Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

John Schuerholz

After 12 years, ... somebody might say 'You know, those guys down there, they certainly know what they're doing.'

Scott Carlson

After Friday night we want to be in the top half of the district. It's like the NFL. They have a preseason; We also have a preseason. Now the games that we play count. We certainly have to start out on the right foot when the games count.

Gene Barber

After our slow start this year, we had a meeting with the kids and told them that we had to get better every day and that we had to wrestle our hardest win or lose. They have responded and we are certainly doing that. There will be some more tight matches coming up and wrestling here (Paulsboro) is good experience. Our kids battled, all the way up and down the lineup.

Stephen Porpora

A day like today certainly doesn't derail the change we've seen in the last two weeks. The market was up 16 or 17 percent in a straight shot. It was due for a pullback.

Donald Rumsfeld

some sort of document of that type is certainly a likelihood.

Richard Sundblad

Something like that certainly drives home the point that you are on your way out the door.

Larry Magid

Some people consider Steve Jobs the Walt Disney of his generation. He understands technology, he understands entertainment and he certainly understands marketing.

Michael Otto

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Ken McBride

We ran a first market test in 2004, and we estimated that a third of the total images -- a third of the total sheets we printed -- were in fact corporate logos.

Zhang Qi

Share prices will hinge on corporate earnings in the short term.

Geoff Bobroff

Morningstar should stick to their knitting, which is measuring investment returns, ... They do not have the expertise to judge companies' corporate governance.

Peter Cardillo

From an interest rate standpoint, it's negative. On the other end, if the economy stays strong, corporate earnings will stay strong.

Colen Garrow

From this perspective, it is somewhat disappointing that corporate tax remains unchanged at 29% and that STC also remains unchanged at 12.5%.

O. Winston

From the FTC's standpoint, there are situations where we do hold individual corporate officers responsible.

E. Hurley

Given what's going on in the economy and the war risks, I expect corporate spreads to widen, ... Maybe they won't get trashed like equities, but some deterioration is likely.

Joseph Quinlan

Globalization has been very good to Corporate America.

Paul Lancaster

Our shooting has not shown up here. We are a really good shooting team in gyms, in high school gyms. Up here is a different atmosphere. The depth perception is different.

Mike Holmgren

Our depth in the secondary was not good last year.

Craig Harris

Our depth has been the key. We feel like we have three swimmers in the top eight in several events. You can score a lot of points that way.

Lauren Wonder

Our engineers are out here drilling to determine the depth of the fissures, how far down the holes are in the road. Tomorrow we should have a better sense of whether it's going to be a week to fix.

Mike Tice

I've never felt this good about our depth at cornerback,

Darrin Walter

This is the first time to have depth. The depth excites me.

John Calipari

You take your team - east, west, north, south - because I want my team. I've got battlers. I've got skills ... depth ... size.

Geoff Salmon

You're going to have to come out and get off to a good start defensively and let the game come to you. Get used to the surroundings and the depth perceptions on the baskets. That ought to take half a quarter.

Joe Humasti

We have a really strong men's team. We've got a lot of talent and depth on this team and our main goal this year is to make it to state championships.

Stavros Dimas

The time for Romania to start planning and implementing this investment program is now.

John W. Snow

Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Cody Acree

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss

Kit Spring

Return on investment in PPM is increasingly uncertain.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Jim Young

When it makes sense for my shareholders, when it makes sense for my customers, we're willing to put the investment in,

Jean Offutt

I don't think there's a program or any type of investment situation...the military would not be involved in anything like that at all.

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.

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.

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.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Daniel H. Pink

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

Daniel H. Pink

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

Daniel H. Pink

We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

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.

Wally Buono

A very tricky situation. Some of the salaries are at the point of being out of whack, really out of proportion.

Pat Robertson

a vote (on the Supreme Court) that reflects his point of view.

Greg Beals

At times, we've pressed to the point where it's tough. When you're not winning, it makes it even tougher to have fun.

Wayne Fischer

At some point in time you must ask, 'how much is enough?

Chris Horner

At some point in the future, there may be a market, but it's not like that's anything we've really factored into our planning.

Ray Giacoletti

Offensively, I'd say he's more of a point guard. Defensively, I'd say he's better off guarding a two.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled. The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled, ... The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Erik Hanson

The strong point of our team is defense.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Artur Davis

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Brian Van Holt

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Chuck Palahniuk

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

Alma Guillermoprieto

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

Anne Sexton

Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.

Daniel Kahneman

The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.

Rick Adelman

He's in shape, much quicker. He can do the things he used to do. Now all he has to do is sustain it.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.

Mike Smith

We're going to be on top of that very quick.

J. Taylor

There's no better way to top it off.

Charli Turner

We want the top spot. That's our goal.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Sam Nunn

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Peter Drucker

Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.