Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bradley Wilson

He certainly brings a set of financial skills to this job that may be unparalleled in the history of this university, ... I would certainly expect his business acumen to be one of his strengths.

Hector Ruiz

He has made amazing progress with our microprocessor business, making it the envy of our industry. His leadership, operational skills and business acumen have positioned the company for long-term, sustainable growth, and I'm very pleased that AMD now will benefit from those skills on an even grander scale.

James Hanley

In this play, we recognize that the business acumen of the channel provides better value.

Jon Feltheimer

I have worked closely with Sandra over the past 15 years, and she is one of the savviest business executives in the television industry, ... The teaming of Sandra's business acumen and Kevin's creative instincts positions Lions Gate Television for continued profitable growth.

John Flynn

Alex brings a multifaceted, international background in transportation, engineering, fleet operations and a sharp financial acumen to First Fleet. He will have a positive impact on all aspects of our business, providing valuable information and strategic counsel to our management and sales teams.

Jeff Bewkes

This is a very exciting day for Time Warner and its shareholders in the creation of what we believe will be a very strong and viable 5th broadcast television network. This new network will have all the strategic asset value as an outlet for our programming that The WB presented us, but with a much firmer and more secure financial present and future. The credit goes to Barry Meyer, who continues to have tremendous vision and extraordinary business acumen as the long time leader of Warner Bros. Entertainment, a company that we are proud to say continues to be number one in its class.

Joel Hollander

I've known Peter for a number of years and can attest to his outstanding work ethic and keen insight into both the national radio and local traffic business. He has increasingly taken on more responsibility at Westwood One, and demonstrated each step of the way that he has the acumen to take over the lead role at the company. I feel confident that Peter is the right executive for this very important role.

Kevin Hart

My business acumen is definitely growing.

H. Hunt

This might be Paul's biggest test. His strength has been combining a strong business acumen with an understanding of expediency. I don't want to predict how long Paul will remain in the job, but I'm sure that there's a good chance that this will probably be his last labor agreement.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Roger Warren

Joe has developed an exceptional track record in creating and marketing a wide variety of programs and services for PGA members and the golf industry, ... Most importantly, he has a dynamic vision for the future of the PGA and our leadership position in the game and business of golf.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

George Steinbrenner

He is very knowledgeable about the game and the business of baseball, and is extremely loyal.

Matt Harris

I would say it's very closely being looked at. Growers want to know, sheds want to know: Are they going to continue dumping duties or are they finally going to drop them?

Roy Wilsher

Hertfordshire has had six recent training exercises on site in the last six months - the last one three weeks ago - and has worked closely with the site for many years to prepare for any incidents.

Doug Bournique

There is a grave concern as far as the fresh fruit industry's future. We are going to work closely with Commissioner Bronson and the USDA to ensure that the new management plan safeguards our crops and our markets.

Richard Franulovich

We're oil traders now because currencies are trading so closely off oil. All the risk now is that the hurricane does not have all the negative effects for the U.S. economy.

Jeff Kamis

We're obviously monitoring the situation closely at this time. We're remaining on schedule, but if we have to adjust, we will, because we want to be safe.

Tyrone Willingham

I think we're going to look very closely at our situation to make sure we have things in the right order. I think we've got to make sure we've got that situation where it needs to be.

Jason Chaffetz

I have worked closely with my Democratic allies. Elijah Cummings is a good friend.

Brad Wheeler

If you can't count, you can't play music. Music and math are the two most closely related subjects.

Walter Leger

I haven't heard a lot of differences yet and I'm watching very closely. I think the next few weeks we'll start seeing if there are different policy visions butI can promise you this we're gonna be watching closely and trying to be ready to respond to any deviations.

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Deb Mandeville

It always provides us with good look at many of our 3A rivals. We swam well there and continued to drop time in many events.

Anita Frazier

Handheld platforms were the big story last year, and so far this year, that segment of the industry has continued to grow significantly since last year.

Peter Spina

Gold, silver and platinum started the week off on positive footing with continued excitement in the silver markets regarding the proposed silver ETF in the United States.

Matthew Parry

Gold continues to rally on continued U.S. dollar weakness, a trend I expect to continue over the next week.

David Orr

Importantly, on a year-over-year basis, the core CPI continued to inch higher,

Rajnath Singh

If Modi continued to perform as he was presently doing then a day will come when the rival political parties will be wiped out from the state.

Phil Scott

I'm sure (Sheik Mohammed) will want to see his brother's interests continued on.

Navtej Sarna

India, as always, wishes the people and the Bhutan government continued peace and stability and fulfillment of their aspirations as they embark on a new constitutional system.

Gary Arnold

Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.

Jim Haynes

He did some really creative things, getting folks excited about snow fences.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

We expect our media to lead and open doors for our young talents. As we need creative engineers, doctors and managers, we also need creative journalists and media workers.

