Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Peck

What you have is a payoff when there's poor performance. But that's the nature of contracts. There's such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.

Charles Peck

What you have is a payoff when there's poor performance, ... But that's the nature of contracts. There's such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.

Carlos Cardoso

I think that an effective CEO is a generalist in many waysone that can represent the company well to the customers, to the investors, to the community. You also have to represent yourself well as a leader at all levels of the organization. One of the things I have learned since my younger days is that everyone in the organization counts.

Sam Bodman

I hope the CEOs of the energy companies use that (hearing) as an opportunity to make their case, tell the story of just what it is they are planning on reinvesting in this sector,

Christopher Wray

The indictment of Enron's CEO shows that we will follow the evidence wherever it leads -- even to the top of the corporate ladder.

Felix Sabates

You can't have Gomer Pyle any more driving a race car, Those days are over. You've got to have somebody that at least looks good and can talk in front of a TV camera, and can sit down and talk to the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

Gordon Bethune

The fun part is, the same talk I would give gratis as CEO of Continental, I get paid handsomely for now.

Sean Harrigan

Eisner's resignation as CEO is the right move for shareowners,

Stephen Greyser

Stewart's reputation is muddled right now. And even though she's no longer CEO of her company, her name is on the building.

Jamie Richardson

Kim's stuffing recipe was sent out to the media in a holiday press release just as a fun marketing tool,

Mark Mooradian

Kickoffs are a lot of fun. I go out there and just nail it.

John Tuozzo

Kids playing sports should be about learning the game they're playing and having fun doing it.

Mats Wilander

James Blake's playing tennis for the right reasons. He's playing to have fun and to find out about himself, not to win the U.S. Open.

Rusty Robinett

Jake has been working hard and that's just a lot of hard work that paid off for him. Jake is very mature for his age, but he has a lot of fun out there.

David Pierce

Kelsey Grammer is wickedly funny. He's like an 8-year-old child. He's always doing pranks, and we have a great time.

Willie Randolph

Keep it going, I love it. The guys were having fun tonight and obviously everyone was making a contribution. That's what you need to do the job on the road and hopefully we can get something special going.

Ben Curtis

Just seems like one good thing's led to another. Everything has kind of come together at the right time. It's just fun to go out and play again.

Henry Nutbrown

I think in the end, it's inevitable we'll be talking with all of our funding partners.

Douglas Roberts

He was being beaten. He paid a price for this.

Joe Gibbs

I think as much as anything it's their character. They keep fighting, and it's paid off for us.

Marvan Atapattu

He's been doing a lot of work on his fielding and tonight it paid off in a final.

Russ Adams

He doesn't talk as much as (Hudson) did. But it's all really the same techniques we're using. It's all about repetition and getting to know each other. We're out there every day before and after practice getting our work in and the work has paid off.

Zig Ziglar

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.

Mary Bennett

I paid $400 for these seats and they are no good.

Kent Nelson

I paid 10K ($10,000) in May and you said, 'Don't worry about the rotation.' And I waited for two months.

Randy Johnson

If I would have paid for a ticket to watch myself, I would have booed myself too.

Max Beesley

I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

Mario Theissen

I talked to him (Ralf) on Friday, he was very positive, he wants to get back in the car.

Curtis Martin

I talked to him a lot. I showed him around. I showed him where he would probably want to live. I told him he could have my place if he wanted it. I told him I'd do whatever it took to get him here.

Ginalyn Ofamin

I talked to her yesterday, and she is doing better.

Tom Oswald

I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I didn't know she was going through a divorce.

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Beth Combs

It can't be about wins and losses. We've talked about it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

Willie Randolph

He wants to be the best. We've talked a lot about his approach.

Kevin Garnett

He just talked to me briefly, and I could tell right away that we were going to get along.