Famous Quotes & Sayings

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

Carl Karcher

With a shrinking pool of young workers and a decreasing unemployment rate, all restaurant chains have to be more creative in their recruiting efforts.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Frank Perdue

If you do this, you're going to have some heartaches from it. You're going to have people yelling at you or maybe screaming at you or criticizing you, but I think it's the best way to sell a superior chicken.

Orville Redenbacher

We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.

Ezra Cornell

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

J. Paul Getty

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

J. Paul Getty

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

J. Paul Getty

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

James Cash Penney

Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

Andrew Carnegie

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

Gary Bettman

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

Alan Lakein

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Barry Diller

Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.

Jim Rohn

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Brian Lamb

From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being.

Bob Iger

We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.

Bob Iger

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Art Modell

The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear.

Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality - whatever the inconvenience to us.

Arnold Rothstein

As long as they're willing to pay to prove it, I'm willing to let them.

It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.