Famous Quotes & Sayings

I had a different business model. I felt that even though I was one of the top producers, I was not appreciated within the organization.

Shelden Williams

I had a lot of unfinished business here at Duke University.

Daymond John

I had a little delivery van, and I did work around Queens. I was also a waiter at Red Lobster, so I was working on the business in between jobs.

If you don't get satisfactory answers, don't do business with that person.

Marc Bulger

If you can't deal with it, you're in the wrong business. At the end of the day, five years from now, they're not going to look back and say you were 6-10 because you had all those things going on. They're just going to say you were 6-10. When you're on the field and not making plays, it has nothing to do with what's going on upstairs.

Bobby Bowden

If we were 11-and-0, if you still can't win this darn game here, you don't even win the championship. So here we are 7-4, they're 10-1. It looks like you got no business being there with those guys. Yet whoever wins that game will be conference champion. That part of it is good for somebody like us.

I just think that ethics education today is not as successful as it should be. Everyone seems to think they are ethical, but then we see lying, cheating and stealing going on at every level of our business world and it's spiraling up through society.

Mo Ibrahim

I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people.

I really wanted to see something to hold him accountable in some way. God knows how many thousands of dollars he's been able to obtain in the Garden of the Gods (Road) business area.

I remember getting back on the bus after we visited the hospital. You could have heard a pin drop. Everybody was so moved by what they had seen. Some guys had tears in their eyes.

Doug Wilson

I remember riding the same bus when Ken Williamson played.

Florence Henderson

I love the gay community. Naturally having been in this business since I was 17, I came into contact with gay people very young in my life. To me they were always the most talented, the kindest, they have the most wicked senses of humor - I always felt comfortable. I was never threatened, ever, and I just embraced them and loved them.

Lisa Leslie

I'll still be in school in-season. It's a big challenge for me, but I've learned so much already from just the business side of the Sparks organization as well as the WNBA organization.

Phil Jaques

I'll just be working twice as hard. I've just got to go out and do my business and hopefully I can't be ignored. I suppose the more runs you score the more the pressure mounts.

I looked in Malibu, the Palisades and all over Santa Monica, and I ended up wanting to be in a busy district. I think our store has really benefited from the traffic here because people aren't just zipping by; they are seeing us.

Ryan Howard

I'll say one thing, I'll miss the pies in the face. I'll tell you that much. It's unfortunate to have that with anybody, but that's the business of the game that nobody really wants to look at.

Bo Ryan

I'll enjoy the experience as much as possible, but we're here to take care of business on the court. But it is neat to be here.

Billy Joel

I know how big business works. I don't trust it.

Rob Brown

I know I'm not going to book everything I go in on, and that's just the nature of the business. You have to keep hustling and not get down on it. You have to keep at it and find your way in. Everybody's story is different.

I know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.

Paul Wolfowitz

In the small country of Burkina Faso, if I remember correctly, it costs 1-1/2 times per capita income to pay the license fees to start a business. That's only about US$500 but for a poor person in Burkina who is trying to start a business it's an impossible barrier.

George Stewart

In this election and others, ... Billings has been plagued by the rumor that his credentials ('studying engineering and business at BYU' and being close to graduation) are distorted or even falsified. I challenge the mayor to come clean: Produce a BYU transcript. . . .

Jeff Ament

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

Jay Wright

I just got a report from the doctors at the hospital and it was great news. It actually looked a lot worse than it was. He will be released from the hospital and he has vision. He is a day-to-day prognosis right now. He will go home with us on the bus tomorrow.

I have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you have targets for acquisitions, you end up making compromises in terms of valuations, and you buy things because you have a target, and it is not good for business.

Michael Douglas

I hear this thing about how calculated business decisions have influenced my choice of pictures. But it's just not true.

I hope somebody wins. We can't handle the business we're getting.

I hope so. I think we're going to need everybody the next month-and-a-half, no matter what. We have 23 games in the next 40 nights. It's busy and it's hectic and we're going to need everybody.

I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.

I have the highest respect for stars and auteur directors. But I don't want to work with people who only invite me to the preview. We want to be in the collaborative movie business, not the financing one.

I haven't had a chance to study that issue. I've been too busy running my family business.

I have tried to help Harriet with some of her business affairs. All of my dealings with her have been honorable.

Reed Hundt

I really think that everyone will find?that we have given all the businesses a fair chance to compete, that the deregulation expressed in our rules has not tilted the playing field in favor of one industry over another industry, and that it's the marketplace that will determine who are the winners and who are the losers.