Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophia Amoruso

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.

Deirdre O'Kane

I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year.

Bradley Wilson

He certainly brings a set of financial skills to this job that may be unparalleled in the history of this university, ... I would certainly expect his business acumen to be one of his strengths.

Hector Ruiz

He has made amazing progress with our microprocessor business, making it the envy of our industry. His leadership, operational skills and business acumen have positioned the company for long-term, sustainable growth, and I'm very pleased that AMD now will benefit from those skills on an even grander scale.

Hugh Taylor

Jill's extensive background in the aerospace industry and proven business acumen in the implementation of critical programs will provide strategic insight and focus to the solutions we provide our customers.

Bud Selig

We will move forward with the ownership committee and club approval expeditiously, ... In the time since he has become an investor in the team, I have gotten to know Stu and have been impressed with his acumen and enthusiasm.

Dan Courtemanche

First and foremost, we look at a specific market. Is it a passionate sports market, does it have the potential to draw television viewers, what it's history for soccer events, and we do research into the soccer audience. Second, they need to have an ownership group with the appropriate resources and business acumen to be a success and they need to have plans for a stadium, generally a soccer-specific stadium.

Jack VanDerhei

Those people frozen into inactivity ... they just need someone to get them started. If you haven't started and won't start because you don't have the financial acumen to do so, pay somebody a couple of hundred bucks to get you on track.

Kristy McNichol

A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

Robert McKinley

Making the minimum payment ... is probably one of the biggest expenses any consumer can make, ... You can end up paying for this Christmas for years to come.

Dave Wannstedt

Leonard can make big plays; he's already shown that ... The biggest thing about this team is they have talent and experience on offense.These guys are all seniors and most of them have played for two or three years.

George Borjas

Low-skill ... illegal immigration has the biggest negative impact on the wage of low-skill workers.

Russ Diamond

Leadership controlling it all is the biggest problem we have in Harrisburg. That makes (for) very few Pennsylvanians being represented there.

Melissa Allen

Last year was huge. It's probably the biggest fundraiser we've ever done for the Family Life Center. We raised about $4,000.

Rob Ridings

Last year, we were just hoping to win games. Now, we have the mindset that we have a chance to win and we expect to win. That's one of the biggest changes our kids have made in the last year.

Damien Mason

Lee has one of the biggest hearts I've ever come across. He's an extremely generous person.

Jim Damoulakis

Many organizations have ILM initiatives or are interested in starting one because of all the publicity. But the biggest driver is that storage costs are growing at an astronomical rate, and they're being mandated to cut the storage budget.

Isabella Rossellini

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Isabella Rossellini

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

Rick Perlstein

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Robert Osborne

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Marc Morial

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Daniel Callahan

Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field,

Kyler Hall

We're not disappointed in A.J. at all. He's our teammate and he's our brother. You never want to see one of teammates get in a situation like that. I haven't had the chance to speak with him, but I would like a chance to before the game, just to let him know that we're all with him. I'm pretty sure he knows that already though.

Dick Vermeil

We're not concerned about the playoffs. Right now our concern is playing well Saturday. That's all that matters. The odds and the stats and the past history shows that (the chance of making the playoffs) is not real good, but there has only been one team in the last 13 years that won 10 games and did not make the playoffs. We have a chance to win 10, but you can't do that until you win No. 9. For us, it's all about Saturday.

Mike Conners

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Scott Sickau

Like I always tell my girls, a lot of people always wish they could go do something but they never get the chance of doing it. I may never get rich, but it's like getting on the back of a stallion with no saddle. You get on and hang on and see where it's going to take you.

Oronde Gadsden

Like everyone else in here, I hope those two moves are the moves that help us get past that playoff level to the next level. They had a chance to get Ricky, and they went out and did it. And it's like everybody says, we're going to ride him until the wheels fall off.

Dick LeBeau

Make no mistake, they've got a great quarterback. It's not easy to hold him under 20. Our guys did that and it gives you a great chance to win. It was the execution of our players. They did a great job with their timing.

Phil Simms

Make Denver make the decision here. In other words, put pressure on Mike Shanahan. What's he gonna do? Is he gonna run it and maybe waste a down because it might not gain a lot of yards, or does he take the chance and throw it and if it's incomplete it stops the clock. That's what the Patriots are hoping for.

