Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jordan

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players andnever win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing tosacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, inthe end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individualgoals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullestis that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accoladeswill take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork andintelligence win championships.

Tom Lehrer

And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

Smiley Blanton

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Linda McMahon

Making these operations more efficient is critical to achieve our long-term goal of expanding our proprietary product offerings,

Steve Sanghi

Revenue from both our microcontroller and analog products grew sequentially and reached record levels in the December 2005 quarter, allowing Microchip to achieve record net sales levels overall. Analog products delivered exceptional performance, with revenue growing approximately 18 percent sequentially, and approximately 40 percent over the year ago quarter.

Carlos Rivera

Perez Documet and the other military officials want one thing: to make sure Luis Alberto won't talk. To achieve this, they want him dead.

Dale Marshall

Political leadership is all that's missing to achieve emissions cuts of 30 to 40 percent.

Joe Moglia

Positive economic indicators have invigorated individual investors' interest and confidence in the markets, causing trading activity to exceed our expectations. This, along with increased client balances and their resulting yields, has helped us achieve what we expect to be a record quarter.

Hitesh Sheth

No. 1, whatever we do is standards-based, so there is no vendor lock-in for the customer. You can achieve integration of security into existing infrastructure and do that incrementally, as opposed to ripping out what you already have in the network to achieve your security goals.

Ogden Nash

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Kevin Morgan

This night and America Supports You is important to the ownership and organization entirely due to the deep respect that we hold for the men, women and families that serve our military. We want to help in any way we can to show gratitude and make these families understand that we do care and our country cares about the men and women that serve.

Julius Rosenberg

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

Bernie Sanders

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

Bernie Sanders

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

Bernie Sanders

When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.

Bernie Sanders

...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.

Bernie Sanders

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

Bobby Carter

They (Terre Haute North) execute so well. To be able to win 14 games in the conference they play in (Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference) shows how good they are.

Matt Watson

You don't want to lose any conference games. We're just trying to get some wins in the conference. We're going to try to turn it around.

Ned Riley

The focus point of the market this week is going to be tomorrow. If anything, I'm hoping for neutrality out of the Fed.

Ellen Glasgow

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ...

Brad Soderberg

It's just disappointing. I don't really have good answers. ... Maybe I will (feel good about what the team has done) at the end of the year. I don't feel good right now. The quality of our play hasn't been good for two games in a row. That's my measuring stick. You focus on the quality and the wins come.

Hugh Johnson

It's encouraging, but let's not forget that the focus is on the third quarter and beyond, and that looks a little gloomier,

Jeff Tjornehoj

It seems to be that a lot of the focus is on what can go wrong, not what can go right.

E. Potter

It seems there is a lot less focus on money. Life there seems more relaxed.

Marcel Jones

It seems the problem with us. We didn't come out with our focus or our energy.

O. Henry

It seems like we've been practicing with more focus than before. Guys are really focused on their assignments.

Michael Redd

It's a serious time, and you've got to focus. But be loose and have fun. You're not going to play well when you're tight and the pressure's on.

Gustave Flaubert

Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

Jim Rohn

You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming.

Dan Carter

Our highest goal is to see our partners succeed because of what we do.

Maddy Coon

Our goal every day is to get better so we can win a national championship. We talk about it all the time.

Scott Seney

Our goal all year was to win a playoff series. This team will do it soon, probably next year.

Katie Schrader

Our ultimate goal is to get to the (national) championship.

Abby Wambach

Four goals in (16) minutes. Literally I don't even know how that happens especially in a World Cup final.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mark Brunell

If we don't win this one, we're done.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Ali MacGraw

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

Ali MacGraw

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

Ali Smith

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

Alexander Grothendieck

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...