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• I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, People, Busy

  Alice Hoffman (2010). “Green Angel”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

  Garry Wills

  Children, Self, Politician

  "Lead time". Book by Garry Wills, 1983.

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• Talking, texting or tweeting on your phone is the worst in any social situation. I went to a lunch during Paris Fashion Week, and I managed to steal a few moments with Lee Radziwill - who I think is perhaps the classiest woman alive - and she said this is her biggest pet peeve too. So I'm in good company.

  Derek Blasberg

  Fashion, Thinking, Pet

  "What This Party Pro Knows About Being a Fabulous Host (or Guest)". Interview with Adam Glassman, www.oprah.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.

  Bryan Procter

  Mother, Wall, Wine

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• It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness of immortality. To reach this state of Self-realization, each man must practice meditation to transfer his consciousness from the limited body to the unlimited sphere of joy felt in meditation.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Practice, Self

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• For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Past, Heroism, Example

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• Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Real, Nice

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne's House of Dreams”, p.66, Gideon House Books

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• I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Years, People

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• I like good company, but I like hard work still better.

  Camille Saint-Saens

  Hard Work, Stills, Company

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• Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?

  Marie Leszczynska

  Cat, Able, Silent

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• You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting is not the same as drinking. Drinking pleases, mellows, loosens the tongue and inhibitions; drinking wine with food is healthy and natural; drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

  Michael Broadbent

  Drinking, Wine, Order

  Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster

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• I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? I tell them, Try to feel like a molecule; and if you work hard, who knows? Some day you may get to feel like a big molecule!

  George Wald

  Hard Work, Knowledge, Science

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• To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Taken, Writing, Men

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• In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

  Roger Enrico

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wind

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• The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.

  Peter Lynch

  Thinking, Long, Stock Price

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.

  Sabeer Bhatia

  Entrepreneur, Next, Stuck

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• Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company and performing for the long term. I know everyone says that, that sounds trite when I repeat it that way, but that is and has always been our attitude about our business. If we do the right things, the stock price will take care of itself, and our shareholders will be rewarded.

  James Sinegal

  Attitude, Business, Long

  "The CEO Behind Costco". Interview with David Gardner, www.fool.com. January 18, 2005.

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• I think that you could design a terrible logo for a good company with great people and they could build it into a great program. Alternatively you could design what seems to be a brilliant logo for people who are not smart or energetic or are incapable of associating with anything positive and it would become a terrible logo.

  Michael Bierut

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• People have accused me of only working with good companies. No I don't. I work with some very dysfunctional companies or unbelievably dysfunctional organizations. The people that bring me in know what they're doing won't work for the future. They know they want to change and they want to change for the right reasons. They believe what I believe and that's why they called me.

  Simon Sinek

  Believe, Organization, People

  Source: advisor.tv

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• Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

  Lord Byron

  Sunset, Clouds, Space

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• I had very good bosses, very good companies for which I worked. I worked in industries where the results really mattered; it wasn't the perception of results, it was just the facts.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Boss, Perception, Facts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We're headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin' off of the quality of vagrants. There was atime you could find real good company in almost any jungle you'd pick, men who could talk, men who'd read a book now and then; and now, what do you find, a lot of dirty little guttersnipes no decent tramp would want to associate with.
  Well, it's been that way all through history.

  John Dos Passos

  Real, Dirty, Book

  John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

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• It is possible for two people who have wide differences of preference and opinion, of habits, of teaching, of training, of background and belief to enjoy the company of each other in many ways. Indeed, a diversity of friendships is one of life's real enrichments. To learn of the goodness of those who are unlike-their worth, their sincerity, their good hearts, their good minds, their good company-is rich and rewarding. It is wonderful to have a wide range of choice friends who can be counted on, friends who can be enjoyed and loved and trusted. Such is the meaning of friendship.

  Richard L. Evans

  Real, Teaching, Heart

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• We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you.

  Shauna Niequist

  Party, Love You, Love Is

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• We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

  Jamie Dimon

  Leader, Proud, Shoulders

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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