Famous Quotes & Sayings

We enjoy buying small companies that are not well-known or understood. What excites us is buying small companies that have the ability and potential to become great businesses.

We really take a stance of educating, trying to help managers understand. It does give them the ability to be more successful themselves.

We really played a sloppy match tonight. I am tired of saying that we did not play to our ability, but it is the truth we made some communication errors and let our guard down. We could have played a lot better tonight.

We really need to work on the things that we can control. It all starts defensively. We can control our effort, our talking and our ability to understand what we are trying to do out there. We need to just get back to the basics.

We really need to think about four pillars for retirement. ... The first pillar is Social Security. The second is individual pensions or savings. The third is health insurance, very important. And the fourth, surprisingly, is the continued ability to earn, because many people are going to need to find some way of bringing in earnings after they pass normal retirement age, and we think that that should be more and more emphasized in terms of getting ready for that possibility.

John Landgraf

We really like the cast and were blown away by the consistency of the show in terms of comedy and Rob's ability to run it, ... We really believe in him and his compatriots.

We finally get the chance to play in our gym a little bit. It's really different, really strange. I've never been through a schedule like that. That's what happens when we don't have the ability to play a lot of home games, like some other schools.

We have substantially and successfully concluded our asset disposition plan and intend to promptly apply these proceeds to repay our senior unsecured notes. These actions will significantly improve our financial flexibility and interest coverage, providing us a much broader ability to address business issues and further enhance shareholder value.

Nick Saban

We have some players that I think don't play with the kind of confidence that I would like to see, ... It affects their ability to make plays.

Andre Iguodala

We are trying to focus on moving up and trying to focus on our ability, rather than on Chicago. We know we are better than eighth place.

Mike Vrabel

We'll find out ... as this season progresses. We've always had the ability to change things simply to give us the best chance to win. It's not done just to get a guy into the game.

Bob Stoops

Those guys all have ability .... I believe they've got a chance to really be a great group.

Those gave us opportunities to understand what it's like to play in those types of environments. . . . A lot of games throughout the course of the conference season . . . are going to come down to the final four minutes of the game. Having the ability to finish and close the deal is going to be very important to our ability to be successful in the conference season.

Tito's ability to enjoy the training and plan for his spaceflight was eclipsed by wondering whether or not he was able to go,

Flip Saunders

Those I take as being comments from a young coach who has never been in that situation. I've never been a coach who downgrades what somebody else is doing to build myself up. I have enough confidence in my own ability to where I feel like I can just go out and show what I can do.

Manmohan Singh

Unfortunately, the United Nations suffers from a democracy deficit, ... Until the U.N. becomes more representative of the contemporary world and more relevant to our concerns and aspirations, its ability to deliver on ... its own charter obligations will remain limited.

Unfortunately, the location, size and age of this facility limit our ability to service our stores in the most logistically effective way.

Those who give knowledge also give the ability to earn wealth.

You have the ability to talk, take pictures and listen to music in one device. The convenience factor is big.

Dale Jarrett

You have the ability to keep that thing right around the bottom, then you can get off the corner good enough and that's what a lot of people work on.

We were jumping up and down ? we were totally overwhelmed by the ability to see this so quickly and so straightforwardly. We were the first people in the history of the planet to see comet dust in hand.

Ned Yost

You'd like him to get as many balls as he can, to get used to playing the position. He looked good out there. He's going to be fine. He's got the athletic ability to be a good outfielder.

To have a player of Patrick's ability available this late in the game is rare. We are very excited about him joining our team. He's an exciting player. He plays hard on both ends of the court. He's a very good shooter with deep range and he has the ability to play both guard positions.

Chanakya

To have ability for eating when dishes are ready at hand, to be robust and virile in the company of one's religiously wedded wife, and to have a mind for making charity when one is prosperous are the fruits of no ordinary austerities.

To go down 2-0 and claw our way back is a credit to this team's leadership and ability to not get rattled. I'm proud of the way they handled adversity.

We didn't come out as we should have in the first quarter. After we got in motion, our athletic ability took over. We didn't give it all we should have. We need to.

Pat Riley

We didn't bring him here on a gurney. This is not a quick trip to South Beach. He still has the ability to make some big plays, and at the same time he did a great job defending Kobe.

We did not underestimate his throwing ability at all. His receivers made great plays, he made great throws and we didn't' get any pressure on him.

We didn't really play our best game tonight. We need to develop the ability to go aggressively into every game. We let some uncontrollable events effect our composure. We are going to use this loss as a lesson to bring our best every night.

We don't have to do a lot of thinking, ... We just line up and run the play. We're counting on our athletic ability to make plays.

We don't have the ability to hold that many people when you get a vehicle that's smuggling 25 people.

We don't have the ability to do anything else there.

We don't have the ability to concentrate for any amount of time. When you don't have that, you have games like we had tonight. If you look back over the season, we've had a lot of lulls like that.