“I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.”

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Vision is seeing the invisible.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.

Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something.

While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.

Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together, Other times it just takes music.

Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?

Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn’t a program it has to be a way of life.

Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.