"There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation."

-- James Surowiecki

#Numbers Quotes #Corporations Quotes #Reason Quotes

“As Americans, we have shown ourselves to have the greatest military on the face of the planet, but we are not so very good at anticipating threats and appreciating just how difficult it is to build up stable democracies, to make the investments and sustainable development that we must as a nation if we are to attack the root causes of these sorts of instability.”
“Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.”
“One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.”
“Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.”
“In the nineties, it was all women being blonde and from Sweden. But now it's changed: it's all men looking like Ellen DeGeneres.”

Source : Source: rocksucker.co.uk
“The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas.”
“Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.”
“Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.”

You may also like:

Charles Mackay
Poet
Clay Shirky
Writer
Don Tapscott
Author
Francis Galton
Polymath
Gustave Le Bon
Social Psychologist
Malcolm Gladwell
Journalist
Mark T Bertolini
Businessman
Scott E. Page
Political Scientist
Meghan O'Rourke
Poet