Famous Quotes & Sayings

Size does not carry anything like the momentum that it used to. With the lowering of barriers to entry, big companies have to earn their continued success every day.

The barriers that are created on the shop floor with the unions, the work rules, the 'we-they' mentality must be broken for the Big Three to be successful.

The barriers are more psychological than financial. People get used to a certain level of (guaranteed) income. Also, a lot of people can't seem to find the motivation to make a change.

The barriers are designed to not just stop the car from crossing the median, but also to capture the car to prevent it from bouncing back onto the interstate as well.

Sun Microsystems is built on the principles of openness and innovation. We've contributed more code to the open source community than any other company on earth and we're committed to furthering its future. I believe that we in the technology industry have a responsibility to remove the barriers to participation on the network and help fuel innovation and economic opportunity -- and I believe open source helps us reach that goal.

Considering 70 percent of people who use popular e-mail devices also carry a mobile phone, the opportunity for us to provide one device and solution that perfectly addresses both the voice and data experiences is tremendous, ... In the current landscape, many industry players are going after a slice of the potential mobile e-mail market. Nokia is going after the full 650 million corporate e-mail inboxes. We want to knock down the barriers to mobilizing the entire corporate e-mail market.

It is time to set new coordinates for our lives and to come out from behind the barriers of our own nation, our own religion, our own race and culture and make a decisive effort for peace. God has been longing to see the human family reunited, and this is His time.

It's the unattended consequences that I'm most worried about. The problem with personal responsibility is that it doesn't recognize economic barriers that may deter people from getting the kind of health care they need.

The contact center--the single most important point of contact for responding to customer needs--must become more agile, provide a consistent customer experience, and be optimized for improved performance. The Microsoft Customer Care Framework helps break down the current barriers that exist.

The revenue from our operation goes to support our mission, which is to provide job-related services to people with barriers to employment.

IT workers at some companies have learned that blind people can compete. But lots of others have never worked with a blind person before, and attitude-related barriers apply.

They have placed barriers to the advancement of the investigation. They should be replaced.

Walking breaks down all the barriers you become part of one common mass of humanity, ... global message of peace and compassion.

We are encouraged by the number of planning teams interested in thinking about their education delivery system in a different way. Far beyond being dependent on our industrial past, we recognize that it is time to move forward in preparing for the information age; we must break down barriers that prevent students from succeeding and create smoother paths to success for our students - ultimately for the benefit of our local and state economies, and our society.

Bat for Lashes

'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.

James Ross

There are lots of formal obstacles in terms of the European Union policies, but the real barriers are cultural, ... People who have been basically fighting each other for the past 2,000 years are now expected to merge.

When China fails to act, it only strengthens those who want to build protectionist barriers around the U.S. market and that's the last thing we need.

William Daley

This year we'll be working with businesses and with states and localities to identify barriers in their laws,

By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.

Eartha Kitt

I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.

We're trying to take down some legal barriers so kids can get involved earlier.

We would expect the city business fraternity to take a pro-active role in easing out these barriers in bilateral trade.

I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.

No smoke barriers between doors all the way to the roof. It will cost about $8,000 to $9,000 to move these fire doors. The fire doors and the driveway are the most serious issues at the home.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Now is not the time to create barriers to our economic recovery or reverse the momentum we have generated.

Sooner or later, foreigners will stop financing the deficit. But at this point they show no signs of slowing down. If there were trade barriers that caused Americans to buy significantly less imports, production here would go up a little, but the thing that would take the brunt of the reduction is that our spending would go down as prices went up. We would have less of everything.

Technically, gold prices could also go higher because all historical barriers have been broken.

Kofi Annan

Sadly, the reality of the international trading system today does not match the rhetoric. Instead of open markets, there are too many barriers that stunt, stifle and starve,

The story broke down barriers that people had about health and diabetes. When talking to children and beginning with the story and then talking about diabetes, we found that the children listened intently. They were eager to take the information back to their parents and talk about what they had learned in school that day.

Julian Morris

This is not a mass protest. We don't pretend to represent anyone. We just want to denounce the huge trade barriers that are detrimental to everyone.

You can't just automatically throw up barriers in front of people. They've got property, they've got plans.

Cultural differences between physicians and patients, such as language and diet, can often lead to improper treatment or reduced care. This creates barriers that prevent members of minority communities from receiving the best treatment possible.

As the 'King of Rock' title suggests, the group was breaking down the barriers between rock 'n' roll and rap, rapping over heavy metal records and thick, dense drum loops,