Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Patrick Burke

There is a fear of the unknown, ... I was the general manager for the chain, and it's one thing to manage someone else's company and another thing to be on your own.

Jeff Immelt

The purpose of this generation of GE leaders is to make the company as good externally and commercially as it has always been operationally and financially.

Peter Adderton

We're positioning ourselves not so much as a wireless company but as a mobile media company, ... We really see ourselves as going after the high-tech consumer, someone who wants a lot of multimedia on their handsets.

Paul Walsh

We're positioning ourselves as a company with double-digit revenue growth and 20-percent operating margins.

Bill Curry

We feel it's what any company would do, that it's part of their business. In the event that there's a sale in the future, the customer records go with the company, as part of the company. We're being forthright in disclosing it, and we're getting criticism for being candid.

Brian Redican

We've gone through a period where everything has gone right for company profits, but over the past 12 months some cracks have started to develop.

Bob Wood

We've fought this company for three months and this is definitely not a loss. We did get some improvement in our medical insurance and medical insurance is what this strike was all about.

Tom Ryan

We are gaining a premium company and valuable real estate that provides an immediate critical mass of stores that would have taken years to develop organically. These are successful stores.

Martha Stewart

It could be a lifestyle suite devoted to exercise or to love...but you have to have a vision.

Cindy Heuer

He spent a lot of years devoted to his family. There was never a break.

Matt Ridley

I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'

Katherine Webb

Of course, I love football, but I'm not one of those die-hard fans that never miss a game or with rooms devoted to team colors. At the end of the day, it's just a game.

Thomas Wilson

Shawn was a very devoted man and husband who went about doing his duty in a very quiet, humble way,

Bill Sadler

They do hear voices underneath the (pea-sized) gravel and they're trying to devote their efforts ... to extricate any persons who may still be alive.

Anthony Rapp

The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.

Lesley Manville

I have been devoted to my son, and there have been lots of jobs in the past that I haven't done because I didn't want to be away from him.

Larry Peterson

As he has done before when he's been president, he will do an excellent job. He's been devoted to the port and to the things we're trying to accomplish.

Sharon Ness

Her work ethic is really strong. We work out, and Mason wants to do even more.

Tommy Bowden

He looked good, but he's looked good for a while in practice and everything. I don't think his problem is going to be inconsistency in practice. He's always practiced good as far as work ethic and workout habits.

Matt Doherty

Rodney is a tough kid. He really has a good work ethic and is one of the hardest working players I've been around.

Tom DeLay

If somebody else doesn't file an ethics charge, I will.

Steve Graves

I heard the work ethic might not be so good, but they have sure been good for us so far.

Kyle Whittingham

I'm very pleased with his work ethic and leadership, ... He's stepped up into leadership role.

Paul Harrington

All they could talk about was the work ethic of their foreign-born employees.

Jim Eastin

This is a good test of seeing where everyone is going to be and where we are going to be. If the work ethic is any indicator we should do pretty well.

Amy Adams

There's such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can't learn in L.A.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Mitchel McLaughlin

John Hume has, I think, demonstrated great sensitivity and judgment throughout this peace process. And I think it's hard to imagine a more inappropriate moment to make that suggestion.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Neal A. Maxwell

True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.

Barbara Bush

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

Evan Esar

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Greg Louganis

Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

David Pollock

There are probably 35 to 40 volunteers who are on standby now.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Robert Smith

B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.

Samuel Johnson

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

Samuel Johnson

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Warren Beatty

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

Virginia Woolf

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?