Company Priorities Quotes

HCL is a corporation. It is for profits. A corporation stands for its shareholders, its profits, its employees, its discoveries, and its customers.

I could give a flying crap about the political process. We're an entertainment company.

I do not work for the shareholder, to be honest. I work for the customer.

Most companies are out to make money. They aren't worried about anything except whether they can buy their new BMW next month.

Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.

The fans have to realize that as opinionated as y'all are in the way you want it, the company is the same way, and they're gonna do what they wanna do... at the end of the day, I'm just a guy getting rich.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

Is truth about domestic violence and those who enable it more important than a company's corporate partnerships? I think so.

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

... Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success.

Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins.

Companies that pretend to care about music and really care about other things - whether it be hardware, whether it be advertising - and now they look at music as a loss leader. And we know music isn't a loss leader; music is an important part of our lives.

That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.

I get a lot of criticism for telling founders to focus first on making something great, instead of worrying about how to make money. And yet that is exactly what Google did. And Apple, for that matter. You'd think examples like that would be enough to convince people.

GM will do what's best for GM, and Delphi should do what's good for them.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.

Revenue is not where the focus of the company is at. We are focused on pushing out cool products like our analytics.

What I'm primarily responsible for is products. Everything is developed with my personal involvement. Second is client communication. Everything to do with product and consumer is my primary focus. I also deal with everything which relates to investment and partnership. Distribution, finance, administration, I don't do.

Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

All I can think is that the owners of Chick-Fil-A have decided they have had enough, that they're just going to focus on selling chicken sandwiches to as many people as they can, and they figure that keeping their views about marriage to themselves is better than having a bunch of angry activists on your doorstep.

The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.

Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.

We care about margins.