Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Schilling

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Ken Worthington

As the Nasdaq goes higher, market-making business goes higher, implying that the fundamentals of Nasdaq companies are doing better.

George Foster

As their business increases, ours naturally grows as well.

Henry Tang

At the business conference, we will highlight to US companies the unique business opportunities that Hong Kong and Guangdong together will present to them,

Jim Barry

At the moment 80 per cent of our business is in Ireland. In three years' time, we would hope that 80 per cent will be overseas.

Pat Harris

cost of doing business on a difficult project.

Stephen Mulloney

Conflict of interest is in the eyes of the beholder. It's part of the way we do business in the United States.

Phil Condit

We are strategically realigning our operations in response to global business realities, ... We are reducing costs.

Mark Loughridge

We had really good momentum in short-term signings, and we think that will continue in the second quarter. Long-term signings as we exited 2005 were up 19 percent, and now long-term signings are up 20 percent. All of that bodes well for that business as we go forward.

Christopher Bell

We're in here for the long haul. We've got a successful and strong company ... and we intend to keep make it even stronger.

Bruce Summerhays

The day started out kind of bland, then I made a couple of good par putts early and got things going, ... You always feel good when you play like this. I'm going to have to put up some similar numbers the next two days.

Joe Glenn

He tried hard and ran hard. There were a couple of plays where I thought he should have trusted the point of attack.

Terry Floyd

I don't know if it's emotional but I will realize if we play great or poorly that there is only a couple of weeks left.

Tim Richards

We need all six players to play solid, ... Hopefully we'll get everyone here doing that in the next couple of weeks.

George Pipas

I think the next couple months will be pretty choppy. It will probably be November before we can think about trend sales rates again.

Yann Martel

We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews. We know very well-known fixed places like Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, and Beltzec. Instead, war can live in a couple having a spat, when we say, "That was a real war." We very rarely have the Holocaust live in the terms of today. And I think that's a problem, because it becomes ancient history.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.

Willie Nelson

My sister played the piano. She's two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.

Willie Nelson

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

T. D. Jakes

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

Sydney J. Harris

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

Sylvester Stallone

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

Thomas Jefferson

Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in the seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of God, because if there be one, he must approve of the homage of reason rather than that of blindfolded fear...Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision.

Tony Robbins

It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life.

Tony Robbins

Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed.

Tony Robbins

If you don't make a decision about how you are going to live, then you have already made a decision, haven't you?

Tony Blair

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

Simone de Beauvoir

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Richard Branson

Past failures unlock future successes

Robert Anthony

We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

Robert A. Heinlein

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

Sophia Myles

If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.

Ron Kaufman

Never rest on past success. Create something better.

Ron Kaufman

What you did in the past is how you got to today. What you do today is how you will get to the future.

Roger Rosenblatt

Live in the past, but don't remember too much.

Sam Shepard

She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.