Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. Hodge

There are some businesses that have weeds and grass growing in front of the lots, cars with flat tires and cars parked on the sidewalks. We want to encourage the owners of the property to take care of that and clean up in front of their places.

M. Hardman

We started back then and then worked on getting the support of the city council. The most important fact was that the businesses in downtown supported us. Out of the 24 businesses in downtown, 22 supported us.

Nick Woodman

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

Mike Strecker

When we got our students back, the population of New Orleans increased by 10 to 20 percent. A lot of businesses pegged their openings to the return of our students. We expect the students to be a big part of rebuilding.

Sung Sohn

What's lacking is confidence, so businesses aren't spending the money they have, ... That's why I don't necessarily think it takes a huge fiscal stimulus package to get the economy moving.

Robert Reich

We're going to have to have a massive program to get these people permanent housing, ideally near or in their former communities, to get them jobs, to help restart businesses and to provide transportation,

Ron Meyer

Universal City plays an important role in our company and in Los Angeles. Now is the time to shape a vision not only for the continued vitality of our studio and theme park businesses but for the property itself.

Mark Reed

We're doing it at night because there are a lot of businesses on that road, and there are a lot of people who live on that road. We're going to try to be as courteous as we can be.

Jeff Jaffe

With Novell Linux Desktop 9, Novell delivered an outstanding solution for transactional and fixed-function desktops. With its successor, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, we are now positioned to serve the sweet spot of the market, the general office worker. This desktop is already generating great interest in businesses of all sizes, and it represents a tremendous new opportunity for Novell.

Steve Makein

We always feel good going into any match. We're focusing on individual match-ups and scoring as many points as we can.

Sen Hooser

Working with my colleagues, we're focusing on making that a reality.

Matt Smith

We're focusing on what our program is going to be rather than what it was.

Scott Sandelin

We're focusing on Thursday and to hopefully play three games there. We're not satisfied just to get there.

Mark Groesbeck

We're focusing on preservation of capital. I'm telling them to be happy with modest returns.

Emily Cochran

We're focusing on ourselves -- our plays, not their plays.

Tim Adams

We're focusing on open markets ... we're focusing on a successful Doha (global trade) round,

David Gray

We're focusing more on the botanicals as opposed to more the fruit-driven infusions.

Suzanne Isidor

We're really focusing on the things that worked and keeping them going.

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Chris Christie

The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

John Russell

We're in a much more stable construction market now, no longer impacted by those market pressures.

Kevin Tynan

Whether longer term that actually makes a difference, I have questions about that.

Eric Schmitt

We're going to see a longer PC lifespan,

Clay Richards

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

Susan McDermott

Since she's no longer competing, we won't be using that ad. It doesn't make sense.

Ron Gardenhire

Sit him out any longer and you're going to have to send him out on a rehab. We need to get him in the lineup and let him play.

Irving Layton

Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.

Lee Peterson

Since he is innocent, we don't want him sitting there any longer than he has to.

Gary Warner

She is no longer a missing person. She is a suspect.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Ted Sarandos

When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Roberto Azevedo

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Robert Brusca

There is a reason for stock markets to be worried. But I don't think we need to talk about recession yet -- it's not on the radar screen.

Firas Askari

Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.

David Satcher

We have to be more strategic in the distribution,

David Smith

I think the wise and strategic thing to do is to have a two-track policy,

David Strow

That was the attraction. It was a tremendously strategic location.

Stephen Kinzer

The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.

John McDonough

Rubbermaid and Newell are a terrific strategic fit,

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.

Navtej Sarna

The visit is significant in view of the strategic partnership between the two countries.