If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn’t pay. Or if there’s a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company. – James Hansen
Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren’t able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans. – Joan Jett
A buyback is itself a special kind of acquisition, made at prices that are typically a bargain compared with those a company must pay for an outside purchase. – Carol Loomis
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM – and they keep track of this – is a little over four years. – Bill Gates
By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption. – Clayton M. Christensen
As we continue to grow, the question is, how do you keep the company as innovative as it was 15 employees ago? – Jon Oringer
This book was company for me – I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it. – Catherine Deneuve
My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens. – Anthony Pratt
I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company… they’re straight-shooters. – Brantley Gilbert
The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They’re able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that. – Curtis Jackson
Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders. – Alexei Mordashov
The parallel we like to make…. is the idea of becoming the next Warner Brothers, which is a company that creates the content, but they also produce the content. They also distribute; they also market. So we say that because Fine Bros. and Warner Brothers is fun to say. – Benny Fine
If you’re going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally. – Barry Diller
As an entrepreneur and public company CEO, I’ve dealt with dozens of rollouts, and when unveiling a new product, the operating approach should be, ‘Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.’ – John Delaney
I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe. – Billy Corgan
I came from product design originally – I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 – so I’m used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects. – Jason Wu
My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I’d like to build something to that effect. – Brittany Murphy
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. – Anthony Trollope
I’ve always said I’m not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team. – Alexander Wang
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. – C. Wright Mills