Quotes with company

  • One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
  • Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
  • Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
  • Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
  • The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
  • Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
  • You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
  • Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
  • The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
  • Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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  • C. P. Snow A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
    The Two Cultures (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • William Shakespeare Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • David Ogilvy If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Samuel Johnson No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Graham Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.
    The Intelligent Investor Ch. 7, Portfolio Policy: The Positive Side, p. 75
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • William Blake ''When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?'' O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying ''Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.''
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • B. B. King 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Gian Vincenzo Gravina A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
    Gian Vincenzo Gravina
     
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  • Oscar Wilde A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carol Loomis A buyback is itself a special kind of acquisition, made at prices that are typically a bargain compared with those a company must pay for an outside purchase.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • John B. S. Haldane A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Charles Evans Hughes A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
    Charles Evans Hughes
    American statesman and Republican politician (1862 - 1948)
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  • Cesare Pavese A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Bill Cosby A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • John Gay A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Caroline Leavitt A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Abraham Cowley Ah! wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company!
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Thomas J. Peters All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Brad Stone Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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