Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Kevin Rollins

Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,

Paras Adenwala

Any business related to infrastructure, especially power, will do well in a growing economy like India.

J. B. Pritzker

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

Mike McCall

Any business needs to be in the position to be profitable, and we are profitable. That makes it easy to make decisions to help our customers.

Paul Goode

A number of mobile applications are driven by TV gaming, which is frankly not at the forefront of the business mind. You could look at entertainment as being a Trojan horse to the business community.

Marc Roberge

a number of management changes to streamline the company's organizational structure and sharpen the focus of its business activities.

Stuart Levey

Any entity maintained by a terrorist group - whether masquerading as a charity, a business or a media outlet - is as culpable as the terrorist group itself.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Peter Pawlak

Customers can download these patches just as they would a Microsoft patch.

Karl Albrecht

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

Jeff Bezos

You want your customers to value your service.

James Utzschneider

The goal for what we're doing with this event is to talk to our customers about Microsoft's vision for delivering solutions in the mid-market.

Michael Dell

This is a huge and very important leap forward in terms of what customers want from their PCs and the related products that go around them,

Eric Snider

Everyone is saying their customers are valuable, and the last thing you want to do is rent names out.

Edmund Mierzwinski

Everyone has a right to make money, ... But what they're doing is taking disgruntled customers and converting them into longer-term customers by some sleight of hand.

Mark Slough

Sammy is excited to be back and I think they're excited to have him back.

Skip Prosser

That's for you guys to talk about. We're excited about who we have back.

Scott Gaffney

You're excited for the first two weeks then after a while it gets old.

David Perno

We've taken a tough road. We were swept at home, but rebounded to take 2-of-3 at Mississippi State. We are excited about this team.

Bob Sanders

We were excited to see the guys from the top take it to another level and get a guy that can really help us.

Max Venker

We were excited to play on a big pitch and we're a team that passes it around well. We knew we would tire them out.

H. Hart

We were excited that we could get in on the ground floor, ... Two golf courses, two clubhouses and everything that goes with them -- I haven't seen it done like this anywhere.

Paul Byrd

We were excited for (Wedge). Guys were talking about it.

John Hawe

We were excited for the field to be finished. It's nice to have it right in the shadow of Helena High. It should make things a lot simpler.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Curtis Armstrong

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Swedish Proverb

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Booker T. Washington

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Steve Squyres

We think Opportunity is now parked on what was once the shoreline of a salty sea on Mars.

Scott Barnes

Washington is a unique opportunity for my family.

Josh Blaisdell

We are still young. We only skated two seniors today. That's why we wanted this opportunity to play some better teams.

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Tony Robbins

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

Tony Robbins

Quality questions create a quality life.

Tony Robbins

The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.

Susan Orlean

Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.

Sonia Johnson

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

Tim Allen

I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.

Stella Adler

By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.

Thomas Harris

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

Ron Kaufman

Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.

Steve Jobs

The customer is the final inspector.

Dick Miller

We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization.

Rocky Smith

If they put together some type of a waiting list, my service would not be needed.

Arun Sarin

As was evident, mobiles are better than the wire service here.

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Michael Lombardo

We're replacing 180 - anything that's out of service,

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Angela Kinsey

I keep my sisters on speed dial.

Anthony Chan

I just see it as a speed bump.

Bob Newhart

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Dave Russell

What's not to like? For $1999 you are going to get the processor speed you thought you had to spend $2499 to get.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Blaise Pascal

Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Seth Godin

The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.

Seth Godin

There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.

Tobin Bell

Saw has been a unique experience in that Ive had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.

Slavoj Zizek

IDEOLOGY IS A CERTAIN UNIQUE EXPERIENCE OF THE UNIVERSE AND YOUR PLACE IN IT, TO PUT IT IN STANDARD TERMS, WHICH SERVES THE PRODUCTION OF THE EXISTING POWER RELATIONS AND BLAH BLAH BLAH.

Nolan Bushnell

Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.

John Simon

Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger critical mass.

Mark Zuckerberg

Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy.