Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daren Beaudo

Our participation in the state lease sale is aligned with our current interest in progressing Liberty along.

Larry Scott

Part of my surprise is that British culture is much more aligned with American and Australian culture, and this is a cultural and social issue, not a financial issue. Part of my surprise is that Wimbledon is the last one standing.

David Morgan

Our managing partners have regular quarterly meetings with all partners to make sure we're staying aligned with the goals of the organization.

Ron Ence

I was just hoping to weather the storm. But the planets must be aligned somewhere. When you win and one of your leading scorers doesn't score a point, you just thank your lucky stars.

Frank Vargo

I am hopeful. I think the stars are aligned on this. The Chinese have stuck their little toe in the water, and it didn't freeze off. I think the time is right for them to take the next step.

Richard Perle

France has aligned itself with Saddam -- there's no other way to look at this.

John Chapple

From inception we have placed the interests of our investors, customers and fellow partners (employees) first and foremost. We believe that aligned with Sprint Nextel we are poised to move to the next level. This is an across-the-board success. It results in an attractive price and provides certainty for all Nextel Partners shareholders.

Paul Fireman

Fundamentally it's to bring back the creativity, the cutting edge forwardness of Reebok, what it always stood for. To do that we have to do it in step-by- step procedure, ... The first thing was to get everybody aligned and focused just on one strategic plan. Our mission is to discover, to design and to delight our consumer. And we're doing that every day now. We're getting closer to doing it better and better. We're maybe I would say 50-or-60 percent of the way there, but the consumer's only seeing 10 or 20 percent of it because it's yet to really reach market.

Warren Buffett

I think it is a marvelous way to keep directors' interests and shareholders interests as closely aligned as possible, with both an upside and a downside component. Too often, people talk about interests being aligned when the directors get the upside and shareholders get the downside.

Jim Henderson

Recent economic news around the world is causing us to reassess our near-term business prospects in key international markets,

Keith Morris

(Receiving the grants) started pointing us in the right direction of the whole change process, ... If that didn't occur, I'm pretty sure we would be doing business as usual.

Rich Gadomski

Price competition and the availability of quality scanning technology have encouraged and enabled the counterfeit tape market. We are aggressively exposing this business as it may put our customers at risk and negatively impact the perception of our quality and value of our brand. It's important that companies realize that they may be contributing to the problem by selling their used tape - or by buying from un-authorized resellers and distributors.

Deane Dotson

Our rental business stays very busy. And we don't require a Visa or MasterCard.

Ken Stein

Our partnership with ADP is a true reflection of successful collaboration, resulting in increased efficiencies. ADP has turned a typical business arrangement into a successful partnership between two dedicated parties with a common goal -- to lower costs and improve service levels.

Jill Lajdziak

Our owners don't want us to lose the honesty of our brand, how we do business without haggling. But they do want a different more dramatic look and feel.

Porter Erisman

Our overall position is that it is the responsibility of every business to follow the local laws of the countries in which they operate.

Sathya Baba

Our relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love, not a business of money or materials.

Stan Marshall

Our regulated utility business, non-regulated generation business and Fortis Properties all delivered increased earnings in the third quarter,

Carol Davis

I think it's the only fair way of really ensuring that a school's performance score does indeed reflect the performance of the school.

Doug Cameron

It is simply about quality, it is about safety, it's about ensuring that the track record Qantas has continues.

Bill Owens

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Shari Arison

I foresaw the financial crisis. I get messages in my sleep, in pictures and words. I understood that I have a mission and a role in ensuring human existence. I received a message that people would soon start to go crazy.

Rand Paul

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

Anthony Romero

The photos and videos play a key role in ensuring government accountability for the torture that happened,

Paul O'Neill

with a view to ensuring that investors in all mortgage-backed securities are provided with the information that they should have.

Neil MacDonald

The metadata problem is going to get worse with Windows Vista. Firms need some way of ensuring that they do not suffer embarrassment.

Mark Rickel

It's not about any one individual, it's about ensuring fairness and accountability in the way the state goes about its business.

