Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wernher von Braun

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

Wayne White

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

Warren Zevon

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

Washington Irving

Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

Walter Lippmann

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

Walter Wriston

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Walter Russell

Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from disaster. Wealth cannot be acquired from others by might, for wealth thus taken will impoverish him who takes anything which is not given. Nor can power be thus acquired, for the weakness of the despoiled will prevail against the might of the despoiler.

Walter Russell

In the business world, unwise men take more that they give. They do not realize that they are breaking the Universal Law which will eventually break them to an equal extent. It may not be balanced in the form of dollars and cents but in the loss of good-will upon which their future business depends.

Winston Churchill

The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual!

Winston Churchill

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

Winston Churchill

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Winston Churchill

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

Winston Churchill

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

William S. Burroughs

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

William Lyon Phelps

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

William McDonough

Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

William McDonough

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

William J. H. Boetcker

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

Woodrow Wilson

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

Woodrow Wilson

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

Woody Allen

When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

William Wycherley

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

William Whipple

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

William Wordsworth

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

William J. Clinton

It's the economy, stupid.

Will Durant

The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.

Sarah Carter

Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.

Sara Blakely

Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.

Samuel Pepys

I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle of it, it has reluctances after my business, which is neglected by my following my pleasure. However musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.