Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Healy

Half of his pay is dependent on the performance of the company, so that looks pretty reasonable relative to the pay of other CEOs at big companies. It probably doesn't look reasonable to the guy who just got laid off.

Sam Bodman

I hope the CEOs of the energy companies use that (hearing) as an opportunity to make their case, tell the story of just what it is they are planning on reinvesting in this sector,

Ted Kennedy

The CEOs who do this are people who have never failed at anything.

David Hawkins

The CEOs that don't sign, their stock price will see an immediate fallout, ... Some of my hedge fund friends are already trying to find out who will not be able to sign by Aug. 14.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

You can stay too long in a job, that's for sure. But by the same token, in the 12 years I have been CEO of GE, there have been four CEOs of Toshiba. So there's too short a time to do it, and there's too long a time to do it.

Bobby Bentley

It's really crazy. You get to meet all the CEOs at Nike. They're making a commitment to all the top high schools in the country. They're taking the top 20 (football) teams in America. They're tapping the high school market. We'll be a Nike team head to toe.

Noreena Hertz

Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.

Craig Cochran

The leadership of an organization has no job more important than making sure everyone knows the importance of the customer. CEOs who want real job security should try to please customers, not shareholders.

Peter Cardillo

The market is in the process of testing the March-April lows. The only thing that will turn the market around is if we get some CEOs saying there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

Richard Jefferson

Our offense failed us. A lot of the decision-making.

Sandra Bullock

In people's minds, I had failed and was on the outs, so I was able to go back and concentrate on making the films I love to do.

John Krasinski

I had done one failed pilot. I remember, when it failed, I was like, 'Oh my God, how does someone survive this? That's it - that's the end of my career; it's over.'

James Perry

If the model is River Gardens, it has failed miserably.

Winn Schwartau

In the last six years, we've performed about 2,300 sanctioned hacks for our clients, and we've only failed to penetrate the networks twice.

Jeffrey Mount

In California, we know that we have two kinds of levees: Those that have failed and those that will fail.

Rod Blagojevich

The federal government has failed to act, ... So it's time that we do.

Mike McGlone

The market failed to see a smoking gun or anything too worrisome.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Joe Horn

Just to make those people happy, it's all worthwhile.

Spencer Kayden

I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don't know how long 'Urinetown' will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Dave Breitenfeld

I think, in general, most people in the public don't know what we do.