Top 1200 Bad Company Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the company of the form itself, which has a kind of consciousness. I mean, the sonnet will simply tell you, that's too many syllables or that's too many lines or that's the wrong place. So, instead of being alone, you're in dialogue with the form.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.

Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

I am a bad businessman who would make a bad producer.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

If Obama raises my company's taxes by 20 percent, how am I going to be able to survive as a company? Well, if I've got 30 employees, that means I'm going to have to lay off 10 employees so I can be able to keep up with the health and benefits and pension plans for my other 20 employees.

Red flag law is a general concept. There could be good ones and there can be bad ones. You should be against the bad ones, as I am.

Being an entrepreneur I love to help people, and I think through the products that we develop in my company, we will be able to help a lot of people. Whether it's help them to get over the difficulties of a technology and use it. Or helping employees, creating new jobs, new opportunities for people that work in my company.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing.

Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows - and thus the company’s value - don’t decrease faster than they anticipate.

I have learned to avoid the coverage, good or bad - and it's mostly bad.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is.

Eating bad food does not make you a bad person.

There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.

You can have a bad pass or a bad shot, but you need to do this to take the risk.

I love playing villains or bad guys or bad girls.

A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.

When you're a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, 'How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?' Just managing the company is so hard.

Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.

There's real "right brain" creativity that goes into all of the organizational processes that a company utilizes and must continually reinvent in order to conduct its business. But there are also the "left brain" accounting functions that must continually ask how the company is doing financially and whether the creative processes are working for the bottom line.

People should have values, so by extension, a company should. And one of the things you do is give back. So how do you give back? We give back through our work in the environment, in running the company on renewable energy. We give back in job creation.

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we’ve created a standard.

We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.

I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

You don't give someone a first serve, if there is a bad linecall you take it, because you are going to get bad linecalls.

ObamaCare (modeled almost precisely on RomneyCare) is wrong; it was bad medicine; it's bad for the economy, and I will repeal it.

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.

My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents.

In Bellator, I feel like I can grow. As the fighters grow, I know the company will grow. You feel like a part of the company.

Many years ago, a large American shoe company sent two sales reps to different parts of the Australian outback. A while later, the company received a telegram from each. The first said, 'No business here - the natives don't wear shoes.' The second said, 'Great opportunity here - the natives don't wear shoes.'

Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.

I have a weakness for anything savory or bad guys. Bad boys.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.

Donald Trump has been both a peculiar and characteristic American figure for more than three decades. Inheriting a small New York real-estate development company from his father, he parlayed it not so much into a big real-estate company, but himself into a fantasy of a big real-estate developer.

Habits can be good or bad, whereas addictions are always bad.

My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're acting out of fear, lack of understanding, compassion, but essentially communication. Human beings are made of love, an overwhelming desire to love. When we communicate, we exist in our natural state.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.

There is no such thing as bad luck in tennis. Just bad technique.

When you're starting a company, almost anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and it will probably look like and feel like you made the absolute wrong decision to start the company. If you're not absolutely determined to solve a problem or see something through, it might not make sense to keep going.

Take a company like GM. For years, people were warning its execs that the company was too dependent on big SUVs and trucks, that it was falling behind other companies in innovation. A lack of knowledge wasn't the problem. And mothers and fathers everywhere try to warn their kids that maybe a giant tattoo isn't such a good idea. Good luck in that fight, Knowledge.

No, the Pirate Bay is more like sugar - it's bad for you but you can't stop using it. Bad because you get sued for it.