Ian Shepherdson

Manufacturers are still miserable, and output will keep falling for some time, but they can now see light at the end of the tunnel, ... They are working off their excess inventory ... and are now hopeful of stronger orders by the year-end.

Tom Antenen

We'll always need some excess capacity, just in case.

Carrie Fisher

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Rod Stewart

That was a turning point in my career, ... We've sold in excess of 3 million (copies) in the U.S. alone.

Dave Duncan

I thought it was an awfully big fine for what involvement I had. I thought it was an excessive fine.

Gareth Jones

I'd like to see it go gold (U.S. shipments in excess of 500,000 copies) and I think it will.

Sara Barwinski

It amounted to an excessive waste of resources and the destruction of a community.

Edmund Phelps

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

Cindy Sheehan

I think their use of force was pretty excessive for someone that didn't have a permit.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Dodge

Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Mark Batey

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Ken McCarthy

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Bill Crawford

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

C. S. Lewis

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Steve Sampson

Management has never told me that, but regardless of what management's expectations are, my expectations are to win the trophy,

Richard Windsor

Management has been very slow to recognize there's a problem and do anything about it.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Lawrence Miller

Management offered a strategic update with no real surprises.

Richard Ratner

Management is going to have to take it. I'm sure it will go through. People will think it's mean, but the alternative would be pretty ghastly.

Howard Davidowitz

Kohl's is struggling badly. Not only are the not meeting sales targets, there are several questions swirling about recent management changes,

John Kelley

People normally wouldn't do this but they have to come in.

Bob Dickinson

We normally sell those rooms for a lot of money. It was frustrating that no one wanted to come.

Andy Reid

We normally do that if a player is playing his old team.

James Thomas

We normally don't have to go to trial on them.

Carrie Underwood

I consider myself not a celebrity. I'm a normal person that likes [doing] things on stage.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

Ashley Tisdale

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

Howard Wu

I think they're resigned to it, because that's the normal course.

David Wluka

The accelerated sales pace of recent years has all but ended, and we're returning to a more normal market.

Holly Hatton

Our performance was not good. We weren't in it from the beginning.

Randy Jepson

Our performance as a whole was not that bad. We weren't outstanding, but we weren't poor either.

Lu Shanzhen

Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Platitudes and generalities can only be sustained when performance exceeds intellect.

Jerry Slocum

It is a tough one to sit on when you have that type of performance.

Kenny Jackett

That was as well as we've played this year - particularly the first 45 minutes. The performance was excellent.

Richard Menicke

I was really pleased with the performance of Steffen Anderson.

Sasha Cohen

I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous.

Steve Houghton

I was very pleased with our performance. We were very successful from a team standpoint. We have made significant progress in practice and it showed up at Wisconsin.

Bethenny Frankel

Being with my family is my highest priority.

Tom Coburn

It doesn't have much to do with Alaska, ... It has to do with priorities for our country.

Al Gore

We need to put a price on carbon. This needs to be a priority for all of us in how we vote.

Al Gore

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

Ed Pastor

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

Dave Reichert

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

Claudia Stuart

She always had her priorities in the right place.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Alan Cohen

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

Rain Bojangles

It is better to be redundant than remiss.

Larry Wall

If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

Robin Williams

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

Britt Beemer

Some of the this may be attributed to the removal of the quotas and some to the strength of retail sales.

Roy Moore

Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.

John Courage

Deregulation was just the removal of rules without considering why the rules were there in the first place.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Shana Martin

I want to be the person who sets the curve.

Randy Carlyle

He's a skilled player; as with any skilled player, if you give him time and space, he's going to make plays.

Bob Mason

He's got the talent and skills to play at this level.

Rick Barnes

He's got such a feathery touch. He's physical, but it's his skill that really impresses you.

Warren Sapp

He has all the skills but I've been trying to get him to get better at the little things. He's like a big sponge. You have to slap him around and throw him back in the water every now and then but he'll be right back to soak up some more.

Charles Jennings

We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time. Those who know how to search, find and make the connections will succeed. Those who rely on static knowledge and skills alone will fail.

Charles Kennedy

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

Carson Kressley

Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

Ed Parker

Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

Earl Nightingale

Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone