Company Quotations..

• If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.
  Sheldon Adelson # Bank, Company, Smart, Advice, Business Quotes
• Considering all major parameters, we are amongst the top three business groups in the country ... with a market cap of over 500 billion rupees.
  Anil Ambani # Company, Achievement, Excellent Quotes
• If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net.
  Anil Ambani # Company, Technology, Oil, Limiting, Business Quotes
• We are using new technologies in meaningful ways. To build our new refinery in 60 percent of the time it took to build our first, we are training 20,000 people in a new generation of welding technology in six months.
  Mukesh Ambani # Technology, Smart, Company, Employee, Ambition, Commitment Quotes
• People 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 Ash # Company, Success, Employee, Good Quotes
• We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
  Mary Kay Ash # Customers, Employee, Company, Success Quotes
• An absolute necessity is to learn basic principles of building trustworthy systems – such as how to write secure code, and how to model potential attacks on a system so that you can anticipate them and build in resistance to those attacks.
  Steve Ballmer # Learning, Truth, Company, Strategy Quotes
• As a global company, our future growth and success requires that we constantly look at ways to improve our ability to serve customers worldwide.
  Steve Ballmer # Company, World, Future, Growth, Success, Improvement, Customers Quotes
• I have four words for you: I love this company, yeah!
  Steve Ballmer # Inspirational, Positive, Life, Company Quotes
• I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.
  Steve Ballmer # Brands, Company Quotes
• Over the next 6 years alone, we will invest another $40 billion in innovation, continuing to make us a top R&D spender in any industry.
  Steve Ballmer # Commitment, Ambition, Innovative, Research, Best, Company Quotes
• I am very excited about where we are as a company today and our growth prospects going forward. Over the last five years, we have put in place a strong mission and values that guide our business approach and culture.
  Steve Ballmer # Company, Growth, Value, Business Quotes
• You never can go through the teenage years of being a company again in the sense of growing from nothing to something, but I think we can go from something very good to something great.
  Steve Ballmer # Company, Growth, Good, Great, Motivational, Courage Quotes
• I think our company is well-prepared for the future. We have great talent. If you take a look at it, we're a hot place to work, which means we're getting more great talent.
  Steve Ballmer # Company, Future, Talent, Work, Excellent Quotes
• There have been many companies who lost their greatness post their founders. There have been many companies who went on to greater greatness after their founders. And there's all things in between.
  Steve Ballmer # Great, Company, Changes, Different Quotes
• A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
  Jeff Bezos # Brands, Company, Difficult, Encouragement Quotes
• We were hoping to build a small, profitable company. And of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.
  Jeff Bezos # Funny, Company Quotes
• There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
  Jeff Bezos # Commitment, Company Quotes
• We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun.
  Jeff Bezos # Employee, Investing, Organization, Company, Fun, Trust Quotes
• We will continue to invest in systems, people and product expansion, each of which helps us better serve customers.
  Jeff Bezos # Investing, Products, Company, Customers, Help Quotes
• One of the things that is most important for a company is to be very clear about their strategy, so investors get to self-select as to whether or not that's the right strategy for them.
  Jeff Bezos # Company, Strategy, Investing, Important Quotes
• We try to be a pure investment and a long-term decision making company. No company cares more about profitability than Amazon.com.
  Jeff Bezos # Investing, Company, Profit Quotes
• We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
  Jeff Bezos # Company, Business, Profit, Positive Quotes
• I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
  Jeff Bezos # Crazy, Company, Decision Quotes
• Many people find vertical running frightening, and they would be right in thinking to create havoc in a company. Happily, I have always thrived on havoc and adrenaline.
  Richard Branson # Company, Happy, Risk, Fear Quotes
• Most people think that 50 per cent of a public company is the key to controlling it. While this is true in theory, to a large extent you lose control just by having to appoint nonexecutive directions.
  Richard Branson # Company, Control, Power, Truth Quotes
• Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.
