The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble.
I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.
There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.
When a company gets into trouble, it should basically have to be resolved, in other words, stockholders lose their money, unsecured bondholders lose their money.
I'm not led by money, because if that's the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company.
I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.
The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.
You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.
What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.
I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.
It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.
My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.
At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally.
But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.
We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.
