The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.
Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.
The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing.
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
If I buy a luxury gift for someone I love, it's got to be perfect. The product has to be in perfect condition from the company. If I'm going to buy a luxury watch or luxury car or clothing for someone I love, it's got to be perfect, and they've got to handle it perfectly. They have to pack it perfectly. I want the people that I love to have that great experience, because you're paying so much, you should have it perfect.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.
If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.
HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees.
When I'm alone, I'm in the company of the most interesting dog I know.
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
Its difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.
I believe a great company, whether improving a sector or creating a new one, needs to have an excellent product or service at its core; needs strong management to execute the plan and a good brand to give it the edge over its competitors. Providing quality service, combined with value for money and in an innovative way ensures you offer real value - and finally to be responsible to society and the planet.
People went to Dell for the computers, but they go to Apple for everything… That’s the difference between a transactional company and a transformational one.
I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party. '
It's unfortunate, and we're disappointed the FDA did not grant the stay,. . . But because there are no new scientific findings other than what the poultry groups submitted already, the likelihood of the company being successful in a further legal action is next to nil.
The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
Every person at a record company didn't want to be bothered with me because I was too smart. They knew if I recorded, they were going to have to pay me. They knew I wasn't going to be the artist that would just go in and record. I wanted to know about my royalties.