Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Benson

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

William Williams

The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.

David Healy

The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

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.

Don Logan

The narrowband business is a highly profitable business, and it's going to continue to be so for a long time to come,

Mindy Lubber

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

Chris Shipley

DEMO continues to be a successful platform because it is focused on new products -- and who isn't a product geek at heart? DEMO 2006 has launched into the marketplace a stunning and varied collection of compelling business efficiency tools, consumer services, network optimizers, and enabling technologies that are designed to make life and work easier, more enjoyable, richer. This is an exciting moment in our industry, as the DEMO 2006 demonstrators prove: the innovations are first class and investor interest is overwhelming. The technology market is on the rise again.

Wayne McCants

Right now they are classified as an exotic.

Don Bohanan

These classes demonstrate to college admissions and scholarship staff that students who successfully complete them can do college-level work.

Ruth Johnson

The writing contest is a way for teachers to get kids writing. It gives them a purpose, a real-world experience. They get feedback from others and not just from me as their classroom teacher. They have a wider audience.

S. Walker

This is great news for The Johnnie Walker Classic and is a true reflection of its standing as one of the most competitive, international and high profile tournaments in the world.

Gary Blair

This is the deepest recruiting class that the Big 12 has ever had, top to bottom. These freshmen can play.

Bobby Cox

That's why he's classified as one of the big young hitters in the entire Minor League system. They tagged him right, that's for sure.

Aretha Franklin

Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.

Art Buchwald

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

Brian Henson

"Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as traditionally, Jim Henson Company puppeteers have. We're sort of famous for going off script a little bit and ad libbing.

Jacob Lew

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

William Penn

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most . . .

Dan Owens

This is as good a collection of players as I can remember.

Eric Greene

That's how my collection started. I think I have the largest collection of this stuff there is.

Shelly Flood

We've had a lot of success, even though no one has known about this. We've been slowly promoting it, and we've had various collection drives in the community.

Harold E. Varmus

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

Sean Hayes

I'm a hamster person. No - that's so bizarre, I don't know what that means. Please don't say that. Now everybody is going to go, "Do you like hamsters? Why did you say hamsters? Do you have a collection of hamsters?" I'll never live that down. Please don't use that.

Stuart Scott

I grew up on hip-hop. I grew up on Run-D.M.C., Whodini, LL when I was in college, so I'm more of a music fan. I probably have the most eclectic collection of music in my Grand Cherokee. Literally, in a span of a week, I'll go from 2Pac to Boyz II Men to Sister Hazel, right down to West Side Story or the Wiz. I love show tunes.

Susan Kuretsky

It is a remarkable collection for a college museum.

Pat Doyle

The movie was outstanding, very compelling and very well done.

David Treadwell

The most important thing for Windows is being compelling to developers. Developers are the linchpin for the success of Windows.

Marjory LeBreton

There would have to be a compelling reason.

Andrew Neff

While the stock could remain under pressure near term, we maintain our 'buy' rating on IBM owing to a compelling second-half story.

Adam Rayner

Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible.

Chris Hill

So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.

Robert Wilson

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.

Towson Fraser

Obviously, they've got an incredibly compelling story to tell.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

Anne Sweeney

The strategic utilization of new technologies to meet consumer needs is of paramount importance to the growth of the Disney Media Networks Group.

Eric Wold

A few years ago the big question was could IMAX get Hollywood content on their screens and theaters to sign up. But studios now see the value of putting movies on IMAX screens since consumers have much better home theaters.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Marc Desmidt

You only have to look at consumer electronics, to look at what Samsung's doing, to worry about Japanese consumer electronics companies,

Steven Wood

This will offer some partial restraint to consumer spending.

Gary Miller

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

David Krell

When the markets get frothy they can disappear. When the markets are frothy is exactly when consumers need them.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Craig James

Providing the economy continues to grow and earnings continue to rise and look set to continue to rise then we are going to see the share market respond to that, and indeed that is what we are seeing in terms of Japan.

Duane Grant

The work they do continues to be on the cutting edge of bio-energy.

Claes Fornell

The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets.

Parris Glendening

The fact is, if water consumption continues at the current rate, there is only a 35-day supply in these reservoirs.

Ian Blair

At the moment we have nothing that links the two groups, but the investigation still continues and there is an intuitive view that says that each group of four are so similar that we must have concerns, and we do.

Howard Dean

Sending delegates to the convention only continues to energize our party. Fight on in the caucuses; we are on the ballots,

Mark Warner

We need to look at what is going to be the long-term future of our Guard when states need to rely on these soldiers for emergencies and the nation continues to rely on them for overseas deployment.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Larry Sabato

As far as others in his party are concerned, Simmons' district is highly competitive and in a strong Democratic year, it could easily be lost. ... These favors are done for Simmons simply to save the seat.

Iqbal Sacranie

Our democratic values need to be upheld, not undermined.

Jalal Talabani

And the Iraqi people are liberated from the worst kind of dictatorship. Now they are enjoying their democratic rights, all kinds of freedoms, a free press.

Madeline Albright

role as the leading upholder of democracy and law.

Ron Gidwitz

I've never heard of internships that pay $50,000 or $60,000. These internships are simply a way to reward those who pay their dues to Democratic campaigns.

Mo Ibrahim

The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections.

