We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar.
HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.
American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.
To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader. If it doesn't, it risks becoming yet another mediocre corporation.
No company has a culture, every company is a culture
Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.
Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.
Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.
In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.
I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.
One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.
The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.
