Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Wenstrup

In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

Brad Stone

Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

Bobby Schilling

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Bobby Lee

I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works.

Bill Gurley

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.

Bill Gurley

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

Bing Gordon

In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.

Billy Beane

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

Betty Williams

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

Surapong Suebwonglee

I know that there is a huge number of silent people in the Thai community who are not satisfied with the protesters.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

Owen Davis

The program is open to churches, community groups, or whoever has the time. We need to match volunteers with the needy in order to help keep them independent.

Lisa Lewis

We're trying to stretch them to stay in touch with the community.

Dan Fouts

First off there is no question that LaDainian is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. His contributions off the field to the community of San Diego are as important as what he did on the field. What he did on the field was monumental.

Cormac McCarthy

Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.

Glen Ewing

This will be a nice transition. It's good to have someone in the community coaching.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Randy Osnes

We played Prairie Grove just once this year, and we won 10-0 in five innings. They will be ready, but we will be, too.

Josh Silver

We do do such a variety, especially if you consider all five records.

Bill Gates

There are many years where Waterloo is the university we hire the most people from of any university in the world. Waterloo has always been in the top five every year.

G. H. Hardy

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

Kenny McEntyre

When you get four or five players only removed from last year, it's going happen.

John McBride

This year we had five very qualified candidates.

Peter Shin

We contacted Harvard University, which also has this program in action. They had about five recoveries.

Gilbert Arenas

We have five winnable games. They're not going to be easy. We've got to go out there and play. January will tell what we're about, what we're made of. We just need to do some soul-searching and come in with some heart.

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.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Shelby Seyrafi

Who wants to be No.1 in a market which is saturated and has slow growth prospects near term.

Debby Ryan

I'm very, very low-key in general.

Paul Desmond

Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

Gin Wigmore

I'd say the key thing is to remain true to what originally got you into music. When I wrote 'Hallelujah,' it ignited me to do music because of the love and joy that I got from writing that song. Down the road, you get all of these opinions from people; just remember what got you started in the first place.

Bret Tuetken

We're not a very big team. Rebounding will be key for us.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Mackey Sasser

We've been playing good. But over the next two weeks we get to find out what we're made of. We get to play the top two teams in the conference.

Ben Horowitz

You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

Marc Benioff

We're trying to provide a platform for applications. We think that's the next level. We are trying to become the Windows of the internet.

Adrian Lyne

So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.

Ted Bahhur

We have to come back next week with a vengeance.

Rick Parry

There has been plenty of speculation and we will see next week. It's always encouraging when a player says he wants to come to Liverpool.