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.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

Toby Hall

It's such a slow pitch, it catches everybody off guard. I love calling it because I love to see the expressions on the hitters' faces.

Billy Corgan

You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zeppelin. All you can do is rip them off.

Bob Fosse

you can like the life you're living, you can live the life you like. you can even marry harry, but mess around with ike and that's good, isn't it grand? isn't it great? isn't it swell? in fifty years or so, it's gonna change you know, but oh it's heaven now a days.

Kevin Quinn

We wanted to change the match-up in the third period.

Stuart Cohen

we wanted the vendor to own the whole issue. At this very late date, we didn't want to risk that the patch would create some profound change to the operating system.

Willie Randolph

We wanted to sweep once we took the first two. I get greedy. But it's a long season. We've played for a month, but I don't think we done anything yet. And one more victory wasn't going to change that.

Tom Schrader

We've had a really nice run. I think we need to see a little pullback before we go higher. There's not going to be much in the next two days to change that. Jobless claims tomorrow won't be a market mover. I think we'll probably see a little profit taking the rest of the week.

Jim Buckmaster

We've had requests for a long time to make a change like this. New York, and particularly Manhattan, is, in our experience, completely unique.

Tom Schrader

We've got a big rally in tech going and it's a nice change of pace.

Mike Hidde

We'll have to have a lot of confidence that he will be fine to risk him playing. Whether he plays or not, our game plan doesn't change a lot.

Glen Mathison

I don't think we're anticipating any changes in physical presence.

Matt Miksic

The departure of Mr. Miller will open the door for creating shareholder value through further changes and operating improvements at the company.

Neil Stern

A name is just a name. We have to see what the new Sears Grand format will sell and at what price. We'll have to see what the changes are.

Rick Adelman

You can't lose two guys like that without having a lot of problems. Those are the guys you play around and it changes everything when they are not there. It doesn't mean you can't win, but it sure makes it hard to coach until you get those guys back.

John Dilling

There will be a public hearing on the ordinance and any proposed changes on Jan. 23 at 7 p.m..

Justin Cronin

I like creating villains.

Ellen Page

There are a lot of things I love about acting and one of the things I love the most is, here you are taking words off a page, working with someone you might have met just a week before, and somehow you're creating a moment that separates itself from space and time. You feel an incredible rush when you have that moment with another actor. You can feel it bounce off one another. Every take you do can reveal different things that were hiding. And things outside the story get revealed to you, too. It's an incredible way to work and to experience a story.

Pete Carroll

The more the better. We've looked forward in our five years to creating this.

Andrew Walton

They simply need to state the reason, if it's creating some kind of hardship for the person.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Arnold H. Glasow

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Brian Seymore

I thought we needed to do a little better job tackling. But we'll get better from this game. It'll help us.

Judy Cornett

I think at this point, the only person that's truly going to be able to help Susan is Susan.

E. O. Wilson

You can practice your approach, your take off position, those things in the gym. You can do drills that help younger guys, but there's not much for veterans like Will.

Robert Andino

The main thing is to be up there and help the team win. I'm an athlete. It isn't a big deal. I just go out there and play. If they tell me to do something, I can't say no.

Sam Dubbin

The majority of these people are in their 80s and 90s. This is going to be a lot of help to a lot of people.

Ken Hill

(The lifting of the restriction) will be a big help for us because we go through a lot of water.

Brian Tracy

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Bobby Douglas

Trent will be OK. There is no reason to risk anything when the Big 12 meet is two weeks away.

Stevie Smith

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Galen Rowell

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

Fred Durst

Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security

Franz Kafka

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

Erica Durance

We all need to make time for a burger once in a while.

Erica Jong

Why does life need evidence of life?

Erica Jong

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

Erica Jong

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

Eric Cantona

We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.