Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a crazy situation. We have to wait and see. It's much easier if you just take care of business and win the games.

It's a continuing surprise, given weakness in other sectors of economy. Normally, the housing sector is very sensitive to the overall business cycle.

Elizabeth Hurley

I'm not going to launch a bikini business and then give up bikinis, am I?

Robert Fripp

Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band.

Patrick Murphy

I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I'm sorry - that doesn't work in business, that doesn't work in your family, it certainly doesn't work in government and our Congress.

Nicola Formichetti

Working in a store and being a shop assistant, if you don't know what to do and you like fashion, I think it's a great way of getting into the business because you do windows, cleaning, and everything. That was my school for two years, working in a shop, and that's how I met people in magazines and designers.

Paul Watson

Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'

We probably will be into these businesses until well into the evening.

Sunil Mittal

In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.

Steve Largent

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

Victor LaValle

The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don't think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers.

David Hare

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

David Miliband

In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

Al Ries

It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

George Foster

We want the players to have a framework to evaluate business opportunities put in front of them. The sporting theme (inspires) much more passion for a lot of people, but a lot of sporting ideas go bankrupt, so passion is not enough. You've got to have revenues come through the door and you've got to contain your cost.

Richard Williams

We want them to have a real-world experience, which means working with people from other schools and cultures, which gives them an experience of diversity. Some students never would have considered a career in international business and exportation without this kind of exposure.

We want to streamline the management and admin staff of the business and get our managers closer to the business to deliver that better leadership and get the right people in the right jobs.

Chinua Achebe

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

David Robinson

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

August Bebel

The nature of business is swindling.

Denis Waitley

Chase your passion, not your pension.

I had Dell for four and a half years, and its sales are still phenomenal, but their operating margins started to contract, so I sold it in early 1999. There's nothing wrong with Dell! It's a fine company. It's just the business risk they took.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.

The one thing we know for sure is when competition for something increases, the percentage of the market any one business has will decline.

B. F. Skinner

The point is for the governor-elect to, first of all, have an opportunity to talk directly with commuters and business men and women about his vision for tackling the state's transportation challenges.

We are preparing for tremendous growth. Our business has never been better.

Gary Marshall

We usually present classes like this in our training room downtown, so the chance to get out into the neighborhood and connect directly with the community is really exciting. It's important to provide the option of business ownership to everybody.

We?re in a good region with a lot of vitality and small business growth.

Mark Burnett

My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo.

When you strip out those acquisitions and new partnerships to really get a sense of what the company's core business is doing, it really struggled through the first half of the year.

We need to make sure that we have one another's back and recognize the fact that patriots come in all different sizes, shapes, colors, not all of them wear uniforms, some of them are employers, some of them are the family members who stay at home and take of business back here in the state of Oklahoma.

Bernard Baruch

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

Carlos Ghosn

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn