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.

Jochen Zeitz

I picked up the phone and called Herbert Hainer, the CEO of Adidas, and said, 'Well, it's Peace Day coming up. I think it's about time after 60 years to end this feud. How about doing something together?'

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,

Allan Paller

The ISO is going to the CEO saying there's a chance something bad, and possibly something embarrassing, could happen. But how much of a chance, the ISO doesn't know. And if he spends this kind of money, he can reduce the risk but by how much, he doesn't know. It's simply not enough data. Every other C-level executive does better than that and takes on the responsibility for defining the risk. Here, the CISO is putting the responsibility on the CEO. They don't want it, and eventually they won't take it.

Harvey Golub

The CEO succession process from me to Ken has gone smoothly, and we have been able to move even more quickly than I anticipated, ... Ken has put in place the new organization structure and senior leadership team.

Glen Tullman

The company is not for sale. But having been the CEO of two other companies that were sold, it is always a possibility.

Andrew Roskill

The event was more of a marketing event than a product launch, as a lot of the details were predictably vague. Further, CEO Ballmer conceded offstage that it likely would be several years before the .NET platform has any material impact on Microsoft's financials.

Kellan Lutz

Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.

Derrick Mason

I was jaw-jacking with him a little bit, but it was fun, ... I was like, 'Keep coming, rook, because we are going to keep coming at you.' He's only going to get better the more he plays.

Erick Siqueira

I was lost; I could not understand a word that was coming out of that lady's mouth. So I kept on saying huh, what, when all the sudden she raised her voice and started to yell at me as if I was mentally retarded or something.

Matt Simmons

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Roy Blunt

Knowing what is going to happen next year is going to be helpful in coming to a conclusion this year,

Shemar Moore

Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she's accomplished, no matter how you see her.

Buck Showalter

Knowing Kam, I don't think there will be anything. He's still mad about coming out of the game.

Ryan Zimmerman

I would trade playing five or six more games down there for the experience of coming up here any day, ... You can't come up here at 20 and expect to play every day.

Tony Nathan

I would think with Jamal coming back, he's been the horse here for a while and we're still going to continue to ride that.

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

Rebecca West

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Umberto Eco

In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

Virginia Woolf

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Virchand Gandhi

May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

Charlayne Woodard

I talk to my girlfriends. And I have three sisters. I talk to them on the phone every day.

Kevin Garnett

Good; I can talk some (trash) to him. That's probably the reason he's not returning my phone calls. It makes a lot of sense.

John Madden

I didn't get a phone call. If you don't get a phone call, you know what that means.

Regina Spektor

Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.

Rich Sommer

Im pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if its become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic Im interested in.

Vanessa Hudgens

If you're always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that's happening in front of you,

Sarah Kay

You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

Warren Buffett

On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it.

Werner Herzog

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Billy Tubbs

There are several teams that could step up and win it all. Northwestern was picked to win it, and they (the Demons) have been pretty impressive, but some other teams have been impressive, too.

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up. He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up, ... He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Mark Valley

'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

Nicole Vaidisova

In the second set, I picked it up very fast, just dictating play, so she didn't get any rhythm,

Dwight Gooden

if police had picked you up, we wouldn't be talking right now.

Ruslan Fedotenko

I'm not going to say I picked the corner, was going for top shelf and all that. I'm trying to be honest.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Grant Heslov

It takes a long time to get a film made.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.