Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorenzo Codogno

As always, protectionism doesn't work. The past resistance to change has resulted in the Italian banking system being still affected by fragmentation, with plenty of small-scale players.

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

Kelly Preston

As a mom, I am going through a very painful experience and my child is going through a very traumatic and painful experience. So I didn't want to say anything that could affect him later in life.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Duncan Hunter

Prior to September 11, 2001, illegal immigration was considered a regional issue without national implications. We quickly learned on that day, however, that this is a national issue, affecting each and every American, not just those living in border communities like San Diego County,

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious-they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Mark Hansen

Probably the most important thing in developing an emergency plan for the agricultural operation is to include the family and employees in the process. By helping to develop the plan, the other family members and employees take more ownership in making the plan work and in helping think of ways to protect the business. After all, everyone is affected if an emergency or disaster causes a disruption in operations, even if it's only for a week or two.

Marc Rotenberg

Privacy is the number one issue facing the Internet, and the need to resolve the problems created by junk mail will affect the future of the online world for many years to come.

Dwight Datcher

As being a Washingtonian I just think that Howard is a great institution. I mean this Gym was built in what 1963, so of course there are some things that need to be improved upon. So I need to get the student-athletes that have graduated to give back, because that is what is going to get us going. I have to convince the alumni to get on board, because there are some things that the university can't do alone.

Chris Johns

We wanted something so people who are interested in the program can stay in touch. I think it's going to be especially useful for alumni who are out of the area now.

Sunil Mehta

Every time we have an outsourcing forum, it's like a GE and McKinsey alumni association meeting.

Dave Checketts

The fact that we have 44 to 50 alumni that still live here and still love St. Louis ... I want those guys involved with us, working for us.

Rebecca Cook

Funding from the Alumni Association MasterCard Grant program and a co-sponsoring from the undergraduate Student Government got things started.

Ann Kaplan

One of the reasons for Princeton's lower rank could be that it is a smaller school. Plus, it raises a disproportionate amount from alumni as opposed to other institutions with large corporate donations.

Joe Martin

I got her started, she had two vocal coaches, one an Eastern alumni and Jerry Daniels, professor of voice here, I have to give them most of the credit.

Larry Pleau

Some of the guys and our alumni were talking about how great he played in that game. It was a great experience for him.

Bruce Huff

The alumni team we're going to put together will include two years before they moved to the Gardens, when they played at Ontario Arena at Western Fair and were called the CNRA London Nationals.

P. J. Harvey

This is not a story of donors being mean. This is a story of a failed system.

Peter Bate

What donors find useful is to provide resources to try to guide the main work of these organizations so they go as far upstream as they can when the projects are being prepared to ensure the projects acknowledge their development priorities.

Don Stewart

When they leave the program, when they turn 18, The Haven will match up to $1,000 of whatever they save. Then, at the end of 12 months of the Turning Point program with Turtle Nest, whatever they've been able to save during that 12-month period, our donors will match up to $2,500.

Cheryl Linberg

The donors felt like they had done a lot on the early fall. Then, we didn't get as much as we normally do around the holiday season, which left us at the start of the new year with our shelves quite bare.

Ken Williams

It's really all about trust. If donors give money to meet a specific need, we need to tell them when that projected need has been met.

Brian Tracy

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Baltasar Gracian

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

E. L. Konigsburg

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

Deepak Chopra

Pursue excellence; ignore success.

Thornton Wilder

All excellence is equally difficult.

T. D. Jakes

Excellence requires discomfort.

Rumi

We must die to become true human beings.

Tom Peters

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Tom Peters

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

Mark Peters

We did last week reject a $3 million offer for (the Begg-trained three-year-old) Written Tycoon, so to say that we, or even I, are in any financial trouble is presumptuous to say the least.

Miroljub Labus

There are no financial means in the country.

Alan Greenspan

Because it is a highly leveraged operation and one which requires very sophisticated hedging of interest rate risk, it's imparting a significant potential systemic risk to the American financial system,

Cisco Systems

disclosed all required financial information about the holdings of our officers and directors.

Patricia Scherschel

Consolidation is an important financial option. You want to make the right decision, so do your homework before you sign on the dotted line.

Salih Mutlaq

To be honest, we don't have the financial resources. We don't have any television channels.

H. Hart

We are always vulnerable as a financial center, as we have been for the last three decades.

Kris Everson

We didn't mean to hurt anybody. We did it out of financial reasons.

Bernie Sanders

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Mark Elliott

Everything we do this year is for us to peak at the national tournament.

Dick Cheney

There's nothing that's more important to us, because at the end of the day, our national security is at stake,

Stuart Sternberg

We've received a lot of national press. It's been positive, and it's had a spillover to a lot of national sponsorship deals.

Pitso Mosimane

Throw in national call-ups and it's been tough for my team.

Leith Kubba

We want this trial to be transparent and a national event.

Rod Wright

We made a pact that we were going to win a national championship. Now, we need to get it done.

Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Sienna Miller

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

Martin Amis

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.