Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Watters

Its becoming an extraordinarily diverse and multicultural area,

Leroy Shafer

We did not want one youngster to receive that much money. We felt it was becoming out of proportion.

Jorma Ollila

We didn't see mobility and the Internet becoming such a big thing, in 1995,

Harry Markowitz

Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine.

Cathy Nonas

We are a country that is becoming vastly overweight, no matter how many diets we come up with,

Dan Gilroy

We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.

Chris Mack

We're losing our diversity on that campus. The Hispanic population is growing. The black population is not. It's like our system is slowly becoming an all economically disadvantaged school system. We're losing our diversity, and that's not the real world.

Nick Roefaro

We are right on the brink of this season of becoming a serious threat to win the national championship, and I look for us to only improve in the future.

Larry Ellison

We are optimistic about becoming number one in the middleware business,

Bobby Schilling

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

John Boucher

We cannot invest enough in technology. I see that reality in my business. People can't survive in business without having a sound, deep knowledge of computer technology.

Keith Hennig

We kind of have that marked on our calendars. But we have to take care of business with a lot of other quality league opponents.

Janet Yellen

Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning.

Hideo Mizutani

Uncertainties over how Toshiba will run the nuclear power business and its financing scheme for the acquisition prompted investors to sell.

Rob Melnick

Twenty-five years from now, we'll have an opportunity to see whether Superstition Vistas turned out to be business as usual, or something very, very special.

William Armstrong

Tweeter has been losing market share to the big guys. It served a higher-end customer, and historically it differentiated itself with home audio, but that business has fallen off a cliff. No one buys stereos anymore. They buy MP3 players, and you don't need the same kind of service to sell these lower priced, lower margin products.

Cathy Merlino

We don't really know how business is. There is nothing to gauge it against, there is no one out there doing what we are doing.

Paul Dergarabedian

To have such a strong Thanksgiving and the second-best ever business in what has overall been a down year is pretty impressive. Thank goodness for Harry Potter . It has reinvigorated a lot of people to go to the movies.

Mark Takano

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Willie Nelson

What has changed is that nothing has changed. . . . That's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Ted Knight

It's easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And you've got the stock market beat. / But the man worthwhile, / Is the man who can smile, / When his shorts are too tight in the seat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Sean O'Casey

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

Larry David

I've always loathed rich people, so I've become who I've loathed, which makes it doubly difficult, if you can follow me.

Lady Gregory

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

John Cusack

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Napoleon Hill

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

Judith Butler

Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.

Josh Bernstein

If you take from the rich you give the rich less incentive. If you give what you have taken from the rich to the poor, you make the poor more dependent. Nobody wins...

Patti Smith

What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm; you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally; it's great to look at - it's a package deal.

Paul Newman

I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too. Just hope when you get to that great racetrack in the sky, that the balance will tip slightly into those things that you'd be proud of.

Mary Wollstonecraft

How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.

Marta Andreasen

Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.