Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Harford

I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get an investment bank's name on business television is to hire a guy called a Chief Economist who will go and prognosticate.

Tina Majorino

I was not pushed into the business by anything other than my own ambition and my own dream of wanting to act.

Terry Gou

Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

Tony Fadell

Thermostats are made by very large companies with no incentive to innovate. Their customers are contractors or HVAC wholesalers, not consumers. So why spend to make them better? It's a good business.

Tim Kaine

You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that.

Whether it was turning around failing companies, rescuing the Olympics, or improving the business climate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney has proven that he is ready to be president on Day One.

Tadashi Shoji

My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.

Tadashi Shoji

Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.

Tadashi Shoji

Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures.

We do as much business in two weeks as four or five normal months. We turn away at least as much as we can handle.

We do a lot of bloodsucking in the newspaper business. This was one part of the business where I felt I could throw wood back on the pile.

Charles Phillips

We'd love to get to a mode where we're looking at the number of employees served, the number of checks processed--you name it, some business metric--and take it out of the technology realm and tie our success to their success in terms of business.

We would hope these issues could be resolved before President Bush visits Kyoto in just a couple of weeks time. We expect that will be the case but there's still some remaining hard work that needs to be done.

Brian Mulroney

We were kind of reluctant to go with someone who ran a soup company or something like that, but he has wide exposure to us and our competitors, he knows the business and he knows what has to be done.

We were kind of nervous on the bus wondering what it was going to be like. A lot of the schools here have been here four or five times and for us it's the first time.

We want to continue getting out of the real estate business and more into the fee business.

We want to concentrate on keeping our Premier League status. There's time to talk after. Let's do the business first.

We were a little light-headed until that sixth inning, probably from that long bus ride.

Jason Terry

We were able to handle our business and get it over.

Jerry Hairston

We definitely need to take care of business here.

We don't know what his intent is one way or the other. Certainly any business has a necessity of planning for its own future. That's his business, so we have really no reaction to that one way or the other.

We don't know much about them, but they've played pretty much everybody, all the great teams around the country. Their record really doesn't tell what they are. We got to take care of business in that game and start preparing for the Big Ten.

You have this dry, parched field, and any spark can set it off. Any hope for a honeymoon for Bush is now dead.

Glenn Tilton

Today, we have the business platform we need to compete with the strongest carriers and a clear strategy of offering the right service to the right customer at the right price.

Rebecca MacKinnon

To have a .cn domain, you have to be a registered business. You have to prove your site is legal.

Though we remain positive on the long-term business model and outlook, we expect concerns over pricing pressure, the back-end-loaded nature of full-year guidance and new product wins to overhang the shares medium term.

We don't have much business coming for the next few days. A lot of reservations were cancelled because of the uncertainty.

We don't have a way to get the word out if a bus goes down.

William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Hooman Majd

As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell into it and loved it. There was no reason not to - it was a great career.

Howard Fineman

If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.

Henry Bessemer

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

Henry Bonilla

President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country, and he has complete confidence in the American people.