Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kyle McSlarrow

Such a massive government intrusion into how a broadband service like video is marketed, offered and priced would undoubtedly chill the needed innovation and investment necessary to build out capital intensive networks that rely on the marketplace to determine the most economically effective way to provide a return on investment.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Kevin Rollins

Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,

Robert Phillips

Coke is down because of disappointing earnings and lackluster second-half estimates, ... Everyone is eagerly awaiting the new CEO's business plan.

Tamika Catchings

Coming of losses to good teams - Connecticut and Washington -- we knew we needed this one. We want homecourt for the playoffs and that means we have got to take care of business at home or on the road.

David Smith

Developing online presence tools is a strategic move, with more businesses showing an interest in hosted share-points, for example. The company's strategy is to extend its business software offerings to Web platforms.

Kathy Sierra

Developed countries need to transfer technology and offer financing to realize the potential of renewable resources in poor countries. This makes good business sense. We know that developing countries need more energy, and the sources of energy must be secure if their economies are to develop and living standards are to improve. Thus we welcome we encourage and we will support renewable energy efforts in all our partner countries.

Alan Oster

Despite improvements in confidence and still reasonable sales, the results suggest that business is still reluctant to increase hiring.

Anthony Thompson

deteriorates markedly further from here, and threatens the strong business investment outlook.

John Ensign

We all have a commitment to this and we need to keep our eye on the ball,

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

Steve Mahoney

If artists want to have people come to their shows and buy their merchandise, they really have to make a commitment to those fans and bring the best music, shows and interaction that they can. This is something that won't change with technology or economy.

Mike Easley

My commitment is still going to be to improving our schools at every opportunity,

Michael Carty

Markets tend to be very uneasy during the election year. One of the problems is that no one wanted to make a big commitment without knowing who was going to be at the helm.

Fernando Meirelles

I think I was very lucky with this. Not only because they're good actors but because of their commitment. I was not expecting that level of commitment with stars.

Ian Somerhalder

For me, commitment boils down to honor.

Jim Dale

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

Jerry Bridges

When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Peter Pawlak

Customers can download these patches just as they would a Microsoft patch.

Harvey Houtkin

We don't sell our customers' orders and then get a kickback for it, ... father of electronic trading.

Andrew Murphy

We have some exciting new lines and reinvigorated stores. Customers are going where they know they can rely on traditional good service.

David Stevens

It does not make us in partnership with our customers (in encouraging conservation) as much as we'd like to be.

Terry Marshall

Just identifying our top companywide customers was hard to do.

David Bergmann

I don't pay a health and safety fee to restaurants. If they want to raise the price of the meal, that's fine. But customers shouldn't order something and not know what is going into the bill.

Michael Doyle

Comcast Video Mail offers our customers a powerful and poignant way to communicate how and when they want.

Tony Brown

I have a huge problem with generated power, ... Maybe the equipment is substandard or maybe you oversold the capabilities.

Scott Simons

Our feeds quit because of the equipment failure.

David Millar

I think if I get the training spot on, the equipment perfect and I'm in the right state of mind, I can get a result there from no competitive action.

Tommy Franks

We're taking part in a global war on terrorism,

Markos Kyprianou

We have not yet reached the level of preparedness that we should have. This is a global threat and there is need for international action.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Joel Denney

It's a good fit. It'd be a very strong global airline,

Eugene Christiansen

There is immense global consolidation in this industry. Everyone is a target. No one is safe. That might be in their minds.

Tom Schoewe

Wal-Mart has only 3 percent of global market share. So there's still tremendous opportunity for expansion,

Gerard Butler

It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's the political global backdrop? What are our threats? What are we vulnerable to? Because that's what an audience vibes on - that is what people are interested in, universally.

Peter Blair Henry

Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Doug Firebaugh

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

Al Leiter

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

Kevin Connors

With Photoshop we already have the leading position in the photo-editing market. But we always see room for making it better.

Glenn Smith

People thought he was messing with Mark White. It embarrasses the governor.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Bob Dinneen

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Peter Kalikow

today marks a turning point in the relationship of the MTA and its unions.

Mike Viracola

The trend on the market is still down,

Kate Warne

What an ugly day. A day you didn't want to be around to watch. It was just a market that was nervous and unhappy about the news of the day.

Mark Skousen

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Hans Vestberg

For us, we are moving a company that has been around for 137 years to the next level so that we can be there for the next 137 years.

Alexander Calder

The next step in sculpture is motion.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Jeff Linenfelser

We put a lot of time in to get him ready. He was 100 percent ready for the fight. What are you going to do?

Pat Griffin

I'd say I spend 90 percent of my time in the Terrain Park.

John Smedley

I'd say we're about 70 percent of the way there.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Dave Thomas

In my class, there were about 50 percent students there.

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Sarah Lowe

When I stepped up there, I just told myself that I had to relax. I had to put myself in a different place and just not even worry about the score, not worry about anything.

Ernesto Hernandez

We stepped on American soil, we shouldn't be here.

Brian Rolston

We stepped it up tonight, and if we do that we can be in it. We can make the playoffs.

Ron Kaufman

Even a tiny step is one step closer to where you are going.

Stephen Sommers

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.