Good Company Bad Company Quotes

#1. When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#2. Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad.

George Washington

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. A small company is more welcome to me than a bad one: but they must come and go at the right time. So does it accord with good sleep.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. I'm a bad woman, but I'm damn good company.

Fanny Brice

#8. Good taste was out of place in the company of death, death itself was the essence of bad taste.

Toni Morrison

#9. Your iPod is whispering in your ear. It was keeping you company, but now it's like a good friend turned bad [ ... ] It is turning your life into a dark, looping rock opera.

Meg Jay

#10. 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

#11. A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

Bill Gates

#12. Z "Bad company ruins good morals." [4]

Anonymous

#13. And yet, the fact that we are no longer killing people for heresy in the West suggests that bad ideas, however sacred, cannot survive the company of good ones forever.

Sam Harris

#14. There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.

Kenneth L. Fisher

#15. The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.

Plato

#16. Clare is good, spiky company, and she is the very best companion to have in a bad situation. Trouble brings out the cheer beneath her darkness, unlike everyday life, which tends to have the opposite effect

Amy Bloom

#17. 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

#18. The good company counts in your life, make a right choice because bad company will eat you alive.

Euginia Herlihy

#19. 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

#20. Bad company ruins good morals.

Paul The Apostle

#21. Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do - not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad.

Stephen King

#22. Its good to live alone than to live in a bad company

George Washington

#23. 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

#24. Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window and you bounce off an awning, a car roof, and a pile of plastic garbage bags before you smash onto the pavement, you've got a pretty good chance of surviving.

Patricia Gaffney

#25. Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.

Mark McKinnon

#26. Bad company corrupts good character.

Menander

#27. I love the treat and pleasure of eating when it becomes an act of focused giving and sharing...Wasting money and appetite on bad food is disappointing, but it doesn't matter when the company is good...[T]here's a lot to be said for eating as a social act. It's a treat, even when the food is bad.

Lucy Knisley

#28. 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

#29. A company should search for every instance of the use of its name and zoom in when there are issues - both good and bad.

Guy Kawasaki

#30. Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

Guy Finley

#31. Do not be deceived: z "Bad company ruins good morals.

Anonymous

#32. Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master's of social work in New York City, but we were never a good match. It was like being in a bad relationship, except the guy could actually bill my health insurance company for lousy dates.

Gina Barreca

#33. Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself.

Confucius

#34. Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.

Anonymous

#35. Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

Andy Grove

#36. 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

#37. 'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Booker T. Washington

#39. Leadership responsibility: If you own a biz, you're the head of the org. Good or bad, your company will LOOK and ACT like you do.

Dave Ramsey

#40. it's either always a good time to start a company, or always a bad time. Your choice.

Jesse Tevelow

#41. 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