Better Company Quotes

#1. I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

Dylan Thomas

#2. The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.

David Eddings

#3. You build a better company by building better people.

Zig Ziglar

#4. A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

John B. S. Haldane

#5. An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. I told him I didn't want to hurt him, or anyone else. I just feel that sometimes I am better company only to myself, because of what is happening in my life, than I am or would be to anyone else.

Jennifer Lynch

#7. The only people who ever get any place interesting are the people who get lost. That's why the planets are so much better company than the stars - they keep wandering back and forth across the sky and you never know where you're going to find them.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'

Jim Bankoff

#9. ... there was no better company for an especially personal revelation than the company of virtual strangers.

John Irving

#10. Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

William Wycherley

#11. There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

Elliott Smith

#12. I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

Helen Van Wyk

#13. A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.

Samuel Johnson

#14. There's Moses (...) Better company that some humans I've known [Sebastien]

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#15. No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned ... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Samuel Johnson

#16. A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.

Robert A. Heinlein

#17. I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do.

Terry Semel

#18. 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

#19. I feel very lucky to be making good work still. The confidence of youth, or that sort of competitiveness you get when you're 22 or 23, the impatience - that's probably been tempered. Hopefully I'm slightly better company.

Cillian Murphy

#20. If I ran the whole place like it was my way or the highway, we would not be as good a company. I'm going to have mistakes - they'll be made on my watch and will embarrass me. But I'll also make sure the company learns from them so it can become a better company.

Jamie Dimon

#21. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better to be alone that unwelcome. I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals.

Mark Twain

#22. The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.

Isaac Asimov

#23. I think the way you build a company for the future has to include social impact; it has to be part of the fabric of your company. I think when you do that, you invariably end up with much better outcomes, even in the short-term.

Leila Janah

#24. If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

Soichiro Honda

#25. A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.

Anthony Liccione

#26. I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

Bill Burr

#27. Better is one day in the company of those bullied by Christians but loved by Jesus than thousands in the company of those wielding scripture to harm the weak and defenseless.

David P. Gushee

#28. I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

Kurt Vonnegut

#29. It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.

Theodore Roosevelt

#30. Telling an individual company to do better is a lot like telling an individual poor person to save more - true and helpful, but not so easy in practice.

Linda Tirado

#31. We each must do a better job of choosing which hardships are best for our future, not just for the company's.

Bill Jensen

#32. As my friend, you should either bring me along, or keep me company."
"Friend?" he asked.
She blushed. "Well, 'scowling escort' is a better description. Or 'reluctant acquaintance', if you prefer.

Sarah J. Maas

#33. To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

Umar

#34. Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.

John P. Kotter

#35. It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.

Larry Ellison

#36. And my father?"
Brian's grin flashed. "I like thinking that's where I got the fifty.I told him he's better off sticking with the horses."
Keeley's brow rose. "And his response to that?"
"Isn't something I can repeat in polite company.

Nora Roberts

#37. In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now).

Peter Thiel

#38. Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.

E. O. Wilson

#39. If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you.

Douglas Leone

#40. If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business by the Golden Rule. Make this a high priority; never make a decision that contradicts the Golden Rule.

Mary Kay Ash

#41. Find people who believe the world will be better when your company succeeds. That's an incentive that money can never buy.

Leah Busque

#42. You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

Barry Sternlicht

#43. Mobile forced us to rethink the user experience and do something people would be able to carry out on in a couple of seconds on the mobile phone. By stripping out all the work the user used to do and putting that on the company, we were able to create a much better user experience.

Logan Green

#44. Rhodes, founder of the De Beers diamond company and at one time the virtual dictator of modern-day South Africa, famously declared, "We Britons are the first race in the world, and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race." Among

Reza Aslan

#45. I have NEVER worked with a better lead generating company! Thank You Zillow.

Spencer Rascoff

#46. Livingston: I know it was your sixth company, but was there anything that you found you were better at? Greenspun: I think I was probably mostly worse at things than I thought. The VCs had a point when they said people remember how you made them feel more than what you said.

Jessica Livingston

#47. Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.

Timothy Noah

#48. 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

#49. Well, perhaps Falconer will be able to figure it out; he's usually a good judge of character. I say the sooner we reach the Heartland the better. I, for one, am eager to rid him of our 'boring' company

Nicole Sager

#50. You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

Steve Wozniak

#51. In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. Indeed it might be argued the lower the better. Up to a point. The lower the order of mental activity the better the company. Up to a point.

Samuel Beckett

#52. The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers.

Ralph Nader

#53. Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

Stephen King

#54. When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

Roger Zelazny

#55. The most dangerous belief for any software company today is that the solution to their adoption problem lies in better software engineering.

Stephen O'Grady

#56. I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.

