Top 1200 Publishing Company Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.

Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'

I used to believe that you could change the culture or behavior of a company. I still believe it's possible, but it is at least a five to ten year process, if you are successful at all. More recently, I have been attracted to the ideas of the behavioralist, Edgar Schein. Schein has argued that you cannot change the culture of a company, but you can use the culture of a company to create change. It's an interesting approach to overcoming resistance. And if you can change how a company does its work, you might eventually be able to change how its people think.

Every company today is a data company whether they realize it or not.

I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood, there is a problem.

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

As a company, whatever the business outlook is, you want to make sure you have new skill sets coming into the company.

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.

We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.

I was president of a company and that company had a contract with the state.

We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.

As the owner of the company, I'm always focusing on how my company can do more for less. And it's one of the principles of the world.

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees

I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

We are not a trading company. We are a midstream asset company: pipe, storage and terminals. It's an unsexy, dirty business. It's not rocket science.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

When we first started the company, I didn't have any thoughts of franchising. We just had company-owned stores.

I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

If you're always in the company of people who agree with you, you're going to think of people who don't agree with you as venal or stupid. I constantly tell my students that if they're in the company of people who always say "amen" to what you say, find other company. And that is the source of illiberalism, when you are unable to listen to someone who thinks differently. That's when democracies are in trouble.

If you exclude a group of people from the boardroom or the leadership ranks of a company, the company is not as good as it could be.

I built a phenomenal company; if we could run America the way I ran my company, we'd be proud of it.

There is no distinction, no echelon of actors within a company. A company is only as strong as its weakest link.

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.

If I look to any company as a model, it's Apple. They're a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle.

If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company.

I much more enjoy the company of freedom fighters and justice campaigners than I do the company of hedge fund managers.

Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

I said from the very beginning, 'Yahoo should position itself as a technology innovation company, not as a media company.'

If you're a UFC guy, if you're a company guy, if the company likes you, they're gonna do the right thing, in terms of promoting you. They're gonna promote who they want, they're not going to promote the people they think can't get to that next level and can't help bring the company a lot more money and bring them into other avenues.

Quite honestly, one of the unavoidable considerations in going exclusive with any company is being put on a company's medical insurance program.

PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

Legendary service is one of the criteria that sets one company apart from its competitors. It's the mark of a truly authentic company - you just can't fake caring!

I've said all along that we're building Axovant as a lasting company for the long run, not to hand over that upside to a pharma company in the future.

Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

When I graduate, I will either run a division of a company... or I'll get funding for my own company.

the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company

MindTree has grown into a strong company and has a great leadership team at its helm which can continue to propel the company in the future.

When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the board, that I probably couldn't overcome it, that I'd have to leave the company.

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

I have a stake in a company called Super Fight League, which is an MMA company in India, and we have a lot of shows in Dubai, too.

Starting a company is rough. It's even harder when you're young - I know this firsthand, because my first company flopped when I was 25.

But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a better place.

Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they don't know how to do their jobs. "I don't know how to sell this," they explain, frowning, as though it's your fault. "I don't know how to package this. I don't know what the market is for this book. I don't know how we're going to draw attention to this." In most occupations, people try to hide their incompetence; only in publishing is it flaunted as though it were the chief qualification for the job.

When Warren Buffett invests in a company, he is conferring upon that company something very unique: his credibility.

I've always thought of Boeing as the premier aerospace company in the world, so as I was coming up through school, it was the company I aspired to work for.

If you choose to work at a larger company over a smaller company, you are more likely to be higher paid.

We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.