Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience.
From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy. It's almost easy to want to sit down at your desk when you have a free five minutes and try to clear out some of the incoming emails rather than strip things strategically and foundationally and ask about what the most important objectives for you and the company are.
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
I had dreams of starting a company like Burmah Shell.
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
I am very interested in bringing companies from everywhere to sell their products in China.
Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other’s company even for thinking (“freedom of the pen”)=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment.
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?
Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.
We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions. . . . When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.
You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.
I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.