Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Reed

When we go to Congress, there are strict rules about what I can be involved with and what I can't be involved with when it comes to business relationships and business operations.

Trip Adler

The reason we make money is because we have a few different business models. One is ads: we get incredibly high click rates because most people on Scribd are searching the site for something, or they came from a search engine, and they're looking for something specific.

Tom Smothers

I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.

Tony Fernandes

When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.

Caroline Dhavernas

They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen.

Stephen Covey

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

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.

Vic Mignogna

There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.

My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 clients in the Rochester area, and live happily ever after.

Tim O'Reilly

My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'

Timothy Geithner

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.

Al Madrigal

People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.

Adam Michnik

The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

Alex Steffen

If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and their own governments, then we can really transform the prospects of life on this planet. We can find ourselves living in a world that is more like the world that I think most of us want to be living in.

David Hare

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

David Chang

My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done better at school, I don't know if I would have been a chef.

David Blunkett

Businesses that fail to develop their staff are twice as likely to collapse. Firms seeking to reposition themselves for the economic upturn need to invest in their staff's flexibility, responsiveness and skills.

Ban Ki-moon

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.

Ban Ki-moon

One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

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.