Famous Quotes & Sayings

Extol has a platform that can literally cut the time required to integrate these applications by literally 50 percent to 90 percent. I've got people in your organization with a mentality oriented toward manual coding. Until you get that monkey off your back, it's going to limit your business opportunities.

Conan O'Brien

Experts say it could take 80 days to drain all of the flood water out of New Orleans. When President Bush heard this he said, '80 days, that's half a vacation.'

Brian Kelley

The real value is in business to business e-commerce.

Charles M. Schwab

The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory.

The real strength in the market in 2003 was from small-cap and mostly busted companies. It was a huge sigh of relief that many unprofitable companies did not go out of business.

There are a lot of pre-existing businesses that are expanding. This is an indication that business is very good. They need more workers, more inventory and more space because the demand is there.

Morris Chestnut

There are a lot of people in this business that don't work consistently.

John Perry Barlow

There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.

Bob Taft

There are many things we must do to improve our business climate. But in the quest for prosperity, what matters most is our people.

There are many things consumers and business owners can do now and in the coming weeks to help put their financial houses back in order in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, ... The FDIC is doing what we can to try to keep this natural disaster from turning into a financial disaster for all the people harmed by Katrina.

Bob Parsons

There are no tricks to what we do, just good old-fashioned business principles.

Chester Bennington

This is a business of love and labor.

Dave Ramsey

I think that anyone who wants to start their own business can, but not any type of business.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

Frank Luntz

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.

Frankie Valli

The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.

Fran Tarkenton

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

Carly Fiorina

That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place.

Herb Kelleher

When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.

Herb Kelleher

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

Hill Harper

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?'

Alan Kay

All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.

David J. C. MacKay

I was distressed by the poor quality of the debate surrounding energy. I was also noticing so much green wash from politicians and big business. I was tired of the debate - the extremism, the nimbyism, the hair shirt. We need a constructive conversation about energy, not a Punch and Judy show. I just wanted to try to reboot the whole debate.

You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.

When we started, the business name was 'Fashion 21.' And change it to 'Forever 21' later.

I noticed the people who drove the nicest cars were all in the garment business.

Don Lemon

Many people who know me call me 'the hardest working man in the news business' because you're never, ever going to outwork me.

Don Lemon

If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.

Chick Corea

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

Clayton Christensen

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

Clayton Christensen

A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.

Cindy Sheehan

Looking back, all I can say is that the meeting with Bush was one of the most disgusting experiences in my life.