Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Wenstrup

In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

Brad Stone

Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

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.

Betty Williams

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

John Taylor

There's no question that in 2002 and 2003 that a lot of investment went to later-stage companies because they entailed much less risk.

Henrik Rasmussen

There's no trodden path here. We can't go back and look at what other companies have done because no other company has done this.

Emery Simon

There's nothing companies hate more than unpredictability. Injunctive relief poses a very disruptive force to our industry.

James Mulva

The trend toward consolidation is being driven by globalization, with mergers giving companies from all industries sufficient scale and a lower cost structure to enable them to compete in a global arena.

Bob Master

The trends are all the same here, that no matter how profitable these companies get, they still are trying to downgrade these jobs. That's what we are trying to draw the line against. And we hope that the public will understand.

Ernie Goss

The trend in economic reports from supply managers in our survey has been fairly positive since October of last year following some of the negative shipping impacts from Hurricane Katrina. Companies with strong ties to the state's growing ethanol industry reported solid growth for February but were very optimistic about future economic growth for this sector.

Kirby Jones

The travel industry is sitting on the last virgin territory in the entire world. Americans want to go there for the same reason that dozens of companies around the world have. There's money to be made.

Larry Kenswil

The tobacco company can kill us. The package food companies can clog our arteries. The oil companies can provoke wars. But, apparently, there's no industry more despicable than the music industry. We are hated just because we refuse to acknowledge the public's God-given rights to steal music.

Bobby Douglas

We're outmatched in most weight classes. We've got to fight for every point. Our main mission is to score points and see what we're going to have to do to get to the national tournament. In order to get there, we've got to go through either Oklahoma or Oklahoma State.

Jane Harrison

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

Dennis Morley

Too many people ignore it. Either it needs to be better enforced or removed.

Suzanne Somers

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

Jeremy P. Johnson

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

John Naveaux

We were very lethargic and didn't play at either end in the first half.

Melody Davidson

We don't like to see any hits like that from either team. But whatever we use to motivate us won't come from the other team. It will come from us.

Lee Reed

We really didn't have a big inning. It could have gone either way.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Doug Duncan

The question in New Orleans is what will happen to the economy. The key to housing is jobs.

Craig Biggio

You know, it was going to happen sooner or later. We understand that. Whether it's another year, another two years, whatever, we know it's going to happen. We know nobody can play forever. But for now, the thing I'm happy about the most is that he's down here and he's getting the opportunity to play. And he's such a professional, if he can't play, he'll let you know it.

Harriet Harman

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

Kelly Witte

We have to keep scoring when we have runners in position to score. That has to happen for the rest of the season.

Bonnie Mathis

We have to keep our waterways clean. We happen to have all these pumping stations because of all our lakes.

Robert Mercer

We're working on a fail-safe solution to be sure this doesn't happen again.

Peter Thonis

We're working around the clock, ... It will be incremental and will happen in stages. It will take some time before everyone is up.

Paul Taylor

I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.