So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can’t put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation. – Curt Schilling
John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company’s profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company. – Alex Berenson
Oculus is a company that often does things differently. But we don’t want to do things so differently that we start to get into trouble. – Brendan Iribe
The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld. – Bill Gates
Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company. – Bill Maris
Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990. – Arkady Volozh
We are out-of-the-gates strong in fiscal 2015. We grew revenue 8% in the first quarter and exceeded our QuickBooks Online subscriber and our company financial targets. – Brad D. Smith
We have a company, Geometric Software, which is into engineering services software. We have a company called Nature’s Basket, which is into gourmet retailing. Both are specialized companies. – Adi Godrej
Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people. – Atul Gawande
In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government. – Alexei Mordashov
I have a theater company that I’m a part of, Colt Coeur, and they do some really rad projects. – Ato Essandoh
I live in New York, and when you’re older and widowed, it’s a perfect place because you just don’t feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too. – Blythe Danner
The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options. – Alex Berenson
Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it’s something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol, or maybe it’s just having company to yack at. – Charles Stross
Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions. – Ben Horowitz
When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system – get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition – it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most. – Charles Koch
When you look at a company that’s already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn’t necessarily when it’s executing well. It tends to be peacetime – you’ve defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple. – Ben Horowitz
I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables – sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better. – Astro Teller
Animals keep you company when you’re really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what – it’s harder to feel bad or down. – Aaron Carter
If we don’t build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I’m, like, perpetually stressed, honestly. – Arash Ferdowsi