Company Quotes at FixQuotes

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre"

"A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you"

"Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?"

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"Better be alone than in bad company"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"A man by himself is in bad company"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"We're running the company to serve more people"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"If misery loves company, misery has company enough"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"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, Comedian

"I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there"

Tom Peters, Businessman

"All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer"

Tom Peters, Businessman

"I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Live always in the best company when you read"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen"

John Sebastian, Musician

"The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did"

James Daly, Actor

"I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal"

David Geffen, Businessman

"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees"

Hal Borland, Author

"In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color"

Catharine MacKinnon, Activist

"We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires"

Dave Barry, Author

"We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell"

Barry White, Musician

"I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies"

Peter Lynch, Businessman

"I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution"

James Daly, Actor

"I'm not fit company for man or beast"

Billy Strayhorn, Composer

"But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in"

Mary Astell, Writer

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