If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself. — Aesop
It is better to be alone than in bad company. — Unknown Author
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. — George Washington
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people. — William Shakespeare
Better to lose money in a good company rather than making money in a bad one. — Vijay Kedia
Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth — Jay Abraham
Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something. — Nouman Ali Khan
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Try to be in good company, even when you are alone. — Hungarian Proverbs
A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last. — Jeff Bezos
Bad decisions, good intentions. — Drake
You are not responsible for what your friends do, but you will be judged by the company you keep. — Leonard A Cole
Bad Company Image Quotes
One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.
Keeping Bad Company Quotes
We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death. — Thomas Bernhard
It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself. — Ibn Ata Allah
Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down. — Aaron Carter
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film 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
Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business. — Ornette Coleman
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company. — Horace Walpole
Good Company Bad Company Quotes
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words. — Muhammad
To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals. — Michael Bassey
In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies. — Ahmed Ben Bella
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
I'm a bad woman, but I'm damn good company. — Fanny Brice
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
Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go. — Benjamin Graham
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company. — Tommy Bolt
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them. — Andy Grove
I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years.... I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the bad and the good senses. That's an amazing company that is going to do a lot of good and bad things. — Jimmy Wales
A company that cannot successfully implement the 5S's cannot expect to effectively integrate JIT, re-engineering, or any other large-scale change. Good workplaces develop beginning with the 5S's. Bad workplaces fall apart beginning with the 5S's. — Hiroyuki Hirano
You Are In Bad Company Quotes
Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them. — Mikhail Bulgakov
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conflicts often stem from a couple of leaders on both sides that are badly brought up. They'd rather go to war than compromise. And in business, you're competing with other companies all the time, but you don't end up going to war with each other. — Richard Branson
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing? — Kelley Armstrong
Good Company Quotes
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
Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets. — Philip Kotler
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. — Michael Broadbent
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Much like Warren Buffett has said very famously - he doesn't buy technology stocks because he doesn't understand them- I will not buy consumer goods companies because I do not understand them. — Chamath Palihapitiya
If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
We bought the UFC when not only was it a bankrupt company that was going under, it had a horrible stigma attached to it. This thing was so bad it was not allowed on pay-per-view. — Dana White
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. — Joan Didion
To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone. — Umar
Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers. — Socrates
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much. — J. R. R. Tolkien
I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage. — Jamie Dimon
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away. — Will Smith
Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement. — Virginia Woolf
I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people. — Richard Branson
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. — Augustine of Hippo
I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company. — Robert Cormier
The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company. — John D. Rockefeller
In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw. — Moses Hess
The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused. — James C. Collins
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. — Denis Diderot
Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it I swear I will never do it again. Until the next time company comes. — Marilyn Sokol
You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. — Thomas J. Watson
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. — Jonathan Swift
It's a very painful, eye-opening experience to realize, "Wait a minute, my dad actually doesn't want me to be successful because he's not happy." Whether you call it misery loves company, it's not like parents are bad people. It's a human trait. It's just a thing. — Gary Vaynerchuk
Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all. — Leonard of Port Maurice
I've laid out my economic plans. I want to grow the economy. That's why I have plans for jobs and raising incomes. I do want to go after bad actors on and off Wall Street, because I think companies that take money from federal, state, and local governments and then pick up and move should have to pay that back. — Hillary Clinton
An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company. — Samuel Richardson
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