  Sergey Brin # Company, God, Power Quotes
• The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.
  Warren Buffett # Growth, Investing, Company, Competition Quotes
• I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.
  Warren Buffett # Money, Company, Management, Buying, Stock Market Quotes
• The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate.
  Warren Buffett # Business, Success, Company, Value, Important Quotes
• Showing a genuine interest in others not only wins friends for you, but may develop in its customers a loyalty to your company.
  Dale Carnegie # Interesting, Winning, Friendship, Customers, Company Quotes
• If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.
  Steve Case # Teamwork, Organization, Different, Influence, Great, Company Quotes
• We do believe we're on the path of building what may be the most valuable company and most respected company in the world someday, and we're going to continue to focus on making that happen.
  Steve Case # Belief, Value, Company, Ambition, Best, Commitment Quotes
• When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.
  Chin-Ning Chu # Products, Accounting, Company Quotes
• Now we've got around seven thousand people working, and that to me is fantastically satisfying.. more than dollars and cents, because I just believe that the greatest thing you can give someone is a job.
  Janet Holmes a Court # Company, Employee, Work, Satisfaction, Money, Belief, Inspirational Quotes
• The company was quite hierarchical. I often think it was like a pyramid with Robert (husband Robert Holmes a Court) at the top and lots of us paying homage to him. I try to turn the pyramid upside down so that I'm at the bottom and bubbling away and encouraging people and energising them so that they are all empowered so that they can do what they need to do, now that's the dream.
  Janet Holmes a Court # Company, Organization, Motivational, Success, Enjoyment, Encouragement, Dream Quotes
• Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues.
  Stephen Covey # Employee, Help, Company, Commitment, Organization, Teamwork Quotes
• To build an enterprise that will endure, one must believe in the value of one's work.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Belief, Company, Value Quotes
• We seldom care about what a firm makes- whether it is cheap weapons, poisonous pesticides, or vacuous entertainment. As long as it makes profits, we endorse its management.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Ethics, Profit, Company, Management Quotes
• As any businessperson knows, a firm's survival is never guaranteed; year, month by month, a variety of hazards must be confronted- even when profit alone is the goal.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Business, Profit, Company, Challenging, Goal Quotes
• If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Company, Ambition, Employee Quotes
• Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Business, Company, Good, Encouragement, Achievement, Growth Quotes
• In a large organization it is frequently difficult for a leader to have an accurate sense f the company's affairs because reports are often afraid to be candid about problems.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Company, Difficult, Leadership, Fear, Problem Quotes
• You've got to be yourself... I wouldn't have done well in a place where I had to conform because I would always be resisting and I still do it today.
  Michael Dell # Self, Company Quotes
• There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.
  Michael Dell # Success, Company, Time Management, Action Quotes
• Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort. The organization must be with you or you don't get it done... In my organization there is respect for every individual, and we all have a keen respect for the public.
  Walt Disney # Organization, Achievement, Company, Respect Quotes
• 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.
  Peter Drucker # Belief, Good, Learning, Leadership, Company Quotes
• It is the opportunity for business to develop managers far more effectively than any company or university can.
  Peter Drucker # Opportunity, Business, Company, Management Quotes
• Companies have three responsibilities: 1) make a profit, 2) satisfy employees, and 3) be socially responsible.
  Peter Drucker # Company, Responsibility, Profit, Employee, Ethics Quotes
• It has been a fantastic ride for the past 20 years. Ups and downs, to be sure, but filled with great satisfaction in building this wonderful creator of classic American culture into one of the premier entertainment-orientated companies in the world.
  Michael Eisner # Experience, Business, Satisfaction, America, Company Quotes
• A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
  Larry Ellison # Company, Goals, Profit, Money, Government, Politics, Power Quotes
• When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal.
