I’m not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.

Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company.

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps.

I get an odd, intimate, and amusing sensation from having him sit on my foot and warm it with the blood-heat of his body. A pervasive feeling of sympathy and good cheer fills me, as almost invariably when in his company and looking at things from his angle

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn’t performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.

A company doesn’t have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn’t presently care about.

We didn’t have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team.

42% of our management team are women. So we’ve reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that’s when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution – the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that’s a lovely point to reflect on.

But, by careful observation from the sidelines, I’d worked out that social success is often built on pretending just a little. Popular people sometimes have to laugh at things they don’t find very funny, do things they don’t particularly want to, with people whose company they don’t particularly enjoy. Not me. I had decided, years ago, that if the choice was between that or flying solo, then I’d fly solo. It was safer that way.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if they are looking to the mass market then they must develop WAP sites.

There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

I really hope to do something in the watch industry.

I’ve been around watch factories and had the chance to visit some factories.

I just like to think rather than talk. But I enjoy everyone’s company

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called – wait for it – the Houdini Picture Corporation.

As we conduct our negotiations it must be a priority to allow British companies to trade with the single market in goods and services but also, to regain more control of the numbers of people who are coming here from Europe

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

Running the company for the shareholders often reduces its long-term growth potential.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company’s identity, created several proposals intended to meet those objectives, and picked the one that did the best job.

About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, ‘How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?’

The [Chinese] numbers were not way out of line and slower activity numbers were kind of priced in, despite all the noise around China and Trump, you are going to get a real indication of macroeconomic health much more from company management. I suspect that’s what the focus will be for the next two to three weeks.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.

More important than building a product, we are in the process of architecting a company that will hopefully be much more incredible, the total will be much more incredible than the sum of its parts.

The smallest company in the world can look as large as the largest company on the web.

Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn’t say that… I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It’s just such a company town! You can’t go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.

Guide the ongoing strategic expansion of this company, which will have a unique position in Europe.

This isn’t over. This is just the beginning, any company that chooses to boycott business in Israel is going to look at this case, and once we’re done, they’re going to think twice whether they want to take on Israel or not. Trust me, this is just the beginning.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.

Don’t take on things you don’t believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.

The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.

To supply data is not enough. The data have to be integrated with strategy, they have to test a company’s assumptions, and they must challenge a company’s current outlook. One.

The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.

The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

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

Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don’t have enough of it, you’re out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you’re really missing something.

The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it’s selling.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.

So, you who wish to have an exemplary character before God and before men, remember that, if ill company does not burn you to your hurt, it is sure to blacken you by damaging your reputation.

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

I wasn’t a misanthrope and I wasn’t a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.

When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I’ve always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn’t bother me one bit. I’m my own company.

The company you keep has a large influence on the situations you bring to yourself.

My mom is a CEO and owns a company that manufactures communications equipment for the Marines and the Navy, so she’s not really the housewife type, if you get what I’m saying. She’s the most badass, independent woman you’ll ever meet

People inspire you, or they drain you. Pick them wisely.

The strong and the weak cannot keep company

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information.

It’s absolutely paradoxical that we have two companies that were absolutely critical of our work and yet we’re working with them on climate.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Jay-Z ain’t a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this; he been through the game for a long time, so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I’ve probably made