Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Kruger

The Business Software Alliance is offering business and organizations a special opportunity to ensure that all of their software is fully licensed.

Claudia Roth

A three-way alliance means the FDP would have to broadly reinvent itself. Opposition continues to be an option for us.

Richard Wagoner

Our teams worked hard to find profitable ways to further strengthen the Oldsmobile product line, including consideration of products developed with our global alliance partners,

Jeff Bezos

Our alliance with Toysrus.com has proven to be a great win for customers, and we've looked forward to taking the next step by introducing the new Babiesrus.com teamed with Amazon.com store since we forged the alliance last August,

Jack Morris

Our alliance with the community was the key to the last year's success. The arts center is a wonderful investment and the relationship we have with the community will help enhance our quality of life.

Frank Sharry

The Sensenbrenner bill has proven to be one of the great mobilizing forces for the pro (immigration) reform alliance in this country.

Nobuyoshi Fujiwara

The three firms' alliance has been quite fruitful... We've decided to strengthen the partnership so that our interests will not be damaged in the event of a hostile bid emerging for one of us.

Mark Dewalt

I've been all around the United States researching, and in my opinion, Iowa is number one at school preservation. This is because of the preservation alliance and the rich history of education in Iowa.

Derek Mitchell

South Korea put a lot of pressure on the United States South Korea told us they consider this an alliance issue,

Mike Colter

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

Henry Paulson

As a public company, Goldman Sachs will have the financial strength and strategic flexibility to continue to serve our clients effectively as well as to respond thoughtfully to the business and competitive environment over the long term.

Avi Greengart

As a one-shot deal; this frees RIM to go back to its business without any further complications.

Vicki Denfeld

As an independent hotel, The Churchill relies on its reputation and personal service to fulfill the high expectations of its guests. Jeanine's knowledge of the Washington, DC business community coupled with her vast sales and management experience provide ideal leadership for delivering on our guests' expectations while supporting our excellent sales and marketing team.

John Szabo

As a value-added distributor, we're in a lot of routes to market with our business partners, and we have a pretty deep portfolio in retail offerings with our distribution partners.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.

Edward Lanphier

As a business person, if I offered you $2.5 million in stock in a private company versus $7.5 million in cash, just in the up-front deal, which would you take? The numbers are unambiguous.

Robert Shillman

As a businessman, if we are to stay in business around the world, we have to seek to make products as inexpensively as possible. What that means is that American workers will shift from doing jobs that other people can do more cheaply to jobs that other countries can't do more cheaply.

Horace Mann

As a government employee, I was always fighting for financial resources, new staff, new everything, ... (Now,) I have to make sacrifices every day (as a business owner).

Kofi Annan

The secretary-general hopes that the tribunal will uphold the international standards of justice necessary to ensure its legitimacy, fairness and independence.

Jack Straw

There will have to be some way to ensure accountability for what has already been found here,

Christopher Cox

The shareholders own the company. They have a right to ensure that their money is being wisely spent. And that's just as true when it comes to how much executives are paid as it is to how much they're paying for their raw materials and their inventory.

Marsha Wienert

The vision and goal is to ensure our airports are modern, efficient, passenger-friendly and secure.

Philip Nelson

The work here has a potential for hazard. It's important to ensure the safety of our workers and make sure that they are able to respond to emergencies.

Tony McNulty

These are serious allegations and I will ensure that they are fully investigated.

Paul Grod

That's what we were here for, to help ensure they had that choice.

Sue Davis

That's why Fireworks Warehouse works so hard to ensure that everyone follows safety rules, including putting them on our bags.

Hui Liangyu

The mode of operation of the poultry husbandry should also be modified to ensure sustained and healthy development of the sector,

Jarrod Kerr

A rate hike is now 50-50 in May and fully priced by June.

Ahmad Fawzi

So now we have a road map. It's an important first step toward the establishment of a fully representative, broader-based, gender-sensitive, multi-ethnic government down the line.

Jennifer Granholm

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Chris McGill

Right now we have a supply picture that is fully utilized, even with record wells drilled, record rigs,

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Linda Dobbs

This is a really important opportunity for us. It's something we've talked about and had on our wish list for years. It's also a wonderful opportunity for our students to be able to perform on a fully functioning stage rather than a recital hall stage. It's important in their pre-professional training. We're all thrilled.

Anne McBride

This is an ongoing investigation, and we are fully cooperating.

Peter Coleman

This is still a significant injury, but one that with rehabilitation Troy will be able to fully recover from.

Zhao Yu

The U.S. side is fully responsible for this collision.

Ed Miliband

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Theresa Parker

The response to our expanded product offering has been tremendous.

Tom Peters

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

Jen Lancaster

I’m busy sorting through our new collection of rhinestone jewelry. Should anyone be in the market for sparkly accessories the size of a hubcap, this is the place to get them. Earlier today, a customer picked up one of the enormous chandelier-style offerings and asked, 'Do those be genuine rhimestones?' I couldn’t even begin to explain everything that was wrong with her sentence, so I simply replied, 'Yes. They do be genuine.

George Canning

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

George H. W. Bush

Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know?...I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.'

Howard Schultz

Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.

Irvin D. Yalom

I don't let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that's offering the patient comfort. I never want to take away something when I don't have anything better to offer him in a way.

J. K. Rowling

Crackers!” said Dumbledore enthusiastically, offering the end of a large silver noisemaker to Snape, who took it reluctantly.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Steve Jobs

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Brandon Roy

It would have been really special if he had come here. We would have been really good.

Christian Maraker

They all feel great. This one is special in its own way.

Charlie Warner

This is a special group. They never quit.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before. We don't know how much we'll be getting or how it will be dispersed.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before,

Melanie Sloan

That, to me, would be special treatment that he doesn't really deserve.

Jan Karon

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

Bon Scott

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.