Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Powell

Since the inception of E-911, the rates have not gone up, but the cost of business has gone up, ... ... We have to do something in order to secure the revenue stream for E-911.

Jim Jeffords

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

Jen Kirkman

Sitcoms are what got me excited about show business.

Since my wife and I took over, we've been working hard to expand our client list. The business has been doing very well in general, with a lot of our clients having been with us for as long as 25 years.

Since I hadn't been trained in design, I went into the business not knowing the 'rules'. I just did what I thought looked good and did lots of designs with a natural look.

She put her husband in business as a barber. Within a year, that $4 had changed the entire fortunes of this family.

Pepper Schwartz

She is brave, insightful, smart, creative and fun to be with. I am impressed with her business talents.

Richard Foreman

She knows it's a show about the business world and she jokes that no one's ever gonna hire her now. But she's actually pretty tough.

She knew what it took to keep the business going. She had good business sense.

She knew her experience was minimal, but she just plugged away and quietly went about her business. By the end of the training in April, there was no doubt she was the best, most consistent player that had played with us. She's quietly gone about her business and earned everybody's confidence.

she needed to do business and couldn't sit around.

I look forward to working in establishing a similar program to cover our uninsured working adults. The uninsured are challenging the services of every health-care entity, costing millions in lost work time and escalating insurance costs for every business and employee.

I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endless.

John Caudwell

I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.

I had a spectacular four years as OpenTable CEO and remain an active executive chairman. I think, for me, some of the interesting observations there are, you know, global is important, mobile is extremely important. And then, network businesses are very attractive.

I have been in this education business for more than 35 years now. I know firsthand that teaching is more than just a job - it is a true vocation - a calling that requires dedication and daily sacrifice,

I have been in this business for a while and I know that this (demand) is impossible.

I have been in the venom business 28 years and all the venom I collect is used in research. Venom is used in important medications.

I have been in the restaurant business since 1979. We have been thinking for the past five or six years of doing something privately.

I have been in the business for more than 40 years and I've always heard Florida is going to run out of rock. We continually find and are able to use lower grade phosphate, which even 20 years ago we would never have dreamed of using.

I have been in the business a long time and there's a big difference between playing tough and playing dirty, especially when a player is going for the man and not for the ball. The referee has to take control.

I have been hearing about this all over town, and not just from the firefighters. This is why you need to handle the fire department business strictly, because this kind of disturbance doesn't look good.

I have always wanted to go into business for myself.

Marko Jaric

I have become a subscriber for 'Business Week.' It teaches me a lot about business, and I have really started to get into it. I'm interested in business and learning about how everything works.

I have my dream here. This is what I expected when I started my business 32 years ago.

I have listened to shareowner concerns and want to dispel any doubt that my commitment to the success of this company is unwavering, ... I am eager to eliminate the distraction of the compensation discussion so that we can focus on the business of E*Trade Financial.

Jerry Yang

I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.

Jane Green

I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.

I give her props. Everything I need to see done is channeled through her. It's a business relationship. If it wasn't for her, we wouldn't where we are.

Sylvia Plath

I felt like a race horse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like a date on a tombstone.

Emily Procter

I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.

Rivers Cuomo

I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.

Marc Crawford

I felt Dave could have gone two or three ways with this decision. Hockey is a difficult business. I think he could have made a strong decision in a number of ways but I'm comfortable where he's gone.