Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Schilling

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

John Boucher

We cannot invest enough in technology. I see that reality in my business. People can't survive in business without having a sound, deep knowledge of computer technology.

Keith Hennig

We kind of have that marked on our calendars. But we have to take care of business with a lot of other quality league opponents.

Janet Yellen

Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning.

Hideo Mizutani

Uncertainties over how Toshiba will run the nuclear power business and its financing scheme for the acquisition prompted investors to sell.

Rob Melnick

Twenty-five years from now, we'll have an opportunity to see whether Superstition Vistas turned out to be business as usual, or something very, very special.

William Armstrong

Tweeter has been losing market share to the big guys. It served a higher-end customer, and historically it differentiated itself with home audio, but that business has fallen off a cliff. No one buys stereos anymore. They buy MP3 players, and you don't need the same kind of service to sell these lower priced, lower margin products.

Cathy Merlino

We don't really know how business is. There is nothing to gauge it against, there is no one out there doing what we are doing.

Paul Dergarabedian

To have such a strong Thanksgiving and the second-best ever business in what has overall been a down year is pretty impressive. Thank goodness for Harry Potter . It has reinvigorated a lot of people to go to the movies.

Tom Vierhile

It's the granddaddy of health claims. To even get in the game with certain food categories like dairy products you have to have a low-fat offering.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Bob Kruger

Many companies are under pressure to keep their costs down, but they don't steal their office furniture off the truck, ... One of the reasons people steal software is that it's easy to do.

Trevor Rabin

Several record companies had rejected my song 'Owner of A Lonely Heart' on the grounds it was 'too left field.' I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive's quarterly profit statement.

John Hagen

Several rail-served companies have been talking to us,

Charles Crane

Second quarter earnings are very likely to be satisfactory in aggregate. A number of visible companies have warned of disappointments, but they are the exception rather than the rule. Earnings growth will probably be in the high-teens range when everything is tallied up.

Ed Rendell

Secondly, quality of life is always very high on the list of criteria for why companies or people or families locate or relocated in an area.

Lisa Pierce

Security is a big issue. Most companies don't deal with security issues very well, and there are a lot of risks out there -- viruses, worms and hackers.

Valerie Plagnol

Sentiment remains fragile... We are still waiting for signs that companies are rebuilding margins and investing again.

Eric Kuby

So far the corporate profit outlook remains positive. I don't hear a lot of companies saying they're going to reduce their profit forecasts because of interest-rate concerns, and that's a positive for the market.

Shelby Seyrafi

They grew at 14 percent. That's very impressive. I expected them to grow at 12 percent.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Tim Cox

This is the first time when we can touch people when they have been devastated.

Mark Serwotka

This is not a union that is struggling. People see we are standing up for what they want and they want to join.

Dominique Moisi

This is not a triumph for Chirac. People didn't go to vote.

Bruce Babbitt

This is not about turning people away from the park, ... The problem is not that there's too many people. The problem is there's too many cars.

Julie Taymor

This is not to make it easier, it's just to entice people to come.

Bill Cheney

This is simply what a recession is like. This report represents real people and real pain, especially around the holidays.

Jaromir Jagr

This is probably the most surprising season, my season and the team's. For a lot of people around the league.

Harry Price

This is so wonderful to see all of these people who are working to preserve our history,

Simon Hauger

This is off-the-shelf technology, and we're not 180 I.Q. people around here.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.