The Best Company Quotes

#1. I've loved the whole process. From previews to rehearsals, I'm in the best company. I've done one West End show before this but the excitement here ... it's incredible. It's been a real education working on this, I don't feel worthy. The role is over the top, bold and ridiculous.

Rupert Grint

#2. Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

#3. Search giant Google has been ranked as the best company to work for by management

Anonymous

#4. My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.

Topher Grace

#5. After 10 years TNA talent still have an inferiority complex. If you don't think that you work for the BEST COMPANY EVER then nobody else will! As a performer you hav to act and project that where you work is the pinnacle of competition! If not then the whole place just seems second rate.

Chris Jericho

#6. 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

#7. Everyone says Toyota is the best company in the world, but the customer doesn't care about the world. They care if we are the best in town, or not. That's what I want to be.

Akio Toyoda

#8. I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.

Terry McMillan

#9. IKEA is not completely perfect. It irritates me to hear it said that IKEA is the best company in the world. We are going the right way to becoming it but we are not there yet.

Ingvar Kamprad

#10. Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. A good horse is the best company in the world.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#12. If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

Giacomo Leopardi

#13. I've found in my life that sometimes the best company is your own.

Blake Crouch

#14. The best kisses in the world take place at night, in the ocean, with two naked bodies coiled around one another, only the stars to keep them company.

Hugh Howey

#15. I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

Etta James

#16. Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.

Harvey MacKay

#17. At age twelve, when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard, he learned that a properly run company could spawn innovation far more than any single creative individual. I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company,

Walter Isaacson

#18. I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

Vivienne Westwood

#19. The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

John C. Maxwell

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

Bill Jensen

#21. The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds

Keith Rabois

#22. Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.

Margo Kingston

#23. None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

#24. An education system is best belittled when the so-called educated gets hired by a company that's owned by a so-called dropout.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#25. There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

James Cash Penney

#26. While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee - we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.

Howard Schultz

#27. When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.

Richard Dawkins

#28. In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst.

Marv Wolfman

#29. I do not define my job in any rigid terms but in terms of having the flexibility to what seems to me to be in the best interests of the company at any times.

Henry Earl Singleton

#30. Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#31. All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me ... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Walt Disney Company

#32. For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.

Winston Graham

#33. I won contest after contest until finally I realized, "Ok, I am the best in the world, but now what?" So I opened my own company, but there was still that feeling of, "What else do I need to do?"

Christian Hosoi

#34. That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.

Charles E. Wilson

#35. In my view the successful companies of the future will be those that integrate business and employees' personal values. The best people want to do work that contributes to society with a company whose values they share, where their actions count and their views matter.

Jeroen Van Der Veer

#36. I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.

Anita Roddick

#37. If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.

Charlie Munger

#38. The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.

George J. Mitchell

#39. I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.

James Purefoy

#40. I don't believe in traditional company structures because the best ideas do not always come from the top.

Jose Andres

#41. Celebration is best done in the company of others who can rejoice with us over God's goodness.

Max Anders

#42. For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!

Jeff Bezos

#43. Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.

Robert Kiyosaki

#44. If a company's stock is undervalued - as many managers believe theirs is - a repurchase may offer the best payoff of all.

Carol Loomis

#45. Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

Jack Welch

#46. Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol, or maybe it's just having company to yack at.

Charles Stross

#47. Executives must place a priority on wellbeing if they want to attract the right people, keep their best people, and drive their company's financial performance.

Tom Rath

#48. There is more treasure n books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main ... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Walt Disney Company

#49. If you don't find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don't want to ruin the evening.

Shannon L. Alder

#50. The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.

Bat For Lashes

#51. Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.

Tom Peters

#52. If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#53. By trusting on God's understanding and knowledge, we learn to keep the company of good people who bring out the best qualities of love, hope and faith within ourselves.

Tasha Hoggatt

#54. When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#55. 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

#56. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

Jonathan Swift

#57. My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

William Faulkner

#58. If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.

Steve Jobs

#59. People yearn to be in one of the best
a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club
any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.

