Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Hutchison

It was kind of the consensus that the stock would be bought out for as much as $30. It seems in line with expectations.

Thomas Vinje

The meaningfulness of the 2004 ruling is at stake here. So far no one has bought a license to see Microsoft's technical documentation. There is a danger that this side of the case could be rendered meaningless.

Annie Leibovitz

I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.

Zubin Mehta

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

Nick Mason

The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today.

Britt Beemer

Today, only about one-third of holiday purchases are returned as compared to just four years ago, ... Returns are very expensive for retailers because they have to retag the item and mark down the price. If I bought something for $29 and return it, store may have to cut the price to as low as $14 before restocking it.

Wynter Gordon

I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour.

Arthur Smith

Give me the new thing and give it to me now. I don't want that old thing - I've seen it, heard it, bought it, slept with it, loved it, but now I'm bored with the old thing and I'm gagging for the new stuff.

Adolph Brink

The program's turned around. I'm not an easy coach to play for and the kids have bought into the system. I think we're headed in the right direction.

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.

Bennett Miller

Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.

Barry Sternlicht

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'

Sanjay Gupta

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

Bobby Robson

Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes

Pat Noonan

I'm trying not to think about it, because we've got a big game in New York. Going into their home opener and trying to get three more points on the road is our main focus right now. I just have to worry about staying healthy for that game. Once that game is over, then I can concentrate on that Jamaica game.

LaVar Arrington

I looked forward to the focus on me being turned back on football.

Brad Simmons

I knew I wasn't going to be my brothers. I wanted to have fun and focus more on the sport than trying to be them.

Robbie Earl

I knew I was going to have a great night because I was well-prepared, well-focused. You know when you're on top of your game right away. I knew it was going to be a special night. It was unreal.

Amar Stoudemire

I'm handling it pretty well. I'm just trying to really focus on rehabbing hard.

Janet Napolitano

I'm not going to play that game. I focus on my own issues. We've been able to very commonsensical.

Willie Randolph

I'm not going to focus on anybody. I'm just going to rotate guys in there.

Mike Browning

I'm not looking at it as a three-game series. I'm looking at it as we have to win the game (tonight). We have to focus on the things we need to do in order to win that game.

Carolyn Peck

I'm not sure all of what goes into the RPI. I do know that it helps to win. And that's our team's focus - to win.

Orson Welles

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

Olivia Mellan

Almost everyone is uncomfortable talking about money.

Olivia Mellan

money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth.

John Stokes

Not only am I not spending money on fuel, Im saving not having to have it picked up,

Chris Miller

It's mostly an end-of-the-year party. We don't make a lot of money on this particular event.

Von Hatley

They are in the bag. The money is in the bank. It's in a J.P. Morgan account.

Matt Rosoff

They have to prove this year that Xbox 360 is going to be a money maker, because they have put a lot into it. Overall, I don't think there were any big surprises. Windows and Tools are going like gangbusters.

Mike Lyon

It's always going to be money first and foremost.

Dave Kolpak

It makes sense to be spending money there.

Alan Zweibel

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

Jessica Simpson

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

Ryan Clark

I've been proving people wrong for a long time,

Tim Miles

I've been in that situation a lot. People look at you like they're going to whip you.

Brad Wilkerson

I've been in this organization, the Montreal/Nationals organization, from the onset of it. It's just a shock that I'm not going to be with the same organization, the same people I've been around my whole career. That's going to be different.

Mandy Moore

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Christie Brinkley

I urge people to make your workout fun.

Robert Gerard

I unequivocally think there is no place for steroids in the sport. There are tens of thousands of young people that look up to these athletes.

Ted Strickland

The zeitgeist is clear. People in this state want change. They're tired of scandal. They want to turn things around, and that's just what we are going to do.