  Larry Ellison # Work, Brands, Enjoyment, Company, Rich, Success Quotes
• Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
  Larry Ellison # Technology, Leadership, Company Quotes
• We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we were interested in.
  David Filo # Company, Growth, Interesting, Internet Quotes
• If I wasn't master of my own company, I would start another.
  Henry Ford # Company, Leadership Quotes
• 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.
  Bill Gates # Company, Competition, Information Quotes
• Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.
  Bill Gates # Company, Communication, Action Quotes
• A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
  Bill Gates # Good, Company, Crisis, Business Quotes
• You need to think about your company's fundamental business issues and develop a long-term business strategy to solve problems and take advantage of the opportunities your analysis unearths.
  Bill Gates # Thinking, Company, Strategy, Solutions, Problems, Opportunity, Business Quotes
• Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.
  Bill Gates # Information, Strategy, Opportunity, Company, Employee, Improvement Quotes
• To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.
  Bill Gates # Company, Ideas, Opportunity, Internet, Change, Management Quotes
• Some experts say that companies struggle with the need for change because they haven't been design for change.
  Bill Gates # Company, Change Quotes
• Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.
  Bill Gates # Learning, Company, Products, Mistakes, Improvement, Success Quotes
• Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
  Lou Gerstner # Dreams, Technology, Spiritual, Company, Life, Understanding Quotes
• If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.
  Lou Gerstner # Life, Buying, Success, Company, Challenging, Improvement, Difficult Quotes
• Industry analysis relates to the past and the future. Insofar as it relates to the past, the elements dealt with have already influenced the results of the companies in the industry and the average market price of their shares.
  Ben Graham # Company, Stocks, Research Quotes
• I would like to warn you against is spending a lot of time on over-detailed analyses of the company’s and the industry’s position, including counting the last bathtub that has been or will be produced.
  Ben Graham # Research, Company Quotes
• 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.
  Andrew Grove # Company, Change, Improvement, Growth Quotes
• A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.
  Andrew Grove # Company, Organization, Focus, Change, Improvement, Value Quotes
• Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
  Andrew Grove # Employee, Company, Smart Quotes
• I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever.
  Andrew Grove # Future, Company, Internet, Belief, Progress Quotes
• It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.
  Andrew Grove # Family, Life, Company, Work Quotes
• It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.
  Carlos Slim Helu # Improvement, Company, Management, Teamwork Quotes
• We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive.
  Carl Icahn # Business, Company Quotes
• A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.
  Carl Icahn # Great, Company, Media, Leadership, Organization Quotes
• A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
  Steve Jobs # Customers, Company, Belief, Product Quotes
• The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that -- it's an intuitive process.
  Steve Jobs # Company, Success, Good Quotes
• I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.
  Ingvar Kamprad # Company, Organization Quotes
• If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
  Ingvar Kamprad # Leadership, Good, Employee, Company Quotes
• We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
  Ingvar Kamprad # Company, Woman, Management, Decisions Quotes
• Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
  Ingvar Kamprad # Concept, Customers, Smart, Company Quotes
• Succession planning has been a major priority at Southwest for quite some time. We think we have come up with a winning combination of talent for our company reorganization.
  Herb Kelleher # Success, Planning, Company, Winning, Talent, Organization Quotes
• A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.
  Herb Kelleher # Company, Strong, Love, Inspirational, Fear Quotes
• Most people think of us as this flamboyant airline, ... but we're really very conservative from the fiscal standpoint. . . . We never got dangerously in debt and never let costs get out of hand.
  Herb Kelleher # Company, Debt, Risk Quotes
• The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions that are based on the project principle, which means that they are put together for each project.
  Mikhail Khodorkovsky # Company, Organization, Changes Quotes
• Ultimately, we wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.
  Phil Knight # World, Brands, Company, Focus, Ambition, Commitment Quotes
• I believe that continued strong consumer acceptance of our products at retail and the strengthening of our organization will enable us to manage through the challenges in our U.S. footwear business and lay the foundation for another round of growth.
