To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all. – Vladimir Potanin
In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that’s good. – Vint Cerf
There’s a guy at the record company who’s 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible. – Tom Wopat
When the venture capital industry invests, it’s usually because they sense there is money in them hills. And often it takes a high-profile winner to wake everyone up in the category. SpaceX is that company. – Steve Jurvetson
I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. – William Shatner
Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company. – Tadashi Yanai
I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game. – Warren Buffett
Every company that comes into the office for appropriations, the first thing I ask is how many jobs are you going to bring to the 5th District that are not already there. – Virgil Goode
I’m not led by money, because if that’s the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company. – Tyra Banks
On the 28th the ship’s company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen’s, where we were obliged to anchor. – William Bligh
The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get more unpredictable. – Steve Jurvetson
When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors. – Trevor Nunn
The president of Victoria’s Secret promised me a lifetime supply of Victoria’s Secret products, even after I decided to leave the company. But once I left, he only let me have it for a year. So I have a bone to pick. – Tyra Banks
I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid. – Yul Vazquez
I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show. – Tom Riley
I produce the records. I don’t hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will – for commercial purposes. – Tori Amos
I don’t want anybody, whether it’s my grandchildren or any of our employees’ grandchildren, to have to apologise for working for Ford Motor Company. In fact, I want the opposite. I want them to look and say, ‘What a difference we made!’ – William Clay Ford, Jr.
In corporations, the penalty for repeated failure on known tasks is being reassigned to other tasks or asked to leave the company. – Steve Blank
If I were to retire, I would keep my family’s interest in the company the same and say, Don’t sell. – Sheldon Adelson
If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I’d have no ‘income’ but I’d have a lot of ‘assets’. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics. – Vinod Khosla
To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I’ve never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O’Hara. – Steve Erickson
CNN, a part of the Time Warner company, lives for news about everything and anyone. In the office, the bosses openly discuss the need for a diverse staff and diverse stories, and each time we draw new viewers, the effort intensifies. – Soledad O’Brien
One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It’s hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing. – Sarah Lacy
Jesus isn’t a logo, I’m not promoting some company, some brand. I’m just professing my faith. – Stephen Baldwin
If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, ‘Oh it’s great. We’re totally crushing it,’ and that’s almost never true. – Sam Altman
The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars. – Theodore Sturgeon