well nor ill of you, will strongly prejudice him either for or against you. View quote
James Burgh
Do not sit dumb in company; it will be ascribed either to pride, cunning, or stupidity: give your opinion modestly, but freely; hear that of others with candour; and ever endeavour to find out, and to communicate truth. View quote
James Burgh
If you happen into company where the talk runs into party, obscemty, scandal, folly, or vice of any kind, you had better pass for morose or unsocial, among people whose good opinion is not worth having, than shock your own conscience by joining in conversation which you must disapprove of. View quote
James Burgh
Too much company is worse than none. View quote
James Burgh
In mixed company, be readier to hear than to speak, and put people upon talking of what is in their own way; for then you will both oblige them, and be most likely to improve by their conversation. View quote
James Burgh
Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have. View quote
James Burgh
My aim is freedom and voluntary relations in all fields. The market economy is the result of this in the economic realm; in the cultural realm it means freedom of expression; in politics, democracy and the rule of law; in social life, the right to live according to one's own values and to choose one's company. View quote
Johan Norberg
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear. View quote
John C. Dvorak
The computer division of Apple will eventually become a genuine albatross around the company's neck. So it's better off as a standalone company focused on computers. (John C. Dvorak)
I consider this situation to be dire for Apple. When the iPhone 5 arrives shortly, it will be crunch time for the company. ... It may be the last important iPhone. View quote
John C. Dvorak
Apple mentions the Mac less and less at its big events. The company knows that the machine is a drain on resources that detracts from its new core business ... Mac will be phased out and the whole line will be replaced by iPads. View quote
John C. Dvorak
To love the perfection with which we do our work, or the company of those with whom we work, is the secret of learning to love the work itself. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
Conversation injures more than it benefits. Men talk to escape from themselves, from sheer dread of silence. Reflection makes them uncomfortable, and they find distraction in a noise of words. They seek not the company of those who might enlighten and improve them, but that of whoever can divert and amuse them. Thus the intercourse which ought to be a chief means of education, is for the most part, the occasion of mental and moral enfeeblement. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
The smaller the company, the larger the conversation. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era. View quote
Jay-Z
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company. View quote
Jay-Z
I enjoy not being a public company. View quote
Marc Andreessen
I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying. View quote
Marc Andreessen
Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks. (Marc Andreessen)
Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. View quote
Marc Andreessen
In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month. View quote
Marc Andreessen
The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient. View quote
Marc Andreessen
No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult. View quote
Marc Andreessen