Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kwame Brown

The thing is, the whole thing stems from Gilbert telling them not to put me in the game. I didn't come to practice because I was going to be a distraction. I was going to slap ... him. I'll admit it, what I did was wrong -- not showing up was wrong -- but I ain't saying what I would've done if I showed up would've been right. Being that I didn't show up I didn't put my hands on nobody. How a teammate, a supposed friend, would go to a coach and tell him don't put me in a game, I would've done something seriously wrong to him.

P. Gouthey

Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed.

Beckie Scott

I wanted to be on the podium. That's what I was going for and I missed it. This has happened a few times in the past. I've been fourth at a world championships. It's a hard place to be, I'll admit it. I'll live.

Richard LeVine

Tell them that when someone leaves a PDA in a cab, the company might go out of business. Look, Dude, we might go out of business because the company has to admit that it lost customer data or corporate lists.

Nigel Dennis

Rather ordinary really - I grew up in the UK, was terribly bored at school (and I have to admit rather rebellious, but this was the late sixties!), but got as far as passing A levels..

Greg Mitchell

It would be nice if Cohen would admit that, like Bush, he chose poorly, with disastrous consequences.

David Greer

It would be best for one to admit to this wrongdoing. To give some semblance of closure to the family who has been stricken with this tragedy.

Frank Melton

It was a lie, I've already admitted that. It was a terrible mistake. I had no intention to mislead this court.

Chris Gratton

I signed here last summer to come here and (want) to stay as long as I can. I love it here, and I don't want to move. I'm not afraid to admit that.

Craig Benson

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

William Williams

The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.

David Healy

The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Roland Martin

Radio has always been a niche business. Cable television has always been a niche business. Magazines have always been a niche business.

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.

John Cole

Private equity firms know you can't wring every last cent out of a business if you want a successful exit - you have to leave some opportunities on the table, some potential to grow.

John Pike

Private companies are in business to make money,

Paula Creamer

People thought it was absurd, ... I heard a lot of things. But you've got to take care of your own business out here.

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Mark Baldwin

As Britain's only large-scale touring contemporary dance company, Rambert performs on some of the largest stages this country has

Scott Harris

Our customers no longer design in isolation. They need to create, manage, and share information throughout and outside their company in order to realize their ideas.

Walter Price

People felt that this is a very tightly controlled company with a lot of levers they can pull.

Jeffrey Logsdon

The music division is now going to be doubled in size. They're going to be the leading music company in the world.

Dean Breest

Strikes by either pilots or flight attendants would not be good for our customers, the company or our employees.

Steve Asmussen

Storm Treasure is an extremely laid-back horse and will do anything you want. He's very good company for Private Vow. You want someone with enough talent that Private Vow gets something out of it. Private Vow is a much quicker horse than Storm Treasure, and obviously for the Derby we need (Private Vow) to settle more than he has. That's what we're working on and will continue to do. Private Vow has always been fast enough.

Paul Meeks

Storage has been a very strong market and this company is definitely a leader.

Jared Diamond

One could say that Patagonia is radically environmentalist, a company that's founded on those principles. But there are other examples, too. I spoke at a World Wildlife Fund dinner fundraiser last October hosted and funded by Starbucks.

Michael Otto

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Ken McBride

We ran a first market test in 2004, and we estimated that a third of the total images -- a third of the total sheets we printed -- were in fact corporate logos.

Zhang Qi

Share prices will hinge on corporate earnings in the short term.

Marc Faber

If you are eager to invest in countries that have good corporate governance, don't invest in emerging economies,

Edward Menashy

If we look at 2006, the expectation is identical to the start of 2005. People are talking about a slowdown and therefore corporate earnings growth will also slow down.

John Augustine

If the economy is as strong as the Fed is worried about, that's going to mean better corporate earnings.

Mark Johnson

I was going to work for a big corporate defense firm, while Laura was taking a human-rights law fellowship.

Charles E. Wilson

I would have to be the repository of the corporate memory. I would have to make sure what we did the last three years is relevant to what we do in the next three years.

Paul Levine

I would guess that the trend is to the downside for the time being. With oil up around $55 a barrel, the economy slowing, corporate profits slowing, I think the market remains vulnerable.

Richard Harmon

Our customer is one that wants to live the Big Event.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Bill Miller

The start of production and the first shipment to a customer represent significant milestones for MED. There is still much to do but we look forward to 2006 with confidence.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Jacob Arabo

Your wife will be very happy, ... If she's not, send her back. One thing about our company, customer satisfaction is guaranteed.

Dan Ryan

This really is a new application driven by the customer base.

David Porter

We decided that for this holiday season we should be involved in some type of offering. We know our customers match up with his fans.

Dave Andrews

We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus larger, occasional rate increases.

Peter Pawlak

Customers can download these patches just as they would a Microsoft patch.

Michael Mahoney

Applications are the only place where you can get the type of growth to justify a premium multiple for Oracle's stock. Going forward, Oracle will get 10 percent growth out of the database side at best.

Albert Lin

Right now the industry is all about data traffic.

Geoff Kendrick

The risks are now skewed to the upside (on U.S. interest rates). 4.75 may be a done deal (in March) and depending on how the data goes, 5 percent may become a done deal as well.

James Graf

This spacecraft will return more data than all previous Mars missions combined.

Brian Mastenbrook

To weigh them, you need at least three people at the weigh station, but without weighing them we can get by with just one person. We weighed them in the past, but that was really more of a service to the hunters. It's not part of the data we really need. It doesn't help us much as far as management decisions.

Kornelius Purps

We had positive inflation data out of Europe, and the U.S. as well. It's the starting point for yields to come down again.

David Spergel

We have even more recent data than these three-year results, since the project has been running for four and a half years.

Beth Givens

This type of data should not have been on someone's laptop.

W. S. Gilbert

We were thrilled to find this sort of effect and are very interested in investigating it further. The evening I first reviewed the split-brain patient data I called people at home in my excitement to share the findings.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Baha'u'llah

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

Dave Tippett

I thought tactically we were pretty good, but we were a little sloppy at the end, which leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Walt Whitman

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Jason Wallace

That leaves it up to me to make plays and open it up for him, and then we'll be pretty interchangeable.

Josh Franco

It puts a strain on you. It leaves us wondering what are we going to do?

Marek Hlasko

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

Gbola Amusa

The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Aaron Woods

Once we lost our steam supply, we were unable to recover and prevent the event that occurred on Wednesday, March 1.

Andrew Engel

I've never lost to Severna Park. Everyone says that they are the better team, but we've got to go out there and prove it every time we play.

Kevin Grace

The store manager of the Tacoma Levitz told me 45,000 people lost their money at Levitz.

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Gerard Hopkins

I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

Christopher Davis

It wouldn't be catastrophic if they lost it.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

George H. W. Bush

We might have an idea, ... They have been around before.