Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leigh Steinberg

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Carl Karcher

In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Ted Turner

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.

I believe that one-product wonders come and go.

Jim Rogers

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, high prices led companies to overproduce, leading to substantial excess supply and stockpiling.

Bernard Baruch

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

David Packard

You appear to have a good project... we wish you well in this endeavor.

It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

We created ways for people to care more deeply about one another, to stimulate, encourage, release creativity, minimize intolerance and bigotry.

W. Clement Stone

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Jim Rogers

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

Joe Gold

Between the wars, I was basically a beach bum, and I wanted to find a way to work but not work, so I joined the merchant marines.

Most of the food imported to Russia came from China.

Gil Amelio

While the operating results are disappointing, we made significant progress toward executing our strategic plans during the quarter.

Steve Ballmer

We will make our products work out of the box.

J. Paul Getty

There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

J. Paul Getty

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

John Wanamaker

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Henry Kravis

Since we formed the firm in 1976, we've bought some 38 different companies, and we spent about $65 billion, buying these different companies.

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

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.

While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.

Bill Budge

You can do things as a combination the way John Irving does. He writes a mass market book that is also literate. That is what I want to do.

I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action.

I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

Marge Schott

I don't like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit.

John Sexton

I'd never had a photograph in front of me that made your heartbeat skip and catch your breath. It was truly an inspiring experience.

I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.

Marge Schott

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

Gerard Arpey

Markets that don't work we're going to step away from.