Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhtar Kent

While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.

Serge Schmemann

Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on tires under the Champs-Elysees and beyond.

David Ogilvy

Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to expect your agency to be impartial when its vested interest lies wholly in the direction of increasing your commissionable advertising.

David Ogilvy

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

David Ogilvy

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

David Ogilvy

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

Ann Beattie

I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.

We've been clear with the Israelis on their obligations under the 'road map' and President Bush has specifically called on the Israelis not only to remove illegal outposts but to stop settlement expansion.

(To) reignite growth, we have structured our operations into three independent businesses that leverage our core strengths while providing customers with the products they want and need,

There are probably thousands of businesses that need this type of help, but this happens to be in the back yard of the lawmaker who runs the subcommittee.

The radio business has been going through a transition. For years and years the radio business was inaccessible to a man off the street.

Chip Conley

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

I started out years ago as a theater major and got disillusioned with it. It's a rough business.

Evan Williams

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

Adam Green

You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?

John Madden

Guess what the Redskins have? You know, I take the bus to the games, we park in the parking lot where the visiting team parks. So I go out there after the game and they have a food truck there! And the guy comes over and he cooks food for the Redskins, and they come out to the parking lot before they get on the bus and they go to the food truck!

We understand this segment of our business has changed dramatically, and we don't intend to stand still.

Make no mistake: business forces, if used long-sightedly, are the tools for leveraging new consumer behaviors, new and smarter ways of production, and for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.

We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.

This really upsets me. I paid them all this money. No one at the county said one word about zoning when I got my business license.

Jacob Tamme

To be able to come back to my hometown and be a part of showing these kids they can be a part of what Terry is doing is very, very special. Whether it is sports or business or something else in life, they can press those limits and excel. Terry is proof of that and I'm just glad I got to share in this day with all these students.

Steve Schmidt

There are a great many groups that made a decision a long time ago to oppose whomever President Bush put forward for the Supreme Court.

This release does not do that, but we do want to go back and put that in. For our corporate and business customers that is actually less of an issue; that was a big issue for consumers.

Prince Andrew

Whenever I go to see her, she recharges my energy and enables me to cope with the many challenges and demands of my busy life.

We're recognized by our peers in the industry, and that's important, but it always means more when it comes from our customers because we're in business because of them.

Why buy a business that's been declining 10 to 15 percent?

Gideon Gono

This transaction will send a message to the world that Zimbabwe is a country that serious investors can do business with.

Dan Miller

We completed 2005 with the fewest fatalities in the history of mining in West Virginia. We've had these horrible tragedies to start the new year. But we're no busier now than we were six months or a year ago.

We have been massively busy helping our clients use this clause before it disappears for good.

When people say 're-invent your business model because of the ubiquitous availability of pirated product,' there's a huge flaw with that. You can never compete with free.

We will go after whatever business presents itself to us. We hope to maximize our opportunities.

We would expect money to migrate to the faster-growing businesses because people are much more interested in the growth side.