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“An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.”

Heart Company Honest Temptation Trusted Bad Company

Book:Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative

Source: Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative

“Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”

“My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.”

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Author:Lena Waithe

“We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.”

People Company Honest Argument Consumers Clients Suppliers

Book:The Unpublished David Ogilvy

Source: The Unpublished David Ogilvy

“It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.”

Needs Company Alive Honest Athlete Competitors Great Company

Author:Craig R. Barrett

“Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success . . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest.”

People Trying Wells May Company Honest Industry Politician Doctors Painful Chosen Irony Get Away Distraction Magician Scapegoat Insurance Companies

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.”

Company Honest Threat Efficient

Author:John Stossel

“When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high that actually nobody could accumulate money in an honest way. I removed that tax, and the result was that Indian companies for the first time acquired an incentive to grow big, to grow rich.”

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Author:Manmohan Singh