  Phil Knight # Belief, Customers, Support, Company, Challenging, American Quotes
• My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good for the shareholders and for the company.
  Phil Knight # Decisions, Job, Idea, Good, Company Quotes
• I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.
  Kenneth Lay # Criminal, Responsibility, Company Quotes
• I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying to create opportunities for them and create opportunities where they could even, as I said many times, could realize their God-given potential and maybe realize more potential than even they realize they had.
  Kenneth Lay # Leadership, Company, Serious, Employee, Opportunity, Attitude Quotes
• The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.
  Kenneth Lay # Crisis, Mistake, Failure, Company, Criminal Quotes
• I think flexibility is one of the key things. I mean I would buy companies that had unions.
  Peter Lynch # Company, Buying, Change Quotes
• There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies — and their stocks — perform the way they do.
  Peter Lynch # Company, Stocks Quotes
• It is essential that you align with your company's values so that you can prove your value inside the enterprise.
  Chuck Martin # Company, Value Quotes
• What some companies fail to see is that from their customers' viewpoint, their products, services, and brands are viewed as one entity.
  Chuck Martin # Company, Failure, Customers, Products, Brand Quotes
• We do not believe in oversupplying the market. When you are a large company, you can afford to do it. When you are a small player, your flexibility gets reduced.
  Lakshmi Mittal # Belief, Company Quotes
• This is not about creating a giant. It's about creating the sustainability of the steel industry.
  Lakshmi Mittal # Company, Strategy Quotes
• Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.
  Rupert Murdoch # Company, Change Quotes
• You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
  Rupert Murdoch # Company, Decisions, Management, Strong Quotes
• Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.
  Rupert Murdoch # Important, Company Quotes
• The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
  Paul Newman # Funny, Business, Company, Growth, Progress Quotes
• What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our members' success, our community's success. We've created an infrastructure and laid some basic ground rules to create this marketplace.
  Pierre Omidyar # Success, Customers, Company, Improvement Quotes
• By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.
  Pierre Omidyar # Company, Organization, Growth Quotes
• Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.
  David Packard # Marketing, Important, Company Quotes
• Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.
  David Packard # Questions, Company, Money, Thinking Quotes
• In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle or where one asset is the bulk of this company.
  James Packer # World, Company Quotes
• I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.
  James Packer # Belief, Technology, Company Quotes
• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
  Larry Page # Company, Management, Employee Quotes
• If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.
  Larry Page # Management, Company, Results, Organization Quotes
• We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served—as shareholders and in all other ways—by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.
  Larry Page # Good, Belief, World, Company, Planning, Important Quotes
• I worry, but I’ve worried all along. I worried as we got bigger and there were new pressures on the company.
  Larry Page # Worry, Stress, Company Quotes
• In general we’re trying to use the web’s self-organizing properties to decide which things to present. We don’t want to be in the position of having to decide these things. We take the responsibility seriously. People depend on us.
  Larry Page # Company, Strategy, Responsibility Quotes
• We try to use elements from different companies, but a lot is seat-of-your-pants stuff.
  Larry Page # Different, Company Quotes
• You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.
  Larry Page # Company, Idea Quotes
• I learned you have to pay a lot of attention to any company that’s changing rapidly.
  Larry Page # Learning, Company, Change, Attention Quotes
• We think we’re an important company, and we’re dedicated to doing this (business) over the long term. We like being independent.
  Larry Page # Important, Thinking, Company, Business Quotes
• The increasing volume of information is just more opportunity to build better answers to questions.
  Larry Page # Information, Company, Opportunity, Answers, Question Quotes
• We think a lot about how to maintain our culture and the fun elements. I don’t know if other companies care as much about those things as we do.
  Larry Page # Thinking, Fun, Company Quotes
• The “Be good” concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.
  Larry Page # Company, Products, Good, Strategy, Positive Quotes
• No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.
