Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Monahan

Once you get show business in your blood, you can't get it out,

Idris Jala

On current business assumptions, course and speed, we will surely fail unless we radically change the way we run our business.

Manuel Cunha

One day will not destroy a business. But one day could hurt a business because of trying to pick up lost time.

Steve Miller

No, we have to sit down and do a business plan. We have to get back to Detroit and get to work.

Pip Coburn

No way should Lucent's numbers be viewed as a sign that the business is turning around. They're coming off a horrible base.

Ilian Evtimov

Now it's our business to keep on moving forward.

Adewale Ogunleye

Now, he knows it's a business. He just comes to work every day and tries to work hard.

Gary Barnett

Novell is keeping a promise it made last year to invest in delivering a desktop that is designed for the business user, rather than for experienced Linux users.

James Gleick

Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.

Jim Mills

Currency trading has been one of the fastest-growing segments of the electronic trading universe in recent years. As a pioneer in this market, Gain Capital has helped drive the growth of the market and has become a highly profitable company.

Larry Flowers

No one knows what the cost of gas or coal is going to be in the future. But once past the capital costs, we can figure what wind-produced electricity will be cost.

Arnie Berman

One week does not a capital markets make.

Liz Sweeney

Management will need to carefully monitor operating results and capital spending over the next two years in order to maintain the rating. Failure to meet projections could result in a rating or outlook change.

Mark Gordon

I think the public has always been fascinated by crime. Crime in American fiction dates from the 20s, 30s and 40s in potboiler novels and film noir, not to mention tabloid journalism. In the past few years, TV just figured out a way to capitalize on that in a different manner.

Renee Chen

High global commodity prices should have helped to underpin the import value of raw materials, but imports of capital goods probably remained subdued.

Rod Eddington

I'm confident that we'll complete with 3i (venture capital group), but there are a couple of people waiting in the wings,

Marc Andreessen

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

Gore Vidal

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

Brian Tracy

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

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.

Stephen Bennett

Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter. The company's performance positions us to end the year on track to meet our stated revenue and pro forma profit goals.

Tim Wallace

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

Henri Nouwen

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

Henry Cloud

Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.

Jim Loehr

We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed - with energy and engagement - and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.

Eric Barden

A lot of the distinctions that are taken as conventional wisdom, or even gospel, don't necessarily make a lot of sense to us. For example, growth stocks can be undervalued, and value stocks can be overvalued.

Cody Acree

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Jim Young

When it makes sense for my shareholders, when it makes sense for my customers, we're willing to put the investment in,

Bobby Cox

He looked like a 20-game winner today. He really did. He can't pitch any better than he did today.

Phil Garner

We send them (Marlins) out of town with no change. After those first two games, it looked bleak.

Raymond Jones

I wanted to see what the world looked like.

B. R. Hayden

They looked at a number of scenarios for operating the plant, and they could not come up with anything that would meet the air-quality requirement. We don't know how long that will take.

Marc Savard

It's the first time I've seen him, and he looked pretty good. He made some big saves.

Malik Allen

It just looked a lot worse than it was.

Rob Scuderi

It's fine. It looked worse than it was. My parents were actually watching, and they said it looked pretty bad, but it's fine. No big deal.

Kate Jenkinson

What I like about Rebel's style of comedy is she never plays the victim... she's never been fazed by her shape; it's just the way it is. She would mock her appearance whatever she looked like.

Gloria Steinem

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Jay Wright

The timing of this is incredible. I know it looks like we really planned this well.

Clarke Peters

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Aldous Huxley

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

Doug Stanhope

AA makes Scientology look credible,

Christopher Paolini

Do I look dead to you?!

Alice Sebold

You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.

Robert Henri

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

Talib Kweli

I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Nicholson Baker

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Alex Brown

I don't know that we've got his number yet.

Richard J. Needham

When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

Clayton Christensen

I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert.

Clayton Christensen

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

Daniel Kahneman

However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

Daniel Kahneman

Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot.

Daniel Kahneman

Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.

Daniel Kahneman

Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.

D. A. Carson

At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.

D. H. Lawrence

She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry, she broke away.

Conrad Black

While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.

Swami Vivekananda

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.

Peter Drucker

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each man's strength to help all the others perform. The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.

Peter Drucker

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

Marlo Thomas

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

Marjorie Holmes

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Every obstacle in his journey became a milestone, an occasion for further triumph. We have a model in front of us now, a model who blazes our trail and gives us strength.

Mignon McLaughlin

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

John Ruskin

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Masashi Kishimoto

The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten