• Once we get comfortable as a company, I like to push the boat out again. My wife keeps saying, "Why? Why? You're fifty. Take it easy. Let's enjoy it." But I'm in a fairly unique position. Yesterday, the first of nine hundred new trains arrived in the UK and went into service. We are going to transform Britain's rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you've lived a good life. If I put all my money in the bank and drink myself to death in the Caribbean, I just think that would be a waste of the fantastic position I've found myself in.
  Richard Branson Quotes
• Quality brands never go bankrupt. You won't see JetBlue go bankrupt, or Southwest. The American airline industry, unlike almost any other American industry, has never taken quality on board.... The public cares, but airlines act like they don't. Airlines never really go bust. They screw their creditors. They screw their shareholders. You don't get rid of the dead wood. The inefficient airline lives on. In England, you're either alive or you're dead. And, when you're dead, young, efficient new airlines can rise up. How many hospitals could have been built with the money that has been shoveled into inefficient airlines? How many oil refineries? Probably as many as we need.
  Richard Branson Quotes
• I've always liked the name Virgin Oil.
  Richard Branson Quotes
• Take away my people and leave the factories, and soon there will be grass growing on the factory floors, but take away my factories and leave my people, and soon we will have bigger and better factories.
  Andrew Carnegie Quotes
• A corporate culture, like the human body, is an ecosystem of interdependent relationships. If we seek quality with something other than a principle-centered approach on all four levels, our efforts will be necessary but insufficient.
  Stephen Covey Quotes
• Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues. Over 60 percent of the suggestions are implemented.
  Stephen Covey Quotes
• The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions that are based on the project principle, which means that they are put together for each project.
  Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
• As a manager I should do everything to deflect from the workforce the blows aimed at my partners and myself. I am leaving the company. I am confident that the highly professional, united team of extremely experienced managers will be able to successfully handle the task of globalising the YukosSibneft business.
  Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
• You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
  Rupert Murdoch Quotes
• In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle or where one asset is the bulk of this company.
  James Packer Quotes
• I thought I had more than I ever dreamt I'd ever need. And I liked flying around in the company plane.
  Jack Welch Quotes
• I work for a (GE) company for 40 years. I love this company.
  Jack Welch Quotes