Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Packer

Chris has 40 years' experience, having been a CEO in three industries - newspapers (Fairfax), television (TV NZ) and telecommunications (Optus).

Lance Reynolds

Some guys, when they get into coaching they're just dying to be a head coach, ... I was not as much that way as some guys are, because I like the coaching part. Every time I see a head coach, as they become a head coach, they become more of an administrator and CEO and less of a head coach.

Robert Coates

I would like to see a CEO in place who can run the company successfully,

Joe Galli

I was very excited about the prospect of being the CEO of a fast-growing technology company, particularly in the B2B sector,

Raymond Gilmartin

When you're the retired CEO, you get out of the way, in effect. Dick is the new CEO and I think it's important that he have a clear field.

Fabrice Grinda

If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

Dick Costolo

One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment.

Indra Nooyi

To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.

Bill Maris

CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.

Jack Ablin

Right now, the transparency we had with (former Chairman Alan) Greenspan is gone. We're trying to get some semblance of which way the Fed is going to go.

Brian Kennedy

If the chairman could have loaded the family into a helicopter to go to all of these meetings and all of these parks for $5,000, he would have.

Tom Schlesinger

I would be nervous about picking an inflation-targeting champion as my next Fed chairman given the potential impact on employment growth.

Lawrence Summers

If we can do those things, we have a chance to keep this expansion going. But this is not the time to take what (Federal Reserve) Chairman (Alan) Greenspan, what six Nobel prize-winning economists have said would be a very risky course with a massive tax cut. We're not going to let it happen, ... Face The Nation.

When the chairman introduced the guest speaker as a former illegal alien, I got up from my chair and yelled, "What's the matter, no jobs on Mars?" When no one laughed, I was real embarrassed. I don't think people should make you feel that way.

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Bob Corscadden

This is an invitation for people to get a better glimpse of who we are as a company and what we stand for.

Steve Peterson

We're a small company with 130 people, and I think we probably had 40 people get involved in that.

Stephan Wulf

E.ON is optimizing how they deal with a good problem for a company to have: they have a lot of money and they have to find a use for it.

Winson Fong

Driven by national interests, the company will be on the lookout for acquisitions.

John Titler

Essentially, the whole thing is literally a refinancing mechanism. It's just pure plain and simple, the company needs to be recapitalized.

Robert Craig

Essentially, it was not a good deal for Onyx as a company and for Onyx's shareholders. We would have had to issue a huge number of shares, and the net effect would have been grossly diluted shareholder value.

Larry Ponemon

Even if it's just 1 or 2 percent churn, it could be devastating to a company,

Carol Levenson

Even at these weaker levels we still consider tobacco company paper unacceptably risky.

Rob Bibler

I've wanted to do a series on great directors, and I think the idea was, in part, to show films that have this status of great craftsmanship.

Park Chan-wook

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

John Curran

Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else.

Ian Mckellen

If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.

Bill Plympton

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

Christopher Lee

I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was when we filmed 'The Oblong Box.'

Ornella Muti

I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.

Gurinder Chadha

I can't stand films where parents are portrayed as old and doddery, and ignore their kids.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Lee Humphrey

This is a new year, and a different team. We're looking forward to making a run.

Eric Patterson

The only time we'll have to play a Broward or Dade team is if we play them in the state championship. We're looking forward to that.

Gary Smith

Bret Harte stuck it to us last year. We learned a lesson. Our kids are looking forward to playing them again.

Saurav Ganguly

Now we look forward to the Test series.

John Lombardo

Now that I can taste third place in the championship, Ill be doing everything I can to keep it, ... Buttonwillow seems to be a track that suits our Van Diemen so Im really looking forward to getting back out there.

John Lombardo

Now that I can taste third place in the championship, I'll be doing everything I can to keep it, ... Buttonwillow seems to be a track that suits our Van Diemen so I'm really looking forward to getting back out there.

Peter Greene

Next week may be a little more challenging. We're really looking forward now to third-quarter profits and the market could be in a trading range until then.

Freddy Sanchez

Getting away from it all was nice. I'm looking forward to a fresh start.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Todd Tripp

We'll get after it in practice next week. It's regional time. We'll see what happens.

Joe Newman

We'll do better next season. We'll have statistics and up-to-date standings on our Web site. And we'll probably have 16 teams in the playoffs. I think 24 teams this season is too many.

David Whiles

We'll let that percolate for the next 30 days.

Chris Masoner

You'd like to stop them all, but sometimes there's not much you can do. You just have to get ready for the next opportunity.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Eckhart Tolle

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Daniel Radcliffe

I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it.

Daniel Radcliffe

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

Courteney Cox

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

Clive Barker

O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.

Clive Barker

We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody somewhere won't argue is actually a good, no idiocy that hasn't got its perfectly serious defenders, and no tyrant, past or present - no matter how bloody - without some bunch of zealot schmucks to defend him or his reputation till the last breath in their bodies - or preferably somebody else's.

Mark Geragos

He's pleased with the outcome, and he's back at work.

David Mitchell

We have supported the school throughout this process and are pleased that a satisfactory resolution has been reached.

Bai Ling

You have to be proud of who you are.

Asa Butterfield

I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

Jane Garvey

We have, I am proud to say, successfully transitioned in a very uneventful way.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Dave Ramsey

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

Steve Spurrier

toward the end there, my give-a-damn was busted. This is not the way I ever coached...I'm not proud of what happened, but there it is.

Amy Poehler

Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.

Ali Lohan

I'm proud to be a Lohan, and I will always will be.

Andrew Jackson

I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Ingrid Bergman

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Bob Stern

He told us there were three N's of obesity. Nintendo. Netscape. And Nickelodeon.

Jennifer Hudson

I feel like I've lived about three or four different lives.

George Saintsbury

So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.

Jeffrey Archer

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

B.J. Upton

We haven't had a lot of time yet,