Famous Quotes & Sayings

Britt Beemer

It's interesting they flipped the jobs. They want the future CEO to have experience on the domestic and international side equally. It may be that Wal-Mart looks at the international side as equal to the U.S.

Sara Rue

I wasn't one-hundred percent sure that Jenny Craig was going to be the right program for me, but I wanted to do something. So I sat down with the CEO of Jenny Craig, Patti Larchet.

Casey Silver

As chairman and CEO for the past three years, I am very proud of the films released during that time and I'm especially pleased with the films scheduled for the next 24 months. I look forward to working with the company in an independent capacity.

Anne Mulcahy

As CEO of Xerox, I am ready and privileged to lead a team of dedicated employees who are as sharply focused and committed as I am in the successful turnaround of our company.

Ben Obomanu

I've always thought about being a CEO of a Fortune 500 company. I want to put myself in a position where I can use the resources I gained by playing football.

John Challenger

Some expect CEOs to be chained to the desk. Most put in 12 or more hours a day, often working seven days a week. But we should want leaders in high-pressure situations to have time to decompress.

James Lowry

Some people would rather be the 100 percent owner of a $100 million company than the partner of a $200 million company. They feel comfortable being the CEO and the sole decision-maker.

Ken Goldstein

The September data indicate a general weakening in the job picture nationwide -- a trend we were seeing before the recent hurricanes, ... That data is consistent with the latest CEO Confidence Survey, which is also down.

William Crowell

There won't be a lot of resolutions passed here today, but the key is to get the dialogue open and to get CEOs interested in providing their customers with protection.

Jose Vidro

He'll be all right. This team goes as far as he goes. It's early and we still have a lot of confidence in him.

Joe Thornton

He let a couple of floaters in the second and then he got his confidence in the third and that was the difference, ... Eddie just really stoned us in the third period.

Robert Ferguson

He knows what I can do; I know what I can do. I've made plays in this league for five years now, I've made a lot of them for him, so confidence was never an issue as far as him having confidence in me. And I never lacked any confidence in myself.

Kyle Coston

Greg (Burgers) and I understood that everyone on the team had to have confidence in each other. We needed that to make a perfect circle. Something that Greg and I wanted was for everyone to feel comfortable and confident with who they were and what they did on this team. We learned that everyone on this team was going to come up big for each other.

Nobuaki Kurisu

Greenspan's cut was a wonderful thing. It has instilled Tokyo investors with a greater confidence the U.S. economy and markets will recover.

Fabian Nunez

has no confidence (in Mexico) and doesn't treat it like a modern democracy.

Clinton Portis

Guys were playing for each other, laying it on the line, and everybody was just fighting. The confidence is really up.

Kurt Warner

Guys hang on every word because they just feel the confidence that comes from him: 'This is what we're going to do, this is how we're going to win. They can pretty much take what he says to the bank.

Casey Silver

Hannah just picked up the game last year and she is very quick, ... Ellie is playing with more confidence and has been a pleasant surprise.

Pat Whitcomb

Jake dominated his weight class. And Josh was just consistent and did what he had to do.

Chris Ault

Joshua has been one of our more consistent defensive players. He's making plays. He's a natural.

Tony Russa

He definitely has five tools and every year I've seen a more consistent guy.

Paula Creamer

I have definitely gotten longer. I have new muscles and my golf swing has changed, so once in a while I can hit one pretty far out there. But it's learning how to use those muscles on a consistent basis.

Mike Holmgren

He is as about as consistent and tough a linemen as I've ever coached. He's very, very steady.

Winston Churchill

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

Winston Churchill

I'd rather be right than consistent.

Paul Hanrahan

Our 2006 earnings guidance is fully consistent with our 2008 financial targets, which remain on track. We're starting 2006 on a strong note, with a high quality development pipeline.

Jim Leonard

Right now, New Jersey is a patchwork of economic development activities. What we're hoping is that from an economic development perspective that patchwork can be centralized and regionalized so there's more of a consistent deliverable.

Sam Stovall

I think investors want to see improvement in the economic data so that the feeling is that the Fed doesn't need to lower interest rates. That in itself is a positive.

Dean Stanley

Having seen all the data for May, our sense is the Fed won't be raising rates in two weeks but that doesn't mean they won't be tightening rates later this summer,

Bill Groenveld

I think technically (Monday's increase) could be sound, as long as we don't get any economic surprises. The data should support this level.

