Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blake Mycoskie

You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for you? Well, TOMS is the business equivalent of a soul mate for me.

This step will enable us to concentrate on our core businesses in home and personal care.

You don't need to fear diversity in tagging vocabularies. They are inevitable, because businesses are so diverse, ... But if you're going to live with differences, you're going to need strong transformation technologies. That's why the key to XML is not representation, but rather transformation.

Today, public companies don't like the idea of conglomerates. People want to buy something in which they know where they are putting their money - into the food business or the oil and gas business. They don't want to put their money into a hodge-podge as a general rule.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Max de Pree

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Sam Walton

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

Sheryl Sandberg

I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all.

Jason Terry

We were able to handle our business and get it over.

Rebecca MacKinnon

To have a .cn domain, you have to be a registered business. You have to prove your site is legal.

William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Xavier Niel

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Wentworth Miller

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.

Vivek Wadhwa

I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.

We are looking at every piece of our business and saying how are we going to improve the impact that we make, to move this organization forward?

We recognize that and are operating the business in a distinct way.

W. G. Sebald

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

Kimora Lee Simmons

I have help, but I'm very hands-on in everything I do. I do normal stuff, I'm a normal mother and I'm a very hardworking woman and I have hundreds of products and many businesses that I do.

Kim Basinger

My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go 'God! Movie stars! Wow!' And I'm in this business. I walk out there just fascinated, and I always want to stay like that. I'm just a little kid going to these movies, and I don't ever want to change.

The question is -- and this is why the market hasn't reacted too negatively to the durable goods report -- is whether businesses ... will continue to spend given the risks to consumer spending posed by high energy prices.

Marsha Blackburn

We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.

Sean Young

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

Marco Rubio

We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.

We didn't have enough business for that line, so we shut it down at the end of 2002.

Xerox would present such an unfathomable integration challenge. Really, when you think about it, Xerox would like to be more like HP. The page volume is moving more to printers, and you wonder why HP would effectively want to take on a business that's principally in decline when they effectively have a business that's increasing.

.travel is now a permanent part of the foundation of the World Wide Web. As travel and tourism businesses register their .travel domains they are not only reshaping the next generation Internet but making history by playing their role in this defining moment in the evolution of travel industry.

We're really not concerned about whether or not we'll be able to keep the thing busy, ... There's plenty of business out there.

John Barth

We're really in a unique position with three very strong businesses that complement each other. It's about growth.

While it's perhaps desirable for some businesses to have a little more pricing power, the overall rate of inflation could rise at a rate that's very harmful to the economy this year.

We will have trucks traveling around providing coverage of state arts, culture, business and healthcare events.

Sophia Amoruso

Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they're either a television personality or someone who had the perfect pedigree and worked their way up the career ladder.