Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.
Is France a completely open market to G.E.? No, of course not. I think we're more discerning about China because it's China, and they're big, and they're more concerning. But the best global companies are ones that are nuanced.
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...
The growing role of enterprise social media, plus the growing budgets and authority of CMOs entrusted with choosing the best platforms, translates into an exciting future for apps that harness social potential for large companies.
If there are only three guys at the top of the organization handling things, it's the definition of a bankrupt company. In creating leaders without titles, we are going to have organizations with people at the helm putting forth their best.
My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.
My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.
Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there....
There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.
If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.
Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.
I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.
Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in the South Sea Company and gathering in clubs and coffeehouses to misinform one another.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.
The companies that are the most influential and most successful are the ones that care about impact and the influence they have on the world.
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record.
Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables.