E. O. Wilson

#60. The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

William Temple

#61. People who understand the power law will hesitate more than others when it comes to founding a new venture: they know how tremendously successful they could become by joining the very best company while it's growing fast.

Peter Thiel

#62. Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle.

George Harrison

#63. I'm . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.

Sara Naveed

#64. All we cared about was dividends. Well, we can't do business that way today. We have learned that what's best for the countries we operate in is best for the company. Maybe we can't make the people love us, but we will make ourselves so useful to them that they will want us to stay.

Sam Zemurray

#65. ROA: is the company taking the best advantage of assets? ROA is calculated by dividing the net profit by total assets. For

Georgi Tsvetanov

#66. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole. He just let them sing whatever they wanted, and it became the best record company in America.

Tony Bennett

#67. 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

#68. I try to keep myself in the best of company and my horses in the worst of company.

Len Goodman

#69. '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

#70. The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into.

Robert Gottlieb

#71. This is a commodities business, so the companies that do it best are the ones that do it more efficiently.

Kate Warne

#72. The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've ... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.

John Katzman

#73. Your company does not belong inmarkets where it cannot be the best.

Philip Kotler

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

Walt Disney Company

#75. The best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company

Steve Jobs

#76. You can attract the best smart creatives with factors beyond money: the great things they can do, the people they'll work with, the responsibility and opportunities they'll be given, the inspiring company culture and values, and yes, maybe even free food and happy dogs sitting desk-side.

Eric Schmidt

#77. Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up.

Mark Zuckerberg

#78. 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

#79. Don't hire anyone - no matter what they offer - who promises you they'll sell 'X' copies of your book. Every book is different. The best any marketing company or PR firm can do for your book is make potential readers aware of it.

M.J. Rose

#80. I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.

Rachel Machacek

#81. My financial service business is the absolute best thing I have done to empower the poor. I run many charities and fight many political causes, but my financial service company is the greatest gift I've given.

Russell Simmons

#82. The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.

Barton Gellman

#83. When you work for other people you'll find ... that they do know what's best for them, and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful, but they don't know what's best for you.

Mike Judge

#84. Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#85. Some of the best ideas throughout the company's evolution have been from places all throughout the company whether it's an engineer or someone on the customer support team. Just different areas around the company.

Mark Zuckerberg

#86. The Flavr Savr wasn't about taste at all; that was just the name. It was about the shape and the shipability of it. My dad's company was all about flavor. His tomatoes are some of the best selling at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods.

Sanjay Rawal

#87. People who are making decisions about the future often don't have access to some of the best ideas in the company, which may be at the periphery or at lower levels.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#88. If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people.

Richard Branson

#89. I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.

Karen Kain

#90. I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.

Jane Goodall

#91. The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'

Elton John

#92. Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

Charlie Munger

#93. Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.

Sam Altman

#94. There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

Malcolm Forbes

#95. Work-life balance, work-life effectiveness, personal and professional satisfaction - or whatever you choose to call it - is not an entitlement or benefit. Your company cannot give it to you. You have to create it for yourself. You are personally responsible for living the best life you can.

Matthew Kelly

#96. One of the best reasons for eating alone is the assurance that you will enjoy the company.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#97. Having enough other opportunities to work on is the best position a salesperson and his or her company can be in. A full pipeline gives salespeople the strongest position from which to negotiate - the ability to say no.

Keith M. Eades

#98. The best shows have a clear idea of what they want to achieve, where the performers have the ability to disrupt normality and engage directly with audiences of all ages. A company who can do just that (apparently effortlessly) is dotComedy.

Lyn Gardner

#99. Get your product into users' hands as quickly as possible and incorporate the crowd's feedback to iterate. Your customers will provide the data you need to chart the best course for your company and bury any competitor that goes it alone.

Jay Samit

#100. SAS is 'created' 50 million times a year, 15 seconds at a time. These 50 million 'moments of truth' are the moments that ultimately determine whether SAS will succeed or fail as a company. They are the moments when we must prove to our customers that SAS is their best alternative.

Jan Carlzon