But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.
Starting a company is rough. It's even harder when you're young - I know this firsthand, because my first company flopped when I was 25.
As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.
As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'
Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.
I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst.
The second you get set in your ways is the second a newer, fresher, more innovative company is going to come in and take your market share.
Google is a very responsible company. It's a generous company, but it's very frugal in many ways.
The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.
The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.
I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.
I'm still focused on the flagship businesses: Quicken Loans and RockBridge, the title company, and some of the board stuff in the gaming.
A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.
The people inside the company are the people who define GE, not the people outside the company.
I'm a complete globalist. I think like a global CEO. But I'm an American. I run an American company. But in order for GE to be successful in the coming years, I've gotta sell my products in every corner of the world.
I love working for a company full of geeks.
Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.
We have a company, Geometric Software, which is into engineering services software. We have a company called Nature's Basket, which is into gourmet retailing. Both are specialized companies.
