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Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.
It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
We're not a company that seeks out controversy, but we sure do find it.

Sunday Telegraph (London) (2000)
Part of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way.
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
I've always thought that I had a great gift for being a beachcomber... if I could find someone who could do the work better than I could I would hire that man and take it easy myself.

Quoted in Getty on Getty (1989)
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

My Years with General Motors (1964)
There are so many people involved and it requires such a tremendous effort to put something into effect that a new idea is likely to be considered insignificant in comparison with the effort that it takes to put it across.

Quoted in The Bigness Complex (1986)
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