Company Quotes

"The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"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, Author

"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"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

"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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"A man by himself is in bad company"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"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 am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him"

John Locke, Philosopher

"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

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

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company"

George Washington, President

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company"

George Washington, President

"It is better to be alone than in bad company"

George Washington, President

"Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"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"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"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, Poet

"There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

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