Quotes About Bad Company

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.

Mick Ralphs

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong; what then is the wrong direction?

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. 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

#8. Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.

Kevin Mitnick

#9. All the world will love you just as long, as long as you are a shooting star.

Bad Company

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

Umar

#11. 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

#12. Sad company is bad company.

Milan Kundera

#13. Bad company corrupts good character.

Menander

#14. Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

Virginia Woolf

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Jon, Julie, and the others in the elite course, who had been devastated to miss Falling Out of Trees with Jace Herondale 101, all stared over as if ready to leap up and save Jace from the bad company he'd fallen into, carry him away in a litter made of chocolate and roses, and bear his children.

Cassandra Clare

#19. She became the bad company that she kept.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#20. Alone, adj. In bad company.

Ambrose Bierce

#21. 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

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

Guy Finley

#23. 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

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

Anonymous

#25. From the moment one encounters bad company (kusang), there is nothing but unhappiness, thus run away from the bad company. When you feel unhappy inside, know that this is bad company so run from there. Run away from that which arouses unhappiness at its mere sight.

Dada Bhagwan

#26. You can do it even if everyone says you can't while your mind says you can. You cannot do it if your mind says you can't while everyone says you can!

Israelmore Ayivor

#27. Bad manners does not mean they make bad company.

Kelly R. Michaels

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

George Washington

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Death takes in many people, but still lives alone.

Anthony Liccione

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

Anonymous

#33. I am quite hard to live with, and I know that if I go through a bad run, I'm not the best company and am best left alone. But I'm not nearly as bad as people like to make out.

Tony McCoy

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

Andy Grove

#35. 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

#36. Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.

William Allingham

#37. You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons ... This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

Arthur Koestler

#38. '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

#39. Well?" he asked, smiling devilishly. "I promise, I won't hurt you, Nikki. In fact, I imagine you'll enjoy my company, tremendously."
I let out a ragged sigh and nodded.
He stared at my mouth. "I'd like to hear you say it."
I cleared my throat. "Come in, Ethan.

Kristen Middleton

#40. There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.

Colin Angle

#41. Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.

Charles Platt

#42. Change your environment and if the need be, change your company because it goes a long way to create another version for you which can easily ripe for decay!

Israelmore Ayivor

#43. 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

#44. My first job in L.A. was actually playing an employee in a Best Buy commercial, but I played a bad employee at another store. I also worked at a commercial casting company running cameras and session directing.

Timothy Simons

#45. No sleep?" asked Shadow, smiling. "I don't sleep. It's overrated. A bad habit I do my best to avoid - in company, wherever possible, and the young lady may go off the boil if I don't get back to her.

Neil Gaiman

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

George Washington

#47. One thing we never did with 'Bad Company' was talk down to our reader. And we certainly don't do that with the new story, 'Bad Company, First Casualties.'

Peter Milligan

#48. It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore ... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.

Mick Ralphs

#49. Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.

Robert Kiyosaki

#50. I am not an economist, but things are not as bad as they seem. I have a great deal of confidence in our future.

Walt Disney Company

#51. We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three.

Kurtwood Smith

#52. Loneliness is better than bad company.

Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani

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

Booker T. Washington

#54. 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

#55. When I was ten, we had a dog. He humped everything and anything - from the maid's leg to my parents' four-poster bed. He was insatiable. My parents were mortified whenever company stopped by. But now I realize he really wasn't a bad dog.
It wasn't his fault.
I feel your pain, Fido.

Emma Chase

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. He said he had evidence that the Company was giving the opposition party money, which was just preposterous considering what bad form it would have been, trusting anybody in the Third World with money.

Marlon James

#59. Better off alone than in bad company.

Salla Simukka

#60. An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

Samuel Richardson

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

Jesse Tevelow

#62. Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.

Lord Chesterfield

#63. 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

#64. Liability is being assessed against companies who inadvertently have shipped a virus to another company. Rather than risk the incredibly bad PR, these companies fork over.

John McAfee

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

Anonymous

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

George Washington

#67. In some company it's perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.

George Carlin

#68. 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

#69. A man by himself is in bad company.

Eric Hoffer

#70. 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

#71. So I needed to play with some dogs, beat up a company of guards, and call the Ghostbusters? And I needed a guide? Okay. This didn't sound too bad.

I smiled. "I know just the person.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#72. Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.

Matt Salmon

#73. Every time we linger in bad company whose insidious influence we know we cannot resist, every time we lie in bed when we ought to be up and praying, every time we read pornographic literature, every time we take a risk which strains our self-control, we are sowing, sowing, sowing to the flesh.

John R.W. Stott

#74. I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

Horace Walpole

#75. If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#76. Better be alone than in bad company.

Thomas Fuller

#77. 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

#78. 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

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

Fanny Brice

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

Toni Morrison

#81. Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall].

Dada Bhagwan

#82. 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

#83. A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

Robert Aris Willmott

#84. 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

#85. What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.

Tom Golisano

#86. 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

#87. When you walk with trash, you end up smelling the same.

Anthony Liccione

#88. Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.

Philip Greenspun

#89. Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Bill Gates

#91. It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

Paddy Ashdown

#92. He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.

Thomas Browne

#93. Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

Jonathan Swift

#94. If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

Jack Welch

#95. It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.

Guy Kawasaki

#96. He seems to be making you that way too - enough to tolerate people like him. And once you start tolerating them, you're going to end up being like them yourself.

Patricia Highsmith

#97. Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.

Mitch Kapor

#98. If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#99. The first 'Bad Company' was a kind of reaction to the Vietnam war - or at least a reaction to how Vietnam had entered the cultural life through films and books.

Peter Milligan

#100. 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