Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Tapscott

Kids are very savvy about the technology. But I'm not sure they totally understand the implications of a billion people being able to see them doing whatever is posted.

Tony Buzan

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.

Muhammad Yunus

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

Nandan Nilekani

Going forward, we expect revenues to cross the two billion dollars mark at 2.14 billion dollars by March 2006.

Gene Munster

Hitting the 1 billion mark means that the business of selling music online is real. Over the next 10 years, the retail music industry will be turned upside down and 25 percent of worldwide industry sales will be made online.

James Wolfensohn

I think the immediate needs of HIPC, subject to the passage by the U.S. Congress of the U.S. contribution, are probably met, ... I think the $2.6 billion to $2.8 billion target is achievable, and then we will need to consider funding the rest of it.

Chris Lynch

We expect total expenditure to increase to around $6 billion (in 2006). This will include around $4 billion spent on growth projects and $550 million on exploration.

Dennis Hastert

Whatever we do, before putting in billions of dollars, let's make sure lives are not put in jeopardy,

Pramod Mahajan

I think whenever you are communicating to one billion people, you should bring more and more clarity on what you think.

Rush Holt

I would say the president has the power to help us get to the bottom of this matter. And we in Congress want to do this not so much for what has happened but to prevent such a thing from happening again.

Mike Woodson

I think it goes without saying that Joe is a huge piece to what we're trying to do in terms of turning this thing around and ultimately making the playoffs, which is the bottom line and why I'm here.

Brian Hill

He just has a lot of pain in that abdominal area, and we're just trying to get to the bottom of it.

Seth Shostak

The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you're a Pisces, but you're actually an Aquarius.

Chip Babcock

There are so many insiders from the top and bottom who have pleaded guilty. I'm not sure as a juror I'd be too suspicious of them.

Gary Sheffield

The only thing that saved that man that night was I didn't have mine. That was it. Bottom line. I just slipped that night. But I won't ever slip again.

Peter Jacobs

I think the key is that next year, even though Boeing will see about a 15-16 percent decline in revenue, they should still be able to show improvement in the bottom line.

Alex Sanchez

We told them we understand that they are concerned about excessive risk. We also said we don't want the bottom to fall out of the market.

Don Campbell

When he sees that opening or that crease, he can turn it on and he's gone. He has all the tools you are looking for in a back. He has the speed, the good hands, and he blocks. But the bottom line is he could run.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Tony Stewart

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

Max Spevack

What we weren't counting on was the rapid progress of the Open Invention Network, which serves a similar purpose for businesses in a much more compelling way.

John Davidson

What we've seen has really been priced into the market. At this point we need to see evidence of rising spending on capital and businesses hiring employees.

Shannon Sessions

He's hit ten different businesses in Lynnwood, Edmonds and unincorporated Snohomish County. He runs in with this mask on, waving around a gun and demanding money, then running out.

Geoff Brown

I think we'll feed them and they'll feed us, ... When you can see the neon sign of the bank, the restaurant or whatever, the businesses are there, that's great. It's a great partnership.

Peter Mirsky

I think what they've created is the fastest growing company in the media space focused on interactivity. In a nutshell, you had the Internet bust, valuations go bust, but clearly there is value to the businesses that can be done on the Internet.

David Berry

I think it (the next chief) is probably someone in his late 40s, early 50s, ... There's a lot of company managers running big important businesses at the company. But it's interesting that we can have this discussion (about the next CEO) and there isn't a single obvious candidate.

Jeff Sessions

I think it's real good news that these huge sophisticated companies are considering Selma, ... It says Selma is open for business, being evaluated by world class companies. I think that's nothing but good news. It is just a top priority of mine to urge top-flight businesses, world-class businesses to consider Selma for economic expansion.

John Bunting

I was looking at the scoreboard all night, ... You can really get mesmerized by that thing. It goes on and the fireworks continue to go off (after each score). I thought at one point they might run out of fireworks. That's a big number and, basically, I'm numb at this point.

J. Hoover

Kids have a tendency to rest on what they do well and it's human nature to continue to work on the things that you do well. But this summer, I saw him working on the things that he needs to work on to be effective at the next level. I have no doubt that he'll contribute as a freshman. He's highly competitive and he knows what he'll have to do to compete.

Patterson Hood

I write a lot of songs (about the South) and will continue to, but we wanted to do a record that wasn't so specific in the geography. We're from the South, but that's not all we can do.

Tom Davis

Keeping our staff intact enables us to continue to recruit as well as teach.

Charlotte Ronson

Just watching the people on the streets of N.Y. is inspiring; there are so many styles and unique points of view. Fashion is very much inspired by the streets, has always been, and I'm sure it will continue to do so.

Lofa Tatupu

Just that success only comes one way -- that's through hard work. Just continue to try to improve on getting better and it'll happen.

Dave Wannstedt

Joe's a good player for us and Joe will continue to be a good player for us, but we need to threaten people,

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Daniel Chan

Job prospects will continue to improve. Job security has increased and this will lead people to spend more.

Jody Grove

We must have our freshmen step up and contribute to the team right away. We must keep working everyday to get better.

Michael W. Smith

I don't contribute very often and very easily. I really do fervently think he can (win).

Dijon Thompson

I just hope to come in and contribute to get the championship. That's the most important thing, to get the championship in my rookie year. That would be great.

Robert Plant

I'm very, very pleased to contribute in some form or another,

Adam Cole

I'm a rhythm player, and once I find it, I can contribute offensively.

Carl Brizzi

I'm just focused on what I'm doing. I think when people are willing to contribute money, it gives me satisfaction that they think we are doing a good job.

David Tyree

Everybody wants to play offense and defense and everybody wants to be the best, that's a given, ... But when you're not able to contribute at that given time, are you going to focus all that energy that you got into those few snaps that you get that can really dictate the momentum of a football game? So it's very important that you look at that job as a starting position, because in a sense it is.

Jalen Rose

Everybody wants to contribute and help the team get a win, and obviously I'm no different,

Larry Anderson

The availability of people to come back out of retirement and contribute in a meaningful way is endless.

Glenn Beck

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

Clay Johnson

Katrina has sharpened everyone's focus on spending the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

Ray Manzarek

John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we were out there working. A free million bucks. That's a gig I'd like.

Mark Dobson

I also want to make sure student tax dollars are spent responsibly. Regardless, they are spent on the students who pay them.

Richard Bernstein

Historically, S&P 500 earnings growth, on average, has been negative when the dollar has appreciated 10 percent or more in a 12-month period.

Shaun Osborne

His speech was hawkish in the sense that there would be more interest rate increases. But again, there's something for everybody in his speech, including dollar bears.

David Mozina

I think it's great news for the dollar and it will probably solidify the strong upward moves that we are seeing in today's session.

David Brazil

We've done well with their contract-in dollars and in service.

John Heisdorffer

I think it's possible. We have about a half million dollars walking into the office or by mail every day.

Frank Martinez

We've been told to say that. (And say) whatever it takes to get that phone line in the receiver.

Mike Boyajian

We've got to keep on scoring. Right now, all three of our lines are starting to score. A team can't concentrate on one of our lines. We're pretty deep.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Nariman Behravesh

I think that whole line of reasoning is overdone.

Antoni Gaudi

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Dale Mitchell

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

Joy Harjo

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

Vinny Testaverde

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

Richard Jenkins

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

Umberto Eco

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Reza Aslan

The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.

William S. Burroughs

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William Kristol

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Richard Louv

The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

Richard Louv

If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

Werner Erhard

You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world work.

Virgil Goode

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Jeff Wright

It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.