Corporations Quotes

[Klien commended IBM for sponsoring the program and urged other corporations to follow. ] IBM employees are smart, highly motivated and thousands of them already volunteer and tutor in America's public schools... Now, many of them will become terrific full-time teachers with the company's strong support. I hope more companies and organizations will follow IBM's great example. - James Hunt

[Excalibur has only 10 employees; that's the good news and the bad news. Small companies don't have the layers of Y2K complexity that face larger corporations, but they also lack the resources and expertise to handle the millennium problem.] I've been wearing a lot of hats, doing everyday business and trying to deal with the issue, ... It would have been helpful if we'd had some resources or even some ideas from larger companies. - Brett Gardner

[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar. - Elvis Costello

[Because of problems the pilot program exposed,] we're moving toward a position where we routinely look at compensation of executives when we conduct our audits of corporations... are going to pull the returns of key executives to determine whether the compensation has been correctly recorded. - Mark Everson

[Adding new software and more people to reduce the cost of collaboration is great -- as long as it doesn't create even more work. To really ease the work overload -- and, not coincidentally, make corporations more nimble -- it's also essential to identify and eliminate unnecessary interactions.] Sometimes people need to remind themselves that there is an off switch -- and use it... Solitude is the scarce resource in business lives -- having that time when you are disconnected and realizing that everything will go along fine without you. - Paul Saffo