List Of Companies Based In The Philadelphia Area
This is a list of companies either based or with large operations in the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley area of the United States.
| Philadelphia portal |
Read more about List Of Companies Based In The Philadelphia Area: Active Companies Headquartered in The Region, Nonprofit Companies Headquartered in The Region, US Headquarters of Foreign Corporations, Divisions of US Corporations, Defunct Corporations, Divisions of Foreign Corporations, Corporations That Moved To A Different Region, Less Notable Philadelphia Corporations, Sources Used
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, companies, based, philadelphia and/or area:
“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“Socialite women meet socialite men and mate and breed socialite children so that we can fund small opera companies and ballet troupes because there is no government subsidy.”
—Sugar Rautbord, U.S. socialite fund-raiser and self-described “trash” novelist. As quoted in The Great Divide, book 2, section 7, by Studs Terkel (1988)
““Next time,” said the Inventor, “a woman will be added. Beauty is easy to render because beauty is based on the rendering of beauty, but we are still working on her hips, we want her to roll them, and that is difficult.””
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man’s parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.”
—Cleveland Amory (b. 1917)
“... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)