Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

The whole concept of treating people with dignity and respect is a concept that isn't a business concept, it's a life concept. It's who you are at the end of the day.

Seth Godin

I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.

Mark Adams

This was a good thing. Whether a restaurant is smoking or non, it should be left up to the business owner.

Mike Sullivan

I think it is terrific. I'm so happy for him because he has worked so hard to get himself back into a condition where he can compete at this level. That is a testament to the type of guy that he is. We are ecstatic that he is participating in our camp.

Jeremy Tate

He knows now he can compete with anyone.

Erick Jensen

He is the most technical wrestler on our team and should definitely compete for the state title.

Chris Douthit

Hannah has been our most consistent runner. Our girls, two through eight, have been shifting around in their finishes. If they can all go out and run as strongly as they can, they can compete with the top teams.

Kevin Keatts

He's just now realizing that you have to compete and get after it every day.

Jason Varitek

He seems upbeat and he's here so I'm not going to make a big issue out of it. I guarantee you, if he's here in uniform, he's going to compete because he's done nothing but compete throughout his career.

Lance Helgeson

Historically, they've gone after donations kind of hat in hand and they've realized that they've got to compete with these people.

Wendy Larry

I thought we were really back on our heels from the jump and didn't really compete with a very, very good George Washington team in the first half at all.

Tim Barrera

It is a great opportunity for our players to compete in what should be a fun tournament. Each school will have two teams and play four games each and the winners of the two brackets will play for the tournament championship. Everyone will get a lot of playing time and it is a great way to start off the spring.

Jay Eisenhofer

He's a very intelligent guy, very dedicated, very principled.

Jay Robinson

It involved a whole lot of hard work and dedication from us both.

Penelope Cruz

He's completely different from the others, and he has a special dedication to his actors.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen

John Bingham

Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.

Eric Hoffer

The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory..

Eric Hoffer

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

Amanda Tobin

Not only is this a savings, and a safety benefit, Alaska's dedication to this project has had an influence on the FAA.

Allan Smith

Designing for sustainability requires a dedication to evaluating a product's long-term effects and lowering the environmental impact at every stage of a product's life--from materials extraction to end-of-use.

Luxon Zembe

It is much better for environmental protection and efficiency of vehicles. It (unleaded fuel) is of a higher quality and would increase efficiency of our machinery.

Zig Ziglar

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Al Diamond

If all efficiency experts were laid end to end- I'd be in favor of it

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

By reducing the number of plasmids, we increase the efficiency of virus production,

Eric Bosshard

Home Depot is seeing really good performance on sales and payback from some of the productivity initiatives and efficiency improvements they've put in place,

George Hoffman

I would think that is highly unlikely any of our employees would do that.

George Reid

I think it has improved the safety for the public and the employees that work in this building. For the most part feedback has been positive.

Melissa Norcross

In order to protect the privacy of victims' families, we will not release the names of those employees and subcontractors who have lost their lives.

Alan Pollock

The employees already have it; they were our beta-testers.

Mike Boyd

The level of compensation is outrageous when you look at the sacrifices United employees made.

John Challenger

For employees in the middle of a merger-acquisition right now, it is likely that at least one in 10 will lose their jobs because of the combination.

Janet Hansen

It's an issue of how you treat your employees and make your plans. We're not going to skip any tournaments. It makes me mad, but I'm not going to have the kids suffer for it.

Kim Petersen

The people working in these port operations, regardless of who owns them, will be exclusively American ... the same employees working for P&O.

Scott Sharp

Work-related stress is experienced by employees who do not have all that is required for their job function, it is also instrumental in leading to high turnover.

Ryan Crocker

It is a 4.5-million-dollar facility and it is state of medical art.

Charise McHugh

We may not make it. They could wake up one morning and find that the facility is closed. We owe it to them to tell them that everything isn't hunky dory.

Bill Gerstenmaier

The (Michoud) facility is in pretty good shape. The question is, what does the workforce want to do?

Allan Bristow

The big thing is where to set up offices and where to play games. We want to make sure that the first two weeks (of workouts) we're in a facility where we feel comfortable.

Tyrone Parham

It would be ideal to have the proper training facility where we can simulate incidents and train people properly.

Jeff Anderson

We have a facility we'd like filled and you have one you'd like to see stay filled.

Robert Lesley

There's no place in Carson that you can find another residential facility that will be four stories.

Mark McDonald

We talked to the architect, Darin Prost, and he showed us the plans and what the facility was going to look like.

