Famous Quotes & Sayings

Menander

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Greg Abbott

working diligently to get something out by the end of September.

P. J. O'Rourke

Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.

Rhys Ifans

The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you're lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you're playing, I'd say, 'It's obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.'

John Lau

This is a tremendous accomplishment for Husky Energy and our stakeholders with whom we have worked diligently to ensure this mega project meets the highest standards of quality and safety.

Greg Puhalski

This was as good as we've competed in awhile. It was a good bounce-back game from Wednesday. It was a good effort. It was a matter of playing better hockey. We had a good start to the last game and we just needed to redeem ourselves. We have to be a hard-working team and extremely diligent in our efforts. I thought we did a lot of the little things tonight pretty well.

Jim Calhoun

Tonight I'll probably keep my eye on the two point guards very diligently to see what they do.

Brent Smith

Everything is going to focus around the record, which he is diligently working on now. It's no different from any other hip-hop act; we're going to look for the right opportunities.

Larry Harkovich

We will work diligently to get it. We will see what they can do.

Nick Hanauer

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.

Frances Beinecke

The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.

Gordon Nixon

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Jim Roche

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

Steve Previs

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

Chuck Hill

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

Richard Chamberlain

When you've never had much money and earned little as an actor the first two years, you tend to save your money.

Holly Lisle

I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.

Ken Hitchcock

We want first badly. As hard as we've worked, we've earned that right. At one time, before we were decimated by injuries, we were first overall in points. Today and Friday are points we must have.

Mark Cuban

I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.

Pauline Flynn

Well be inspired by these poles and their messages for years to come.

Eric Clapton

It's been so long since I've been around something from somebody else that's inspired me. For the last 20 years, it's been up to me to inspire me.

Ben Marsh

They played inspired defense. They simply took it to us.

Billy Donovan

They've been able to inspire a lot of different people... people that maybe are really, really in need.

Matthew Bourne

It's a piece of theater that's been inspired by a movie that we all love. But it has to surprise people who know the film really well.

David Krumholtz

I came away from that set [ Hail, Caesar !] super inspired, and like I said, it ruined all future endeavors. I'll never have as good an experience as that.

Eleanor Norton

The tests we've had do not inspire confidence,

Peter Forsberg

Stop motion is a visual look that has inspired so many movies and moviemakers, from the original 1933 'King Kong' to, now, Tim Burton.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

David Brenner

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

Ben Stiller

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

Armstrong Williams

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

Armstrong Williams

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Denis Waitley

The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.

Deborah Kerr

At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.

Denis Waitley

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends.

Bob Brown

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

Bill Gross

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

Arabian Proverb

A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.

Babe Ruth

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Ayn Rand

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Brian Aldiss

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Juvenal

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.