Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Kevin Rollins

Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,

Robert Phillips

Coke is down because of disappointing earnings and lackluster second-half estimates, ... Everyone is eagerly awaiting the new CEO's business plan.

Tamika Catchings

Coming of losses to good teams - Connecticut and Washington -- we knew we needed this one. We want homecourt for the playoffs and that means we have got to take care of business at home or on the road.

David Smith

Developing online presence tools is a strategic move, with more businesses showing an interest in hosted share-points, for example. The company's strategy is to extend its business software offerings to Web platforms.

Kathy Sierra

Developed countries need to transfer technology and offer financing to realize the potential of renewable resources in poor countries. This makes good business sense. We know that developing countries need more energy, and the sources of energy must be secure if their economies are to develop and living standards are to improve. Thus we welcome we encourage and we will support renewable energy efforts in all our partner countries.

Alan Oster

Despite improvements in confidence and still reasonable sales, the results suggest that business is still reluctant to increase hiring.

Anthony Thompson

deteriorates markedly further from here, and threatens the strong business investment outlook.

T. Harv Eker

The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. Rich people are totally clear that they want wealth. They are unwavering in their desire. They are fully committed to creating wealth. As long as it's legal, moral, and ethical, they will do whatever it takes to have wealth. Rich people do not send mixed messages to the universe. Poor people do.

Ray Kurzweil

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

Steve Jobs

Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.

Theo James

What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.

Padgett Powell

That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.

Philip Zimbardo

The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.

Lisa Randall

I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.

Johnny Depp

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.

John Sununu

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

Richard Harmon

Our customer is one that wants to live the Big Event.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Dan Ryan

This really is a new application driven by the customer base.

Peter Pawlak

Customers can download these patches just as they would a Microsoft patch.

Mark DiMassimo

There is no quick fix for Kmart, and that's a problem given their financial situation, ... They really have to go through the process to figure out who their customer is, or could be. They kind of just sat there and let everybody eat at their market from all sides. They have to find their new relevance. They may be dreaming of a mass market that doesn't exist for them anymore.

Liliana Rambo

We're going to be able to provide better customer service. It's a great leap into new technology.

Larry Freed

We saw the same trends in lowered satisfaction and key behaviors tied to loyalty last year. However, last year's drops were far more significant. This year, online retailers did a better job managing customer expectations as the holiday shopping deadlines approached. In return, retailers will be rewarded with higher loyalty long after the holiday season comes to a close.

Keun Choi

If a customer doesn't like sushi, I like to recommend the seafood salad. Even though it's still raw fish, they usually really like it.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Peter Pawlak

Customers can download these patches just as they would a Microsoft patch.

Harvey Houtkin

We don't sell our customers' orders and then get a kickback for it, ... father of electronic trading.

Andrew Murphy

We have some exciting new lines and reinvigorated stores. Customers are going where they know they can rely on traditional good service.

David Stevens

It does not make us in partnership with our customers (in encouraging conservation) as much as we'd like to be.

Terry Marshall

Just identifying our top companywide customers was hard to do.

David Bergmann

I don't pay a health and safety fee to restaurants. If they want to raise the price of the meal, that's fine. But customers shouldn't order something and not know what is going into the bill.

Michael Doyle

Comcast Video Mail offers our customers a powerful and poignant way to communicate how and when they want.

Twyla Tharp

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

Jim Hueber

I think he is really driven. I think it is really important to him to do what he feels like he has to do to be as good as he can be. He wants to do everything right, I think that is what drives him. He doesn't want to make a mistake.

Michael Pittman

Penalties are going to kill plays, kill drives and kill momentum and they did that to us (Sunday).

Carlos Casteneda

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you

Jane Bryant

Term rates keep dropping and dropping and dropping; it's just amazing.

Jerry Palm

Tennessee is dropping like a rock. It's looking like whichever team ends up with the higher seed (UNC or Tennessee) will end up in Greensboro with Duke.

Charles Carroll

What we made them do was re-mark it regular and drop the price down to regular price,

Sedrick Ellis

We have heard a lot about losing Shaun and Mike, but I don't think there will be any drop off at all.

Granth Sahib

You are the Ocean of Water, and I am Your fish. Your Name is the drop of water, and I am a thirsty sparrow-hawk.

Robert Brown

Though Rome's gross yoke / Drops off, no more to be endured, / Her teaching is not so obscured / By errors and perversities, / That no truth shines athwart the lies.

Alberto Fujimori

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.

Malaysian Proverb

Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot

Travis Paquet

It was an excellent game. It was 8-8 at the end of the first and 18-14 at the half.

Dick Vermeil

Todd had an excellent practice, ... He's a good football player. He has never been given the opportunity to demonstrate what he could do.

Jim Campbell

At 47 or 48 feet we have no concern. We have a levee system that is in excellent condition. We feel very comfortable that we are not going to have any problems.

Jim Mitchell

We are very, very fortunate to have someone like Dale step into her shoes. We think that Dale is going to do an excellent job for us.

Evelyn Bean

We are very excited to get Elizabeth. She has a lot of experience and is an excellent player.

Jim Bates

We did an excellent job until that last drive.

John Quinn

We have a very young team, but we have an excellent team and we feel the second half of the year can be good. I've always felt that this tournament, no matter what the outcome is, is great preparation for us for the rest of the season.

Rush Limbaugh

I thought it was excellent, to tell you the truth.

Abdul Aziz

She was really busy: people say that she's done an excellent campaign,

Chuck Pavlos

You're going to have a million people in this corridor.

Russell Perreault

There are more than 300 million people in the US, so we still have a lot of potential sales out there.

Albert Brooks

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Erin Dawson

Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be where I am.

Alan Essig

If we're going to keep (increasing) it by $200 million a year, it will take three years to get back to where we were.

Joel Slemrod

If we don't anything, 29 million Americans are going to have to pay it next year.

Jim Bowden

If they're going to pay $450 million for the team, ... they should have a voice in those decisions.

Stephen F. Lynch

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

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.

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,

Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Booker T. Washington

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Abdallah II of Jordan

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

Abdallah II of Jordan

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

Jeff Bagwell

Towards the end of my career, I didn't want an opportunity like this to go by.

Paul Adams

The race is too tight to pick a winner.

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Sgt. Helmer

If you are going to be truant, don't want to do it down here because you are going to get picked up.

Mark Reiland

Obviously, we won the right one. We wanted to win both, but if we had to pick one, this would be the one we'd pick.

Sarah Price

(My children) need to pick up the torch and keep on moving.

Mads Mikkelsen

I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Steve Stirling

He is not flashy; he does all the things a smart player does. If I had to pick one player, I'd say it was him (that was most impressive).

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Al Franken

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Diane Duane

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Demetri Martin

Sometimes I feel like I'm being watched, but then I remember that my show was canceled three years ago.