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A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of interacting forces. Any theory of organization must be capable of reflecting a company's many facets, its dynamism, and its basic orderliness. When company organization is reviewed, or when reorganizing a company, it must be loked upon as a whole, as a total system.
Albert LowWhen a change initiative is focused on changing a company's culture directly, it can take five to ten years to accomplish its objective. Company cultures don't change easily. My friend Peter Drucker used to argue that company cultures don't change at all.
James A. ChampyThe responsibility of the company is to help the people, grow as people. If we can do that, then the company will grow as a company.
Simon SinekSome of the best ideas throughout the company's evolution have been from places all throughout the company whether it's an engineer or someone on the customer support team. Just different areas around the company.
Mark ZuckerbergEven when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
Wole SoyinkaMy idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane AustenWhen you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.
Reid HoffmanI never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.
Robert HerjavecLet's say a startup is hot. It ships something great, and it achieves success. Thus, it's able to attract the best, brightest, and most talented. These people have been told they're the best since childhood. Indeed, being hired by the hot company is "proof" that they are the A and A+ players; in fact, the company is so hot that it can out-recruit Google and Microsoft.
Guy KawasakiHowever, given the fact that the State has a controlling stake in the company [Rosneft], it might not be the best course of action when one company under State control buys another one fully owned by the State. This is one point.
Vladimir PutinGrieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.
Ursula K. Le GuinE.Biscom is an Internet company that is diversified, not a diversified company that is trying out the Internet.
Silvio ScagliaWe do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.
Warren BuffettIf your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
Tom PetersI feel most badly, though, [because] after 10 years, I was at the company, I wanted to go back to New York where I was from. Why I didnโt go to Steve Jobs and say, โSteve, letโs figure out how you can come back and lead your company.โ I didnโt do that, it was a terrible mistake on my part. I canโt figure out why I didnโt have the wisdom to do that. But I didnโt. And as life has it, shortly after that, I was fired.
John SculleyIf anyone doubts the influence of drug company ads on patients and physicians - consider all those wasted billions of dollars for a pill that sells for more than six times as much as another drug that does the same thing, made by the same company.
Robert BazellIs not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.
Henry David ThoreauIt is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
Marc RichEverybody likes to win. I don't care if you work for a small plumbing company or the most successful company in the world. There's a special flavor to winning.
Marcelo ClaureI have told our senior executives that I will slaughter holy cows if it benefits the company's long-term success. When we asked ourselves whether Formula 1 still matched the concept of a sustainable company, the clear answer was no.
Norbert ReithoferI built a phenomenal company; if we could run America the way I ran my company, we'd be proud of it.
Donald TrumpIn 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.
Nikki HaleyA company and leaders of the company have the responsibility of the precious lives of all the human beings that work there.
Simon SinekI started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple, it's inexpensive: Build your own. No idea to start a company. Steve Jobs came by later and say, you know, people are interested. Why don't we start a company?
Steve WozniakMy work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.
Laurie AndersonIf you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel to work there? It's going to eat you up. It might last a few years, but it doesn't attract the best people, and it certainly doesn't create the energy and engagement you need to be a long-term performing company.
Paul PolmanThe key here are two little words: the word 'or' and the word 'and'. Nintendo is not an or company, with games devoted to just this group or that group. We're an and company, with games for this group and that group and for groups that don't even call themselves gamers yet.
Reggie Fils-AimeThere is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company.
Tommy BoltI believe that it was a testament to the change of power from the company to the fans because the more the fans ate it up, the more the company gave them what they want.
Bill GoldbergMost good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.
Sam AltmanCigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.
Robin McKinleySince I suffered the injury on company time, why shouldn't I also be able to get surgery and do recovery on company time?
Shaquille O'NealPeople are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay AshI have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
Giacomo CasanovaSam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.
Michael BergdahlGive up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
Seth GodinYour countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.
Jane AustenThe first set of questions to ask yourself when you're doing cost cutting is relatively straightforward, which is, you know, can you use the necessity of cost cutting as an opportunity to do pruning or trimming for projects that aren't being as successful? But, you know, frequently those are the easy ones. I mean, there's always some kind of social costs internal to the company, but that's the easy way of looking at the future.
Reid HoffmanLook at what I am proposing, and we [wih Bernie Sanders] have a vigorous agreement here. We both want to reign in the excesses of Wall Street. I also want to reign in the excesses of Johnson Controls that we bailed out when they were an autoparts company, and we saved the auto industry, and now they want to avoid paying taxes.
Hillary ClintonI was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.
Ben HorowitzEighty percent of our revenues are from products that didnโt exist 60 days ago. Is there any other company that would do that?
Tim CookIf I'm a CEO and I say, 'Misogyny will not be tolerated', that's a more powerful statement than 'It is my sincere hope and our intention to eradicate misogyny from this company'. Sometimes saying things in that more categorical form, has a real function. Although, if you dig beneath it, it is actually one of J.L. Austin's illocutionary acts; you're trying to make something happen rather than describing something already happened. The fact that it has the grammatical form of a description is fine.
Julian BagginiBlackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.
Joan JettI think there are probably too many asset management companies in the world, and I think the place to be is either big or small. The area where it is probably more difficult to be is in the middle ground, where you've got that cost of regulation, you've got the cost of buying your own research, you've got all the costs of running an asset management company without the benefits of a big income producing asset.
Martin GilbertFor heaven's sake, this is 2015. I've run the largest technology company in the world. Let me assure you we know how to build an employer verification system that would work. We can solve this. We just need to do it.
John Kasich