Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernhard Goetz

I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

Bill Veeck

I did my best to look ashamed of myself.

Steve Ballmer

Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.

Marge Schott

Charlie and I were never blessed with children.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

But if USA has 1.3 billion people, USA would have the same human rights problem just like China.

Jim Cantalupo

But in terms of store openings, there's just not a necessity, nor in my view at this point is this the best place we can spend our time.

Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.

Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

I don't know how much weight did he lose, but he lost too much. A father and mother know when their son has lost too much weight.

Gus Hall

Mobilize people to vote and to re-elect Clinton as the only way to defeat.

Joan Blades

Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about.

David Rockefeller

Mother also loved Asian art, but she preferred the ceramics and sculpture of earlier Chinese and Korean dynasties, as well as Buddhist art.

Bill Veeck

McGraw had been a great friend of my father's in the days when McGraw was managing the New York Giants and my daddy was president of the Chicago Cubs.

Gordon Getty

Maturity? There are things that come with experience - managing your craft. What I've picked up since my earlier music is not profundity.

Bill Budge

My interest is home computer software. I'm not in it because it is booming; I think the key is that the programs must tell you how to use them.

Art Rooney

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

John Sexton

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.

One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case.

Gerard Arpey

One of our most difficult realizations was that-in the course of two years-a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.

One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all.

Drew Curtis

Occasionally I'll stick something up there that I'll know will ignite controversy, but I'm trying to keep that down to around one per week.

Of course, nothing happens until somebody sells something.

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

Art Rooney

Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I.

Henry Kravis

My next summer I worked in the research department of Goldman Sachs, and my last summer I was in institutional sales and corporate finance.

Richard Grasso

I think this is based on the consistent progress of the economy. I hope good American companies will list on the Chinese Stock Exchange.

We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

Ezra Cornell

The arguement in the O'Reilly injunction suit is postponed until the 3rd Monday in Oct. to give time to learn the grounds of the Kentucky decision.

William Henry Ashley

The ascent of the hills (for they do not deserve the name of mountains) was so gradual as to cause but little fatigue in travelling over them.