Companies Quotes

Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.

I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse.

Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, we're planning for the worst, and the worst is now, and the car market is down more than 15 percent in France. There is so much uncertainty.

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.