Famous Quotes & Sayings

Babe Ruth

After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!

Dean Koontz

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Lisa Dorfman

Either with expert advice or by evaluating your own personal needs.

Mark Twain

Be Yourself is about the worst advice you can give to people.

Jim Duquette

We weren't willing to make a guaranteed five-year offer, that was based on the advice of our doctors, ... Our offer was predicated on the health concern.

Bible Bible

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. Proverbs 25:15

Aeschylus

to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Abraham Lincoln

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

Alan Kopit

With recent reforms in U.S. bankruptcy law making it more difficult than ever to erase debt, it's important to protect yourself. If you face financial challenges, seek the advice of a lawyer or professional financial advisor to explore alternatives.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Kevin Rollins

Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,

Paras Adenwala

Any business related to infrastructure, especially power, will do well in a growing economy like India.

J. B. Pritzker

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

Mike McCall

Any business needs to be in the position to be profitable, and we are profitable. That makes it easy to make decisions to help our customers.

Paul Goode

A number of mobile applications are driven by TV gaming, which is frankly not at the forefront of the business mind. You could look at entertainment as being a Trojan horse to the business community.

Marc Roberge

a number of management changes to streamline the company's organizational structure and sharpen the focus of its business activities.

Stuart Levey

Any entity maintained by a terrorist group - whether masquerading as a charity, a business or a media outlet - is as culpable as the terrorist group itself.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Dana Gardner

Technologies are being developed at a faster and faster pace, and that disrupts companies and markets constantly. Companies will have to reinvent themselves, and they will have to do it in two years, not five. Things are better, but there will not be much of an opportunity for tech companies to sit on their laurels.

Bob McDonald

Scores of foreign companies have tried to establish themselves in Japan, and scores have failed, ... But if we can win in Japan, we can win anywhere.

Ralph Mendoza

Safety of home medication is a key health issue for governments, consumers, and sustainability-driven companies around the world.

Patricia Chadwick

Right now, we're just digesting. The market is waiting for companies to start saying that future quarters are going to look better.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Craig Sherman

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Kurt Faust

The opponent we're playing this week is the one in the mirror. We need to focus on ourselves and get better.

Al Rauch

We think it might make sense for them to try and focus on what they do well, which is Phase III testing and marketing,

Callie Widel

We just pulled together. We know we are good enough to be here and we just needed to focus. Everyone pitched in a word on how it needed to be done. Things have been great ever since.

Al Thornton

We just never got our offense going. We knew it was going to be tough and we didn't focus like we should have.

Terry Farrell

We just lost our focus for about four minutes and they had a run that we could never make up.

Igor Shpilband

People try to be new. Sometimes they push it a little too far, I agree. I like innovation instead of repeating something that has been done.

Craig Mundie

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

Steve Case

For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.

Tom Peters

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Michael Dell

If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.

Michael Dell

Collaboration equals innovation.

Edith Widder

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Edwards Deming

Innovation comes from the producer -- not from the customer.

Ludwig von Mises

The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.

Todd Holmdahl

We will wind up cost-reducing the product every year.

Mark Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

John Shanahan

I think there's a lot of product swapping going on now.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Rebecca Lindland

It doesn't seem to me that now is the time to play around with product names.

Marco Arment

Making a product better often requires removing features.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.