Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ramon Magsaysay

Atty. Yorac received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service in 2004 for her unyielding determination to recover $684 million ill-gotten wealth for the government, after 17 years of complex and intense litigation,

Cass Cliatt

Princeton is very strong at undergraduate education in every area, whether it's firsthand research with leading minds in the world or its groundbreaking financial award program. There is no concern that if students could pick their own categories, Princeton will drop in ranking.

John Davidson

Often people don't really have an awareness of these really successful Scots. One of the ideas behind the award show was to throw a bit of a focus on Scots who have had stellar careers.

E. O. Wilson

After years of hard work, Simmons is proud to be awarded this accreditation for our National Consumer Study. The NCS is a thorough measurement of the American consumer; from the products we buy, the brands we prefer and where we buy them, to our attitudes, lifestyles and the media we consume. Our adherence to the MRC Minimum Standards earned this accreditation and our commitment to quality will continue to earn our clients support.

Rafael Benitez

Any medals and awards our players might receive for last season are fully merited, because they all did a fantastic job.

Robert Olson

Any time after the award is announced, the community can begin their activity.

Diane Hento

The spirit of competition award today has to go to Holly. For a freshman to come into this meet with limited cross country experience ... and place 10th in a time of under 17 minutes is just outstanding.

Jeff Rowe

The three awards the CAD Society presents every year are our way of recognizing those who have contributed to the CAD/CAM industry in various ways. We are looking forward to hearing what the community has to say when they help us select the 2006 nominees.

Mark Adams

The suppliers who receive these awards have provided exceptional performance in Quality to our Toyota plants in Europe.

Arkady Volozh

Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.

Michael Eisner

As far as the essential part of our business we're doing great,

David Cheng

A second license in a matter of two weeks further illustrates the potential of our product in Europe, ... The fact that a government-run lottery has chosen to do business with Pegasus Gaming further validates us as a player on the world stage.

Geoff Dupaix

As each city grows and develops, it's important to coordinate signals so that traffic can move as efficiently as possible. It's going to happen in incremental steps. This is just the next step, but it's a very important step because there is a lot of traffic that goes through and around Provo, which is a major business center.

Bruce Kasman

As destructive as past storms have been, they didn't leave an imprint on the U.S. business cycle,

Abbe Lowell

As happens probably dozens of times a week in businesses in New York, the partners have a variety of disputes. And these disputes will work their way out. At the end of the day, Dr. Straus will be found to be a highly skilled, highly competent, highly professional, highly ethical doctor.

Joe Lieberman

A short-term economic stimulus to help lift us out of this economic slowdown has to be followed by business tax credits and smart investments to sustain longer-term growth,

Mike Cooke

As far as notifications, we think there are certain instances where businesses might want to notify consumers and certain instances where they might not to inform them.

Roman Cizdyn

As expected, it's redoing its portfolio to focus on the profitable business and that's why there's a continued collapse in individual pensions. It has to focus on profitability; that's clearly what it's about now.

David Davidson

Offering more humanely produced eggs naturally fits our commitment to foster goodness and decency in our students.

Mark Williams

Despite the fact with the issues we have with supplies, etc, we're standing by our commitment.

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Larry Usher

These seniors knew that we expected two things from them: commitment and team-first (attitude). These underclassmen know from watching the seniors.

Bryant H. McGill

You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day.

Alan Keyes

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Alan Lightman

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

bell hooks

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Johanna Siguroardottir

A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.

David Moore

Our faculty gets to travel, visit the sites and conduct workshops and teach classes. In doing so, they are getting international experience, and that helps them to develop professionally.

Alexandra Milenov

A principle of justice is that the defense needs to be able to conduct interviews in a privileged setting. Otherwise there could be a perception of unfairness or abuse.

Nancy Peterson

The students are there to take down names and family information. They then input that information on the (Red Cross Family Links) Web site, and conduct searches.

George Robertson

public trust is essential to an effective judicial system and one judge's conduct may have a significant impact upon the public's perception of the entire judicial system ...

Jim Petro

I've never, nor would I ever, not conduct an appropriate investigation.

Christopher Dodd

This is the first time in more than 200 years that the federal government will take a very proactive role in the conduct of elections,

Richard Cullen

Tom DeLay conducts himself consistent with the highest standards of conduct and he mandated the same for his staff.

David Delainey

Every day I wish I would have stepped up from that table and walked out. That was the worst conduct I had ever been part of and everybody knew exactly what was going on at that meeting.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Kym McKay

As a team, our defense continued to shine and was even more exciting than it was last fall. Our new serve-receive system went very well and we are looking for it to continue to improve. We had a handful of moments that we looked extremely impressive and were firing on all cylinders. It was very exciting.

Henry Blodget

The big question mark remains the long-term sustainable growth rate, especially with continued deceleration of U.S. business.

Emanuel Balarie

A weaker dollar, continued geopolitical concerns, weak government data, and higher oil prices have all been factors that have pushed gold higher in the last several days.

Kathy Matsui

As long as there's continued jitters in Nasdaq, we'll have to wait to see what happens.

Maajid Nawaz

As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

Bob Greene

As long-term users of Rhapsody, MULTI, and INTEGRITY, we are encouraged by this strategic partnership, ... With this tightly integrated solution we now have a single cohesive development environment that enables us to analyze, model, design, implement and test our embedded software applications. The strengthening of the relationship and the continued enhancement to the integration of these tools should help to improve our workflow and the productivity of our staff.