Robert Pozen

I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were really looking for; then they have to redo a lot of stuff. If after a day or so you force yourself to put together your tentative conclusions, then you'll have guidance for the rest of your research.

Walter Cunningham

... global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific data in their articles is the occasional chart claiming a poorly understood correlation between atmospheric CO2 and the Earth's temperature.

Robert M. Pirsig

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.

Vinod Khosla

Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors

Vinod Khosla

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

Vinton Cerf

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

Pat Hanlon

I wouldn't say disappointing. I think surprising is the right word. And that includes sales to the general public, not just the waiting list members.

Andrew Miller

It can't be right that ministers be given such wide and general powers.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Bill Donald

I think it's going to be important, if we can get markets open in the same general are of the world. It will help instill trust in the product we were used to before the ban.

Richard Hughes

I think it's going to be a great adjunctive therapy. Patients generally like the robot. Many think of it as similar to a video game.

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Rick Dinse

He is an individual that during our investigation, generally speaking, he never volunteered a lot of information,

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Sam Smith

I generally have people stop me once or twice a week about that.

Donald Schneider

I think the new discoveries are going to indicate that Pluto should not really be called a planet.

J. Hoover

The (final) score doesn't indicate how much mat wrestling took place tonight. St. Joe's kept everything close. There were some really tight matches.

Sgt. Reynolds

There is nothing to indicate that this was a stressful situation.

Tony Ryall

It does indicate that we need to rethink New Zealand's anti-smoking campaign.

Douglas Altabef

I think if you look at volume it would seem to indicate there very likely may be a return of investors. People who are more opportunistic have seen the signs. But a lot of people are waiting for clarity.

Nobutaka Machimura

I suppose such statements would not be accepted, ... seems to indicate that the second stage of negotiations has already begun.

Steve Pikiell

We're a team that needs a lot of things to go right for us to win. We're improving. Unfortunately, our record doesn't indicate that.

Andy Davis

Eyewitnesses indicate that the shooting could be drug related.

Melanie Rawn

Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Phil Garner

He just likes going out and pitching, doing his job and saying, 'Thank you very much,' and going home.

Taylor Hawkins

In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

Marvin Bembry

There are a lot of storylines to that game. Two teams will line up 11 men on 11 men. We feel our 11 men will get the job done.

Larry Page

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

David Briggs

That seems to be the latest reason to sell.

Thomas Morabito

They've been turning around for years now, and right now they're embarking on the latest phase of the turnaround.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

Al Gillen

Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.

Anna Jones

The only thing I think about this is that it's big. I saw a picture (in the newspaper) and I wanted to see it.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Hanna Salonen

I really want to go out there and take pictures of what I find interesting and not like, these set-ups of life.

Jessie Boylan

I know you from somewhere. I've got pictures of you.

Donald Rumsfeld

I indicated in my remarks that there are a lot more pictures and many investigations under way,

Andrew Barrett

The fundamental picture is still strong. No one has said technology is dead.

Dick Bennett

The big picture is what has to be viewed in this process. As long as our administration understands it, we'll be fine.

Julian Schnabel

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

Craig Barlow

I've got to look at the big picture here,

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Duane Ackerman

During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Kevin Sheridan

Remember, this has only been operational for 90 days. What you're seeing is version 1.1.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Carl Anderson

I keep seeing them go up, up, up.

Michael Goodman

It's sort of like you're seeing Yahoo spread its wings and be more of a portal that ties into the TV in your home.

Josh Beckett

It's weird seeing Luis in another uniform. I think he signed with the Marlins when he was like 4.

Luke Cartin

It's always been a totally varied audience. We're trying something different, something new with a different setting. We're always up for trying something new and seeing how it works out.

Mara Brock Akil

Thank you for seeing me on the days when I couldn't see myself.

Rudy Giuliani

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

Matt Allen

In September 2004, I had 2,000 tons of inventory; by the first week of September 2005 there was no inventory. We were wiped out.

Wayne Carl

If September works and we can switch it, we'll switch.

John F. Kerry

Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

Joe Lieberman

Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We probably won't make the September 22 window.

Brent Scowcroft

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

Vernon Jordan

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

George W. Bush

What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty?

Zhang Ziyi

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

Ellen Goodman

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

Eric Rohmer

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

Eric Ripert

I don't follow the food trends.

Rachel Roy

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

Paolo Bacigalupi

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

Elvis Presley

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

Manolo Blahnik

Trends don't interest me.

Roland Swenson

This is a trend going on around the country.