Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Don Lemon

Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.

John Bauer

Things have to be coordinated, ... We just can't have people running around doing what they want.

Jamie Johnson

The worst thing you can do in a relationship, and what's really unattractive about it, is that people begin to limit each other.

O. Henry

The whole program has turned a corner. If people didn't know us before, they know us now.

Jennifer Granholm

The will of the American people is stronger than any hurricane's wind,

Michael Garcia

The word isn't getting out so much, and if more people knew, they would campaign.

Jason Hagadone

These are tougher. We're in (the games) and we know we should win them. We've got the people and opportunities to win them. We just need to come through.

Duncan Hunter

These are the people who tried to kill us,

Alex Knott

These are the people that really get things done. There is a premium on them and there is a reason.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Sheryl Sandberg

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Peter O'Toole

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

Pearl Bailey

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Cary Fukunaga

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Ali MacGraw

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

Ali MacGraw

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

Ali Smith

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

Alexander Grothendieck

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...