Corporate Life Quotes

All my days are themed. Monday is managementTuesday is product, engineering, and design. Wednesday is marketing, growth, and communications. Thursday is partnership and developers. Friday is company and cultureOn the days beginning with T, I start at Twitter in the morning, then go to Square in the afternoon. Sundays are for strategySaturday is a day off.

I’m an executive now. I have to be a bigger leader, more responsible leader, more careful about how I say things….

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.'

That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

The African…regards the Universe as one composite whole; an organic entity, progressively driving towards greater harmony and unity whose individual parts exist merely as interdependent aspects of one whole realizing their fullest value in the corporate life where communal contentment is the absolute measure of values.

I work really hard. My daughter asks me what I do, and it's mostly calls, emails, and meetings. We have our office in Hayes Valley, a nice part of town, because we're all about place being important.

Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

My father was a corporate lawyer. He went to work in a suit and tie. He had a secretary. He left the house before seven A.M. His professional life felt generic, like a backdrop, a signifier more than a life: office job.

I'd earned enough money, I had a flat in Wimbledon, I did some corporate things, but I was really unhappy. After being challenged all my life, suddenly there were no challenges any more.

The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it's the start of purgatory.

A person's life is over in 50, 100 years. But a company lives on through the people it is composed of, and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone.

I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

You need to ask yourself, ‘Where do you want to work: startups, mid-size or large companies?’ If you find yourself debating the ‘startup versus large company’ choice you’ve already chosen the big company. Entrepreneurship isn’t a career choice it’s a passion and obsession.

The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.

I think all the business stuff - the promotion, the hype, the high-power lunches, and the permanently injected smiles - is boring.

If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

What are we here for except the offices?