Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
David Ogilvy

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
David Ogilvy

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

A man by himself is in bad company.
Eric Hoffer

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
J. Paul Getty

A man is known by the company he organizes.
Ambrose Bierce

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
Richard Branson

I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them.
Jesse James

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas Carlyle

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
Ralph Nader

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
Scott Adams