Top 66 You Are The Company You Keep Quotes
#1. My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.
Howard Schultz
#2. The road might twist ups and downs. But as you dare to keep moving forward, you might make some good company along the way.
Ariff Adly
#3. You are not responsible for what your friends do, but you will be judged by the company you keep.
Leonard A Cole
#4. 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
#5. To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.
Matt Taibbi
#6. 'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.
Steve Erickson
#7. Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock. After all, you can buy a good car but pay too much for it.
Richard Thaler
#8. It is easy to become besotted with a willow. The Rapunzel of the plant world, this tree appears as a graceful princess bowed down by her lush tresses, waiting on the riverbank for someone just like you to come along and keep her company.
Hope Jahren
#9. Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.
Woodrow Wilson
#11. As we continue to grow, the question is, how do you keep the company as innovative as it was 15 employees ago?
Jon Oringer
#12. We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Tryon Edwards
#13. Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
Nikolai Gogol
#14. The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers.
Ralph Nader
#15. Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days; the more the pity that some honest neighbours will not make them friends.
William Shakespeare
#16. If you want to stay here, that's something different. But thinking that you are the only one who can possibly keep her company - that's a trap. (p. 320)
Patricia Briggs
#17. An evil person will have evil friends;
a righteous person will have righteous friends.
The company you keep is hidden treasure or masked demise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#18. In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made
a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.
with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?
Not at all: it absolutely stops short.
Fanny Burney
#19. Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice
and therefore awareness itself
is freedom.
Geneen Roth
#20. Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question.
Billy Connolly
#21. Don't let a lack of big company names on your resume get you down, but also, don't let it feed a Silicon Valley ego. Oftentimes, the best candidates come from startups or smaller companies. It shows they are open to risk and can keep up with the long hours and occasional harsh demands.
Brit Morin
#22. Reflect on the company you keep. Are these the kind of people who leadyou towards or away from Allah (swt)?
Mohamed Hag Magid
#23. If any of you are injured, take a seat in this fine classroom." Dee opens up the nearest door and peeks in. It's a classroom with a life-sized skeleton hanging on a stand. "Bones will keep you company while you wait for the doctor.
Susan Ee
#24. Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and every one of us is ultimately judged by the company we keep
Ethan Russell Erway
#25. You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#26. You are who you are by virtue of the company you keep.
T. B. Joshua
#27. And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.
Paulo Coelho
#28. The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can't hear you.
Holly Robinson
#29. I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to be judged and to judge others by the blood they carry and the company they keep.
Mz. Robinson
#30. roads are rarely what they appear to be and are not predictable. Maybe safe is about the company you keep and not about the road you take?
William Paul Young
#31. Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.
Helen Humphreys
#32. Some would argue that you're as successful as the company you keep. Certainly there is a connection between our friends and who we are.
Simon Sinek
#33. 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
#34. The test of total independence comes each night when the bedroom door closes behind you, the lights go out and all that there is to keep you company in the infinite darkness are your thoughts.
Jon Richardson
#35. I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.
Kevin Hart
#36. 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
#37. Humans are all too happy to keep company until the company turns out to be less appealing than solitude.
Thor Benson
#38. 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
#39. The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.
Charles Koch
#40. football game. "What? You might as well keep me company," he said, laughing at the look on my face.
Claire Contreras
#41. I thought it was who I was with or where I was that defined me in some way. I realize now that I decide who I am, no matter the company I keep or the place I am.
Gwendolyn Heasley
#42. Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
Dada Vaswani
#43. 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
#44. Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun.
Jose Garces
#45. A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.
George Horace Lorimer
#46. The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.
Theodore Levitt
#47. Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it.
Bruce Lee
#48. It was a revolving door that kept going in circles. I got to the point where I thought, "Man, none of this is doing it." but I'd keep repeating the same actions. I'd go win another contest, open another company, invent a new maneuver.
Christian Hosoi
#49. I'm not afraid of these ghosts, Cleo. I have enough of my own to keep me company.
Makiia Lucier
#50. For Mercutio's soul
Is but a little way above our heads,
Staying for thine to keep him company:
Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.
William Shakespeare
#51. He does not keep company with those who wish to harm him.
Paulo Coelho
#53. The stock market goes nuts over any company that so much as mentions the word Internet. All this proves to me is that the boneheads on Wall Street are as dumb as they were in college when they had to switch their majors to business to keep from flunking out.
John C. Dvorak
#54. I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.
Jon Oringer
#55. The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company.
Derrick May
#56. The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.
Louise Bernikow
#57. I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.
Kevin P. Ryan
#58. I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.
Stephenie Meyer
#59. Our goodness, our badness all develop from social experience, the company we keep, the things we're taught when we're young. We start with a clean slate. It's everyone else who fucks us up.
S. Walden
#60. Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too.
Marni Jackson
#61. 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
#62. The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.
Bill Gates
#64. We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.
Joan Didion
#65. If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.
Sheldon Adelson
#66. Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.
Nina Easton
