Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.

will.i.am

Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.

Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.

There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.

Doc Hastings

With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family.

David Byrne

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Ben Carson

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

Ben Affleck

Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone who is actually an important person.

Jimmy Breslin

The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public.

Jeff Green

We are giving the European authorities our full cooperation in this matter. United conducts its business in full compliance with European rules and regulations.

We are looking for protection. We try to work out how well-equipped a company is to protect the business model and the market position it has now.

We are looking at internal growth opportunities, ... We're also looking externally at things that fit with our business and that would be complementary to our core business.

We are looking at every piece of our business and saying how are we going to improve the impact that we make, to move this organization forward?

We are leaving our fiscal 2001 estimates and $87 12-month price objective for Microsoft materially unchanged, following fourth-quarter results that were largely devoid of the drama of the past two quarters. Nonetheless, 'caution' remains the operative word from Microsoft management, as continued choppy monthly unit demand from business PCs and a deliberate, gradual ramp from Windows 2000 platforms and related applications hinders near-term growth.

We are learning about Hong Kong's laws, regulations, and company operating practices. Only after we are familiar with these can we do business there.

We are laser-light focused on this expense issue, and we've been able to get a much, much clearer view in terms of sizing our business and finding out exactly who we want to have on the A-team,

We're at the stage of the business cycle where statisticians can't keep up with rapidly changing developments, especially new businesses. That's where the greatest potential for an upward revision is.

We're at the point where we can't overlook anybody. We need to take care of business this weekend.

We're at less than 10 percent done with this trans (sic) planning when you consider the buses and the people.

We're at less than 10 percent done with this ... planning when you consider the buses and the people.

We're coming along. I remember the days when we would go to P-O, get off the bus and be getting right back on the bus. Our goal is to compete with the other teams in the county and we're getting to that point.

We recognize that and are operating the business in a distinct way.

W. G. Sebald

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

Damon Albarn

China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained.

Voters can now check how many times Bush resorts to canned remarks,

Harry Reid

vote of no confidence on the Bush administration's policy in Iraq.

Kimora Lee Simmons

I have help, but I'm very hands-on in everything I do. I do normal stuff, I'm a normal mother and I'm a very hardworking woman and I have hundreds of products and many businesses that I do.

Kim Basinger

My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go 'God! Movie stars! Wow!' And I'm in this business. I walk out there just fascinated, and I always want to stay like that. I'm just a little kid going to these movies, and I don't ever want to change.

The question is -- and this is why the market hasn't reacted too negatively to the durable goods report -- is whether businesses ... will continue to spend given the risks to consumer spending posed by high energy prices.

Oriana Fallaci

Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

Marsha Blackburn

We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.

Sean Young

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

Marco Rubio

We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.