Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Patrick Burke

There is a fear of the unknown, ... I was the general manager for the chain, and it's one thing to manage someone else's company and another thing to be on your own.

Jeff Immelt

The purpose of this generation of GE leaders is to make the company as good externally and commercially as it has always been operationally and financially.

Peter Adderton

We're positioning ourselves not so much as a wireless company but as a mobile media company, ... We really see ourselves as going after the high-tech consumer, someone who wants a lot of multimedia on their handsets.

Paul Walsh

We're positioning ourselves as a company with double-digit revenue growth and 20-percent operating margins.

Bill Curry

We feel it's what any company would do, that it's part of their business. In the event that there's a sale in the future, the customer records go with the company, as part of the company. We're being forthright in disclosing it, and we're getting criticism for being candid.

Brian Redican

We've gone through a period where everything has gone right for company profits, but over the past 12 months some cracks have started to develop.

Bob Wood

We've fought this company for three months and this is definitely not a loss. We did get some improvement in our medical insurance and medical insurance is what this strike was all about.

Tom Ryan

We are gaining a premium company and valuable real estate that provides an immediate critical mass of stores that would have taken years to develop organically. These are successful stores.

Carlo Ancelotti

I would say it's impossible because I have a contract with Milan which I'm trying to respect.

Andy Pafko

He just put the contract on the table and said, 'Would you mind signing?'

Willie Randolph

He'll be here in a couple days -- it might even be tomorrow, ... There's nothing in his contract about it. We just told him we wanted him back. We want him to come back and help us.

Terry Ryan

He's creative. He finds ways to get contracts done.

Rod Marinelli

I was disappointed when it happened to me and I'm disappointed for Joe now. But he did sign a contract and he knew this could happen from the very beginning.

Ronnie Chappell

I think we are eager to finish negotiation of the contract and to make it public. We expect the contract to receive significant public scrutiny.

Julie Rochman

It is not surprising that public officials in Louisiana are trying everything they can to recover dollars for those whose lives were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. But insurance contracts are contracts.

Bobby Martin

He's going to go somewhere. Where? We don't know yet. We've got some things we are working on. Nobody's signed a contract yet.

Brian Ashton

I am delighted that Rob has decided to extend his contract with the club. He is a very experienced Guinness Premiership player, who has also played European and international rugby and we looking forward to him making a large contribution going forward.

Jesus Dureza

Knowing that the uncertain peace and order situation is a major impediment in attaining economic growth for the island, we are anticipating that the current peace efforts will strengthen the enabling environment for investment and growth.

Sam Brownback

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

Mick Davis

I think the current market price is a reasonable level.

Drew Matus

I think what this does is ratify the Fed's current stance --- moving at a measured pace seems to be the prudent course.

Mahmoud Zahar

I think that during the current tour, we will be able to raise the needed funds.

Phil Goff

It is important in the current situation for steps to be taken to resolve the long-running public sector strike, which has contributed to this tension,

Roger Ashby

I will be talking to the current squad individually over the next few weeks about their futures and once they know, I will make it public.

Joel Naroff

There is an ever-growing number of homes on the market, and while the overhang is not great at the current selling pace, it could become a problem if we trend back toward more sustainable levels,

Douglas Hattaway

I don't know what planet he's been on for the past eight years, but this administration helped lay the foundation for our current prosperity.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Bill Schneider

He's going to be given very different treatment than he had in the past, ... celebrity.

Dusty Baker

He's given us a lot of quality, period,

Jo Maso

He's given us all the guarantees of a good recovery.

H. Hunt

If (the legislation) was an incentive to get more people to do the recycling, sure, everyone is looking to save a little money.

George H. W. Bush

tax relief and other incentives for job-creating investment.

Marion Nestle

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

John F. Kennedy

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Tony Boyle

This is a pretty tight league and if we can win our three remaining matches this would see us shoot up the table, so the incentive is there for us to perform today.

Mike Jackson

This is a stronger strategy. Clearly, selling the incentive was not working.

Dan Ariely

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Tom Henderson

We give our players Saturday and Sunday off, and Tyler will be at a school that's close. Seeing him play was not an incentive in resigning.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Taizo Nishimuro

It is necessary to raise the level of screening for start-up firms when they are to be listed.

Henry Mason

He's done some things that get your attention. Just like any young guy, you're looking for a level of consistency. That's what we're trying to get out of these 15 (spring practices). We're going to keep him in there and we're going to see what he can do.

Russ Knocke

There are no plans to raise the threat level at this time. These are rumors.

Peter Lai

Hutchison has risen more than HK$10 this week so at this level it will see some profit taking.

Niranjan Shah

It is nothing. If some members (of the board) want to speak to the press about it, we can't do anything.

Westbrook Pegler

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Travis Barker

Right now, one of our members needs time off, so we're granting him that,

Robert Sinclair

Our members are screaming. People are wondering where it's going to go and, of course, we can't tell them.

Roger Toussaint

Our members will stand together and stand firm, and make sure the organization is not broken.

Jose Manuel Barroso

The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.

Ben Shapiro

Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.

Michael Gerhardt

It's got new members and big cases, and the combination of those things will make it historic.

John Hope Franklin

Love each other. Regard each other as members of one family.

Lamar Whitmer

I just think it's obscene to scare the public with public safety cuts. They need to prioritize the budget.

Bill Rosendahl

The word 'vagina' is not an obscene word and we're not in a position to question the First Amendment.

Bruce Douglas

The rates as obscene as they may sound are, in relation to the risk, nothing.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Vinton Cerf

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Kenneth Williams

The program is already funded. Everything is in place.

Greg Allen

They're two programs that don't seem to have hiccups.

Evan Depew

They're starting to make programs that can show everyone your cards, if one guy's winning a whole lot get out of it.

Ruth Shields

They've been with our program and a lot of them play year-round so they're a lot more confident.

Bob Hansmann

You can't just have an antivirus program and be secure anymore,

Jeanne Johnson

There will be a program practically every day of the month.

Brian Postol

There's a long way to go for these guys, but I think their programs are the right ones.

Paul Martini

This is validation. You can't just come out and do a quad ... you have to come with a program that is well choreographed, well skated and well presented.