Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daren Beaudo

Knowing the impact area and getting it cleaned up, to us, is in a sense the most important thing.

Jon Lindhout

Just the vision of a revitalized Bellingham waterfront will make this place a desirable area for boaters. A new marina would also be big deal for the local boating industry, which plays an important role in this economy.

Douglas Porter

I suspect there will be enough positive news in other areas to persuade consumers there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the economy is moving to better times, but it will be a gradual process, and confidence may be flat in the next couple of months.

John Eade

I think investors should be ready to buy on the dips, particularly in long-term focus areas like technology or health care.

Bruce Schneider

I think in general things are getting worse, not better. There are lots of little victories. Spam is one of our industries shining victories. But there are lots of areas where we aren't doing very well.

Kjell Bondevik

It can perhaps seem that this area is plagued by an endless string of crises and that it's impossible to do anything. Then I say that a human life is a human life... and we're obligated to help.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

It can carry a nuclear warhead and it allows the regime to reach areas in far distances,

Adam Dunn

He used to come into the weight room with about 35 of his people and work out. We talked about the football team and how I was doing and if I still live in the (Houston) area where I lived. It was small talk.

Chris Shelton

He didn't get it in as far as the first one. I just put a good swing on it. I can't quite tell you why it went out of the ballpark, but the pitch was in a good spot for me. It was in an area where I could hit it hard.

Joseph Brown

It begins with one voice and builds with other voices. The collective crescendo is just now reaching a volume where we are all hearing and understanding.

Mark Heiderscheid

If you don't score for a couple of games, it really begins to prey on your confidence. All of the sudden you're wondering if you are ever going to score again. And if you don't score, you don't win, it's as simple as that.

Josh McDowell

If you look at cosmology, which is the study of the origin of the universe, whatever begins to exist, has a cause. Scientists now believe, the universe must've had a cause. The implication of that cause must be very powerful, very intelligent, immaterial, and beyond time.

Mortimer Adler

Inquiry not only begins with wonder, but usually ends with it also.

Steve King

I put up a principled vote, and I believe that my vote will be easier to defend every day as the public begins to see where the money is being spent.

Scott Turow

In each of my books a character begins to take over.

Mark Zandi

If underlying inflation begins to percolate higher, that will mean we will have to struggle with rising prices and higher interest rates.

Justin McNaull

In a lot of metro areas, this evening has the potential to be the worst rush hour. If rush hour normally begins at 4, for a lot of cities it will begin at 1 o'clock and won't let up until well after dark.

Lester Brown

The challenge is to build a new economy and to do it at wartime speed before we miss so many of the nature's deadlines that the economic system begins to unravel.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

Richard Boucher

has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.

Mark Richt

Guys like D. J. make this business worthwhile.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Amanda Lindhout

Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.

Lyssa Jenkens

Growth will continue in education and health, which have been the only steady gainers in this century. But it is now moving into business and professional services, which holds many of the highest-skilled jobs in the economy.

Greg Brenneman

There's nothing magic about working with franchisees. What you have to do is help them improve their business.

Britt Beemer

It's interesting they flipped the jobs. They want the future CEO to have experience on the domestic and international side equally. It may be that Wal-Mart looks at the international side as equal to the U.S.

Sara Rue

I wasn't one-hundred percent sure that Jenny Craig was going to be the right program for me, but I wanted to do something. So I sat down with the CEO of Jenny Craig, Patti Larchet.

Casey Silver

As chairman and CEO for the past three years, I am very proud of the films released during that time and I'm especially pleased with the films scheduled for the next 24 months. I look forward to working with the company in an independent capacity.

Anne Mulcahy

As CEO of Xerox, I am ready and privileged to lead a team of dedicated employees who are as sharply focused and committed as I am in the successful turnaround of our company.

Ben Obomanu

I've always thought about being a CEO of a Fortune 500 company. I want to put myself in a position where I can use the resources I gained by playing football.

John Challenger

Some expect CEOs to be chained to the desk. Most put in 12 or more hours a day, often working seven days a week. But we should want leaders in high-pressure situations to have time to decompress.

James Lowry

Some people would rather be the 100 percent owner of a $100 million company than the partner of a $200 million company. They feel comfortable being the CEO and the sole decision-maker.

