All Quotes

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
‐‐ Tom Peters

Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.
‐‐ Andrew Shue

Community through food is my mission; it is what I do.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.
‐‐ Chip Conley

Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values, and to form meaningful relationships with them. They must become architects of community, consistently demonstrating the values that their customer community expects in exchange for their loyalty and purchases.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.
‐‐ Karen Finerman

Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.
‐‐ Margaret Heffernan

Companies are communities. There's a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.
‐‐ Henry Mintzberg

Companies are experimenting with replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, because most of the health problems come from sodium. It works for some products, but if you diminish the amount of sodium, people want sugar and fat instead.
‐‐ Michael Moss

Companies are getting bitten by hiring a data scientist who isn't really a data scientist.
‐‐ Anthony Goldbloom

Companies are hiring cosplayers to be promotional spokes models for them. There are cosplayers trying to develop a cult following even though they've only been cosplaying for less than a year or two. It's all about the social media or Facebook likes.
‐‐ Yaya Han

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.
‐‐ Paul Samuelson

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.
‐‐ James Dyson

Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.
‐‐ Sanjay Kumar

Companies are very, very good - better than consumers themselves - at knowing what consumers are actually craving.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.
‐‐ Nicholas Negroponte

Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel.
‐‐ Craig Venter

Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent.
‐‐ Jed S. Rakoff

Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.
‐‐ John Stossel

Companies from which I have purchased items are more than welcome to call me with a sale or discount. If I request information on your Web site, please call me. If I don't want your wares, calling me 15 times in a week will not change that.
‐‐ Julie Ann Dawson

Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.
‐‐ Sam Altman

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.
‐‐ Brian Behlendorf

Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.
‐‐ John Gerzema

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

Companies in Silicon Valley invest a lot in understanding their users and what drives user engagement.
‐‐ Pierre Omidyar

Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.
‐‐ Barry Diller

Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.
‐‐ Jacqueline Novogratz

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Companies like Pinterest and Twitter did not become sensations because of Google search but because of the many ways users find out about great sites.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Companies need to have rules - that's a given - but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries.
‐‐ Hal Stratton

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
‐‐ Michael Porter

Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.
‐‐ Henry Petroski

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.
‐‐ Leon Panetta

Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights abuses before doing business with a particular country or distributor.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
‐‐ Jon Johansen

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick