For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.
Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.
A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.
My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.
If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.
More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.
I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.
Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.
Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.
Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treatments, and there's also a lot of good in the industry.
I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.
The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable.
But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.
