Good Company Quotes - Page 5

• If the only common thread you have as an industrial company is the fact that you think you're well managed, you can still be a pretty good company, but you're not going to be a dominant company, a competitive company over time.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Thinking, Common Threads, Facts

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• Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Suicide, Writing, People

  Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2006). “A Confession: Easyread Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Investing, Good Times

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• One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.

  Dave Chambers

  Wine, Oasis, Grace

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• The thing to remember is that children are temporary. As soon as they develop a sense of humor and get to be good company, maybe even remember to take the trash out and close the refrigerator door, they pack up their electronic equipment and their clothes, and some of your clothes, and leave in a U-Haul, to return only at Thanksgiving.

  Barbara Holland

  Children, Doors, Clothes

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

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• True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.

  Sophia Loren

  Laughter, Children, Soul

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• I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.

  Wallace Stegner

  Crazy, Believe, Thoughtful

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• If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

  Mark Twain

  Book, Company, Ifs

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.262, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

  Charles Bukowski

  Space, Misanthrope, Drink

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.308, Canongate Books

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• My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Giving, Pirate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Solitude, Letters

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• Pastime with good company
  I love and shall, until I die.
  Grudge who list, but none deny!
  So God be pleased, thus live will I.

  Henry VIII of England

  Lists, Grudge, Deny

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• Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

  Aimee Bender

  Light, Yellow, Comfort

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.122, Random House

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• If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Should, Company, Ifs

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• It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Selfish, Ambition

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.307, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a movie whether it was
  good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with
  them I thought it was pretty good company to keep.

  Angela Bassett

  Scene, De Niro, Honestly

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• I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

  Barbara Eden

  Thinking, Very Good, Knows

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• I didn't really had a good answer, as so often -- is me. But then somebody sent me the other day, Isaiah 49:16, and you need to go home and look it up. Before you look it up, I'll tell you what it says though. It says, hey, if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it's good enough for me, for us. He says, in that passage, 'I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you,' and I'm like, 'Okay, I'm in good company.'

  Sarah Palin

  Home, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock. After all, you can buy a good car but pay too much for it.

  Richard Thaler

  Differences, Car, Mind

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• I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they'd get more out of life… You meet the right person at the right time and they fulfil a certain something in your life. You fulfil something in theirs. But there's a time limit to that. Unless you choose to be bloody good company for the rest of your life, do you know what I mean?

  Laura Marling

  Girlfriend, Mean, Thinking

  "Laura Marling: 'Americans - they're just a lot more poetic'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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• We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage. It's going to be hard to find another Blockbuster, but that doesn't mean you can't have three good companies growing. The point is, we're going to be busy.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Taken, Mean, Competition

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• To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in retrospect, that there was much to be said for their suggestion. On the other hand, many philosophers are quite good company; the arguments they use are generally better than the ones that lawyers use; and we do get to go to as many faculty meetings as we like at no extra charge.

  Jerry Fodor

  Hands, Parent, Retrospect

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• I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Wine, Bottles

  Ernest Hemingway (1926). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Writing, Average

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• Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.

  Carlo Dossi

  People, Company, Left

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