No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.
Anita Roddick

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
Anita Roddick

It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.
Eriq La Salle

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!
Bryant H. McGill

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.
Chi McBride

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
Anthony Trollope

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.
Roy Ayers

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.
Herb Kelleher

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.
Antonia Fraser

I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.
Marc Garneau

If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
Lou Gramm

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.
Tim O'Reilly

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
Ornette Coleman

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
Mary Astell

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
Christie Hefner

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
Mac Davis

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?
Rene Rivkin

So it takes years to make a solid company.
Ninette de Valois

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
Patrick Stewart