Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Healy

Half of his pay is dependent on the performance of the company, so that looks pretty reasonable relative to the pay of other CEOs at big companies. It probably doesn't look reasonable to the guy who just got laid off.

Charles Peck

What you have is a payoff when there's poor performance. But that's the nature of contracts. There's such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.

Charles Peck

What you have is a payoff when there's poor performance, ... But that's the nature of contracts. There's such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.

Charles DiSanza

Having to search for a chairman and CEO could delay the turnaround for some period of time. They have a somewhat diminished but still strong market position.

Drew Brown

He's good with everybody, ... He can talk to the CEO as well as he can talk to the mechanic.

Timothy Ramey

When he started as CEO I thought Kellogg was a very insular, not-very-worldly-wise type of company. It's now about as international and as sophisticated as they get.

Carlos Cardoso

I think that an effective CEO is a generalist in many waysone that can represent the company well to the customers, to the investors, to the community. You also have to represent yourself well as a leader at all levels of the organization. One of the things I have learned since my younger days is that everyone in the organization counts.

Warren Lichtenstein

We made our commitment to KT&G because we are confident in the strong potential of this company. If the CEO is not willing to consider our proposals as investors, we have no choice but to continue to seek election of our nominees.

Arthur Levitt

If you compensate a CEO by giving him options, he's going to do everything he can to make those options as valuable as possible.

Franz Beckenbauer

There are technically better teams but we can compensate for that. We are not in the position to compete in Italy or other places but it is different at home.

Javier Ramirez

I will do some crazy stuff if I have to. I'll move kids in different positions to compensate for other teams' strength. I can do that this year.

Richard G. Scott

Investigators need a positive contact every day. Satan will work on them, and you have to compensate for that, and you need members' help.

James Van Der Beek

I'm kind of shocked that it's taken Hollywood so long to realize that so many great movie talents can come out of television. One of the reasons they do is that on TV you don't have the luxury of a film's big budget, and people have to compensate with creativity.

Oscar Wilde

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Gary Sheffield

I'm getting on top of the plate like I did last year. I'm just trying to compensate and make adjustments. Running, I'm pretty much about half speed. That's about all I got.

Joaquim Chissano

Economically, this is a very big setback and we will have to work hard to compensate for the loss in the years to come. It is a big loss to the economy,

Luke Fowler

Everyone knew they had to come together. We knew we had to step up and compensate for the fire and energy that Scotty brings. We filled his role by committee.

Edwin Booth

Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.

Jesper Parnevik

I would say it's like Pinehurst but maybe that's giving it too much credit.

David Jones

Greenspan is giving the markets a reality check. Good for him.

Tony Wingen

He's a force. We were willing to give up some inside points as long as we were not giving up 3-pointers. We did all that we needed to do to win.

David Grant

He's got a true spirit of giving and he's a role model to many people.

Rick Warren

It comes from service. It is by giving our lives away that we find meaning, because that's the way we're wired, I believe, by God.

Tom Renney

I thought we would probably do Henrik well by giving him a breather before he went over to Europe, so it serves two purposes.

Jake Plummer

Whatever it is, we have to find a way to get over it. All I know is (that) I'm proud of the guys for hanging with me, hanging together and not giving up.

Greg Evans

Whatever honor there is in giving up, I want no part of.

Jeanine Pirro

Today is about thanking them for what they're doing in advance, giving them the support they need to go through the school year.

Orrin Hatch

It is important that I keep working on all options to protect our state,

Matt Rogers

Right now my options are pretty open. Just trying to get out there and play well these first three games.

Gary Schatsky

If you have options all you have is the promise of money. It's like the lottery.

Helen Pitts

I'm not sure what we'll do next. We also have a lot of options here for him, too.

Brian Brohm

I have three options there. We were trying to get someone in the back of the end zone. I tried to run it myself when that did not work. I didn't get in.

Matt Worsham

There's three options off the play for a three-pointer. But luckily, I got the ball.

Mike Hargrove

It's too soon to say A, B, C and D are going to happen. We have different options and different ways to go.

Pat Gleason

I want these options to go to the community.

Tom Taulli

They want to give themselves as many options as possible for liquidity.

Charles Seaton

What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.

Tom McCarthy

It's become more valuable to every film that we do.

David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Henry Ellis

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

John Eaton

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Alain de Botton

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

Mary Psenda

Cushing will take it at you. That's what makes her valuable to us.