  James Cash Penney # Company, Growth, Improvement Quotes
• There are no excellent companies. The old saw "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" needs revision. I propose: "If it ain't broke, you just haven't looked hard enough." Fix it anyway.
  Tom Peters # Company, Improvement, Excellent, Management Quotes
• If you are not reconfiguring your organization to become a fast-changing, high-value-adding creator of niche markets, you are simply out of step.
  Tom Peters # Change, Company, Management, Creative Quotes
• I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.
  Azim Premji # Brands, World, Ambition, Company Quotes
• As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It’s also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company’s operations.
  Azim Premji # Learning, Excellent, Teamwork, Company Quotes
• When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?
  Rene Rivkin # Stocks, Questions, Company, Investing, Buying Quotes
• The true purpose of any corporation is to create products and services that increase the quality of life for all the customers they serve.
  Tony Robbins # Company, Life, Products, Customers Quotes
• There is no better investment that companies can make than in the education and development of their own people.
  Tony Robbins # Education, Company, Investing Quotes
• Running a company is rather like a marriage. When it's going well, it's fantastic. When it's not, it's absolutely miserable.
  Anita Roddick # Company, Management, Business, Challenging Quotes
• I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.
  Anita Roddick # Business, Profit, Brands, Company, Change, Ambition Quotes
• 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 Samuelson # Company, Philanthropy, Entrepreneur, Profit, Strategy, America Quotes
• I started with identifying within the fluidity of Chinese philosophical thinking and the science of western management, the co-ordinates upon which we could format a seamless management structure. Building on this foundation, the company structure becomes a life-force that supports the development of each division of business.
  Li Ka Shing # Thinking, Life, Management, Company, Business Quotes
• There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
  Sam Walton # Customers, Fired, Company, Money, Business Quotes
• We're all working together; that's the secret. And we'll lower the cost of living for everyone, not just in America, but we'll give the world an opportunity to see what it's like to save and have a better lifestyle, a better life for all. We're proud of what we've accomplished ; we've just begun.
  Sam Walton # Teamwork, Company, Success, Ambition, Life Quotes
• I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
  Sam Walton # America, Idea, Improvement, Company Quotes
• At critical times... employees often work 11- and 12-hour days, and come in on weekends. Those who don't are mocked behind their backs, then driven out.
  Charles Wang # Company, Employee, Job, Difficult Quotes
• We are pleased that our shareholders believe the existing members are the best qualified.
  Charles Wang # Belief, Company, Positive, Best, Quality Quotes
• Although this was a difficult quarter for CA, we have not changed our view of the long-term prospects for the company.
  Charles Wang # Difficult, Changes, Company, Concept Quotes
• I am an owner who prefers to stay behind the scenes and allow my staff to do what they do best.
  Charles Wang # Company, Best, Organization Quotes
• It is clear that changes need to be made with the Islanders, and I am taking the responsibility of delivering the message firsthand.
  Charles Wang # Changes, Responsibility, Company Quotes
• Before at GE, we generally used to tell people what to do. And they did exactley what they were told to do, and not one other thing. Now we are constantly amazed by how much people will do when they are not told to do by management.
  Jack Welch # Management, Company Quotes
• An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
  Jack Welch # Company, Learning, Competition, Action Quotes
• Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.
  Jack Welch # Leadership, Company, Religion Quotes
• The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.
  Jack Welch # Company, Thinking, Value Quotes
• Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
  Jack Welch # Change, Strong, Company, Risk Quotes
• Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
  Jack Welch # Company, Idea, World, Selling, Best, Talent, Great Quotes
• It's an area of opportunity for the company, ... The buying that is being transacted on eBay is now so large that we have the mass to go to UPS or Fedex and try to get a deal that would be beneficial to our community.
  Meg Whitman # Opportunity, Company, Buying, Internet, Technology, Partnership Quotes
• Look at growth, look at how much time people spend