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,

Paras Adenwala

Any business related to infrastructure, especially power, will do well in a growing economy like India.

J. B. Pritzker

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

Mike McCall

Any business needs to be in the position to be profitable, and we are profitable. That makes it easy to make decisions to help our customers.

Paul Goode

A number of mobile applications are driven by TV gaming, which is frankly not at the forefront of the business mind. You could look at entertainment as being a Trojan horse to the business community.

Marc Roberge

a number of management changes to streamline the company's organizational structure and sharpen the focus of its business activities.

Stuart Levey

Any entity maintained by a terrorist group - whether masquerading as a charity, a business or a media outlet - is as culpable as the terrorist group itself.

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.

John Ridley

When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

John Perry Barlow

Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.

John Perry Barlow

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

John Piper

The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.

Nick Carter

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

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.

Jon Tremayne

If that trend continues, it will help moderate customer prices in the future.

Judy Greer

He said please open up the register now, I don't want to hurt you. I was more worried about my customer than myself and I wasn't scared. I saw that he had like a little pen knife.

Fritz Elmendorf

Generally, they're very eager to resolve issues with their customers, to make accommodations to retain the customer. It's much easier to retain a customer than to find a new customer.

Beth Hansen

We provide the things people want and need from a library. We strive to provide quality customer service, a knowledgeable staff, and good programming.

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.

Karl Albrecht

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

Jeff Bezos

You want your customers to value your service.

James Utzschneider

The goal for what we're doing with this event is to talk to our customers about Microsoft's vision for delivering solutions in the mid-market.

Michael Dell

This is a huge and very important leap forward in terms of what customers want from their PCs and the related products that go around them,

Eric Snider

Everyone is saying their customers are valuable, and the last thing you want to do is rent names out.

Edmund Mierzwinski

Everyone has a right to make money, ... But what they're doing is taking disgruntled customers and converting them into longer-term customers by some sleight of hand.

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.

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.

Laura Fisher

We weren't expecting a huge drop in filings, just that the system be more fair.

James Hughes

You know, you either drop these prices or we just won't go to work! How's that? I think that we need to do it. I think the truckers need to do it. I think the people need to let the president know we're not going to keep paying it!

Victor Hugo

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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.

Eric Metz

He's an excellent coach, and this won't be his last opportunity.

Raymond Gilmartin

He's an excellent candidate, ... Dick's long tenure here at Merck will make this is a smooth transition process.

Dave Foreman

He's a one-dimensional player that has an excellent one dimension.

Tim Funkhouser

He stayed within himself and I thought that showed a lot of maturity to relax and do what he's practiced. He's an excellent player.

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.

Jason Calacanis

If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, 'It's a blog,' everyone questions me.

Jeffrey Zeldman

For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.

Anbumani Ramadoss

Hopefully, we will be getting 5-6 million doses,

Eric Christensen

The $2.3 million is not even a token sum. It's ridiculous.

Five Live

I would never have played Wilkinson in a million years,

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.

Steve Squyres

We think Opportunity is now parked on what was once the shoreline of a salty sea on Mars.

Scott Barnes

Washington is a unique opportunity for my family.

Josh Blaisdell

We are still young. We only skated two seniors today. That's why we wanted this opportunity to play some better teams.

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.

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.

Andy Reid

You could pick out anything and we probably didn't do it well.

Steve Terry

You couldn't have picked a better day for spring break.

Elliott Avent

That guy, if he's not the first pick in the country, I'd be awfully surprised.

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.

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.

Dana Perino

reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.

Dan Ariely

The retail industry has its own headache: it loses $16 billion a year to customers who buy clothes, wear them with the tags tucked in, and return these secondhand clothes for a full refund.