Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ignacio Bunye

The president believes she has a mandate based on the 2004 elections...Maybe at a later time, we can talk about transitory provisions.

Jacob Lew

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

Rick DeLisi

Business travelers make the decisions based on schedule, leisure travelers do it based on price. We think we can be very competitive in both areas.

Paul Zimmerman

But based on (what we saw), yes, I think the Bears are legitimate Super Bowl contenders. The Bears now have a quarterback who resembles an NFL quarterback. Hooray. What a surprise.

Todd Duncan

Based upon what we've seen in the basement, eventually left uncorrected, it could actually collapse to the center,

Omar Minaya

Based upon what we heard, it's more of a precautionary thing.

Stephen Ross

Based upon what I know, I think Bell is bullish.

Kevan Casey

Based upon the satellite data we have received from Hawkeye and the results from our first well, we believe we have selected an extremely desirable location for our second well. We are still in the testing phase of our initial well after our fracture stimulation treatment in February 2006.

Mark Dyer

Based upon the proposals that we have reviewed internally for the past several months, we believe these three cities provide us with the best opportunity to build and develop a world-class NASCAR Hall of Fame for our millions of loyal fans.

Brad Wenstrup

In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

Brad Stone

Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

Bobby Schilling

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Bobby Lee

I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works.

Bill Gurley

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.

Bill Gurley

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

Bing Gordon

In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.

Billy Beane

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

Betty Williams

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

Yi Xianrong

It is a clear signal to the property market that the central government has the determination and the means to curb investments and housing prices.

What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know

Toby Hall

Look at these other teams and wonder why they won 30 more games than us, or how'd they lose 40 less than us. It's pretty self-explanatory when you look at the complete rosters of every team. That's what Lou has dealt with,

Sufjan Stevens

I think the implausibility in some ways redeems me from having to complete it.

Stone Gossard

I like to write music. And I think exploring with lyrics and figuring out how to make complete songs is fun. I think I have a take on it. I don't know if it's great, but it's an interesting take. It's original.

Charlie Frye

I just tried to come out and complete my passes. We won the game, so that's what matters to me. I'm happy.

Brian Coleman

His complete failure of judgment and leadership raises serious questions about his suitability for office.

Robert Dunn

His first concern was whether he could stay in the country and complete his scholarship.

Rex Grossman

I'm not trying to be Mr. Whatever. I'm trying to play my role, and the team is excited we have such a good defense and running game. We've established that we're a complete team.

Tony Blair

I hope that in the next few days we demonstrate as a world our complete solidarity in this fight which is so important to us.

Lynn McDonald

Our district will be really tough. We still have a ways to go, and we want to be ready.

Bob Eason

We had a lot of good talent. Overall, of our 11 offensive starters, I think seven got full rides.

John Torchetti

I think I have to get them better prepared for the next game. I'm the coach, I'll take full responsibility.

P. J. Harvey

It'd be a good first full season for me.

Susan Gordon

We haven't seen the full peak of the storm. It may be later in the day around 4 or it could be that the peak will be less intense than we thought.

Mike Riley

You can go full speed with tackling for this long, but if you do everything but tackle, you can go this many more reps. And that's what we are looking for.

Gabriel Jafet

You just take one peek at what's going on in overseas markets and you'll feel like selling here. The market is full of sellers.

E. O. Wilson

We were never able to get that full momentum back and actually get ahead. They were able to get up on us and every time we tied it up they were able to turn it up a notch and we didn't match it.

Rob Honzo

We were missing a lot of the varsity. If we had our full lineup, I think we would have walked away with a win.

Mark French

We were able to come back, but not the full distance.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Orla Brady

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.