Ken Goldstein

The September data indicate a general weakening in the job picture nationwide -- a trend we were seeing before the recent hurricanes, ... That data is consistent with the latest CEO Confidence Survey, which is also down.

William Crowell

There won't be a lot of resolutions passed here today, but the key is to get the dialogue open and to get CEOs interested in providing their customers with protection.

Charles Henderson

I would turn down the buyout offer. The main thing for me is they have excellent health-care benefits. When you look at it, $140,000 isn't really all that much after taxes. We're in a high-income bracket.

David Powers

I think investors are really pleased with what they heard about the future guidance for the second half. We think that the second half will indeed turn out to be better for Intel. It's seasonally stronger for them. At the same time, they're doing an excellent job reducing their cost.

Van Coleman

He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting touch from outside. Very, very physical kid around the basket. He doesn't mind contact.

Jason Varitek

He's dong an excellent job. Do I expect him to be perfect all year? No. but he's doing an excellent job.

Mark Basham

I think their products are very good. I think it's going to be an excellent IPO.

Willis McGahee

Cincinnati's D-linemen were great. They did a good job as far as holding us up and making us kick field goals. It was an excellent job, keeping their pads low, and just standing us up.

Joe McLaughlin

Individually we have excellent talent, but need to stay healthy because injuries will hurt us as a team.

Michael Strahan

I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.

Simo Valakari

I haven't played for a while in the league so it was nice to get back out on the field, but it was even nicer to get a result. ... Being 3-0 up, we knew that they were going to throw everything that they had and put us under pressure, but I thought that we handled it well and it was excellent just to get 3-0 up. We're playing well and scoring goals, but our game comes down to how we defend, so it was a little sad to give a goal away, but that's the game and we'll take the result.

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Sumner Redstone

We are extremely fortunate to have John, a top-notch executive with more than 25 years of experience in the service-oriented retail business, as the new leader of Blockbuster Entertainment,

James Sullivan

I have been very frustrated with what seems to be the overuse of executive session.

Lumkile Mondi

The laws effectively require that white executives replace themselves.

Barbara Stewart

It's the top executive who wants to live the way he lives elsewhere--in a fine, fine building, in an extraordinary living space.

Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Howard Dean

That's how we're going to fix Medicare, is to get somebody who has executive experience in governing, particularly in health care, ... With me, you'll get results, because I'm a governor and I've done it.

William Crawford

We have executives running this city. We need to wait for a master plan to make a decision? It's part of my frustration.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.

Ian Mckellen

There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

Russell Simmons

Whatever they can imagine for themselves they can accomplish.

John Schuerholz

I think it's obvious. If he doesn't do what he's doing for us, I can only imagine where we'd be. I can't imagine a player on a winning team being more valuable to his team than he's been.

William Rhodes

I'd imagine over time you'll see more moves,

Richard M. Nixon

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time — it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.

Roger Waters

I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.

Romesh Gunesekera

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

Jon Gruden

I really didn't imagine this scenario. But usually those are the scenarios that come to be.

Frank Allocco

His improvement from last season to this season was dramatic. He worked his tail off to get better in all facets. I can't imagine a more improved player.

Tadashi Yanai

At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

James Spithill

Going to the gym on my own I struggle with, but when I'm in there with a teammate or a group of guys, it's the ultimate environment.

Kirk Gibson

I got to experience a world championship with some great teammates.

Kelly Clark

I was having a conversation with one of my teammates and she asked me, "Aren't you so glad it's over? We don't have to compete anymore." I thought that was a strange comment but in that moment I realized that I was doing it for the right reasons. I wasn't looking at the Olympics to define me. I wasn't to arrive somewhere by performing well in a contest.

Pedro Martinez

I love my teammates, and I'll do anything for them.

Curt Shaw

When Jared got hot, his teammates got him the ball.

David Ortiz

My teammates are the best.

Dwight Howard

I want to be held accountable. I want my teammates and my coaches to push me to be the best that I can be.

Dwight Howard

I just want to show Atalanta who I really am and show my teammates what kind of teammate I am.

Dwight Howard

I know who I am and what kind of teammate I've always been.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.