Joseph Prueher

I think it's a time for rhetoric to be very measured and constructive, and not be rhetoric that does not lead toward solutions, ... I think it's a time to proceed very cautiously and thoughtfully, and a time for creative solutions.

Peter Nowak

L.A. didn't win the game tonight -- we lost this game because we didn't fight, we didn't run, we were too predictable and not creative enough, ... We weren't hungry for those three points.

Patti Smith

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Anne Dudley

I think being studio-literate helps, because obviously I'm not intimidated by the studio, and I never have been. I've always thought it was another part of the creative process.

James Shelton

It gets creative with all the customer wants.

David Hoffman

I will investigate aggressively and creatively and will follow the evidence wherever it leads.

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Elizabeth Warren

Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.

Jay Ritter

In terms of the executives involved, they've got every incentive to do a deal, whether it makes sense or not, because if they don't do one, they give the money back.

John Ridley

Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.

Lumkile Mondi

The laws effectively require that white executives replace themselves.

Ed Fallon

These executives have irreparably violated the public trust.

Melanie Mayron

The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.'

Matt Fisher

You wouldn't want sales executives using USB sticks they'd picked up from a trade show, but you might let them use company-issued devices.

Kenneth Edmonds

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Emma Lazarus

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand/ A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame/ Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name/ Mother of exiles.

Loren Loverde

This is a good first step. Gateway had solid year-on-year growth, ... Having strong results in the second quarter shows they are getting things in line and that they could have momentum in the second half.

Jose Saramago

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Colin Doyle

It was nice to jump out of the gates like that. We haven't done that in a while.

John Lyly

None but the lark so shrill and clear; / How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, / The morn not waking till she sings.

Sharon Salzberg

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.

Mike Adras

They played a good game. We did not, and they were the tougher team here tonight. We got out of the gate pretty well but hit a tough stretch. We just did not play well.

Clint Wallman

For her first time out of the gate this season, I thought Shannon played a very solid round. She was steady throughout, and I think it is a great start for her.

Glenn Miller

It's a big-city feel in a small town. It will jump-start our gateway to the city.

Therman Statom

There are no rules here. Trust your instincts on this one.

Chris Samuels

It has to be instincts because he's been around a long time.

Chad Brown

His instincts are still there and that's what separates him from other linebackers,

Courteney Cox

In this movie, I feel like I didn't notice Monica in it at all, ... Your instincts would probably be to think about Monica, but I have to make sure you don't.

Taylor Hackford

I trusted my instincts here, but I'm not stupid. The next thing I did was throw him into the shark tank, ... I threw him in with Ray Charles.

Katrina Kaif

I think people who are regarded as better actors must have better instincts because, at the end of the day, once they say 'action,' it's you who has to do it right. You can do all the research and preparation or none at all, but it's your instincts that tell you, 'No, I'll do it like this.'

Sass Jordan

the most phenomenal, natural instincts for being a performer.

John Cooper

I feel tremendous pressure. But then when I start to feel pressure I go, 'I have to trust my instincts.' Every time when I haven't trusted my instincts is when I've made mistakes.

Greg Davis

I don't know enough about Roy's numbers to be disappointed. I don't watch enough Lions games. I think Roy will be an All-Pro. If he stays healthy, he'll be an All-Pro before he's through.

Robert Jordan

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

Henry Rollins

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

Epicurus

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

L. Frank Baum

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz

Elizabeth I

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

John Hanning Speke

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

Charles Spurgeon

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.

Rick Dinse

We are going to revisit those situations and those individuals we have contacted in the past,

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Ronda Rousey

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

Sarah Addison Allen

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

Sarah Addison Allen

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Dan Gorbett

Inexperience. We have a lot of positions open.

Pat Gleason

I'm not sure that the transfer of these positions is necessary.

Sarah Fisher

Six years ago when I started this whole fiasco, there were not this many women in these positions to get the attention,

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Tony Padilla

Carroll is strong at all positions even cornerback. We've got to be ready when we play them.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Nancy Bell

It's important to have documentation that it is going to be a profitable business,

Jeff Wright

It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.

Prakash Karat

Disinvestment of shares in profitable public sector units is not the proper way to raise resources.

Clive Beddoe

We'll be profitable in the third quarter. There's no question about that.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Rick Baker

I think you've been on television plenty, Ed,

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

Will Estes

I don't really get a chance to watch much television.

Tucker Carlson

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

Wolfgang Puck

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

Julian Bond

I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980

Ken Dodd

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

Kristen Johnston

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

Kiefer Sutherland

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

Rob Maxwell

It has worked out well in the past, and I don't see why it will be any different with Travis.

Jerry Schartner

Nothing worked for us, and they didn't miss.

Kevin Sutherland

It's worked out pretty good, but now I need the space.

Carolyn Clark

As you can see, you get really dirty. But you know you worked if you get dirty.

Gene Fraise

It's the same as it is at home. We've always worked together.

Shanna Zolman

There's a lot of things that need to be worked on before we get to where we need to be.

Stewart Butterfield

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Douglas Booth

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.