Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin S. Sharma

A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.

Magic Johnson

ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.

Mark McKinnon

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.

Bob MacDonald

You can have the same kind of influence on your life whether you're running a gas station or you're CEO of a company.

Joe Galli

I was very excited about the prospect of being the CEO of a fast-growing technology company, particularly in the B2B sector,

Alan Ackerman

I think people need to be concerned about the length of the technology cycle and the inability of most CEOs and analysts to predict the course of corporate earnings over the next several quarters.

Hal Sparks

Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company.

Rick Wagoner

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.

Charles Adams

Because she sat where she sat, we are now sitting in Congress, ... We are sitting in the Supreme Court. We are sitting as CEOs and heads of universities.

Gloria Trevi

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.

Gladys Knight

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

William Henry Bragg

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

Vikram Seth

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

Billy Graham

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Billy Graham

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Evel Knievel

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

David A. Bednar

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

David Friedman

I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.

Jessica Nevarez

The pilot has been delivered to the network. We're excited and have high expectations.

Bee Wilson

The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.

Noah Feldman

The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.

Joel Rassman

The 400 to 700 home reduction in our projected fiscal year 2006 delivery guidance should reduce our earnings growth projections for fiscal 2006.

Nathan Anderith

The actors memorize the sonnets and deliver them usually in an ostentatious manner. As big and proud as possible. There's lots of prancing around.

Rebecca Garang

The 50 years did not deliver anything to us, so we are starting now on January 9 ... I think that is the start of the independence of Sudan.

Jonny Lee Miller

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really.

Leonard Ryan

We can then deliver them to all platforms, TV, internet and mobile.

David Bear

We can't guarantee delivery at that price anymore.

Gore Vidal

Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.

Nancy Keenan

The American public deserves answers. Her record is so thin we don't know anything about her.

Steve Downie

That was huge by Dawson. He stepped up for this team. He deserves it because he works so hard for us.

Bill Sexton

Tyler's record speaks for itself. He now has 110 wins and stands in third place on our all-time list. He's a good, hard worker and really deserves this.

Craig Kelly

You are innocent until proven guilty. And I think Ernie deserves the same consideration regardless of whether he's a politician or a janitor in the street.

Christian Fauria

You just feel better when he's out there. He never really misses practices. He's never out of position. He's a force to be reckoned with. ... I think he deserves everything he gets.

Glenn Howard

I'm so happy for Russ. He deserves it.

Scott Macartney

I'm so excited for him. I'm his room-mate here. He deserves it, he skied great today.

Landon Donovan

I'm stunned, impressed and extremely happy for him. He deserves his reward.

David Briggs

We'll probably drift through February, a typically tough time for the market. We had four months up and one month down, so we're not out of the woods yet.

Matt Ruane

We're really in a trading range, drifting sideways for the time being as the market waits for its next catalyst.

Jim Calhoun

You kind of drifted on me. When am I going to get you back?

John T. Flynn

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

Ron Gardenhire

It drifted down, and he just went and got it.

Mike Forsberg

I think I had him perfectly, ... Once Donovan started scrambling, the main thing is to find the guy and lock up on him. It just so happened, T.O., instead of going back to the quarterback, started drifting to the end zone, and I didn't expect Donovan to get out and scramble because he was injured.

Randy Bachman

I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

Jason Kadah

Keep tuned to the forecast, because it's moving hardly at all, it is forecast to drift to the north and northwest. It may well be in our own back yard by the end of the week.

Richard Champion

We've entered a lull again, with tech issues drifting lower on the back of the slowdown in mobile sales,

Ron Rivera

That was a tough thing, too. They went after the young guy. It was a tough play and he failed as well.

Andy Hill

We have underachieved. We have failed at every opportunity to make the big play; that's what's gotten us. We've been spending a lot of time on fundamentals, and we're going to have to keep on doing that because we have young kids.

Mark Kotsay

We had opportunities to score more than two runs, ... and we failed to get it done.

Ozzie Guillen

We have the type of team that executes all the time and that's our game. We failed today at moving the guys over.

Kevin Keane

You can always work off last year. You can be happy, but anything can happen in the playoffs, so you'd kind of like to take it to the next level, step it up in the playoffs. That's what we failed to do (last year).

William White

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

Kenny Guinn

I wish that we could have done this four years ago, so if it failed I would be totally responsible for it,

Henry Cisneros

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city,

Hugh Miller

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

Francois Arnaud

Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

Ted Waitt

We have the liquidity and financial resources necessary to forgo short-term profits to regain long-term growth and sustainable profitability,

Jim Adams

We have the financial resources to move quickly.

Robert Kiyosaki

The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.

Robert Kiyosaki

Everyone has the ability to build a financial ark to survive and flourish in the future. But you must invest time in your financial education to build an ark with a solid foundation.

John Sargent

Members may find themselves in a worse position if they focus only on quick solutions to their financial problems. We?re pleased to offer positive alternatives to our members that can help relieve their immediate problems and help position them for long-term success.

Lamar Alexander

will they do well enough here on Saturday that they can go back to financial supporters and say, it's a worthwhile investment.

Bob Rossiter

While we regret having to suspend the dividend program, management is focused on preserving the company's financial flexibility in a very challenging industry environment.

Bill Turner

I think this is a solid group with a solid developer. I think they have strong financial backing.