Astro Teller

#57. This time we'll be fighting for the nation. The company commander says that it's better to be the ghost of a fallen soldier than a nationless slave. For the sake of our fellow countrymen, our families and our children, we have to resist to the very end ... ("Vague Expectations")

Xiao Hong

#58. Can the spouse be better than in her husband's company? Where can the soul be better than in drawing near to God?

Thomas Watson

#59. An echo makes good company, Old Margaret said. Whenever I'm lonely, I always try to find one to talk to. They're much better than mirrors. Mirrors say nasty things about you. Echoes are far more supportive. They think whatever you say is completely brilliant.

Gabrielle Zevin

#60. I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.

Hugh Leonard

#61. Gifts that are most appreciated are often associated with the country, or even better, the specific location you are from. These kinds of gifts may include coffee table picture books of your city or national parks, or mugs, t-shirts, paperweights, and so on that display your company or school logo.

Matthew B. Christensen

#62. To be in the company of a Close friend is like the Beautiful Hymns of Heaven,Beware when these Beautiful Hymns start to become a choir of evilness,Now your the decider whether to Live in their Company or Leave their Company in search of a better one,For the best is just Pseudo

Abhishek Sundarraman

#63. I'm doing this because I want to do it better

Walt Disney Company

#64. If you are a manufacturer, an Internet company doesn't suit you. An Internet company does not display your product; it can't upsell. But we do a better job than any of the opposition.

Gerry Harvey

#65. A man who has not better government of his tongue, no more command of his temper, is unfit for everything but children's play and the company of boys.

David McCullough

#66. I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.

Kevin Mitnick

#67. The better country club operated on the principle that Raleigh mattered, that its old families were fine ones, and that they needed a place where they could enjoy one another's company without being pawed at. Had we not found this laughable, our country club might have felt desperate.

David Sedaris

#68. If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.

Larry Page

#69. Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.

Jeff Bezos

#70. If you have to die [ ... ] better to go down fighting. Better to die in company. Better not be the last, and alone, weighed down with all that knowing.

Elizabeth Bear

#71. Misery loves company, but happy is a better friend.

Ray Torres

#72. A good company offers excellent products and services. A great company also offers excellent products and services but also strives to make the world a better place.

Philip Kotler

#73. Much better stay in company!
To love you must have someone else,
Giving requires a legatee,
Good neighbours need whole parishfuls
Of folk to do it on - in short,
Our virtues are all social; if,
Deprived of solitude, you chafe,
It's clear you're not the virtuous sort.

Philip Larkin

#74. If you can build a company and make money, great. But eventually, my intention is to give all my money away. I told my kids that. [Wealth] is not particularly helpful to kids. It's almost a burden. It's better to allow them to do their own thing and have their own successes.

Steve Case

#75. Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.

Louisa May Alcott

#76. But better to be out on the floor doing something - even if it couldn't exactly be called dancing - than playing wallflower, with only painful memories for company.

Melissa Tagg

#77. She thought the flat would be all the better for some photographs, not only to serve as reminders of those who were loved, or reflections of happy times spent in company, but to act as mirrors, where she might see the affection with which she was held by those dear to her.

Jacqueline Winspear

#78. My biggest dream for this company is to restore it - to bring Time Warner back to the position that I think it once had and, even better than that, to make it the greatest company in the media and entertainment world.

Richard Parsons

#79. Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.

Francis Quarles

#80. The difference between the genius of the British constitution, which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, cannot, perhaps, be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries.

Adam Smith

#81. The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Euripides

#82. I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

Karl Lagerfeld

#83. [While writing history], I've kept the most interesting company imaginable with people long gone. Some I've come to know better than many I know in real life, since in real life we don't get to read other people's mail.

David McCullough

#84. Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better

Walt Disney Company

#85. Sometimes you can grow more in a shorter amount of time with the right company than years of soul-searching alone, or by living the same patterns you've lived for your entire life.

A.J. Darkholme

#86. It is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

#87. If all you needed to do is to figure out what company is better than others, everyone would make a lot of money. But that is not the case. They keep raising the prices to the point when the odds change.

Charlie Munger

#88. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.

Larry Page

#89. Loneliness is better than bad company.

Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani

#90. The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

Stella Adler

#91. The more valuable you become [in your company], the more influence you have, the better communicator you are, you manage your time better, and you recognize people for their contributions. You also become more valuable as a spouse, parent and friend.

Jim Rohn

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

Booker T. Washington

#93. A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.

Caroline Leavitt

#94. For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.

Rupert Murdoch

#95. I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.

Kevin Rollins

#96. The sales department isn't the whole company, but the whole company better be the sales department.

Philip Kotler

#97. Much harm may result from bad company and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse rather than what is better.

Teresa Of Avila

#98. If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!

Tom Peters

#99. She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

Cornelia Funke

#100. Better off alone than in bad company.

Salla Simukka