Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Chandler

The simple fact that the trade sector has ceased to be a significant drag on growth will be enough to convince the Bank of Canada to move on September 7 (and beyond).

If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.

Alan Blinder

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Michael Mayo

The performance of the Bank of New York's retail bank has lagged, the stock value of pure-plays has increased, and Bank of New York stock has lagged. We sense that the time is right for this move.

Alex Berenson

Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

Phyllis Logan

Because I came from a small town outside Glasgow, nobody from my school had ever gone into the acting profession. It was just something you didn't do. You joined the bank or became a teacher or whatever you did.

Brad Wenstrup

In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

Brad Stone

Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

Bobby Schilling

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Bobby Lee

I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works.

Bill Gurley

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.

Bill Gurley

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

Bing Gordon

In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.

Billy Beane

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

Betty Williams

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

Surapong Suebwonglee

I know that there is a huge number of silent people in the Thai community who are not satisfied with the protesters.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

Owen Davis

The program is open to churches, community groups, or whoever has the time. We need to match volunteers with the needy in order to help keep them independent.

Lisa Lewis

We're trying to stretch them to stay in touch with the community.

Dan Fouts

First off there is no question that LaDainian is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. His contributions off the field to the community of San Diego are as important as what he did on the field. What he did on the field was monumental.

Cormac McCarthy

Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.

Glen Ewing

This will be a nice transition. It's good to have someone in the community coaching.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Steven Soderbergh

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

Uli Hoeness

I hope the manager and the team can overcome all of this. It is not easy to go into a game after spending so much time with legal prosecutors.

Matt Watson

It's an easy way to make a quick getaway from the school environment.

R. Robinson

They got a lot of easy baskets in the first half shooting (near) 50 percent to our 20 percent. We just didn't play at the same intensity as we do when we play state schools.

Laurie Fisher

There will be no easy road there and we don't have any expectation it will be.

Nick Bollettieri

There will be a lot of eyes on Martina and it's not going to be an easy road.

Mark Noe

There really isn't going to be an easy match in that first round. I think it's really going to come down to the draw. If you lose a No. 1 or a No. 2 kid right away, you could be fried for the day. Everyone you're going to be playing in the first round is good.

Meagan Denny

There isn't an easy team in our conference. We're so excited to go right at them.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Nayvadius Cash

I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

Nate Ruess

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Ferran Adria

I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.

Christian McKay

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.

Kurt Vonnegut

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

David Carr

When I go on the field, I feel like I can make every play to put our team in position to win. If I have to make a play to win, that's when I have to step up and use what God's given me.

Virat Kohli

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Lugar

As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.

Samuel Alito

In southern Italy, where my grandparents had lived, there were few opportunities. The society was static, with rigid social classes. Poor people, like my grandparents, had little chance to improve their lives, no matter their talents or willingness to work.

T. Harv Eker

Get really rich and then help the people who didn't have the opportunity you did.

T. D. Jakes

I think it's important that when you're bringing something to the table that you're sure has value, that you don't diminish yourself just so that you can have an opportunity.

T. D. Jakes

I have certain standards for myself so if something drops beneath that standard or if the opportunity doesn't fit who I am authentically at my core - I don't invest time where my brand isn't respected or where what I have to offer isn't appreciated.

Taylor Dane

To me, it was about finding new opportunities. I know my voice touches people. It has for years. I can't give that up.

Rick Santorum

I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.

Tony Blair

If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.