Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael J. Saylor

Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.

Douglas Conant

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.

John Challenger

Some expect CEOs to be chained to the desk. Most put in 12 or more hours a day, often working seven days a week. But we should want leaders in high-pressure situations to have time to decompress.

William Crowell

There won't be a lot of resolutions passed here today, but the key is to get the dialogue open and to get CEOs interested in providing their customers with protection.

Peter Freeman

We hope to make the point that CEOs need to be personally engaged in information security as a strategic issue.

Edmund Phelps

There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

Fadel Gheit

Lee Raymond really set the standard for other CEOs in the industry. Everybody else copied Lee Raymond, but you can't duplicate what he's done.

Ken Bender

CEOs are no longer willing to arbitrate between departments and IT. They just want revenues and profit. They might say they want something coordinated, but more important, they just want it done.

Charles Adams

Because she sat where she sat, we are now sitting in Congress, ... We are sitting in the Supreme Court. We are sitting as CEOs and heads of universities.

M. Wolfe

This is unique to Florida, and we expect it to be copied in other states.

Robert Altman

The movies set the pattern, and these people have copied the movies,

John Strachan

The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.

Charles Munger

Those two guys are two of the smartest young men in the country, and it's much better to be copied by people that smart.

Ma Jun

We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.

Jonathan Ive

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

Kevin Mitnick

I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief. I copied without permission.

Mark Twain

Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.

Peter Swire

Just like a Social Security number can get copied today, a fingerprint could get copied tomorrow. And it's real hard to get a new fingerprint.

Ed Yates

For Colton, I think the offensive part of his game is going to be OK if he doesn't come in putting too much pressure on himself. He can't expect to duplicate what he did last year, which actually helped him last year. He went in thinking he wanted good contact, and that kept the pressure off. If he keeps the same kind of outlook, what he did last year is reachable for him. It really is.

Tamala Jones

I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out exactly what is in there, and go home and duplicate it.

Gary Coxe

Another speaker could not duplicate what I do, but I could do what they do.

Nick Saban

We want to duplicate enthusiasm and team energy,

Noam Chomsky

There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs.

Sue Davis

Now we won't have to duplicate services and employees.

Nick Zito

Hopefully, if he can duplicate the Wood Memorial, you'll see what kind of horse he is.

Mike Wall

I don't know how easy it would be to go to other suppliers and say, 'Here it is, now duplicate it.

Jay Inslee

The abuses and failures we've seen in Iraq; we don't want to duplicate those here at home,

Bradley Horowitz

We always felt that being unbiased was part of the search mission, ... lets you peer over to see what everybody has got.

Jarvis Herring

We've always been known as a soft program, a finesse program -- all about speed, whatever. We're just trying to go out and show everybody this isn't the Gators that you're used to looking at. We're trying to show them that we're really tough and that we're really going to go out and play.

Rocky Long

We struggled with Texas Tech's offense, and everybody has, because they spread you sideline to sideline. It's tough to defend.

John Adams

We still print out all our job tickets, even though it?s all online. Everybody needs print, from restaurants to the mechanic down the street.

Bob Hilmer

We're in position to be competitive for the next few years. But we know it won't be easy. We know we will be a target for everybody else.

Randy Perkins

We started off slow, but this is no one-man team. Everybody can do a little of everything.

Manny Diaz

We started off as a very individualistic program where everybody was doing their own thing, but we've come a long way and we're starting to play as a team. I'm very proud of them.

Larry Williams

We started off 0-4 and, for this team, it is just a matter of everybody stepping up their play to the level of the captains. I am still not pleased with the way we are playing. It is the small things, but this win shows that we can play with the best.

Terri Schrishuhn

We spread it around tonight and that's the way I like it. We tried to get everybody plenty of time.

Chris Brown

With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.

Avicenna

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

Douglas Brinkley

The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.

Louis Freeh

Dr. Lee was prosecuted because of his actions, not because of his race,

Jeffrey Johnson

Dr. Lee should live up to his promise.

Janet Reno

Dr. Lee is not a hero, he is not an absent-minded professor, he is a felon,

Tom Burt

Dr. Lee is going to be the highest-paid HR (human resources) manager ever,

Caroline Fredrickson

We've been supportive of this concept, but the administration has got to give these people more leeway to play the role that's been pitched. I don't think they can do that under the circumstances.

Avi Arad

We have a tradition of Stan Lee being in all our movies,

Bonnie Parker

Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Scott Fosgard

Collaborating, we could set the standards for this type of technology.

Arlen Specter

The standard is to do it right, not to do it fast,

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

Jennifer Duffy

They all talked about it. It was a standard part of their pitch.

George Whitehouse

These are standard technologies and can be done securely.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Albert Rauch

This is going to set the standards for all the other inhaled insulins that are in development,

Jim Bolla

This is something that's just standard for us. It's not a big deal.