Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Gunter Grass

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

Bob Leib

For the last several years, as you know, we've demonstrated outstanding growth in student achievement, and it didn't happen by accident.

Andy Xie

If growth in the U.S. slows significantly, all of Asia's exporters will feel it.

Vladimir Putin

There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour productivity growth rates. This is obvious. The overall demographic situation is very complicated.

Vladimir Putin

It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.

Richard Estrada

So we said, let's organize this huge march of the pueblo, of the people.

Steve Lowery

It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Richard Sullivan

This is the first time we have been able to predict such a huge improvement in long-term survival,

Terry Ryan

Last year we won 83 games, which was a huge disappointment for us. Eight, nine years ago I would have been thrilled to win 83. That's no longer the case.

Todd Whetsel

That was a huge win for our team. You don't want to have to be in that play-in game. Even if you win, you're playing Stratford in the first round and you don't want to see them in the first round.

Marty Barnes

That was a huge steal by Kyle to set all that up.

John Buck

That was a huge inning for us to get the momentum back.

Alex Stepheson

It doesn't make a huge impact on the decision. It's nice to know who you are playing with and what kind of team you will have.

Igor Shpilband

People try to be new. Sometimes they push it a little too far, I agree. I like innovation instead of repeating something that has been done.

Craig Mundie

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

Steve Case

For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.

Tom Peters

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Michael Dell

If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.

Michael Dell

Collaboration equals innovation.

Edith Widder

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Edwards Deming

Innovation comes from the producer -- not from the customer.

Ludwig von Mises

The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Alice Barrett

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

Shere Hite

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

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.