Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick DeVos

As a state, we have to engage the global marketplace. There is no alternative, no choice but to go out and win. The antagonists to this position see it as either/or -- either you invest in China or invest in Michigan. Most businesses do both. If your sales increase in any part of the world, the folks back home benefit.

Austin Ligon

Our third quarter used car sales growth reflected increased traffic compared with last year's third quarter, as well as continuing strong execution. We were able to sustain positive momentum even as the cross-shopping benefit from this summer's new car employee pricing programs waned. Subsequently, new car sales and traffic levels dropped significantly, reflecting the limited model year close-out vehicle availability that resulted from the success of the employee pricing programs.

Paul Sarbanes

Companies that go public should understand that there are responsibilities as well as benefits to going public,

Kurt Kuehn

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Chicago now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Chicago as well.

John Stumpf

Demonstrating the benefit of our diversified business model, most of our consumer business showed strong growth this quarter and helped to offset the decline at Home Mortgage.

Marc Schenker

The teaching that complements these research efforts will benefit the next generation of public health specialists, as well as local, state and global health agencies.

Keith Edelman

The tax bill is slightly larger than one would expect it to be because we have had employee benefit trusts and there was a decision in the House of Lords we've provided for. We're just being cautious.

Alexander Haig

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Joe Wilcox

So, to get to the benefits that come with this, they have to get past whatever retraining will be needed around the new user interface.

Paul Sarbanes

Companies that go public should understand that there are responsibilities as well as benefits to going public,

Joe Wilcox

So, to get to the benefits that come with this, they have to get past whatever retraining will be needed around the new user interface.

Zina Garrison

So much is owed to this legend. Althea helped me and other women to understand you can be all you can dream and more. The benefits of her contributions to tennis are still being realized and enjoyed by modern-day players.

Drew Altman

The widespread dropping of drug benefits that some had feared has been averted so far as business figure out what their long-term response would be.

James Berg

These are tough issues. The cost of benefits has exploded.

Rick Fraser

This is a way for us to get them the tax benefits that they are entitled to.

Bill Bradley

You should rest assured. You are going to get Social Security benefits as long as you are alive,

Ryan Bedford

This raises an interesting question: Who really benefits from union representation?

Larry Fitzgerald

I joined forces with the American Cancer Society in 2010 as a spokesperson for the N.F.L.'s 'A Crucial Catch' campaign, which benefits the American Cancer Society. This was important to me because I lost my mother to breast cancer, and I have always felt a strong commitment to doing all I can to fight this disease.

Ron Steele

The box is worth more than the contents. The corn is the same price it was 25 to 30 years ago. We're losing money. We're in denial.

David Yen

As part of the manufacturing process, there are some processors with less than eight cores but still with very impressive performance. We will be offering the Niagara-based boxes primarily with eight cores and six cores, and we may start with four cores.

Gordon Haff

Dell has had a really good run selling essentially cookie-cutter rack-mount servers. But the era of solving problems by just buying more boxes is coming to a close.

Michael Armstrong

Are we just moving boxes around or are we fundamentally changing the way the nation does business? It's too soon to tell. But there's a lot of good work over the past several years and decades that doesn't need to be negated.

Sophie Monk

I've made some stupid decisions, so I have to be careful. I once said 'no' to a film that was a number-one hit. And 'Date Movie' had the smallest budget of any movie I'd been in, and it went to the top of the box office.

Debbie Smith

A donation of $7 to cover the cost of getting the boxes to their destinations would also be much appreciated,

Ashley Caiafa

It was very difficult. I knew I had to box out every shot and rebound, but they were just really big.

Casey Mears

It was an eight-man decision on top of the box to take two or four, we decided to go with a conservative decision because we already had two cars in the fence that were running up front and doing good because of tire trouble.

Ned Riley

These companies are boxed in by poor past forecasts and lack of visibility.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Ted Moskonas

It would be very easy to direct a show with four or five students. But that's not what we're trying to do here.

Asia Argento

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

Alan Cumming

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

E. Hurley

We've seen our vehicle donation drop by over 40 percent this year, and it's all a direct result of the tax law change.

Adan Canto

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

Twyla Tharp

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

Jack Myers

Broadcasting is still the engine that drives the train. It's still where marketers want their exposure.

Michael Goodman

What really drives the sales of these things is a breakaway game,

Kyle Orton

Those drives are just demoralizing for a defense,

Bill Valentine

We are in some ways part of that demographic group that drives oversized cars.

Jim Hueber

I think he is really driven. I think it is really important to him to do what he feels like he has to do to be as good as he can be. He wants to do everything right, I think that is what drives him. He doesn't want to make a mistake.

Jeff Jennewein

Whittaker drives so well to the bucket, and then he can pull up and hit that jump shot. He finds a way to slash and slide in there and takes it up strong.

Linda Fisher

I don't mean finding 15 different ways to swing from a chandelier. But novelty in life drives up peoples sense of well being.

Mary Pope Osborne

A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.

Paul Kariya

At home we just have to score in shootouts and obviously Sullivan and I didn't do that tonight.

Morris Peterson

At home, it's all about pride, and to lose so many at home at the start of the season, that was telling was that we had no character.

Joe Duffy

At home I'm obedient. The first day I'm back, I usually just listen to what she tells me to do.

Charlie Ebersol

As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.

Martin Rucinsky

That's where we go when we miss home.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Carrie Martin

People get really comfortable, and they don't want to leave. These people's lives have been completely uprooted. This is the only home they've known for weeks.

Thomas Campbell

O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Connie Williams

As for the pay increase, let's let the voters decide,

Carlos Perez

People come back, they pay each month, we have no problem,

John Miller

People do pay more attention, and that's useful to me,

Mohammed Habib

The monitoring, following, hassling is always there. We just try not to pay attention.

Tom Meeks

...A pretty substantial pay raise in today's economy.

Rudyard Kipling

The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one

Louise Johnson

I used to do it myself, but it's not like it used to be. Every year there's something new, and it doesn't pay to get it fouled up.

Gail Goestenkors

Some teams don't make you pay. Carolina, they make you pay for your mistakes.

Dan Jiron

So they had to suggest an offset, a way to pay for the program.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thrift is a great revenue.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Beth Jones

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.

Orlando Cabrera

There is a lot of talent here, a lot of talent.

Pat Riley

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).

Colin Powell

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

Albert Einstein

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

Aldous Huxley

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Nick Cannon

If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.

Irving Berlin

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Candice Olson

I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.

Riley Wallace

The worst part about it is that payback game. And when you don't get a TV game, it doesn't feel worth it.

Todd Marks

The (Web sites) you see on TV could end up costing you something.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Dominic West

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Richard LaGravenese

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

Courteney Cox

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

Alia Shawkat

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.