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.

Steve Jobs

We want to stand at the intersection of computers and humanism

Lucien Engelen

It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them; they are always consulting Dr Google.

Luis von Ahn

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Shelly Flood

We want people to know they can drop off their old computers with us for free, rather than just throw them away. We take anything and everything.

Sherman Austin

When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.

Richard P. Feynman

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

Aaron Swartz

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

Tim Berners-Lee

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.

Clint Hurdle

We want to see his command, we want him to utilize his pitches, ... We also want to see him use his two-seam fastball and sinkerball.

Fisher DeBerry

The other team had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did.

Ken Hitchcock

We started off fast and we kept it up.

O. J. Simpson

We started fast and did some good things early.

Bob Baffert

When you've got a 20-horse field and a fast pace, anything can happen out there.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Bill Murray

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

Herman Edwards

We have to have a different mind-set - that was established today in our meetings, ... I think our players took hold of it and did a good job of practicing. It was a pretty fast practice, guys moving around where they were supposed to go.

Meles Zenawi

We have no intention of playing fast and loose with this document, with the OAU process, ... We only hope that this time around the other side really means what it says.

David Holden

We are a five member board...we had no discussion,

Ron Gardenhire

We're in a pennant race here, ... We're doing everything we can to win. And five runs in two innings, we can't do that.

Irwin Redlener

We started from zero five weeks ago to all this hot, hot spotlight on pandemic flu, but we're not going to be ready.

David Grant

We started five minutes after (Kline) lost. It's something you reel in right then. You start helping him refocus. You don't talk too much about the match he just lost but about what we're going to do in the future. You have to be there to help him.

Felipe Alou

We spent five months losing series. That's what has us five games back - not the loss tonight.

Lukas Rosol

I never had goals to be in the top 10 or top five in the world. I just try to find the borders, find what level I can reach. I have a good team around me, so hopefully it's going to get even better.

Lewis Hallam

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

Erick Dampier

We're not going to make excuses. You put five players on the court, regardless of who's hurt. Obviously, we have enough talent to win.

Terry Stralow

We also sponsor four or five softball teams which helps us during the summer months.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Ray Walston

I have 30 seconds to tell you I have been waiting 60 years to get on this stage.

Jim Court

I thought about it for 10 seconds or so.

Sue Donohoe

When he wanted to know what time it was, you had to get down there. You didn't tell him that it was 30 seconds left.

Jim Calhoun

We've got to take away 3-point shooting and not get fatigued by the shot clock. They make as many shots under 12 seconds as any team you're going to play.

Brenda Frese

I think it was like 10 seconds after the game.

Ashtin Primus

With 10 seconds to go (after the restart) I didn't know if I had time for a cradle, but I just went for it.

Kim Williams

Thomas was just hundredths of seconds away. Thomas is new to track, but he's making strides.

Mike Caldwell

Our possessions were about 10 seconds long. Theirs were for about 40 seconds long.

Chris Travers

I thought if we could get it down to three with 40 seconds left, we would have had a shot.

Michael Gove

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

MacGyver MacGyver

Using violence isn't the only way to solve a problem.

Ashwin Sanghi

There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

Hubert Burda

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

James Rosenquist

If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.

Gary Owens

My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.

Ronaldo Myers

(The expansion) is going to help. But it won't solve the situation.

Bryan Whitman

There is no ?silver bullet' to solve this problem.

Nestor Kirchner

We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country.