Company quotes

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◆ Some people are so important in our life, not because we enjoy their company, but because we feel so lonely in their absence.

- Nishan Panwar100

◆ We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.

- John Snow99

◆ This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

- Bill Gates99

◆ Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

- Paul A Samuelson99

◆ My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

- Walter Savage Landor99

◆ Certainly, we are trying to preserve all of that culture, and get the advantages of being a large company with a broad product line, with stability, worldwide presence, great support, and yet have the advantages that a small software company has.

- Bill Gates99

◆ In most companies, you don't get too much mail where people are saying, 'Hey, we lost this account.' But that's what you really need to know about, because it might change what you're doing. You need to know about competitive activity. You need to kn

- Bill Gates99

◆ I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

- Michel De Montaigne99

◆ Most people in big companies are administered, not led. They are treated as personnel, not people.

- Robert Townsend99

◆ Two's company, three's a crowd

- American Proverb99

◆ "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

- Louisa May Alcott99

◆ Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

- Harold S Geneen99

◆ There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

- Andy Grove99

◆ Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character

- Bible99

◆ Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processesthinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.

- Bill Gates99