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Company Quotes


"When Jackie got his big contract at CBS and was putting together what turned out to be almost a stock company of players, he remembered Frank and said, 'Get me that kid who played the jail sketch.'"


"I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen."


"It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine."


"I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two."


"I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately."


"I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey."


"The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring."


"When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same."


"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."


"I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them."


"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."


"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."


"As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories."


"I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs."


"It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods."


"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."


"I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created."


"We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now."


"The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor."


"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."


"I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices."


"I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company."


"Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press."


"We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool."


"I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible."


"We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell."


"But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands."


"I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have."


"I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records."


"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet."


"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."


"I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her."


"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."


"Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle."


"When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company."
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