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.

Michael Nathanson

We want to see real earnings and cash flow.

David Tang

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

Spike Lee

We have a sort of understanding that works on the set. When you're shooting, the cash register is ringing . Denzel and I know where we're going before shooting starts. Then, it's a matter of doing it.

Charlie Munger

There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.

Tyson Slocum

What we're saying is, look, there's an easy way to pay for it: the oil companies. They've got record cash flows, record profits. Impose a new tax on them, use the revenues to dedicate to these programs.

James Chessen

What we're recommending is that people take out as much cash as they would need for a long weekend. And if you're relying on credit cards, request copies of your credit report before and after the century change so you can spot and correct any Y2K errors immediately.

David Briggs

What we're hearing is that today was predominantly short covering, ... I know that there's people that have cash and are stepping in when the market's down.

Tracey Mills

What they're doing now is more targeted marketing. One is cash incentives - some say it's the next wave after free checking - and the targeted marketing is a trend we've noticed for several years now.

Terry Bivens

What they need to do is deploy the cash in a way that drives some growth. Sara Lee, rightly or wrongly, is not viewed as a growth company.

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

Gary Campbell

We are positive on stocks, especially those that are benefiting from very strong U.S. consumer demand.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Alan Ackerman

There are continued uncertainties, ... The U.S. economy is slowing and commensurate with that is slowing consumer spending and corporate spending.

Scott Brown

There are some encouraging signs in retail sales, but if you look at what the source of consumer spending is, it's really income growth, and wage growth has been lackluster, suggesting the consumer will not be robust going forward.

Bob Brown

We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

Janet Jenkins

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Herb Trimpe

Teaching is like flying a plane. You leave school one day feeling like you're spiraling down toward the trees, expecting that the next day the crash will come. You brace yourself for the impact, only to find that things have leveled out at treetop height, and you climb and enjoy the remainder of the flight.

James Cornish

Unfortunately Mr. Burke lost his life in this crash and others were injured. I am satisfied that the officer's driving fell well within the limits prescribed by the criminal law.

Allen Kenitzer

The plane, we're told, crashed into power lines for unknown reasons and was destroyed by fire.

Leigh Steinberg

The fact that one plane crashed is tragic, and my heart goes out to those who are affected. But automobiles crash every day.

Kirsten Clark

She's super lucky she didn't have any major injuries. It's just a matter of how sore she is after a crash like that. Whenever you crash in downhill and walk away without injuries you're definitely lucky.

Melanie Hall

She's been the glue. She's always doing the little things crashing the boards, making the big stop, setting the screen that gets the girl open. I can't say enough about her.

Nick Swardson

For me, honestly, one of the first movies I did I was always pounding coffee, and I crashed so horribly. So I've kind of weaned myself off. You keep getting second and third winds. But for me, I've stopped doing energy drinks or any kind of stimulant. I just kind of go natural.

John Browning

to withstand the crash of a 747 into it.

Michael Johnson

When the rail network crashes and burns, the road network does too,

John Ruskin

The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clu

Luiz Scolari

The performance of the entire team was good,

Joe Crocco

We are looking forward to a good week of practice, going over some things and getting ready for Jericho. That's where our entire focus is right now.

John Gray

We struggled again. It was one of those nights. We only scored (seven) points the entire second half.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.

Jody Kielbasa

We want to pound home the idea that the festival is for the entire Gulf region.

Jim Hale

We have never talked about being ranked No. 1 or being undefeated at all the entire season. Those numbers aren't important to us.

Mark Driscoll

We want our fans to show their support for our program by wearing green. We want the entire stadium in green.

Natasha Trethewey

The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

Charles Dickens

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Charles Dickens

I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.

Charles Spurgeon

The more a church flourishes, the more, I believe, do hypocrites get in, just as you see many a noxious creeping thing come and get in a garden after a shower of rain. The very things that make glad the flowers bring out these noxious things. And so hypocrites get in and steal much of the church's sap away.

Charles Spurgeon

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

Charles Spurgeon

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

Charles Spurgeon

True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

Alan Watts

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

Dennis Miller

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

David Adler

We want to really get the word out to the industry to make sure they know what the opportunities are here.

Raymond Neidl

When everybody's positive, that's the time to get out, isn't it? ... But I'm positive, too. This industry is hot, hot, hot, and the economy's going to get hotter. And even if it doesn't, people will still like to gamble.

Lisa Vidal

Latinos that are in the industry writing and producing, they can't be afraid to go out there and say, 'I want my lead to be Latino. And I want to talk about this, I wanna write about that.' And Latinos as a whole, as a people in America, need to go out and support.

David Tarantino

We've become much better at doing the work online. The whole industry is moving to more online maintenance. In a regulated environment, it wasn't as important to have short outages. We do the same work, but we're online now.

John Hurt

Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

Juthamas Siriwan

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

Sarah Snook

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Tony Pierce

The product of intense technical work over the last nine months, the UEFI 2.0 specification represents outstanding industry teamwork from our member companies.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Craig Callahan

Most people want stocks to go up all the time. We're back to normal and people don't like it, ... Investors that don't have the patience to ride through trading ranges won't be able to participate in the surge.

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

Mark Mahaney

Yahoo! and Microsoft have reminded investors that search is not a monopoly,

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Benmont Tench

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

Nancy Marchand

I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

Bob Bartlett

The reaction to Rita was overly positive, and we're now getting a better sense of what is shut in,

Tom Bennett

I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic. I'm not overly neurotic.

Jon Alterman

People were overly optimistic. And now people are overly pessimistic.

Pat Riley

He wants to play, he wants to be out there. We're not being overly cautious, he's got a problem and we just want to treat it. We want to get it right.

Wayne Andrews

We're not overly concerned. I wouldn't have even done my own house.

Charles Sturcken

We don't give this out to the public, but we're not overly concerned.

Tomika Ferguson

I was overly excited. I did not know how to act, and I could not stop smiling until I got to Arkansas.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Adam Gopnik

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

Conor Oberst

My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.

Amanda Peet

Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.

Mahatma Gandhi

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

Mahatma Gandhi

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

Mahatma Gandhi

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

Mahatma Gandhi

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.