Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Jonathan Carroll

There are long quiet periods in life that are very much like waiting for a bus on a nice day. You don't mind being there so much because the weather is sunny and nice, and you're in no hurry. But after a while you start looking at your watch because there are more interesting things you could be doing, and it really is time the bus came.

Donovan Bailey

When you go out into the business world you have to pursue your dreams without stepping on someone else and that's what we were taught.

Amy Davis

What kind of business are you involved in?

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.

The rebound is very slow, gradual and uncertain. The survey shows a changing scenario in July, notably on the personal and general business outlooks which deteriorated significantly.

There has been significant media focus on the sale of our toy business, ... While that is a possibility, our focus remains on running the business. Our U.S. business is profitable and is generating cash.

When church groups, rod and gun clubs, small business owners, and local government leaders come together with hiking and conservation groups, it makes a powerful point to our elected officials.

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 much more comfortable with one giant and us as a very small provider because we can make a business out of people who don't like the giant.

We need to draw business and industry that will consume what we grow. I want your commodities consigned here. If I have enough to consume what you grow, then prices are going to stay up.

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.

Melanne Verveer

Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

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

Pankaj Mishra

Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.