Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lance Jones

Keynote measures the customer experience because ultimately all business success is driven by the customer experience. Our studies have consistently shown a strong correlation between a positive online experience and increases in brand equity and customer acquisition and retention.

Jim Taylor

Kids don't necessarily (even) sort out the difference between store brands and product brands.

Todd Campbell

I wouldn't be a brand new buyer of most companies, ... But old money should keep riding the wave. Don't get off the moving bus until it stops.

Joe Nappi

J.R. has done a real good job. Before he got here they never won at all. This place has potential to be a powerhouse. They have a brand new facility and kids want to come here.

David Zaslav

I talk to Oprah several times a week, and I see the side of Oprah that's having the time of her life. What she's getting to do with OWN is build a team to create a brand from nothing.

David Toung

I think it's a great move for Motorola. GIC is the leading maker of cable set top boxes. Slap on the Motorola brand name and distribution and it's a real good move for Motorola.

David Perry

It can make your brand inaccessible to people.

David Yalof

He did it by choosing carefully the doctrine of judicial restraint. You see it in the cases the court hears, and showing the way with his brand of leadership.

David Herman

Hartmann and country music share a long and rich history in Tennessee and it is therefore only natural that our two iconic brands be linked in this celebration of this year's very best.

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.

David Gergen

I was in the Nixon White House during Watergate, and we pretended that we were all about business as usual. And we had a president who was talking to the portraits. It was not business as usual, but you have to say it.

Jack Osbourne

I was interning at a record label - OK, cool. I'm gonna do what my mom did, you know, work her way up in the music industry, the business side of things. I was comfortable with that. That was what I wanted to do. And then just suddenly I am thrown from that. It was super insane.

Wayne Taylor

Kevin had so many friends. Businesses and individuals have really stepped up to the plate for this project.

Alan Lacy

Kevin left the company at my request because I lost confidence in his personal credibility, ... His departure is not related to business performance and does not constitute a change in credit strategy.

Kristin Degnan

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

Howard Davidowitz

Kmart said it closed its worst performing stores because it couldn't maintain inventory once its vendors cut themselves off. Now that the stores are shuttered and inventory is up, Kmart is still doing less business than before. The company is still losing money and market share. I'm not sure the company can get past Christmas.

Gerry Harvey

I would think that most of the online business will be conducted by traditional retailers and that over 90 per cent of the e-retailers will, in fact, all go out of business.

Carl Peterson

I wouldn't be opposed to that. I think it's a terrific 1-2 punch. This business is a business of attrition.

Craig Johnson

I wouldn't necessarily say that Target is stealing market share away from Wal-Mart because Target's customers are slightly more upscale. Where it's outperforming Wal-Mart is in grabbing market share away from department store chains.

Jeremy Roche

I would say that, at the moment, we are seeing more buoyancy in the market. Most of our members are reporting that they are seeing customers investing in software and infrastructure again.

Daniel Boulud

I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.

Nancy Frazier

He was a customer before he was a friend, ... He sparked our interest.

Mike Greene

He wanted to see how truly profitable his customers were. He had an intuitive sense -- we've got all these great customers (we think) but we need to find what it's costing us to serve them. His intuition was correct.

Gloria Lee

He wanted most to be remembered as a down-to-earth man, who just treated every customer fairly, ... I think he really enjoyed the business, and I think he missed his customers, but he enjoyed retirement, too.

Greg Madinger

He walked in stood at the front door and had the gun pointed sideways at the clerk. There were few customers in line.

Steve Williams

Hella is a great place to work. We are a growing and stable company, yet still small enough to recognize and encourage individual accomplishments. We're hiring people who can help us grow and provide our automotive customers with exceptional service.

Joe Redling

What we've seen from early indications is that as we've moved customers from dial-up to broadband, we've seen significant improvements in member life.

Nadine Velazquez

I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.

Michael Raab

Going forward, DaimlerChrysler's fortunes will be driven by Mercedes Benz.

Bill Cowher

He's a special person; he means a lot to this team. He's been very much an inspiration to this team. I think we're driven very much by trying to make this a special year for him.

