Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Bob Corscadden

This is an invitation for people to get a better glimpse of who we are as a company and what we stand for.

Carol Bartz

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

Howard Mills

AIG has today acknowledged that the company over a period of years intentionally misled investors, regulators and policyholders about the company's financial condition and operations.

Alexander Payne

You would own the negative after seven years. The company would actually own the film. It's kind of a financial and moral thing about owning your own creative work.

Ray Liberatore

You wouldn't manage the same thing for another company because that would cannibalize your own product.

Jules Shear

You spend so much time trying to get things right, and all of a sudden the record company has changed, your manager is changed, everything.

Tom Russell

Your medical history is scrutinized to get a policy. When you do apply, you give the right for the insurance company to report their findings to the Medical Insurance Board. If you are turned down, it will show up.

Mike Hanson

You're going to have the same company with the same people you have today. There will be no negative impacts on our employees.

Bobby Baldwin

The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

Don DeLillo

The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.

Andy Roddick

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

Amiri Baraka

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

Tony Dungy

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

Eva Longoria

Hold on to the love, not the loss.

Jack London

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. The supply is too large.

Mark Baker

While we were disappointed in our comparable-store sales performance and loss, we had anticipated incurring a loss in the second quarter because of the seasonality of our business,

Jean de la Bruyere

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.