When you buy a company at an auction, and you are committing yourself to pay some $300 million to the state because it was a privatization deal, and you don’t pay it, is it OK? Isn’t it something that deserves court procedures? – Sergei Lavrov
Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore. – Watt Key
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive. – William Barclay
When a company goes bankrupt, you as a company have absolutely no say whatsoever as to what happens. – Thomas G. Stemberg
Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn’t have to come in contact with it. – Susan Orlean
I’m a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey. – Treat Williams
I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I’m not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. – Tori Amos
I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that’s not going to get to my insurance company and I’m going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they’ve figured I’m looking at those books. – Tim Berners-Lee
Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second. – Simon Sinek
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me. – Zora Neale Hurston
Our customers call and e-mail us to say that’s how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that’s how we view this company. – Tony Hsieh
To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk. – Simon Sinek
Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don’t know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology. – Stewart Butterfield
The Internet represented a really important tool that would be used by every business out there to some extent. But for the vast majority of companies to say, ‘We’re an Internet company,’ is a little bit like saying, ‘We’re a fax company because we have a fax machine.’ – Thomas O. Staggs
In a web/mobile startup, coding is not an outsourced activity. It’s an integral part of the company’s DNA. – Steve Blank
I want to control the company, but I don’t know how life goes. We are already a big company, and the larger our capitalization is, the lower goes the threshold for control. – Sergey Galitsky