Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Healy

Half of his pay is dependent on the performance of the company, so that looks pretty reasonable relative to the pay of other CEOs at big companies. It probably doesn't look reasonable to the guy who just got laid off.

Charles Peck

What you have is a payoff when there's poor performance. But that's the nature of contracts. There's such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.

Charles Peck

What you have is a payoff when there's poor performance, ... But that's the nature of contracts. There's such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.

Charles DiSanza

Having to search for a chairman and CEO could delay the turnaround for some period of time. They have a somewhat diminished but still strong market position.

Drew Brown

He's good with everybody, ... He can talk to the CEO as well as he can talk to the mechanic.

Timothy Ramey

When he started as CEO I thought Kellogg was a very insular, not-very-worldly-wise type of company. It's now about as international and as sophisticated as they get.

Carlos Cardoso

I think that an effective CEO is a generalist in many waysone that can represent the company well to the customers, to the investors, to the community. You also have to represent yourself well as a leader at all levels of the organization. One of the things I have learned since my younger days is that everyone in the organization counts.

Warren Lichtenstein

We made our commitment to KT&G because we are confident in the strong potential of this company. If the CEO is not willing to consider our proposals as investors, we have no choice but to continue to seek election of our nominees.

Arthur Levitt

If you compensate a CEO by giving him options, he's going to do everything he can to make those options as valuable as possible.

Jean Miller

He is the comrade around whom the party people can coalesce. He should be chairman for life.

Jennifer Dunn

He justbrought the party together. All I had to do as party chairman was say,'Remember what Ronald Reagan would say on this issue,' and it was done.

Edward Leamer

I think it's a very good thing. I never understood why (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan was encouraging people to go into short-term mortgages, because of the risk they entailed.

Allen Sinai

I think that Greenspan will rank as one of the most effective and innovative Fed chairman that we have had -- a home-run champion.

Marion Hammer

I think the chairman is telling us where he intends to go, to put it politely.

Ron Bonjean

It is clear that we need a new chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission immediately. Sen. Lott is disappointed that Mary Sheila Gall, who is a clearly a qualified candidate, has not been confirmed by the Senate due to personal partisan attacks.

John Silvia

Labor costs were one of the key inflation concerns cited by Chairman (Alan) Greenspan in his latest testimony, ... Our outlook reinforces his concern.

John Davidson

To get a real turnaround you need to have a turnaround in earnings. The jobless claims number today probably keeps (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan on task in terms of lowering rates.

Harry Redknapp

It is something I have been thinking about for a while. I made it without any pressure from the chairman or the board.

Rabbi Zell

He said if I delayed it a bit, he could get five more couples. He delivered ? he got five more couples.

David Gordon

Historically, packaging has been one of the major delays for us in getting product out the door.

Thomas Gunderson

I think it's brilliant. The worst-case outcome for them is that they delay Johnson and force them to pay several million dollars more for Guidant, which weakens them as a competitor.

Tucker Carlson

There is no five-second delay on Crossfire-if you say it, people will hear it. Things can get heated; the potential is there to overstate your position. It is vital to not misrepresent what you actually believe.

Sarah Feinberg

I think the 10th District (of North Carolina) sent him to Washington to work for them, not Tom DeLay or Karl Rove.

Jack Finn

He's going to be looking after a program that has been fraught with delay, faulty science, mismanagement and misdirection.

John Velazquez

We must have run over two or three geese. One of their feathers was in my foot. It was a delayed reaction. After she went through them, then she got scared.

Abdul Rahim

I do not see that happening either from the Indian side or from the Pakistani side. A day's delay is like an year to me. They (the governments) raise our expectations and never keep their promises,

Samuel Johnson

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

George Morris

The availability of the land has really diminished over the last five years.

Doug Myers

The odds of an October rate hike have been greatly diminished by this employment report,

John Tschohl

They fear that, if employees are empowered to make decisions, their roles in the organization will be diminished or eliminated.

Brian Foley

As a practical matter, the options have, for the moment, substantially diminished value, if any.

Sebastian Pinera

The brutal, massive and shameless intervention of the government that we witnessed in the last months has diminished the legitimacy of this election.

John Milton

At whose sight all the stars / Hide their diminished heads.

Conrad DeQuadros

While the Fed's rate hike yesterday (Tuesday) may seem to have diminished reaction to today's (Wednesday's) CPI report, it will nonetheless be important,

Ted Thompson

He still runs around, still plays with passion. I don't see anything diminished there.

Pierce Brosnan

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

Patty Thayer

I would say it's one of our most important marketing pieces. It is a response to every phone call, to every reader, that we get.

Mike Johns

Just to regain that market share we had before will take some time.

Edmund Daukoru

Just rest assured, we are under obligation to the market to keep the market well supplied. We meet as often as it takes to micro-manage the short-term volatility.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Bill Sutherland

I think the market kind of got walloped by the Merck verdict on Friday, and this may be a reflex rally we're seeing now.

David Briggs

I think the market is trying to make up its mind,

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Keira Knightley

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

Kofi Annan

Guatemala is going through the most promising period of its recent history,

Rick Vernon

Going back to the '60's, we're one of the only schools that plays them year in and year out. When you play somebody for that period of time you're going to have that rivalry.

Ariel Sharon

I thought we could reach a period of respite before a cease-fire, ... But this is a war situation we are experiencing now and negotiations for a cease-fire will take place under fire.

Edmund Phelps

I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Richard Pennington

He eluded us for a long period of time,

Richard Petty

Never put a question mark where God puts a Period

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Louis Agassiz

I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth

Pema Chodron

Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.

Brian Dietz

It's a solution in search of a problem.

J. M. Roberts

They were here. After a while of their searching around and taking pictures, they took the kids.

Aaron Brown

This is about a search for the truth,

Made Pastika

We want to search things that may be overlooked. We need to search and re-search again.

Eric Hornbeck

As long as I can feel like I'm doing good, I'm going to be here. It could be tomorrow, it could be a month, I don't have those answers. However, if we can keep the search going, I will stay.

Arkady Volozh

We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

Suzanne Trevino

We do not specifically read correspondence if it's just a letter. The only way we could read correspondence is if we have a search warrant or have written authorization from the sender or the addressee.

Gary Goddard

I think we probably get somewhat better prices,

Nick Saban

Right tackle has been somewhat of a problem,

David Spade

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

Jack Kilby

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

Don Lindburg

It really is turning out to be somewhat of a hardship.

Charles Bona

The swings are going to be very rapid, and they could be somewhat sizeable.

David Pittman

That's why I think this study is somewhat surprising.

Jeff Evans

She's cooperating, she's upset. Somewhat relieved, she said.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

If he's going there to grandstand, then I think it's somewhat embarrassing.

Chris Mack

He's a linebacker with the basketball. He's so doggone strong for a guard.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Kate Jansen

It has a really strong aftertaste. And it doesn't even look like an Oreo.

Ben Cooper

I will give you my strong support, as I already have.

Randy Thompson

He's going to be strong for us. We just want to make sure we keep him well for district.