Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're really looking for someone to bust loose. We have quite a few guys who were right on the edge of being all-MAC last year, and we expect them to do well this year.

John Barth

We're really in a unique position with three very strong businesses that complement each other. It's about growth.

William Shakespeare

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

Roy Moore

The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.

Roy Blunt

Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.

Ryan Holmes

As social is where consumers' eyeballs are, businesses must take ownership of their online company profiles. By providing their customers with a place to share content, social media managers can monitor and track content which directly relates to their brand.

Paul Shaffer

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

Paul Hogan

There are quite a few actors in the business who are much more difficult than kids or monkeys.

Madonna Ciccone

I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.

Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.

Mark McKinnon

George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.

Mark McKinnon

I'll tell you, Liz Cheney is going to be a very good candidate. I worked with her during the Bush campaigns. She's smart, she's focused, she's disciplined - and she's got a great back story. She's got a large family. She's a great mom. And she's a hard worker. I think she's going to be a very effective campaigner.

Mark McKinnon

Twitter is not a business. I know its founders would like to think it is. It is, for the most part, a diversion.

Monica Seles

I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

Mindy Grossman

Throughout my career, no matter what I've done or what decision I've made, I've made it with my family first. My priority was taking care of my family while I was taking care of business.

Pete Townshend

I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

Even after working at 'MarketWatch' and loving journalism and loving business news, I still wanted to be a lawyer because it was my plan.

Peter Senge

A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.

Peter Senge

If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the political clout, frankly - is in the business sector. And it's the locus of innovation.

We've identified roughly 300 of these businesses throughout San Diego County. It's one of those industries that demands skills in intellectual property.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Ian Fleming

This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

David Einhorn

My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered.

Dean Wareham

The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it... And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.

Dean Wareham

Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

Donna Mills

I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.

Donna Brazile

Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.

My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.

For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'

Christopher Bond

It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.

With experienced IT workers retiring and too few highly skilled workers to replace them, training and retention efforts will be critical. Businesses need to move immediately to search for and screen qualified applicants, and technology professionals with the right skill sets will be well positioned to capitalize on emerging opportunities.

Michael Hawley

With exceptionally strong business fundamentals, an outstanding new product platform and gradually improving global conditions, we look for a return to our more traditional sales and earnings performance levels in the second half of the year.

With every company, you walk this line. Who could we offend that we won't be doing business with tomorrow?