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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company. -- Jimmy Wales
You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go. -- Kevin Spacey
I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well. -- Tim Cook
At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, writing articles, launching new ventures, and fully enjoying life. -- David H. Murdock
When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs. -- Robert Metcalfe
A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently. -- Garrett Camp
The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that. -- Ben Horowitz
Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably made -- Mark Zuckerberg
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company. -- Ben Horowitz
You learn every single day when youre running a company. You learn as you go. -- Kevin Spacey
No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company. -- Steve Ballmer
The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving. -- Marc Andreessen
Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company. -- Max Levchin
Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst. -- Sam Altman
Now there are times when I have to make big decisions as I'm now running a company and that it's OK to go with being respected first. -- Rachel Platten
You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt. -- Ben Horowitz
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you're incapable of... If you think you're incapable of running a company, make that your aim... Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible. -- Paul Arden
Running a company is pretty demanding. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation. -- James Sinegal
Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make. -- Dick Wolf
In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month. -- Marc Andreessen
Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel. -- Mike Marsh
If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital. -- Ken Robinson
Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company. -- Cate Blanchett
Everyone wants to call wrestling 'the business.' Why don't you treat it like a business? I don't care if you're running a diner, if you're running a car wash or a wrestling company. It's all business. -- Kevin Nash
My first job in L.A. was actually playing an employee in a Best Buy commercial, but I played a bad employee at another store. I also worked at a commercial casting company running cameras and session directing. -- Timothy Simons
I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated. -- Uday Kotak
I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be. -- Thomas Dolby
I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself. -- James McNerney
I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury. -- Christopher McDougall
We're running the company to serve more people. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear-view mirror. -- Anita Roddick
The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment. -- Ben Horowitz
If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people. -- Richard Branson
The BP president said yesterday that the company would survive. That's like someone running over your dog and saying, 'Don't worry, my car is fine.' -- Jimmy Fallon
I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business.... so I always resisted it and kept things simple. -- Anne Robinson
The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster. -- Darl McBride

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