Alan Oster

On transport, it is one of the few sectors that has continued to deteriorate through the quarter, no doubt reflecting the impact of higher oil prices on costs and profitability.

Carolayne Holley

At some fairs they do fashion shows, but we didn't feel that was really fair to the vendors. Then they're just sitting around for an hour without any customers while the brides and their guests watch the show.

John Richardson

As long as it's done in a sympathetic nature it's for the best. It will provide customers for everyone and keep the Old Town alive.

Ron Johnson

Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product.

David Parker

Profits outside of Florida were good. Inside they were pressured. We were expecting the utility to do a little better, but that's what happens when you have three-quarters of your customers out for a week or two.

Tom Barrett

.Pro domain names with free Web hosting make a perfect gift for the holidays. Every professional serious about marketing themselves online should have a .pro Internet address. There is no better way on the Internet of communicating to your customers that you are a pro.

John Fitzpatrick

Our dealers were telling us, 'We can sell a luxury truck, you just have to work on your execution,' ... We went back to the customers to research it further, and it turned out the dealers were spot on.

Bill Cummings

Our customers will receive a great Starbucks experience.

Amitabh Srivastava

Our customers will have a feature-complete Windows Vista sooner in their hands than any previous Windows release.

Pat Garner

Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.

M. Thompson

We had a strong finish to 2005, a year of major transition for Fairchild, by delivering solid fourth-quarter sales and gross margin growth.

Jeff Bezos

In Q4 of '99, we did a great job of delivering for customers, but it was very costly for us, ... In Q4 of 2000, we did an even better job of delivering for customers, but at a much, much lower cost.

John Browning

It's a different world. The new group will have to operate differently. The industrial partners will play an important role. If there's a product the government wants, they will necessarily be focused on delivering that. A lot more money will be at stake.

Bruce Wilkinson

When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can then deliver the miracle to the other person.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

Jean Arnault

an opportunity to prevent further fighting; to reassure the population; and to ensure the peaceful preparation of the upcoming presidential election.

Kofi Annan

The secretary-general hopes that the tribunal will uphold the international standards of justice necessary to ensure its legitimacy, fairness and independence.

Helen Clark

The task now is for arrangements to be made which will ensure stable government in New Zealand for the next three years.

Tony Green

The thing high school kids have in their favor is they still have that playful side, ... I want to keep them focused on what they are doing, but also ensure they are having fun.

Xinhua Agency

The move is expected to ensure a safe water quality at the lower reaches of the river.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

So there is a warning period by nature already. But the (warning) system will provide us with information. We will ensure safety,

Tom Elliott

Now is the time for everyone in the south-west to support the process and ensure that we are not left without vital services in the future.

Hanya Yanagihara

Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.

Sergei Lavrov

Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed.

Jeb Hensarling

I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

Colin Clarke

Before we installed Enterprise Vault in 2002, housekeeping in Exchange 5.5 was a nightmare. Recovering old e-mail was impossible.

John Hall

Some Linux people won't like that I'm saying this, but you won't find Linux running on a lot of larger enterprise networks, simply because of its limited processor scalability,

Jim Balderston

To date, much of the penetration of Linux in the marketplace has been in the back room infrastructure space, tying things together at the lower levels of the stack. Such accomplishments are not to be scoffed at, but represent the first step in establishing Linux as an enterprise and market wide technology.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

Richard Pierce

This is a huge thrust for us in conjunction with Yahoo!'s enterprise thrust, and we're really happy about that relationship.

Jamie Kiggen

Over the last nine to 12 months, they've been growing into an enterprise software company. Today, we're seeing some growing pains. They are going to grow their top line but there is low visibility as to how rapidly they are going to grow it.

Dave Woodruff

When you privatize a common-property resource and hand it to a few individuals, you have taken private free enterprise right out of the picture.

Peter Ritcher

We don't need to be going out there as two different brands. We will be able to quickly go in and integrate those enterprise sales forces.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Bryant H. McGill

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

Tadashi Yanai

At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Carl Yastrzemski

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

David Packard

Management by Walking Around

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Lawrence Miller

Management offered a strategic update with no real surprises.

Horace

Anger is short-lived madness.

Palle Pedersen

In Iowa, we have a 32,000-an-acre plant population, spray, and harvest. There is no in-season management. It's all in the seeds.

Sam Bhavnani

It's an uphill battle, but they seem poised to be able to do it. And the reason I say that is they have a strong management team in place.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Tom Cail

A very nice guy, very nice. Oswaldo had a lot of friends in here after he started meeting all of us.

Samuel Johnson

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. ... Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Tim Morgan

People tell stories that they meet and end up getting married.

Ben Wilcox

People are still going to meet in restaurants. They may just have to pay their own way.

Curtis Crews

Originally we started with only meeting once a month but we realized that it was taking too long, so we went to meeting twice a month. Once we get the new members on the committee, we should be able to get moving on it.

Mike McCarley

Once we have all revenue, we will meet our projections and be profitable.

Ruben Escudero

These mines can't operate unless they meet minimum standards.

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Mario Gabelli

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Hugh Johnson

It's not the stocks you pick, it's the structure of your portfolio that counts,

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Janet Johnson

When I got the assessment, I went into total meltdown.

Keith Olbermann

And the White House, totally off the script.

Marcia Gay Harden

They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.

Iain McGilchrist

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Andray Blatche

Right now, I'm totally back, because I can do everything.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Steve Capps

If it's structurally unsound it should be a total loss.