Company Quotes

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

  Epictetus

  Friendship, Best Friend, Uplifting

  "The Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness, A New Interpretation by Sharon Lebell". Book by Epictetus, 1994.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Business

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

  Alain de Botton

  Friendship, Travel, Company We Keep

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• My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Clever, Ideas

  Persuasion ch. 16 (1818)

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• Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

  Izaak Walton

  Travel, Journey, Way

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1808). “The complete angler; or, Contemplative man's recreation:: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts:”

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• Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company.

  Carlos Slim

  Team, Goal, Different

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. December 3, 2010.

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• I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

  George Wald

  Molecules, Good Company, Good Food Good Company

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• I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

  Steve Jobs

  Hate, Real, Moving

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

  Jeff Bezos

  Entrepreneur, Lasts, Shiny Things

  "Jeff Bezos owns the web in more ways than you think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

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• The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Company You Keep, Differences, Heaven

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Country, Trying

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• Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

  J. Paul Getty

  Work, Sitting Still, Getting High

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• Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Responsibility, Dollars, Action

  "10 Actions Consumers Can Take to Reinvent Capitalism" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. Junt 7, 2011.

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• Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

  Anthony de Mello

  Happiness, Sorry, Fear

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.54, Image

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• I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.

  Tim Cook

  Way, Rooms, Life Is

  "Tim Cook: Why I Fired Scott Forstall" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. December 6, 2012.

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• When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

  Zig Ziglar

  Character, Business Success, Next

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, p.190, Revell

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• Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

  Seth Godin

  Careers, Littles, Way

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• Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Teamwork, Mean, Army

  FaceBook post by Simon Mainwaring from Sep 09, 2015

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• Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Bullshit

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  William Temple

  Inspirational, Men, Effectiveness

  Sir William Temple (1814). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart: To which is Prefixed, the Life and Character of the Author, Considerably Enlarged”, p.547

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• Associate only with positive, focused people who you can learn from and who will not drain your valuable energy with uninspiring attitudes. By developing relationships with those committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, you will have plenty of company on your path to the top of whatever mountain you seek to climb.

  Robin Sharma

  Happiness, Attitude, People

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.227, Jaico Publishing House

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• Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Being Yourself, Loneliness, Opposites

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• When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Firsts, Succeed

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• The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

  Arianna Huffington

  Fall, Class, Giants

  Arianna Huffington (2010). “Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream”, p.5, Broadway Books

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