#company

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!' ↗

— Lewis Black

#cable #company #dad #dollars #father

If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#done #government #guarantee #guaranteed #i

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor. ↗

— William Bligh

#anchor #company #following #helen #months

They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company. ↗

— Brian Epstein

#earnings #get #go #into #know

When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

#back #basic #come #comes #company

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#bit #company #did #difficult #early

In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#challenge #company #could #create #environment

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company. ↗

— Jay-Z

#because #beginning #businessman #ceo #company

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.' ↗

— Vince Cable

#attempting #chance #claim #company #developments

I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep. ↗

— Angela Bassett

#bad #brando #company #de niro #even