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,

Paras Adenwala

Any business related to infrastructure, especially power, will do well in a growing economy like India.

J. B. Pritzker

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

Mike McCall

Any business needs to be in the position to be profitable, and we are profitable. That makes it easy to make decisions to help our customers.

Paul Goode

A number of mobile applications are driven by TV gaming, which is frankly not at the forefront of the business mind. You could look at entertainment as being a Trojan horse to the business community.

Marc Roberge

a number of management changes to streamline the company's organizational structure and sharpen the focus of its business activities.

Stuart Levey

Any entity maintained by a terrorist group - whether masquerading as a charity, a business or a media outlet - is as culpable as the terrorist group itself.

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.

Bill Buford

Her travel writing was characterized by a high moral purpose and an overwhelming sense of justice. What distinguishes her journalism is her eloquent outrage and commitment to fair play.

Neil Callaway

I think the commitment that Shock made to come back makes him a special type person. A lot of people would have bolted, but he hung in here with us, and we're grateful for that.

Peter Ragone

Today he informed the mayor that he is going to take on that role. The man should be lauded for his commitment to the city.

William J. Clinton

The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.

Richard Schickel

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

Robert Rauschenberg

I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.

Robert M. Hutchins

America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.

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.

Karl Albrecht

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

Jeff Bezos

You want your customers to value your service.

James Utzschneider

The goal for what we're doing with this event is to talk to our customers about Microsoft's vision for delivering solutions in the mid-market.

Michael Dell

This is a huge and very important leap forward in terms of what customers want from their PCs and the related products that go around them,

Eric Snider

Everyone is saying their customers are valuable, and the last thing you want to do is rent names out.

Edmund Mierzwinski

Everyone has a right to make money, ... But what they're doing is taking disgruntled customers and converting them into longer-term customers by some sleight of hand.

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.

David Christian

Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.

Klaus Toepfer

There are also global implications, not least because a pollution parcel like this, which stretches three kilometers high, can travel half way round the globe in a week.

Kerry Emanuel

When you look at global hurricane activity, you really do see a trend. It's up everywhere.

Klaus Zumwinkel

This transaction is a major strategic step in Deutsche Post's development and represents the continuation of our strategy to become the leading global logistics company.

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.

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,

Robert Stephens

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

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.

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?

Alexander Calder

The next step in sculpture is motion.

Aldous Huxley

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Aldous Huxley

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

Aldous Huxley

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

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,

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

Pam Kirkbride

Sticking to it is getting harder, but we're doing 300 percent more than we were doing three weeks ago.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

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.

Stephen Sommers

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

Lou Lamoriello

I don't look at it as a step back by any means.

John Clayton

He'll end up here. You're not going to see any other teams step up.

Damian Williams

It'll come. We've just got to take it one step at a time.

Sidney Crosby

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that I have to accept, ... I don't think there was ever a time where I stepped back and said 'I wish I was doing something different.'

Mike Stratton

They were stepping in it and stepping on it.