Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

Jeffrey Immelt

The strength of the GE model really shines during slower parts of the business cycle, ... have reduced GE's sensitivity to business cycles.

Tom Flynn

The strength of small business is clear and is the focus of this study.

Ivan Clark

The strategy is still the same. We are going to buy up where the business is doing well.

Dan Stevenson

The small business types don't have an IT department. It's either the business owner or some other employee that's wearing multiple hats.

William Dunkelberg

The small business sector is clearly slowing, but there are no signs of 'disorder' in the exiting, ... This is good news for the Fed, which expressed its pleasure by hinting at rate cuts if things slowed too quickly.

Dana Smith

The small business committee has been very, very active. Eighty-five percent of our members have 25 or fewer employees, which is the criteria for the award.

Ewa Kopacz

I am a doctor - it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people.

Neil Fox

On fellow judge Simon Cowell: "Simon is very demonstrative, very old-school music biz. He calls me darling but he is definitely not gay.

Bill Gates

I think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that? Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.

Michael Myers

We'd rather go forward, but we have to play within the defense, and if it calls for us to drop, we drop.

Charles Dickens

He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! . . . And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Janet Robinson

The idea to hold a student film competition came to me about two years ago after receiving a number of calls from parents complaining about not understanding the film classification ratings, and in particular, the Parental Guidance rating.

David E. Price

You watch. Then the phone calls will really start coming.

Jon Gruden

You can't worry about instinct. You have to do what you feel is right at the time, do your homework and make the calls. You have to live with the calls you make and if your heart is in it, at least you feel good at the end of the night, no matter what happens.

Tony Fadell

I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not.

Rod Thorn

We've started looking at other options because players that we may have an interest in are either signing every day or they are about to sign.

John Carver

We could've won it after either slam, simply by saying (Teague) couldn't continue. But that's not the way we want to do things.

Libby Turner

Either purposely or inadvertently, they were abusing the system.

Mike Huckabee

I never, ever, had a person who could come up with the name of a person who could not get a job because an illegal immigrant had stepped in front of them, because it was either a job that person didn't want to do or didn't exist.

Tom Owens

You either wise up or you kiss your family goodbye, and you go on to eventual self-destruction. ...But don't take your kids with you.

Lee Raymond

You either retire or die, and I'd just as soon not die.

Mahmoud Abbas

You either provide me support so that I can be loyal to this trust you have put in me, or you take it back,

Donna Martin

You either move on or you don't. If you don't, you're not getting better. We moved on today.

Edward Snowden

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Donald Trump

I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the United States government, because of my balance sheet, which they actually know very well, chose me to do the Old Post Office, between the White House and Congress, chose me to do the Old Post Office.

Bob Herman

What I do, with the office schedule I don't schedule regular things past 2:30 p.m. - unless its an emergency. There are many time I have not been able to make practice. The office comes first.

Michael Scott

Wikipedia is the best thing ever.

Mason Cooley

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Mae West

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Michael Newdow

No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

Mark Twain

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

Dylan Moran

People walk past me in the street and look at me, but because they think I work in their office and they can't remember my name.

Todd McFarlane

About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

Seth Godin

Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

Skylar Astin

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.

John Ball

For sure, he would have wanted me to play. At least I got to talk to him on the phone (Saturday) morning.

Laura Harper

She makes the phone calls; she makes the visits. It's not some assistant. She doesn't make you feel wanted; she makes you feel needed.

J. B. Smoove

Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?

Frank Zappa

He just got in the car, but the batteries dead. So he asks to use the phone and she gives him some head.

Jennifer Westfeldt

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring,

Jeff Perry

I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.

Steven Boylan

I know this is a big one, but I can't say if it is related to anything that is going on.

Erika Yowell

We did respond saying yes, we would be interested.

David Aus

It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all year.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

Alain de Botton

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

Derrick Rose

I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.

E. B. White

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

Adam Carolla

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

Chuck Palahniuk

To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.

Chuck Palahniuk

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

Christopher Nolan

Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. In that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. They become essential collaborators. The main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.

Christopher Paolini

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Billy Corgan

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

PewDiePie

I'm not out to max my income. I think my viewers would call me on that right away if I did.

Adam Carolla

I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.

David Attenborough

Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.

David Petersen

Naturally and logically, people who forage rather than herd domestic beasts and tend crops for a living - that is, people who depend utterly on wild as opposed to agriculture nature for their welfare - inevitably come to view themselves as merely an element of it all, one member of an egalitarian community, alternately eating and being eaten.

David Livingstone

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.