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....
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.
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.
Over 600 Indian companies have opened their offices in U.K. and have secured the second highest number of jobs by a foreign employer in the U.K.
If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.
There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.
Don't be scared to try new things, but remember to hold on to the vision of your company and the initial successes that defined your brand.
Customer service teams at many companies have already embraced social media, often out of necessity.
At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.
