Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Buffett

I think it is a marvelous way to keep directors' interests and shareholders interests as closely aligned as possible, with both an upside and a downside component. Too often, people talk about interests being aligned when the directors get the upside and shareholders get the downside.

What you have is an alignment of cases -- of the stars, if you will -- in favor of a dramatic shift in the U.S. Supreme Court that certainly holds great promise for the preservation of life.

It could just be the alignment of the stars.

Martin Jacques

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Adam Schlesinger

We take the concept of corporate responsibility seriously and think it deserves more than lip service. For Audubon Condominium at Feather Sound we chose to align with the Make-A-Wish-Foundation because they do such a remarkable job in making wishes come true for children with life-threatening medical conditions.

to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

Ruth Kelly

It is not satisfactory that there are so many data sources. I will see if it's possible to align List 99 with the Sex Offenders Register and indeed with the other data sources.

Investors should view both the DOJ's and Microsoft's remedy proposals as the two end points in the spectrum of possible outcomes. However, given Judge Jackson's negative stance toward Microsoft throughout the entire legal proceeding, we suspect that the remedy judgment will more closely align with the government's proposal than Microsoft's version.

In those huge games, she's always there. She can do it when everyone knows her, when coaches align their defenses to try to stop her. That's what makes her such a special kid.

In theory, meeting those standards should help you run the village more effectively. It would allow you to align total revenue with the true costs associated with providing services, including depreciation on buildings, streets, and curb and gutters.

If you wind up with a company that is so closely aligned with one individual, like it or not, the virtues of that company are tied to the virtues of that individual. You're usually much better off with CEOs who are under the radar and just work at doing a very nice job for shareholders.

In order to build those in some sort of modular fashion, we have to have extremely tight dimensional control, where we align sonar spheres and components to within 1/32nd of an inch to the ship's centerline before the ship's centerline even exists, so we can bring components together from three separate facilities,

In fact, their motivations are perfectly aligned with ours?that is, as broad a penetration as possible.

In the face of a challenging market environment ... we're taking significant steps to take costs out of the business and streamline our operations to more efficiently manage our brand portfolio and more closely align our business with rapidly changing customer and consumer needs.

I just laughed about it, ... I just thought if you're going to align yourself with somebody, it might as well be champions. He made his own decisions, not doing something just because you have to do it. He had his own sense of purpose.

I personally think behavior and dress align themselves.

John Abizaid

Clearly, we understand that we've got an enemy that's in for the long term, al-Qaida and the associated groups that are aligned with it, ... We know that they've got a long-term strategy to fight, to gain ground, to gain influence. And it's very very clear that we've got to have the same sort of long term strategy to contest it. But the keystone to this strategy is helping the people in the region help themselves.

Daymond John

I always tried to align myself with strategic partners, friends, and information to help me with the things that I did not know, and ultimately, I made it.

Nigel Barker

I'm truly excited to align with Art.co.uk and share with the world the wondrous sites and travels I've experienced.

I personally feel appropriate dress and appropriate behavior align themselves.

I'm thrilled that we have the opportunity to align ourselves with a talented rookie such as A.J..

Jordan Spieth

In greenside bunkers, the big thing is to adapt your stance to the shot. It's rare that you get a flat lie in the sand, so I make sure to align my body to the slope. Then I blast the ball out by splashing the sand underneath it.

The core concept around utility computing has not changed. The priorities are to solve immediate problems, and give customers the confidence that we can set them on a path towards a data center that will be more automated, and aligned with business needs.

Bob Hawke

The Chinese are definitely concerned about the tendency of this Australian government to align itself with the United States.

The first focus is going to be continuing the growth of the business ... focus number two is getting the cost structure aligned with the new demand. I imagine we're going to see another round of downsizing ... I think it's going to be significant.

The fight for Internet freedom is now being waged in earnest. On one side you have the public...on the other side you have the nation's largest telephone and cable companies, who have aligned with some in Congress to strip the Internet of the First Amendment.

The economy contracted in April and probably contracted in May; June is when we should be getting a bounce. If we're to believe all the stars are aligned for a perfect eclipse of the recession in the second half, then it should happen sooner rather than later.

These investments are aligned with our extensive queue of projects that are scheduled to come on line between now and 2008, bringing significant new supplies of energy to U.S. and global markets.

These groups are basically a family of people that have been traditionally supporters of, or closely aligned with, trial lawyers nationally and in Illinois.

John Collins

The focus of confusion is that, since the ICI does not represent shareholders, we must somehow be contrary to their interests. But at the ICI, we believe fund management companies' interests must be aligned with those of shareholders.

Grace Gealey

Once I started to get aligned with the God in me, something hit me hard: I learned that our worth, our validation, our purpose and our acceptance don't stem from what we should do. They don't stem from what we have. They don't stem from what we've done or who we were. They stem simply from the fact that we are.

The ODT Conference & Expo is directly aligned with our initiatives here.

It just seems, to a degree, like the stars are aligned in our favor.