Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Buffett

I think it is a marvelous way to keep directors' interests and shareholders interests as closely aligned as possible, with both an upside and a downside component. Too often, people talk about interests being aligned when the directors get the upside and shareholders get the downside.

Martin Jacques

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Jack Messman

to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

Robert Zagunis

If you wind up with a company that is so closely aligned with one individual, like it or not, the virtues of that company are tied to the virtues of that individual. You're usually much better off with CEOs who are under the radar and just work at doing a very nice job for shareholders.

Kyril Faenov

In fact, their motivations are perfectly aligned with ours?that is, as broad a penetration as possible.

John Abizaid

Clearly, we understand that we've got an enemy that's in for the long term, al-Qaida and the associated groups that are aligned with it, ... We know that they've got a long-term strategy to fight, to gain ground, to gain influence. And it's very very clear that we've got to have the same sort of long term strategy to contest it. But the keystone to this strategy is helping the people in the region help themselves.

Kris Hagerman

The core concept around utility computing has not changed. The priorities are to solve immediate problems, and give customers the confidence that we can set them on a path towards a data center that will be more automated, and aligned with business needs.

Gabriel Lowy

The first focus is going to be continuing the growth of the business ... focus number two is getting the cost structure aligned with the new demand. I imagine we're going to see another round of downsizing ... I think it's going to be significant.

Tim Karr

The fight for Internet freedom is now being waged in earnest. On one side you have the public...on the other side you have the nation's largest telephone and cable companies, who have aligned with some in Congress to strip the Internet of the First Amendment.

Kyle Williams

I don't know who's No. 2. There are 10 to 15 teams as talented as each other, and it's all about who's going to work the hardest to get there.

Yogi Berra

The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.

Tim Purpura

The hardest thing for him, he has such a ritual, the way he prepares for a game. It got him out of sync.

Neil Diamond

All the sparkly shirts and the stage trappings - that's just the performer, the public me, ... Songwriting is the hardest and most personal thing I do. When I'm writing, I'll go into the studio at six in the morning and stay until after dark, including weekends.

Aaron Rowand

It was one last hurrah with my friends. The hardest part about being traded is you feel like you're leaving your family.

Pete Wentz

The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.

Mother Teresa

To choose always the hardest.

Milt Heflin

They make this look awfully easy. This is probably some of hardest work we've done in the human space program. I marvel at it.

Caitlyn Jenner

It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.

Joan Anderson

We should, can and most of the time do communicate with God directly. To my knowledge, angels are not necessary for anything. But God's creation is abundant, and asking "Why angels?" would be like asking why there are thousands of varieties of trees or stars, when we could get along with so much less. God Himself told us many times that He was sending angels to love and care for us, so He is the one who brought them into our lives. Therefore, even if we don't understand their entire purpose, I vote that we pay attention to them.

Robert Cormier

Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

Rob Sheffield

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

Richard Paul Evans

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Richard P. Feynman

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

Richelle Mead

He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio.

Richelle Mead

Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

Willie Aames

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.