Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Charles Caleb Colton

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Charles Stross

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

Alan Greenspan

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Alan Greenspan

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

Alan Greenspan

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

Shirley Sippel

To Zeal, an honest handshake was worth everything. If Zeal told you something and he shook on it with you, it was a deal.

Joe Glenn

A person's word and a man's handshake ought to mean something. Maybe you're better for not having them in the long run because they not men of their word. We want people who are loyal, stand-up people and men of their word.

Tommy Docherty

They offered me a handshake of ?10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.

Jibril Rajoub

There will be a handshake at some point, and that's about it.

Randy Bachman

I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.

Norman Foster

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

Laurie Lee

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

Buddha

On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots

Epictetus

I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?

Jimmy Chamberlin

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

English 15th Century Proverbs

A prophet is not without honour save in his own country.

Geoff Mulgan

Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.

Rudyard Kipling

And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!

Kim Campbell

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

Elizabeth Arden

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Beth Moore

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.

Robert Henderson

We're going to be very transparent and let them know any possible thing that happened.

George H. W. Bush

make it possible -- more possible -- to do our job.

Twiggy

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

Sean McCormack

She raised (the case) in the strongest possible terms." ()

Charles Bukowski

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

Felix Hernandez

I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.

Thom Mayne

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Ben Carson

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

Charlie White

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.

Alfred North Whitehead

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Kristine Fauerbach

We prefer to give them away than to have them go somewhere where they will be turned around and sold again.

David Baker

We prefer to do that in a non-public session.

Sarah Richart

We prefer to do a lot of things electronically. We just get better results that way. Any of the streamline stuff, we can do.

Bernard Laporte

We preferred to let him recuperate and release him on Thursday.

Rick Kern

We prefer not to have our traffic go through that road.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Moore

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Michael Boss

The traders are for the most part are out. So we're just biding out time.

Gary Ross

For the first time, traders have to worry about demand.