E. B. White

We suspect that right now we are in the midst of what is a normal 10 percent correction. This is normal market volatility that people aren't really used to. A lot will be driven by the releases on the economy at the end of next week, namely the employment number.

Mario Gabelli

I think we're going from a market that's driven by momentum and driven by a flow of funds to a stock picker's market. That's going to provide very good opportunities for those that are focused on given areas.

John Johnston

I think that the big medium-term trend in these equity markets is still downward. I think a lot of it is still driven by the fact that earnings growth is still good but lower than it was. Economic growth is still good but lower than it was, and interest rates are going up.

Jonathan Slavin

I think that smart is sexy, and driven is sexy, and passion is sexy, and if you're passionate about math, so be it.

Don Perata

I think that we don't want to let this thing hang out there forever, but I don't want to be driven by a date.

Bob Thompson

I watch a lot of sports, and so far that's been what's driven the big-screen phenomenon. It's a status symbol; a lot of people get a lot of pleasure being able to show off this enormous piece of hardware.

William Sullivan

The only thing that can take yields down is a total retreat in equity prices.

Robert Kraft

His sense of equity and fairness would be very helpful now.

Kevin Tynan

His motivation was to unlock that equity in GMAC. Rumor has it that it's not going well.

Hans Johnson

I thought what we would find was that it was only people who had equity or very high incomes who were getting into the market. But that's simply not true.

Anthony Chan

I think the big jump in Japan gives a nice tail wind to the equity markets this morning.

Peter Deutsch

Investigating what's happened in the equity markets is not a waste of time, but spending 90 percent of our resources on Martha Stewart is not an appropriate allocation of resources.

Richard Bernstein

If you're in the equity market, you want to focus on the largest cap, highest quality companies,

Craig Moffett

Clearly, private equity investors see that that the glass if half-full here.

Richard Bove

In general, this should be a mixed quarter. Clearly, M&A is strong but the IPO market has slowed down, the equity market is weakening and the fixed income market is limping along.

Lynsey Addario

I was lucky because I had parents who have enabled me to do whatever I was passionate about and never held my siblings and me back from anything. But I think a lot of people don't have that experience.

Marcel Desailly

King will have a lot of experience around him, Sol campbell, (David) Beckham, even Michael Owen will be able to help, ... They have for sure to tell him this will be a tough game from start to finish, and the first that makes the mistake will lose the game.

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

Eddie Wood

Kenny won't be intimidated by the kids and the kids won't be intimidated by Kenny. With all of his experience and the type of person he is, Kenny is about the perfect teammate for those guys.

Tedy Bruschi

I wouldn't be standing here in front of you if I didn't think I could play football, ... I know my physical abilities are here. I think my 10 years of experience will help also. I know what it looks like, I know how to react to it, just from experience.

Paul Burke

Keith's 30 years of experience in hotel and resort operations in a variety of markets together with his strong leadership skills ideally qualify him for this position.

Knute Nelson

Keeping a promise made before I left you folks, I will now take pen in hand for a little while and tell you about my experience of a soldier's life.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

J. C. Chandor

Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

Kim Beazley

It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.

Peter Johnson

Price increases there are at a more modest level which looks much more sustainable,

Ahmad Chalabi

In order to make major quantum increases in oil, we need to have production-sharing agreements, but that has to wait until after the formation of parliament,

Bob Stoops

If you can run the football, your opportunity to win increases big time, no matter who you're playing, and we're going to always try to, ... With the potential that we have in our backfield, everything should set up off of that.

John Goglia

In this case, the manufacturer is gone, and there's probably nobody providing the support, so it increases responsibility on the operator.

Joe Panetta

The increases we're seeing are not just with 4-year-olds. We're seeing increases throughout the system.

Heidi Perlman

You can't have steady increases every year. At some point, you're going to plateau.

Andy Roberts

Their offers are insignificant to our membership. They want most of the increases later in the contract.

Bill Nelson

And in the second year it was doubled again. That's not realistic today. But 5 percent a year increases are not going to get us to the moon.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Jo Bonner

In the time since passage of the act, there have been many successes as a result of the measures put into place by the PATRIOT Act.

