#company

Most economists are accustomed to treating companies as idyllic places where everyone is devoted to a common goal: making as much money as possible. In the real world, that’s not how things work at all. Companies aren’t big happy families where everyone plays together nicely. Rather, most workplaces are made up of fiefdoms where executives compete for power and credit, often in hidden skirmishes that make their own performances appear superior and their rivals’ seem worse. Divisions compete for resources and sabotage each other to steal glory. Bosses pit their subordinates against one another so that no one can mount a coup. Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines – habits – that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done. ↗

— Charles Duhigg

#economists #workplace #business

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#analysis #anticipating #comes #company #final

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#business #company #even #guys #hip

Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well. ↗

— Mario Lopez

#could #create #eventually #great #i

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#album #check #company #excited #find

I am very proud to follow the rules of our company. ↗

— Ingvar Kamprad

#company #follow #i #i am #our

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it. ↗

— Gil Kane

#dc #did #only #pages #print

I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#enjoy #even #experiences #friends #i

We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it. ↗

— John Warnock

#building #company #could #employer #ever

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#alone #associate #bad #better #company