Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.
Apple has a passion to deliver the most amazing, innovative - and, in fact, I got criticized because in "Win," there are at least 10 references to what Steve Jobs has done, and Apple's done, in that my editor said it's too much. But Apple is a passionate company.
A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.
No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult
The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.
I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.
To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.
No outsourcing the "soul" of the company - let's all agree to that. But most companies are more body than soul.
When you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your schedule. You have customers that can interrupt your schedule. You have a certain obligation to wave the flag because people expect to get out and wave the flag. The number of ways that others can command your time is high. At this stage, I get to pick and choose a little more. Not that there aren't some things that have to be done, but I get a little more control over my time.
The idea that ballet is a white art is absurd and shocking, and it’s gone on for too long. Nothing would make me happier than having a company that reflects society, to have dancers onstage that people can relate to.
To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.
The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.
It was months later when I was sitting at the board in my studio and my wife would stick her head in and say, "What if you did Pooh and. . . oh, we don't do that anymore. " I do have my soapbox and will go to my grave being a Disney company man.
If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere.
Good old grandsire. . . we shall be joyful of thy company.
We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.
It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.