Sheila Thomas

A lot of times, patients can't think of a single thing they like about their body. The number on the scale, this measures how they feel about their body. They have a very abusive relationship with their body.

Stephen Byers

These are measures which we will need to look at,

David Henderson

They are going to reduce privacy if these various measures go through,

Ehud Olmert

It is time for the Palestinians to take measures to stop terror,

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Richard Blumenthal

The modified measures should deflate Microsoft's overblown rhetoric and apocalyptic predictions about the proposed remedies,

Lance Berkman

There's not another starting rotation that measures up to ours. And then you get to the back part of the game, with (Brad) Lidge. That's who we are. We don't outslug teams; we outpitch them.

Kristy Sobel

I went online because I wanted to see if there was something I could use if I was going out.

Susannah Fox

There aren't any new recruits. It's online veterans who are signing up for a second or third tour.

Parry Aftab

In real life, you have to worry about someone spotting you if you stalk them... . Online no one's going to punch you in the face.

Sloane Stephens

I'm an online shopper, so that's what I do in my free time. A lot of online shopping, and I just like to see new styles and new people.

Jonathan Zittrain

If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.

Jonathan Zittrain

When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.

Michael Goodman

This is much like an online movie-download store, only using the file-sharing system.

Marc Rotenberg

This is a very important development in terms of online privacy.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Dickey Meeks

It can be done. If you take one positive step and get all the little things right, then big things will come.

Daniel Woodrell

I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.

Ray Williams

He seems to be on top of everything. He's a very positive man.

Paul Nicholls

I think it's a really positive idea and I'm sure I shall be having runners in the first stage at Haydock.

Ray Nixon

I think it's a positive upside for our team that we can play smaller lineups when we have mismatches.

Bob Poole

I think it's going to be positive for that end of town. I think it's going to be the right fit.

Clint Hurdle

We took steps all over the joint. It's another positive for us.

John Davidson

I think we will have a positive year.

Tim Bennett

I think we took a positive step tonight,

Gail Begley

He just didn't show up and he still hasn't shown up.

Heather Stewart

I think we've shown that we're a team that can compete.

Carly Syverson

I think that we've shown how we can be. We don't want (the Bears) to think they have a chance.

Scott Hoffman

Had they not have shown up, it could have been tragic.

Jim Riccitelli

He has shown us little glimpses here and there, and I told him tonight he had to be better than the other goaltender, and he was.

Larry Coker

He has shown me a lot. He's going to be an outstanding player.

Dusty Baker

He doesn't have to show more. I like what he's shown already. He has to show more of the same.

Greta Gnagy

Everyone has shown up (offensively) at different times in the clutch.

Mark Gurwell

It's the first time it's actually shown the difference.

Michael Culver

I wrote: Vicki and Michael, stronger than fire.

Susan McGrath

Katherine has always been a very strong player. She was all over the place today.

Rusty Agte

Her voice is much stronger than it was, and getting better each day.

Chris Mack

He's a linebacker with the basketball. He's so doggone strong for a guard.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Bob Wagner

He's a strong commit. He visited BYU the first week of January.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Gerardo Cardenas

They shouldn't have their studies interrupted because of the situation.

Matthew Daus

This is one of the most important studies we've seen.

Eric Jackson

If the studies are accurate, we can see Oaklawn take it to new levels.

Dusty Baker

He can wait 'til Monday. The Padres are the team he's had his most success against.

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Douglas Carter Beane

I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Jared Dudley

I think a team with a lot of veterans and the success they've had, makes them dangerous.

Fred Wilpon

I think it's progress. I'm not sure success is unless you are in the playoffs.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

Justin Timberlake

I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

R. Robinson

Ideas are the engines of progress. They improve people's lives by creating better ways to do things. They build and grow successful organizations and keep them healthy and prosperous. Without the ability to get new ideas, an organization stagnates and declines and will eventually be eliminated by competitors who do have fresh ideas.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

David Twohy

There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Helen Thomas

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.