Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Sam Bodman

I hope the CEOs of the energy companies use that (hearing) as an opportunity to make their case, tell the story of just what it is they are planning on reinvesting in this sector,

Christopher Wray

The indictment of Enron's CEO shows that we will follow the evidence wherever it leads -- even to the top of the corporate ladder.

Felix Sabates

You can't have Gomer Pyle any more driving a race car, Those days are over. You've got to have somebody that at least looks good and can talk in front of a TV camera, and can sit down and talk to the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

Gordon Bethune

The fun part is, the same talk I would give gratis as CEO of Continental, I get paid handsomely for now.

Sean Harrigan

Eisner's resignation as CEO is the right move for shareowners,

Stephen Greyser

Stewart's reputation is muddled right now. And even though she's no longer CEO of her company, her name is on the building.

Bill Thompson

Harrah's is a good corporate citizen, but they have priorities,

John Battelle

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.

Kevin Brown

There is a kind of revolution going on, on the corporate desktop.

Ethan Harris

I think we know corporate profit growth can't stay at the rate we've seen in recent quarters. They (employers) have been squeezing the work force pretty aggressively, squeezing productivity out of workers and holding the line on wages. It's a matter of how much corporate profits slow down.

Jody Kielbasa

I think they want to become good corporate citizens.

Dave Grannan

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino represent a significant part of the corporate email landscape.

Mike Ornstein

He has the looks, the personality, the talent. He doesn't drink, doesn't have tattoos. The sky's the limit with Corporate America.

Andy Schultheiss

Representative Cuellar has voted repeatedly to let corporate polluters off the hook.

Gail Dudack

Really what the markets have been struggling with is: What is the direction of the economy and therefore corporate profits.

Ray Arvidson

I wouldn't be surprised as we move uphill that we find a section of the rock, in fact, that was modified in a shallow open-water environment. We haven't found the smoking-gun evidence for that yet.

Jack Boatwright

There are still places where you can see evidence of the 1906 earthquake. You just have to know where to look.

Ken Tower

What would make me more optimistic is if there was evidence that money on the sidelines is being put to work. But I'm not convinced.

Michael Shermer

Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it.

David Scott

He's a liar, in the view of the commissioner, except when it comes to his evidence about what he and Mr. Pelletier did together.

Mark Schneider

It is actually one of the really strong pieces of evidence in the report that we should be celebrating.

Wesley Clark

I think the evidence of the mass graves is confirmation of the terrible wrong done here.

William Brennan

There is a lack of evidence in this case.

Brian Doyle

There is more than enough evidence that we have good security these issues were addressed quickly and efficiently.

Detective McFadden

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Boris Vian

Have you noticed with inflexible necessity of the me to insert itself between the sol which precedes it and the sol which follows it.

Walt Miller

He knows how his mother was, he'll make suggestions and pass on information. He has quite a following there.

Tony Bui

Harvey kept going, 'Who's that guy following you around?,'

Kenneth Chenault

Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

Paul Anderson

He regards it as a very sensitive matter and will be following up when he returns.

Hebrew Proverb

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great

Jim Knight

It could have been even higher. We had some come in on that Friday (March 31) that we didn't process until the following Monday.

Patrick Baker

I'm very vague on the details. At this point we have an indictment and that's all.

Raymond Johnson

The indictment is merely an accusation, and Jeff is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

Jim Haslett

It's not an indictment of Aaron, it's an indictment on our record and where we're at. It's an opportunity to see what Todd can do with the situation.

Harry Reid

The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about.

Leonard Sand

They are presumed innocent. The indictment is just an accusation.

Richard May

Now do you want to have the indictment read out, or not?

John Conroy

This is not an indictment we're going to run from.

John Cornyn

Obviously, an indictment is a serious thing. But we do have such a thing as a presumption of innocence,

Dave Sica

And he would have had more (shutouts) had we not pulled him with big leads during the season.

Greg Taylor

The combination of the two offensively, as well as, defensively leads the team from the first pitch.

Ailyn Perez

Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

Hideo Mizutani

The market is moving within a small range ... after the 'big event' and the positive response to it. But for now, there are no leads to push the market up further.

Horst Keller

This leads to the question of how many places there are in the universe where life could potentially have developed.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Jill Lepore

A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

Sara Shepard

Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.

Abdul Kalam

Science leads to development of technologies. Availability of technologies leads to products.

Graham Elliot

I think what somebody orders and how they eat and cook really shows who they are.

Gregg Marshall

We've got to win out. That's just the way it is. We've got to see what team shows up (tonight).

Gerard Way

If you come to one of our shows then you're a little f**ked up. That's okay. We're just as f**ked up as you

David Hallberg

I'm not one who goes to a lot of fashion shows or tries to infiltrate that world, really.

Before Veeder

It shows what doing the right thing will do for you. There's something to be said for that.

Jeremy Wariner

It shows we compete, year in, year out.

Rob Honzo

It shows us where we are at right now. We are still learning.

Justin Reynolds

It shows us what we can do if we play together.

Casey Todd

It shows us we still have a lot more work to do.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Jeremie Cook

I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.

Paul Malone

I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Robert Townsend

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Tyra Banks

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Laurence J. Peter

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

Martha Stewart

The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Tenzin Gyatso

There is an old Tibetan saying: wherever you feel at home, you are at home. If your surroundings are pleasant, you are at home.

Daunte Culpepper

I'd like to think I'd have made it wherever I went in the draft.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

Zig Ziglar

Wherever you are there you are!

Jeanette Winterson

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Bill Walker

Wherever she was needed, Dee was there to help.

Tyler Ebell

Wherever our game's going to be played, we have to go out there and play. And it's going to be on ESPN, so that's going to be nice.