Lou Panzanaro

Most of them were role players. When this team is firing on all cylinders, I don't know if you can identify who the five starters are. They play so unselfishly. They all play together.

Lou DiBella

Most guys wouldn't be firing back when they are getting hit with that kind of (stuff),

Ryan Rowe

We'll do what we can and come out firing. If we come out firing in the doubles, we'll be firing the rest of the match.

Sean McAlinden

I don't remember GM ever doing anything like this before, not firing people and putting them out on the street with a box. They were called 'Mother GM' for a reason.

Sheldon Brown

I don't think he's lost respect in the locker room. If anything, he's gained respect from how he's handled it, by not firing back.

Debra Brown

He was firing his weapon the whole time.

Chuck D.

He just went crazy. She said the guy just went ballistic and starting firing off shots.

Rob Babcock

Waiving a player never is easy, because you essentially are firing someone, ... But looking at our team, this was the most logical choice.

Corey Simon

We have to go into the playoffs firing on all cylinders. I don't think we're there yet.

Irwin Thomas

If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.

Anne White

That was going to be our Franklin Street.

Pia Zadora

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

Matt Thornhill

Mick Jagger at 62 is not old. Frank Sinatra at 62 was old.

Scott Bloom

Will is Frank Abagnale, Tony Montana and Joe Montana rolled into one.

Colin Clarke

I thought he made some questionable decisions. I didn't think Szetela's (foul) was a red card. Frankie's was. Frankie reacted to what happened. Szetela's was unlucky.

Mark Shapiro

Listen, Neil, I'll tell you a film I want to make. I'd make a film on Frank Deford. I'd make that in a minute and I'd let you produce it.

Elizabeth Dole

I was honored to recommend Frank Whitney and am very pleased with his nomination.

Mike Tice

It doesn't make things any simpler, ... and quite frankly I'm not happy about it.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Richard Daley

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

F. Sionil Jose

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

Joe Hogan

We can see what's going on with greater specificity. The need for biopsies will be reduced.

Marlon Wayans

People don't understand how much time and work it takes to make somebody laugh, and how hard it is to write a script, to put together the story, the characters. When everyone laughs simultaneously, there's no greater feeling.

Terry Kerr

We've done a number of other searches, not specifically related to this, but because of a greater student awareness.

Ken Kendrick

Just because Randy wants something doesn't mean it's going to happen. We want to respect his interests, but our greater responsibility is not to him but to our team.

Hermann Oberth

I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.

Yochai Benkler

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

Antoine Rivarol

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.

Joe Girardi

I'm a pretty upbeat guy. I tend to throw a lot of praise around.

Max Winkler

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Al Embry

He is doing well, he's just stressed out a little bit. But praise God, he got out of the thing.

William Shakespeare

Good things should be praised.

William Shakespeare

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

Jane Austen

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise.

Anthony Hitt

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.

Barack Obama

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.

William Shakespeare

Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

William Shakespeare

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

William Shakespeare

Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

William Shakespeare

And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.

Barbara Mikulski

I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.

Aaron Boone

We realize there is more at stake, but I promise you we'll go there with the same attitude. That's just the way this team is.

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

John Meehan

I think it would water down the commissioners role and take away some of their authority.

Bill Belichick

He's a role player. His role's to play every snap. He does so many things well in so many situations. He's so dependable. You want him in there for everything.

Rodrigo Santoro

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Tommy Gibbons

We are functioning in a support role for the county.

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

O. Singh

He has not said what his role was. If he is responsible then he should be booked, and the sooner the better.

Rajon Rondo

We've got so many talented guys. As long as someone's stepping up, we don't need a (consistent threat), but in the long run, we'll need someone consistent.

Johnny Whitaker

We are not stepping back to a time when we are going to have anything even approaching hazing.

Dick Pound

I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying,

Dave Baseggio

Hopefully, (Wednesday) is a stepping stone. We can't make it a one-night wonder.

Mike Stratton

They were stepping in it and stepping on it.

Kirk Walters

We had to get this one; there was no panic. We had to get it; no stepping back.

Cassie Scerbo

Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all.

Aaron Baddeley

This is a stepping stone of the big picture.

Kenneth Darby

This is the first one, and I'm excited. This is like the stepping stone, and we've got to go out with a bang.

David Strow

That was the attraction. It was a tremendously strategic location.

David Smith

I think the wise and strategic thing to do is to have a two-track policy,

David Satcher

We have to be more strategic in the distribution,

Navtej Sarna

The visit is significant in view of the strategic partnership between the two countries.

John McDonough

Rubbermaid and Newell are a terrific strategic fit,

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.

Stephen Kinzer

The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.

Bob Lutz

That was a tough one for them to lose.

Paul Mainieri

That was a tough decision, but I think I would have done the same thing.

Dan Snyder

That was a tough day. We had ups and downs, but we worked it out.

Phillip Fulmer

We have a lot of work to do when we go back home.  It's a tough loss, but it's not the end of the season.

Tommy Lee

We need to regroup. It's been a tough road.

Jim Beattie

I think it would be very tough for him to come back in an Oriole uniform.

LeBron James

I thought I was in the right position. It was a tough call.

Tyler Arnason

We've talked, and we've come to the understanding that he wants more from me. It's been a tough year on all of us.

Flip Saunders

We made him take a lot of tough shots.