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• Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.

  Francis Quarles

  Mean, Choices, Way

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.36

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• The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Sleep, Long, Mouths

  Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Harrington ; Thoughts on bores ; and, Ormond”, p.209

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• how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Laughter, Laughing, Impossible

  Maria Edgeworth (1894). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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• Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

  Jane Austen

  Family, Good Company, Connexion

  Jane Austen (2008). “Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)”, p.91, Mondial

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• There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

  Agnes Repplier

  Book, Heart, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

  Rebecca West

  Flames, Age, Grass

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.

  Barbara Holland

  Humble, Self, Ego

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

  John Stuart Mill

  Kings, Men, Progress

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.499, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service. The Japanese corporate credo, on the other hand, is that a company should become the world's most efficient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Thinking, Hands, America

  "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 99, 1982.

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• There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.

  Joseph Joubert

  Self Esteem, Men, Long

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• Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Drawing, Rooms, Want

  Julia Ward Howe (1880). “Modern Society”

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• For my part I think the Learned, and Unlearned Blockhead pretty equal; for 'tis all one to me, whether a Man talk Nonsense, or unintelligible Sense, I am diverted and edified alike by either; the one enjoys himself less, but suffers his Friends to do it more; the other enjoys himself and his own Humour enough, but will let no body else do it in his Company.

  Mary Astell

  Men, Thinking, Suffering

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.254, Broadview Press

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• Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

  Fanny Fern

  Money, Heart, Light

  Fanny Fern (1854). “Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio”, p.91

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• ... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.

  Freya Stark

  Eye, Impact, Blue

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• We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

  Nan Fairbrother

  People, Envy

  Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

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• Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.

  Esther Dyson

  Listening To Others, Visionaries, Way

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• The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Government, Nsa

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• You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.

  Derek Sivers

  Art, Expression, World

  "Brave Interview Series: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.forbes.com. July 1, 2015.

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• I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Issues, Racism, People

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that.

  George Ogilvie

  Strong, Thinking, Order

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• It is really sad for the new artists. Where's the next Elvis, where's the next Beatles, where's the Zeppelin? They're out there but they don't have a chance because once upon a time we [musicians of the 60s] had record companies, and they would support you and have point of purchase material and they would give you advances. In other words, they gave you the air to breathe to find yourself and spend the time to learn how to run.

  Gene Simmons

  Running, Artist, Support You

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We [Apple]want to qualitatively change the way people work. We don't just want to help them do word processing faster or add numbers faster. We want to change the way they can communicate with one another. We're seeing less paper flying around and more quality of communication.

  Steve Jobs

  Communication, Thinking, Apples

  Source: www.slate.com

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• One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Technology, Work Out

  Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. May 1, 2004.

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• I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.

  George Brandis

  Art, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Father, People

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