Famous Quotes & Sayings

Li Zhaoxing

We want peaceful development, ... Stability and security of one country cannot be built on turbulence or crisis of another.

Richard Cross

The problem with Sarbanes-Oxley is that it means 20 different things to 10 different people. There's a tremendous wealth of folklore that has been built up around it in the IT sector. A lot of people are trying to push us into spending money on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but I trust our auditors.

Robert Talbut

There is a lot of good news built into equities ... they have had a good run.

George Maloof

The Palms set the standard for themed hotel rooms by creating the world-famous Real World Suite, ... With our expansion, we will design some of the most extraordinary and unique luxury suites ever built in the world.

Stefan Sagmeister

In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I'm never going to break the world record for the five miles. It's partly genetics; I'm just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?

Gary Shapiro

The products have pretty much converged together. You are seeing simplicity built more into computers, and more memory built in TVs -- so that the clean division between the two doesn't exist anymore.

Michael Moore

The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.

Texas Battle

What interested me in doing 'Dragonball' was that it's a huge comic book series that has built a great fan base, and it's a great action movie!

Thomas Heatherwick

As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.

Gary Foster

We have provided engineering solutions to the casting and foundry industry for many years. We are excited about the capability and features that KUKA offers to our next generation of customized solutions. Feedback from customers has been extremely positive and we look forward to a long and successful partnership with KUKA Robotics.

Sue Feldman

There is a welter of information today, and it's only increasing. Search firms recognize that knowledge workers and even consumers need better ways to sort through information. That's what's driving innovation, and we'll continue to see better and better search capability because of it.

Anders Rasmussen

There is no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein is a problem. ... He has the capability of producing weapons of mass destruction and the willingness to use them. We know that he has breached several U.N. declarations.

Gloria Arroyo

We shall enhance our strategic relationship with the U.S. through continuing training exercises to sharpen the Filipino soldiers capability to move and communicate to fix and finish off their targets,

Craig Whelihan

We know we can score. We had the capability to one-strike score. We had the capability to drive down and score. We showed that in the second half. That first half wasn't Vegas football.

Tim Carlson

The power company has been looking for companies that have the capability of supplying alternative energy.

Graham Cluley

Unlike worms, it doesn't have a capability to replicate itself and so has to be manually spread by being spammed out deliberately, or people downloading it from a Web site.

Tom Ramon

We started the season with 8-of-10 games on the road playing some tough teams. Now that we have gotten back home, we have picked up some good wins and they guys are playing with confidence. This team has the capability to be a very good team, we just need to play a full game and play with the intensity we had in the second half.

Nong Duc Manh

In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work.

Charles Dickens

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Henry Lewis

We have people who are willing to chain themselves to that house to prevent them from tearing it down if we have to,

Ken Bacon

The extent to which disparaging speech or expression with respect to sexual orientation occurs or is tolerated by individuals in the chain of command will be assessed.

Reinhard Buetikofer

There is a long chain of diametrically opposed positions, not least on social issues.

Tim Flock

Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear.

Kim Cattrall

A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.

Kurt Burkhart

There are some climbs but not much for these riders. A lot of those guys will probably be going up in their big chain rings a lot of these climbs.

Gabrielle Union

I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.

James Calvin

We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of licensed distributors to supply them with legal products. But in conducting commerce with non-Native American consumers, everyone in the supply chain should play by the same rules, including collecting state and local taxes.

Dick Wolf

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.

Kenneth Edmonds

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Bill Cosby

Network executives never did understand what made our show work,

Ivan Glasenberg

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

Anita Elberse

With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success in the marketplace. Therefore, the most expensive films often also get the highest marketing budgets, and are slotted into the most favorable opening weekends.

Mark Borges

To many people, that's what the true compensation is and what the executives get taxed on. Not until the stock vests can individuals put it in their pockets, and now investors are going to be able to see what it's worth.

O. Henry

To manage, rather than be managed by the market, health plan executives need to be proactive. They need to look now at the issues likely to face the industry this year.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

Rick Moranis

By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

M. Wolfe

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Alan Meeder

When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

John Freeman

The real issue is how high does that threshold need to be.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Stephen Colletti

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

Alan Lewis

Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Derek Lam

There is a long list of negative news today,

Ray Soudah

There is a long buyers' list and a short sellers' list.

John Orton

We set up a wiretapping operation in a flophouse where we listened to their conversations, which were in German, and then translated and recorded the conversations of the Nazi spies,

Brian Eno

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Bret Easton Ellis

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

David Amram

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Charles M. Schwab

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

Guy Dolle

Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Raymond Hack

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

Brandon Sanderson

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Brian Tracy

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

H. Hunt

She stays cool. She pulls out the big performance on the big day.

James E. Rogers

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

Tom Skerritt

Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting.

E. B. White

This was a scary and rare occurrence, not a pattern.

John McCarthy

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

Dick Cavett

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

Karina Lombard

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.

Arnold Palmer

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

Marianne Williamson

I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.

Carmen Busquets

I rarely have time for lunch, so tend to have a big breakfast and big dinner.

Rupam Das

Software is a type of seduction, it's addictive, it's better when it's free.

Bill Gates

Software empowerment can be used here as well.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Richard Williams

These software stocks are all overvalued on the fundamentals that we see today.

Christopher Klaus

Anti-virus software does nothing to stop a worm,

Nathan Myhrvold

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

Michael J. Saylor

I think my software is going to become so ubiquitous, so essential, that if it stops working, there will be riots.

Bradford Smith

Ultimately, it comes down to supply and demand.

Mike Johnston

Obviously, more supply is going to hurt, because the occupancies are still not to 1999-2000 levels.

Tom Crosby

There is some supply available; it is limited.

Tim Ryan

We need to be able to at the very least supply our own military.

Craig Bruce

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Derrick Johnson

If they are any discrepancies, we want to make sure that if there are individuals in need that we supply as much support as possible,

Aaron Williams

Our water supply is very important to us.

Tom Fitzpatrick

It always comes down to supply and demand,

Ben Bernanke

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.