Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dunstone

The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.

Charles de Gaulle

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

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.

Doug Scofield

Throughout his first term, the governor has won key victories for working people.

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Dick DeVos

There are too many people who aren't able to find work. For the governor of this state, that's Job One.

Ronnie Milsap

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Merle Black

Most voters don't judge a governor on one decision,

Chuck Logsdon

There are some key issues where we've not received a response that is what the governor wants to hear.

J. C. Watts

Yesterday Governor Perry declared Texas a state of disaster.

Tommy Thompson

I think the governor is putting this out to see what response he might get, ... It's an indication the governor recognizes we have these revenue challenges.

Dave Nabity

I thought this plan was supposed to offer tax relief for those who paid too much to the government. I'm sure it will help these people, but it is not tax relief, as the governor claims.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Jim Amos

It is significant in its impact. We do millions of packages a year with UPS.

Peter Ashkenaz

With millions of people in the program, you are going to see all sorts of different scenarios. This (situation) is unfortunate.

Peter Kessler

For millions of people, this was their source of food,

Kevin Bankston

If state secrecy can prevent us from preserving the rights of millions upon millions of people, then there is a profound problem with the law.

Walt Riker

I think all the projections show this is going to be win, win, win for McDonald's, the Smithsonian and the millions of visitors who go there.

Dan Newman

He may spend his tens of millions on slick TV ads, but this isn't eBay. The governor's race does not have a 'buy it now' option.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Jim Gibbons

very devastating to communities with a small tax base.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

Diana Gabaldon

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

Anton Chekhov

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.