Condoleezza Rice

This is the democratic process at work, ... What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

Barbara Jordan

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Al Gore

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

Alice Fisher

The scheme was designed to mislead analysts and the investing public.

Bruce Barbour

The Stewards Program is an immersion experience designed to give an overview and excite an interest in future study.

Tim Berners-Lee

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

Susan Page

The prime speakers each night are on from 10 to 11 p.m. Eastern time, which is designed to get the maximum TV audience. But that's late for newspapers. It means a lot of newspapers miss their early editions with the big speeches.

David Boyer

Our medical staff has designed stretches for each of the jobs our people do.

Mike Goodman

Internet2 was designed to make large file transfers happen quickly.

Mark Richt

I know that quarterback can run like a deer, that's for sure. Shockley's not quite the runner that he is. Shockley's athletic, but we won't have as many designed quarterback runs for him. A lot of that is because it's really not his nature and the other part is that we wanted to try to keep him healthy this year.

Jeffrey Lubell

The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is despite low interest rates and new mortgage products designed to make homes more affordable.

Michael Ramos

The initiative is designed to try to sow fear into our communities.

Al Diamond

If all efficiency experts were laid end to end- I'd be in favor of it

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

By reducing the number of plasmids, we increase the efficiency of virus production,

Zig Ziglar

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Ayrton Senna

Fear is exciting for me.

John Updike

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

Erin Horn

We're just trying to get people to come out and watch and Florida State will be an exciting game.

Sophie Kinsella

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

Kris Draper

Those two kids are special. And the new rules are going to be exciting for them.

Steve Silver

We won four exciting games, not just four games.

Adam Alirez

We've been wrestling tough all year, and this was one of our goals on our list. It was just exciting to see them get to the semifinals and step it up. We really represented. The whole town of Greeley just did awesome. There were a lot of tough teams here.

Liam Hemsworth

Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you're truly in the moment and you're feeding each other, it's such an exciting thing to be a part of.

Claudine Goller

It is exciting to think of how much good he has done.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Paul Kenny

We held their offense to one touchdown in the first half. Things were looking good. In the second half, we lost our focus. We knew what we had to do to stop them and we would have stuck with them if we were focused in the second half.

Matt Hasselbeck

We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.

Jim Sheridan

He works very, very hard - he's determined, very focused and has huge self-esteem,

Erica Cerra

I love my sci-fi. I love my fantasy. Yeah! I can say it. I'm a geek. I'm a geek and I'm a proud geek!

Kate Bush

I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.

John Hughes

A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked up as if there were a lot of them at every school - and there aren't. Maybe two. There are many more geeks. A geek is a guy who has everything going for him, but he's just too young. He's got the software, but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Source Unknown

The very first steps towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Oprah Winfrey

You said, 'I'm going to be on your show,' and I was more interested in the car. People say that to me all the time - they say, 'Hey Oprah, I just wrote a book,' or 'I'm a singer,' but you're the first person who ever made that true.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

Brian Tracy

There's an interesting study that says wealthy people get up three hours before their first outside appointment.

Jamie Bell

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

Ben Gibbard

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

Carrot Top

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.

Daniel Handler

The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Brett Gallagher

After a big up day like you had yesterday, you have to have some digestion. Once things run up by a big amount, then investors have to step back.

Yasuo Yabe

Right now the market is rather quiet, but it will be a problem when investors return after the New Year and trade volume increases.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

Jeff Cheah

Stabilizing ... that is the key word that investors are reacting to.

Lee Hak

Investor sentiment is recovering on lower oil prices.

Aravind Adiga

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

Ben Nicholas

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Baruch Spinoza

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Auguste Rodin

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History is full of surprises.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Robin Li

The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.

Bob Dinneen

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Steve Roukis

At the end of the day the market moves to earnings.

Mike Viracola

The trend on the market is still down,

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Brennan Manning

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Eckhart Tolle

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

David Bowie

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

Gilbert Arenas

First time on television, we won. It was a special moment for us.

E. B. White

The most vulnerable part of the network are the undersea pipelines.

Richard Fox

you must have a network in order to make this a continuous, profitable scheme.

Stacey Koerner

Every network has something that it can talk about.

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Marc Berman

Each network has at least one new show that's doing well. That's a real positive. There's not a single network where everything bombed.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Mitch Metcalf

It's the loneliest night of the week for network television and television in general.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

Dana McClintock

We've been talking and are still talking about new platforms of all sorts." ()

Shari Arison

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. But I do use the platforms I have to make a difference in the world. Anyone who has a position where they can make a difference should use it.

Sundar Pichai

When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.

Anthony Powell

You have to be a product of the product.

Mark Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

Guy Kawasaki

Provide good content and you’ll earn the right to promote your product.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Marco Arment

Making a product better often requires removing features.

Tim Ghriskey

A lot of the higher-margin products are doing well.

Barbara Ryan

There is a 10-year lag in R&D spending, ... The spending that they're doing today isn't going to be visible in terms of products for quite some time.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brian Tracy

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Jamie Dimon

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

Bruce Henderson

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

Edmund Hillary

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Britney Spears

Success is sometimes harder than failure, because when you are successful, people expect so much more out of you.

Jan Chipchase

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Ayn Rand

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ben Fountain

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Aimee Mullins

You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

Arthur C. Clarke

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

Brian Eno

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Susie Orbach

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.