Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

the way that people register, the way that people vote and to guarantee that when their votes are cast that they'll be counted accurately and to make sure that we don't discriminate against voters who might be poorer or live in a precinct that has a bad system.

Hal Varian

I was a little surprised. I expected this to be accurate because there's a lot of literature and experience with these systems. But this has been even better than I expected.

Paul Hawken

Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else is giving us accurate information: our beleaguered air and watersheds, our overworked soils, our decimated inner cities. All of these provide information our prices should be giving us but do not.

Bobby Schilling

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Bennett Miller

Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.

Barry Sternlicht

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

James Buchan

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.

Julia Cameron

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

Stephen Jones

Transformation will not be easy; it will require us to change our culture, our mindsets and the way we do business everyday, but we have a comprehensive and workable plan.

Bob Schieffer

You cannot be objective about human suffering and people dying. Any person who was not outraged by that, I'm not sure they have business being a reporter.

Wayne Gasson

As spring arrives, outdoor business endeavors should increase causing the unemployment rate to continue to drop over the next couple of months.

Rafik Hariri

made it very clear ... that the United States is engaged in the peace process.

Erik Iverson

Let's just clear the air. Let's not have any whiff untoward about the contribution.

Kelly Holmes

Let that settle and get back into fitness and then I need a clear head to make my mind up on my future and the Commonwealth Games,

PJ Crowley

Libya's clear obligation is to turn over the Lockerbie suspects to the (U.N.) secretary-general so they can be transported to the Netherlands for trial before a Scottish court.

Kofi Annan

Lots of consultations are going on in various capitals. And everyone concerned, including the Americans, have made it clear they would prefer a diplomatic solution, ... Let us give it time. Let us see what happens.

Marshall Cohen

Last year was a clear indication of where the consumer is heading for 2006. Today's consumer enjoys splurging on higher-end products now and then, but their quest for value still remains.

Greg Smith

Legal deals were struck. It's pretty clear the treaties as a group oblige the U.S. government to provide services, especially when it comes to things like education and health care.

Alessio Vinci

Many, many people are involved, ... It is not clear whether one side is more responsible.

Edward Kennedy

Many of the documents made it clear that as a junior official in the Reagan administration, he was part of an intense effort to impede progress on numerous key issues, such as progress on equal rights for women.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Charles Gallagher

What happens is that companies usually don't plan succession,

Jim Farrell

What did these insurance companies think? It's not a . . . toothache where you can pull the tooth and be done with it.

Jon Hess

We talked with companies that are in the process of setting up dedicated Medicare Part D teams to handle marketing to these customers, as new and unique product messaging will be required.

Bob Cole

We spend about half our day on the phone with insurance companies. We've been on hold so far up to 3 1/2 hours with insurance companies trying to resolve issues.

Russel Kinnel

Too many companies had perverse incentive systems that rewarded hot short-term performance and didn't provide any penalties for long-term problems.

Roger Altman

Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.

John Morton

Tony Ridder inherited a company that had a lot of newspaper companies that are not in growing markets and would never be in growing markets. That's what he inherited, and that's what he had to work with.

Bill Nygren

We've been talking to energy companies who are unwilling to make investments that require current oil prices to support them. They don't think prices will remain at this level.

Terence McElroy

I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the matter is many people have lost their property and homes and someone has to pay for that. Under the law, someone is liable for it.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.