Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. Averell Harriman

We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.

There are barriers of entry to other sports - boxing and Rugby Union for example.

We were having a discussion about language barriers and how we could eliminate them. We decided that this would be a good way to help with that barrier.

We want to knock down the barriers to mobilizing the entire corporate e-mail market.

We beg you now as a mother, to be the first lady that truly crosses all ethnic barriers and speaks out for the children. Please, please help.

Aaron Levie

The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.

Travel has high barriers to entry, ... This is more a classic bet on China as an emerging market.

We need for you to just let us go. Lower the barriers on access, ... We're not going to get it from FEMA, and the real entrepreneurs won't want to wait for it anyway.

Hillary Clinton

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

Peter Roskam

Small business owners are fighting every day to create and innovate, but continue to face government barriers to job creation.

While habits tend to be stable over time, barriers to change in the category are actually very low. It takes very little to get people to try a new restaurant or new food, particularly when prompted by social influences. Likewise, it takes very little for them to reject foods or outlets because of health concerns.

With our robust economy, American workers are finally seeing some improvement in the health benefits they receive. But low-wage employees still face enormous barriers to getting health insurance.

With our focus on upscale, full-service brands in major urban markets, we benefited fully from the continuing growth in transient business demand and the increased competitive strength of our portfolio. We are encouraged that the development pipeline remains conservative, especially in urban markets, where barriers to new competition are the highest.

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.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

Tim Schafer

Kinect is such a great new entry into the field because it takes away one of the big barriers to little kids to playing a game, which is the controller. You can't hand a basic video game controller to a child and expect them to understand what a left bumper is and to click in the right stick.

We believe that with PNTR, we will be better able to do business. What we would expect to see are improvements in trading and distribution rights, safeguards on our investments and the removal of technical barriers to trade.

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.

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.

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

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,

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