Company History Quotes

Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.

United's 2015 earnings were one of the best in the company's history.

... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.

You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

When we first showed the Karma in January 2008, we had barely started the company.

I started Dell 28 yrs ago with $1000. Revenues in 1984 were $6 million. Last year $62.1 billion. Impossible is nothing.

Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

While we might now have expanded into the U.S.A. with our California office, I'm a Coundon girl born and bred and proud that Crafter's Companion is based in the North East of England.

What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

I came up with the idea for what later became Paychex in 1970 when I was working for Electronic Accounting Systems, a company that sold payroll processing to companies with 50 to 1,000 employees.

The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

Since its inception, HCL's core focus area has been technology and product development, and hence, we continued to remain in the high end of technology throughout the '90s.

Since Charles Dolan founded Cablevision in 1973, the Dolan family has been honored to help shepherd our customers and employees through the most extraordinary communications revolution in modern history.

The real story of Netflix is complicated: an epic tale full of struggle, disappointment, drama, humor, and achievement.

In the early days at Asymetrix, we were focusing on business automation.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.

The company started in the early 90s or late 80s. We were a behavioural science company. We didn't pivot into data analytics till 2012. So, all the data that we collected pre-2012, which was done by the British company SBL group, was collected through quantitive and qualitative research on the ground.

I started the company in 1986, but we didn't have the money to do a show until '92.

The story of Airbnb is really the underdog story in many ways.

Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.

The Yahoo story is still being written.

When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.

One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's.