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.

Jeffrey Tambor

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

Gary Player

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

John Lennon

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Romeo Crennel

I'm sure he's disappointed because I know he wanted to be part of a victory. But he's still part of the team and we're looking forward to a speedy recovery.

Simon Dyson

I just want to keep playing as I have been doing and shooting sub-par rounds. I think if one of us shoots four- or five-under on Sunday, (he) could take it. I am looking forward to it. I have been in a share of the lead every day and feel I have responded well.

Don Pierson

The larger corporations have such significant resources, they take their initiative and move forward without significant needs.

Trevor Thomas

It's real disappointing. It makes you feel like you've done all this work for nothing. Most of these players don't have anything to look forward to right now.

Josh Miller

It's heartbreaking. It's opening day and I'm not working. Just like players and fans, umpires look forward to opening day.

Mike Comrie

It's been a fun 300 games, but I'm looking forward to the next 300 even more.

Jason Gore

It's been a lot of fun. I'm still trying to level things off in life, but I look forward to this week, for sure.

Craig Bellamy

It's been a tough period for me but I'm going where people know me and I'm looking forward to working with them.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

Algernon Charles Swinburne

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.

Tom Slater

Up and down the lineup, we didn't have enough quality at-bats.

Alexandra Adornetto

You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember

Rich Conover

We didn't get enough quality shots off inside. We were kind of relying on the three-pointer.

J. G. Ballard

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.