Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Whitehead

The teams bring diverse assets to the table,

William Kovacs

This is the first time going back to 1890 in which the key assets of the company to be broken up consist of human beings and ideas. Who can predict what these people will do, and how effective the entities will be?

John Oliver

We're very comfortable with our position here. We're comfortable with the secured assets that underlie those assets.

Jay Brown

There's a good mesh between the assets we own and our expertise in the business.

Mark Vitner

There's just such an enormous demand from pension funds and insurance companies to match their assets with the liabilities of the boomer generation.

Jan Egeland

The United Nations stands ready to help with any kind of disaster expertise that might be required ... in full recognition that the United States is the country in the world that possesses the greatest civilian and military search and rescue and recovery assets themselves,

Wang Zhaowen

We will sum up lessons from the issue and further strengthen our internal risk control system by sticking to good corporate governance to guard the safety of banking assets and maintain the bank's health.

Dennis Murray

What we're trying to do is make sense of this rash of standards. We're constantly being audited from all sides. We do our best to set priorities. The message, though, is that ROI has nothing to do with perceived value of assets. It's about protecting assets and maintaining consumer confidence.

Don DeLillo

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

Kevin Myers

I see our role as a complement, not an alternative to the public schools. We view ourselves as a partner, an extension. Our goal is to return the kids to the public schools as quickly as possible.

Adrian Fenty

This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutionalize that in the police department.

Reggie Evans

That's why we still got a lot of our main guys still playing. That's our goal for right now these last three games, is to try and get the home-court advantage.

Brian Tracy

Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

Billie Joe Armstrong

My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.

Eckhart Tolle

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

Ron Wilson

We're 3-0 and scored 15 goals since we picked up Thornton. It's kind of nice, the things you were hoping would happen with the trade have.

Ben Horowitz

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

Ben Horowitz

It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

James Kim

The second quarter should see a marginal improvement.

Shirley Pogue

We have improved the quality of life for so many people.

Patrick Crayton

Each week, get better, ... Each week just get improve on what I need to improve on. Each week to get wins.

Zach Malvik

This shows us what we need to improve on and what we need to get better at. That game's over. We have to be ready for (today).

Mike Greene

You look at it and then you wonder if you're just being a scapegoat. But then you just go back and re-evaluate yourself. You don't look at it like that. You just try to improve on things you did wrong.

Ben Forbes

We just had a little too much talent. They're on the young side and they played well. They will improve and get better.

Marco Basten

We won and are on top now, that's positive but we have to improve our performance,

John Bromley

We've been working on a number of things to improve our service, and that has a cost.

Nathan Watson

Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Brad Paisley

She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. She looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in anything. She's, "I want a piece of chocolate cake; take me to a movie." She's a, "I can't find a thing to wear." Now and then she's moody. She's a Saturn with a sunroof with her brown hair blowing. She's a warm conversation I wouldn't miss for nothing. She's a fighter when she's mad and she's a lover when she's lovin'.

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Jane Fonda

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

James Walsh

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Carl Sandburg

And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Craig Ferguson

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

Green Day

TrŽ: I don't understand a word of what Billie just said, so I will just talk about chickens.

R. Robinson

Every day, he talked to us about being responsible,

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Sandy Montgomery

We talked about it as a team once, and that's it. Now we have to go out, play, and see what happens.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.