Sean Hayes

We'll have a class-A facility in four to five years.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalization of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

James Hansen

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Omar Bongo

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

Tim Horan

None of the global joint ventures have been able to execute.

Monica Crowley

Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.

William Gray

Small sea-surface temperature changes, there's no theory why they should make for more storms. Observations verify that. When we look back in a global point of view, in the last thirty years, there hasn't been a pick up in storms.

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Ron Polk

He used to be a power pitcher, but after shoulder surgery he's had some hard luck.

Joey Cora

He didn't pitch that bad. He threw strikes, and that's the key for him. He didn't get hit hard at all. He just wasn't lucky.

Ben Braun

He can take a lot of pride knowing he is playing for a championship now as he leaves Cal. He has worked so hard over the years.

George Herman

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Sufjan Stevens

It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.

Danny Shafer

There are so many people who are working so hard to have so little these days. It's disturbing, because this is the most politics I've ever talked about out of 500 interviews.

Shari Arison

I saw things before they happened, and that scared me very much. The premonitions would always be accompanied by harsh and painful physical sensations.

David Beckham

I thought the first yellow was harsh and the second even harsher,

Dwyane Wade

I think it's what he wants. He knows he's an important option on offense and knows what we expect. I'm sure he doesn't think we've been harsh about it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves than with others

Viktor Yushchenko

Talking about the values (of the Orange Revolution) is more productive than simply opting for harsh and incomprehensible opposition,

Alex McLeish

I thought it was his hamstring. When you see him going down, you think he's torn something. But I don't want to make any harsh predictions.

Pat Riley

I don't think there should be any follow-up. I thought the penalty was harsh as it was. He was ejected. Let's move on with it, not take it to another level.

Aml Ameen

We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

James Leal

What would BBVA do with Lloyds? Will it improve the cost/income ratio, which is already very low? There are lots of unanswered questions there.

William Butler Yeats

For men improve with the years;And yet, and yet,Is this my dream, or the truth?

Kevin Johnson

I think it shows in our free-throw shooting. We were 12 out of 26 from the free-throw line. It took us too long to get into our offensive sets. We will improve on that by next season.

Jane Garvey

I think with every increased security measure that we put in place ... that will improve as well.

Martha Stewart

I think that the lady who is waiting on me at the local diner, who has kids in school and the mouths to feed, I think she probably has as nice a life as I have. And she only wants to improve her life, her lifestyle.

Ron Jirsa

We've been through the league and we've seen what we need to do to improve and we've addressed those needs (in recruiting).

Drew Neitzel

We just have to learn from this and improve with that lineup.

Simon Crisford

I think we will be recommending to Sheikh Mohammed that she stays in trainer next year because there is potential for more improvement from her.

William Baldwin

They're already a mature operation and the company's not planning to open to many more stores.

Thorsten Heins

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.

Roy H. Williams

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

Seth Godin

The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself.

Mignon McLaughlin

Elegimos aquellos que nos gusta, con los que amamos, no tenemos voz en el asunto.

Cristie Kerr

She's 16 now, so young, but she's matured quite a bit,

Steve Heiden

He's very confident. He's mature for his years. He's poised, he's confident. He was very good.

Joe Brooks

He's very strong. He's worked out with weights. He's pretty thick. He's pretty strong and he's pretty mature for a junior.

Walt Peretti

He's such a mature kid. He didn't look worried back there.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

Joe Adams

Steroids are not really needed, ... You can get nearly the same results through training.

Tony Prentice

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class.

Geoffrey Zakarian

When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Carina Perelli

This has been a much more solid operation than the one we saw in January, ... It has been a peaceable election. Voters were much better prepared.

Kazimierz Krzowski

The rescue phase of the operation is over.

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

Cilla Black

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Richard Whately

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

Russell Hoban

If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.

Russell Banks

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Woody Allen

The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.

William Whewell

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.

William Shirley

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

William J. Clinton

It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the governmental level, and in too many sectors of the high, the private sector. But it looks to me the business community may actually lead us toward a clean energy future almost in spite of government policy.

William James

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

William James

Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.

Richard P. Feynman

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Tyler Cowen

apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...

Richard Foreman

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

Richard Powers

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Samuel Wilson

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Robert M. Pirsig

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

Zhang Ziyi

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

Marc Benioff

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

Narendra Modi

Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

Mary Daubert

When the first rescuers arrived, he was still conscious. But then he went unconscious and they were unable to revive him.

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Rod Argent

I was wondering, 'Is this going to work?'

Sophocles

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.