Quotes on Company

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.

My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to get people to stop investing in Iran, European companies pull out, China disregards it. You look at history and understand why - they've been around for 4,000 years, they have contempt for the barbarians, they just don't give a damn.

I am a company in myself. My repertoire has become a bible for all mimes in the world.

Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company

Prior to the App Store, the chances of that happening, of somebody really young forming a company and in a period of no time really becoming a global provider of a game or something else, it really didn't happen. Now there are these success stories popping up everywhere.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. _x000D_ People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. _x000D_ Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

If the value of a company doesn't just scream out at you, it's too close.

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.

It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as "passion" as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.

Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested