company ownership Quotes

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

I think I became an entrepreneur because I have my way of doing business... to do that, you have to have your own company. But if you have your own company, you're an outsider in the Japanese business world. It's difficult. But that's life.

If Bill Gates left Microsoft we wouldn't allow Donald Trump to run it.

Once investors come in, it's hardly your company anymore!

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

Eventually I will own my own company and will provide advice to athletes and artists from the entertainment industry.

My father is Spanish, and he went to Venezuela looking for a job. He was 20 something, and he fell in love with a Venezuelan girl. He owns a company there, producing iron and bronze.

No, the Knicks are not owned by the public. The Knicks are owned by the shareholders of the company, of which I'm the majority shareholder.

You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

One of the best ways to make growth personal is to give employees a share in their firm, a real incentive to go the extra mile, more of a 'John Lewis Economy' if you like...We know that firms where employees are engaged and own a stake do at least as well as other companies in the good times and have performed even better in recent bad times. Expanding and recruiting at a much faster rate and achieving better productivity...So, why do they make up just 2% of our business landscape?

I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.

You know, I'm behind my company. My company has been a big part of my life. And it's not that I been buying a company or that my father bought a company and tried to do something out of it. You know, it's not the same thing. It's my name, it's my company, it's my signature.

First of all, how could I be broke, and I got all these companies?

I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.

I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

The government seems to be set on bankrupting Proton and selling it off, because I think it is regarded as my baby.

I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.

It's a little different when you spend 30 years developing all these companies that we just ask [Donald Trump] to sell them. So I don't think that's a fair request.

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.

I'm never gonna owe money because every time I get a dollar, I put it into another business, whether it's to buy goods or develop other companies. You don't have money; you have companies. That's one business model. That's mine. And I only associate with other people that are putting up their own money, 'cause they're the only ones that can relate.

I am the largest shareholder in SoftBank; I share the same interest as the other shareholders.

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.