Company Quotes - Page 21

• Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Giving, Misery, Stores

  John Kendrick Bangs (2015). “The Water Ghost and Others: Bangs Classic Collection”, p.11, 谷月社

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• We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.

  Jay Leno

  Race, Car, Dresses

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• Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad.

  George Washington

  Good Company, Found, Expensive

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.41, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight.

  Amy Lowell

  Wall, Gay, Soldier

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Eye, Heart, Men

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Gentleman, Doe, Thrown

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of official authority may get the state may keep, and that if it cannot get hold of a nonresident stockholder it may hold the company as hostage for him, is strange constitutional doctrine to me.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Doe, Doctrine, Use

  "International Harvester Co. v. Wisconsin Dept. of Taxation, 322 U.S. 435, 450". Judicial opinion, 1944.

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• They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Art, Animal, Men

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.1, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

  Gloria Estefan

  College, Records, Diplomats

  "Wake Up with Whoopi", October 13, 2006.

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• I'm very excited about this wonderful opportunity to take part in the evolution of a company that is integral to the Hispanic community and a powerful force in all areas of the media.

  Gloria Estefan

  Powerful, Opportunity, Media

  "Miami Herald" Newspaper, June 9, 2007.

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• I don’t think there’s any company that has reached $1 billion in revenue as fast as Xiaomi. In every conceivable benchmark, it’s almost unprecedented in terms of its speed of growth.

  Yuri Milner

  Thinking, Growth, Speed

  "Billionaire Investor Yuri Milner Believes Xiaomi Will Become A $100 Billion Company" by Eugene Kim, www.businessinsider.com. December 31, 2014.

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• The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.

  Marvin Bower

  Differences, People, Negative

  Marvin Bower (1997). “The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders”, p.34, Harvard Business Press

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• Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy a sudden demand - unlike the railway company which doubles its trains to carry a special influx of passengers; the law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate. By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements.

  Herbert Spencer

  Average, Law, Special

  Herbert Spencer (1858). “Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative”, p.326

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• Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled; furthermore, it is unlikely that the venerable scholars will stand up afterward to declare, "This lecture was a load of crap." The more profound a professor's distaste with the proceedings, the more likely he is to melt away at the end of the talk.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, People

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Mother, Stars, Father

  "Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass". Book by Aleister Crowley, www.scarletwoman.org. 1913.

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• We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we have high levels of entrepreneurship. And we have the best universities in the world. ... We also have impeccable credit. What we don't have is a political system that can take the simple measures to deal with our short-term deficit.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Simple, Political, Credit

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• Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Men, Mediocrity

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• [Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler].... It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

  James Otis

  Men, Law, Tyrants

  "Argument Against the Writs of Assistance". "Argument Against the Writs of Assistance" by James Otis Jr., 1761.

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• The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.

  David Hawkins

  Cash, Able, Earning

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• Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women. But when we overprotect women and only women it also leads to discrimination against women. ...If [an employer works] for a large company for which quotas prevent discrimination, they find themselves increasingly hiring free-lancers rather than taking on a woman and therefore a possible sexual harassment lawsuit.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Numbers, Safety

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?

  Stewart Brand

  Block, House, Greek

  "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto". Book by Stewart Brand, 2009.

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• In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our lives and liberties that are threatened, not only by terrorism but also by massive depredations of our privacy in the name of counter-terrorism. If those companies from which governments actually take most of our intimate details want to show that they are still on the side of the angels, they had better join this struggle for transparency too.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Struggle, Angel, Names

  "If Big Brother came back, he'd be a public-private partnership". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

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• 56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.

  Gordon Brown

  Party, Taken, Yesterday

  "PMQs February 11 2008 Did the Torys change Wikipedia's entry on Titian? (Prime Minister's Questions 8:44)". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. February 11, 2008.

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• It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.

  Jean Chretien

  Government, Giving, Doe

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, Chapter Five: A Balancing Act (p. 111-112), 1985.

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• Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows.

  James McNerney

  People, Development, Growing

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