#company

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#business #company #drinking #find #god

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#company #dealing #educations #ended #father

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#basically #company #every #out #start-up

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'. ↗

— Colin Powell

#company #constantly #disappointments #expect #failures

I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be. ↗

— James Purefoy

#believe #best #company #hbo #how

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me. ↗

— Little Richard

#company #i #like #me #mother

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company. ↗

— Pat Riley

#coach #company #considered #day-to-day #did

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. ↗

— Will Rogers

#company #goods #hand #holding #policeman

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor. ↗

— William Adams

#captain #carried #company #done #emperor

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing. ↗

— Steve Ross

#avoid #because #company #criticism #eliminate