Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chip Conley

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

Ben Bernanke

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

Rose Kennedy

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

Gerald Chertavian

The Opportunity Divide doesn't just keep our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.

For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.

My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.

Gerry Harvey

As a retailer, we want everyone out there to earn more money, but then if you're running a business, and we can't make money because the wages are too high, that's a problem.

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

Owen D. Young

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

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?

We have continued to see good momentum in all core business areas.

Mark Noble

We're trying to make sure everybody has someplace to go when they get here. The buses don't get new destinations until they leave the property.

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!

Binod Chaudhary

Yes, we can do business in Nepal and still succeed. That is what I proved.

Bill Lawrence

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.

The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.

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

We should not be subsidizing businesses with your tax dollars, and then they turn around and give us Medicaid patients.

Ray Allen

We shot ourselves in the foot. I thought we were so close to busting open, but we gave it away.

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.

James Cameron

Wall Street is waking up to climate change risks and opportunities. Considerably more of the world's largest corporations are getting a handle on what climate change means for their business and what they need to do to capture opportunities and mitigate risks. This all points to a continued elevation of climate change as a critical shareholder value issue for investors.

Danny Meyer

It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream.

Bret Harte

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

Carlos Slim

How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

Bob Parsons

What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

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

Nancy Pelosi

There is plenty to investigate about the Bush administration's use and misuse of intelligence, ... The American people deserve the truth.

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.

Stuart Rose

There are a lot of very busy blokes about who wear a suit for work, who go through a lot of wear and tear and who'll want this because of convenience, The customer is time-compressed and, in middle America, also pocket-book compressed.