Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Monahan

Once you get show business in your blood, you can't get it out,

Idris Jala

On current business assumptions, course and speed, we will surely fail unless we radically change the way we run our business.

Manuel Cunha

One day will not destroy a business. But one day could hurt a business because of trying to pick up lost time.

Steve Miller

No, we have to sit down and do a business plan. We have to get back to Detroit and get to work.

Pip Coburn

No way should Lucent's numbers be viewed as a sign that the business is turning around. They're coming off a horrible base.

Ilian Evtimov

Now it's our business to keep on moving forward.

Adewale Ogunleye

Now, he knows it's a business. He just comes to work every day and tries to work hard.

Gary Barnett

Novell is keeping a promise it made last year to invest in delivering a desktop that is designed for the business user, rather than for experienced Linux users.

James Gleick

Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.

Mark Roman

Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.

Paul Cullen

I've put in a complaint to the match commissioner, but it's not going to change the result.

Michael Carrick

I've not even thought about that game, though I want to be in the squad. There's not a lot of time to get a place in the World Cup but things change so quickly.

D. James

I've really seen him change over the past two months. You could just notice his presence more, how physical he was and what a leader he was. He keeps getting better and better.

Jerome Booth

It would be a good opportunity to signal a change in interest rate policy. This is a country with single-digit inflation and an interest rate of 20 percent. It's ridiculous.

Peter Hall

It would be a fool's mission to go in and say, 'I have it; now I'm going to go in and change it. The minute you open that entitlement up, you're back to ground zero, and the Navy is not going to be tolerant of that.

G. H. Hardy

It would be logical to conclude there will be a change of some kind in the status quo.

Lorenzo Codogno

It would take a big global shock to change the prospects for at least modest growth in Europe.

Scott Hamilton

It was the strongest signal possible to the market that Boeing was here to stay. It also energized the workforce and led to a complete change in attitude.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Noah Lowry

Any time you go out there and you've got a shutout going, of course you want to finish it. It was the right move. I still have seven starts left and I want to be ready in five days. ... It's a tough situation for him, but he made the right choice.

David Toms

It's hard to make a golf course that will please everybody. What you try to do is make one that everybody can play and then it doesn't necessarily play into one person's type of game. That's what we tried to do here.

David Brown

It's a very popular invitational. They like the course around the lake, and it's a pretty good setting for the teams to set up. It's good for the fans, because you can see the runners for a lot of the time.

David Brown

It's a very popular invitational, ... They like the course around the lake, and it's a pretty good setting for the teams to set up. It's good for the fans, because you can see the runners for a lot of the time.

Duffy Waldorf

It's been a long time since I've been on top. It's nice. But on a course like this, you've got to keep your focus. If you've got the opportunities to keep shooting for birdies, you've got to do it.

Nick Vitucci

It's par for the course with these two teams.

Joe Cooper

It's par for the course in terms of warnings. There have been 301 pre-announcements so far, and 56 percent of those have been negative.

Joe Cooper

It's par for the course in terms of warnings, ... There have been 301 pre-announcements so far, and 56 percent of those have been negative.

Ken Scholen

If you owe money on the house you can use part of your reverse mortgage to pay off your current debt.

Dan Goldin

The current situation has put an incredible stress on the men and women of NASA. Mr. Tito does not realize the effort of thousands of people, United States and Russia, who are working to protect his safety and the safety of everyone else.

Thaksin Shinawatra

The current situation and sentiment is not good for Thai Airways' share offer,

Glenn Kaplan

The current rules are there for good reason, ... You need to know what's where.

Akihiko Yokoyama

The current recovery relies less on external demand.

Ken Bisconti

The current plan is to end support in January 2002,

Nick Bennenbroek

The current phase of the dollar's rally is starting to look mature.

David Cline

The current owners have maintained it in the original form of the old ranch since about 1984.

J. Taylor

The current owners decided to sell the property and we weren't included in the deal,

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Tadashi Yanai

I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

When we were growing up, old man jenkins would never fail to come out every morning to nail tadpoles to a wheel, spin it around and around, like a wheel of fortune, and then say, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is the winner!" We all thought he was crazy, but then, we had some growing up to do.

John Maynard

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally

Tommy Lasorda

'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Willard Wigan

I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.

Alexander Smith

Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice.

Walter Cunningham

Today, we fail not because (of) our inability to do something, we fail today because of our unwillingness to tackle it in the first place. We are unwilling to take a chance, stick our neck out and go and do some of these things.

Yann Martel

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

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!

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

John Snow

We will take the ball, ... It's our turn to run with it.

Douglas Adams

The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

Douglas Adams

[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it's about to trip over something — but flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground.

Donald Knuth

The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

Donald Knuth

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler

Dale Murphy

I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

Craig Newmark

We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.