quotes about Good Company
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
-- Andy GroveSource : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.10, Penguin
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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 -
I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
-- Barbara Eden -
Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.
-- Carlo Dossi -
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company
-- Charles Evans HughesSource : "Ethics and Citizenship". Book by John Walter Wayland, p. 208, 1924.
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Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxSource : "Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections" by George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, 1750.
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Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
Children...will never go astray while they are in good company.
-- Francis M. Lyman -
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How a little love and good company improves a woman.
-- George Farquhar -
I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
-- George Wald -
Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad.
-- George Washington -
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
-- Izaak WaltonSource : 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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To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him.
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Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
-- Louis Kronenberger -
Books are always good company if you have the right sort.
-- Louisa May Alcott -
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Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.
-- Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsSource : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
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Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
-- Michael BroadbentSource : Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster
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There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.
-- Norm MacDonald -
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.
-- Orison Swett Marden -
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Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets.
-- Philip KotlerSource : "The 75 Greatest Management Decisions Ever Made". Book by Stuart Crainer, 2002.
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Without good company all dainties Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes, Are only seen, not tasted.
-- Philip Massinger -
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
-- Pope John XXIII -
The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.
-- Rachel Naomi Remen -
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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 -
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
-- Ryan Holiday -
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 -
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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
-- Peter O'Toole -
I like good company, but I like hard work still better.
-- Camille Saint-Saens -
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 -
And if you feel that everyone has rejected you and your ideas let me tell you this, you are most assuredly in good company.
-- James Van Fleet -