When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, ‘Don’t do it – call me first.’ – Tom Ford
Brands’ products should be the manifestation of a company’s values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company’s narrative. – Shawn Amos
You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who’s struggling, basically – who’s had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can’t start companies. – Vivek Wadhwa
It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. – Warren Buffett
The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient. – Steve Jobs
Here’s the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company. – Warren Spector
Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company – evil or not – is going to do it for you. – Sarah Lacy
I don’t like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends. – T. Boone Pickens
We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us. – Safra A. Catz
I’m a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don’t put it into receivership. – Sean Quinn
The reason that the company decided to invest in Tesla was not to target a profit gain. We did it as a means to further a partnership between the companies. – Takeshi Uchiyamada
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. – Thomas Keneally
Once you establish what activities your company needs to do, the next question is, ‘How do these activities get accomplished?’ i.e. what resources do I need to make the activities happen? – Steve Blank
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. – Samuel Gompers
Viacom’s results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004. – Sumner Redstone
It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90’s, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well. – Thomas Dolby
There’s a company that wants to put hair on me! I don’t know if it’s plugs, I’m sure it is. I laughed and said, ‘You gotta be kidding.’ – Terry Bradshaw
While my six-song EP is unlikely to set any sales records, it’s one of my biggest personal achievements – on par with starting my own company. On par with selling my own company. – Shawn Amos
Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We’ll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I’m very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish. – Steve Ballmer
I’ve been an entrepreneur since I was 18. I started a company with a bunch of buddies that got funded in my senior year, and that’s when I finished school. It was called Scour, a peer-to-peer service, file-sharing. – Travis Kalanick
There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook. – Steve Jobs
If somebody’s offering you a $400 million company at the age of 29, I’ve got the ego to say, ‘I’d like a shot at that.’ – Stanley R. Jaffe
I think if the average person that uses AOL can’t physically see the changes in the company, we’ve failed. – Tim Armstrong
My production company wasn’t doing well, so we were not producing films. Over a period of time, we have realized that we are going to produce our own films and make cinema that we like. We’ve got so much in-house talent, and my kids are going to be coming, so we all decided that we are going to be in films and cinema. – Sunny Deol
I’m first and foremost a company man, surprising as that is. I love Warner Brothers. That’s where I have a deal. That’s where I’ve been for years. So I don’t really interact too much with other studios and do things with other studios and I don’t necessarily read scripts from other studios. – Todd Phillips