Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Porter

I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight times a week to do a show. It's unlike any other business. It's just lovely. You feel like you're in a family.

Billy Mays

The infomercial business has been good to me.

I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.

Kathy Ireland

This story is cruel, nonsensical and damaging to the tremendous work she does every day for people living with HIV/AIDS as well as her extraordinary leadership in all of her business ventures.

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.

Jim Rogers

You don't necessarily have to own a marketing and trading business to get that value.

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.

Today we are telling our employees that we must right-size our operations... And we are telling them that we now have to execute a revised business plan in order to ensure our future.

Unwired anticipates ongoing strong revenue growth as the company continues to grow its business in Sydney and expand into other markets around Australia.

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.

Marlon Wayans

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.

Mark Wahlberg

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I'm a good organiser.

Oliver Ellsworth

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

Oliver North

We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.

Gautam Adani

From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.

Gautam Adani

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

Gregory Hines

One of the things about working on stage - actually, about working in show business, that is - is that it's such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is - every endeavor where people are able to be successful.

Greg Wise

I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.

The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we're essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward.

George Foreman

There are a lot of guys who are successful, they make a lot of big money, I mean millions overnight with a contract, and they don't understand the evaporation. It evaporates. You're always back to square one. I found that out, so integrity is how I do business. That's my main asset.

George Pataki

We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

Shirley Manson

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

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.