Quotes of: Publishing-company Keyword

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

Dave Eggers

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

Tom Glazer

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

Patrick White

There are three difficulties in authorship: – to write anything worth publishing - to find honest men to publish it - and to get sensible men to read it. — Caleb C. Colton [1780-1832]

Life

The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.

Jason Epstein

There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen. The way contracts work, if you leave one publishing house for another, the characters tend to stay with the previous publishing house.

Lori Foster

I enjoy not being a public company.

Marc Andreessen

The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.

Topher Grace

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

Eric Lefkofsky

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

Paul Cezanne

No road is too long in the company of a friend.

Japanese

In the company of the blind, close your eyes.

Turkish

He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company.

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only c...

Steve Jobs

A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agree...

Barbara Ehrenreich

I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about s...

Muhammad Yunus

I am proud of the fact that the U.K. is an open trading country. I welcome inward investment such as that of Nissan, and the takeover of struggling British companies by foreign companies who turn them around, as in the case of Jaguar Land Rover. I al...

David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience.

Howard Schultz

I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's gro...

James McNerney

I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their rhythm and go fund tech companies, and tech companies will go create jobs and employ a lot of people, so there's that aspect of Wall Street.

Daymond John