Company Quotes

“Is there a broth more restoring than company?”
― Kelly Corrigan, Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say

“Siempre, a pesar de todo, había deseado encontrar a un semejante: hombre, mujer, niño, no importaba. Sin la incesante influencia de las masas, el sexo perdía rápidamente importancia. En cambio, la soledad seguía en primera línea.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“I have always been considerably addicted to my own company.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“Solitude is not the only possible parent of boredom: we sometimes find ourselves bored to death while we are with someone, a few people, or even many people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“If all of your past employees were to honestly write about their experiences in your company, what would they write?”
― Steven Magee

“I, unlike the vast majority of people, do not find solitude intolerable. As a matter of fact, I enjoy solitude, so much so that there is no dead or living person whose company I preferred, would have preferred, or prefer over my own.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“A wise man once asked, "Am I wise only because of the average company I keep or the company I keep among the wise with whom I am able to coexist?" Makes one wonder about the company they keep.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“I think I meant an intimation of sadness, a first recognition that there was so much to understand that one might never find one's way and the first signs, perhaps, that for a nature like mine, the way would not be easy. I cannot be sure that I felt all that then, although I can be sure that it was in the fig tree, a few years later, that I was first puzzled by the conflict which would haunt me, harm me, and benefit me the rest of my life: simply, the stubborn, relentless, driving desire to be alone as it came into conflict with the desire not to be alone when I wanted not to be.”
― Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

“Training and Development is an never ending process”
― Peter Smith, Cooperation in the Multi-Ethnic Classroom: The Impact of Cooperative Group Work on Social Relationships in Middle Schools

“I love my body, I love who I am, I appreciate my company.”
― Alan Maiccon

“A few moments later, a group of white birds landed on the steps to watch her. "Hello there!" she said and removed some birdseed from her pocket, laying it on the steps for them to eat. When they were finished, they stayed to watch her work. She didn't mind. It helped to have company, even if they couldn't talk. She found herself talking to them sometimes. True, some might call her mad for conversing with animals, but who was paying attention?”
― Jen Calonita, Mirror, Mirror

“One by one all the regular staff stopped appearing for work, and their desks came to be occupied by new persons who always looked like fugitives from the great tribe of derelicts living in the Golden City, a shadow population that moved day and night through that yellowish haze.[...] Of course this manner of fiscal growth could not continue much longer and other measures would need to be taken if the company was truly to become a dominant force in the marketplace of this world or any other.”
― Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

“Better to go alone than to be badly accompanied. - Madame Dariaux”
― Kathleen Tessaro, Elegance

“The most dangerous person in a company is typically the facilities manager, as they have the ability to install known biologically toxic lighting products that may make the entire workforce sick.”
― Steven Magee

“It’s so much more friendly with two.”
—Piglet”
― Disney Book Group, Christopher Robin: The Little Book of Poohisms: With help from Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, and Tigger, too!

“As a child, my aunt Olive had a friend
Who was invisible to others.
Topsy lived at the back of the garden.
That this was just her imagination
Olive always strenuously denied.
And when she developed dementia many years later
Topsy again faithfully kept her company.
(From: Kinderpraat)”
― A.J. Beirens

“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.
For if they fall, the one will lift up her lover:
And three are better than two, for three shall make the circle complete.
But woe to her that is alone when she falls; for she hath not another to help her up.”
― Anna Livia Plurabelle, The Book of the Goddess

“Six horses waited, adorned in the red and black of the Company of Cooks and harnessed to an open, canopied wagon festooned with ribbons. Upon it lay Bartolomeo's casket, draped with a cloth embroidered with the company's coat of arms. A bear was on the left side of the crest and a stag on the right. Below the central chevron and its two red stars were the tools of the company's trade, a crossed knife and a butcher's knife. The banner beneath bore a Latin phrase coined by Horace- ab ovo usque ad mala- embroidered in gold. From eggs to apples, beginning to end. Roman meals had always begun with eggs and ended with fruit.”
― Crystal King, The Chef's Secret

“I was surprised when I discovered my mercury poisoning that the company had changed its mercury handling policies years earlier and had not informed me.”
― Steven Magee

“The problem when managers become fearful of their company is that you end up with unsafe workplaces.”
― Steven Magee

“If the government disability system or workers compensation system discovers that the company involved has been breaking numerous Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) laws, is it legally required to report it to OSHA?”
― Steven Magee

“If you are going crazy, then you will be in good company in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“There's a security in people knowing you because sometimes you forget and you need to be reminded of who you are.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“Company drug use was common in very high altitude workers.”
― Steven Magee

“If a company is advising workers to take drugs to perform their job, they probably should not be working there.”
― Steven Magee

“Among other things, friendship is a mutual fight against solitude and boredom.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“We, when invited to hang out with and by our friend, are often a Plan B, a Plan C, or even a Plan P.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Another common use of a friend is as a bag of skin that converts, into usually meaningful sounds, the vibrations we make when we talk about our problems.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“When your manager tells you the published company health and safety policies are bogus and not to follow them, you know that you are working for a very shady company.”
― Steven Magee

“The job of the insurance company is to deny your valid claim by any means necessary.”
― Steven Magee