Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy Frist

We'll give out tickets to the kids who buy breakfast, then we'll have a weekly drawing for some small prizes.

Robert Poole

License plate recognition systems don't create congestion. For small states like Connecticut, where people can easily drive through without having to buy gas, drivers are essentially using the state's roads for free. Tolls are an effective way to collect money from them.

Ben Horowitz

Look - this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do - ultimately, you're at the end.

Paul Cook

Looks like a lot of the technology shares are on sale now. It's more of a buyer's market, and we think that this is an opportunity for us to step in and buy shares where people have some fear, uncertainty and doubt.

Harry Pachon

Legal or illegal, advertisers still think they have to buy toothpaste in the morning,

Brian Jones

Many of them have started selling their cattle crop to buy hay. If they're selling them to buy hay, they're not able to pay their other expenses.

David Decker

Many Internet companies this fund won't own, ... But the Internet is a very, very important part of the economy going forward, and if I can find unique value with downside protection in an Internet stock, I will buy it.

Herb Perone

Many people buy life insurance and forget about it. What you buy and how much you buy depends upon two things: who you love and who you owe.

Jack Christie

Many people who buy at the Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas are second-home buyers. This type of purchase is ideal for them because they can purchase a unit, use it as they please and rent if out when they're not using it. The buyers are able to enjoy all of the amenities and services Trump has to offer without anything to worry about.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Charles Gallagher

What happens is that companies usually don't plan succession,

Jim Farrell

What did these insurance companies think? It's not a . . . toothache where you can pull the tooth and be done with it.

Jon Hess

We talked with companies that are in the process of setting up dedicated Medicare Part D teams to handle marketing to these customers, as new and unique product messaging will be required.

Bob Cole

We spend about half our day on the phone with insurance companies. We've been on hold so far up to 3 1/2 hours with insurance companies trying to resolve issues.

Russel Kinnel

Too many companies had perverse incentive systems that rewarded hot short-term performance and didn't provide any penalties for long-term problems.

Roger Altman

Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.

John Morton

Tony Ridder inherited a company that had a lot of newspaper companies that are not in growing markets and would never be in growing markets. That's what he inherited, and that's what he had to work with.

Bill Nygren

We've been talking to energy companies who are unwilling to make investments that require current oil prices to support them. They don't think prices will remain at this level.

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Chris Martin

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.