Company Quotes

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. (Epictetus)
My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. View quote
Euripides
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. View quote
George Washington
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. View quote
Izaak Walton
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. (Warren Buffett)
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. View quote
Izaak Walton
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company. View quote
Walt Disney
I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water. View quote
Thomas Shadwell
Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game. View quote
Gary Gygax
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. View quote
W. H. Auden
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. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company. View quote
George Washington
In married life three is company and two none. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Take the tone of the company you are in. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)
Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected. View quote
Mark Zuckerberg
Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid. View quote
Jonathan Swift