Carlos Zambrano

Luck is something you always need to have. We have more chance than the Cardinals. They don't have some of the players they had last year, like Matt Morris. We have to start winning the first month, as many games as possible. We have a good team. We have everything.

Frank Sinatra

Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it

Lord Byron

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

David Blunkett

So good on them. And whether it is a year or two years, it actually will be a sensible process of combining the talents that we have.

Mark Baird

Frankly, we're taking what was two well-trained and efficient departments and combining them to make one better department.

Linda Bannister

from a strategic standpoint the merger makes a lot of sense. It's combining strong content with a whole new means of distributing that content.

Japheth Boyce

If these two specimens are from the same dinosaur, it is very exciting. Combining them would put Barnum in the top six T. rex skeletons in the world.

John Barton

I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have.

Scott Kirby

Today's announcement of lowered fares in our three eastern hubs is another step in combining consumer-friendly pricing with the reach and amenities of an international network.

Seth Shostak

If the cosmos isn't finite, then far, far away, floating duplicates of your brain - with all its experiences, thoughts, and emotions - are occasionally (and temporarily) thrown together by the random combining of atoms. Such 'Boltzmann brains,' as they're called, are a disturbing consequence of an unlimited universe.

Mohamed El-Erian

There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

David Dismukes

may end up importing labor from other producing regions.

Ted Ludwig

Maybe it's just symbolic, but to me this is the day for labor and this is the day I'm proud to be a striking member.

Jeffrey Joerres

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

James Campbell

Get us the cargo, and we'll get you the labor.

Tim Heekin

I don't think we're going to be able to see anything much until we at least get past Labor Day,

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Joseph Hansen

If we do not drastically change, there will be no labor movement in this country,

Paul Gurgol

I have labor pains right now -- I'm pregnant with all this stuff.

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Albert Schweitzer

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

Gunther Cunningham

Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking.

David Carr

Seven weeks might sound like a short time. But I can get a lot done in that span.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Robert B. Parker

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Carol Thorp

Motorists might see prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Movies might take five-six years, sometimes 10 years to produce. For television, when you have an idea, you put it to a network and within a week or so they have an answer.

Tom Tremont

One owner pays seven times more than another might pay.

Jeff Howard

Mrs. Scheele, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Paul got together and thought it up.

Chris Squire

Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

Steny Hoyer

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

Bill Hader

Paul Rudd is a huge 'Hot Rod' fan.

Nat Wolff

Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.

David Tennant

Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to 'The Politician's Husband.'

Lee Majors

I also had a wonderful relationship with Paul Newman, and with Steve McQueen. He was one of my all-time favorites, but I never got to work with him.

Greg Cipes

I got to work with Paul Walker. He's an angel. He was so sweet.

Peter Travers

If it were Paul Walker in Snakes on a Plane , no one is going. You know Sam will have his usual spark and sense of humor.

Sergei Fedorov

I can't really predict anything. I'd like to think day-to-day.

Irwin Redlener

I wouldn't be too quick to predict how this is going to turn out,

Arthur Miller

I couldn't have predicted that a work like 'Death of a Salesman' would take on the proportions it has

Denis Villeneuve

The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.

Elizabeth Banks

One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.

Jonathan Overpeck

What we didn't predict is that it would be so dramatic.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm not keen on making predictions.

Christopher Reeve

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

Dick Jauron

I don't think it makes any sense for me to predict where anything's going. We all know things are not predictable.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Christine Gregoire

If we remain complacent, we'll be a second-rate competitor.

Saudi Arabia

I didn't want to talk to them. I had a right to remain silent.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Max de Pree

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Noah Hawley

I remain a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Mike Sullivan

One of the strengths of our team is our versatility,

Tom Rachman

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

Edgar Allan Poe

Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o’er his heart a shadow— Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— ‘Shadow,’ said he, ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?’ ‘Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,’ The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado!

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must do that which we think we cannot.

Elbert Hubbard

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

Elbert Hubbard

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Elbert Hubbard

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them...

Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Chris Evert

I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Charles Perrault

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Michael R. Bloomberg

making sure there are things going on that are unpredictable.

Mike Holmgren

Let's just wait on that and make sure what's written and what's said is correct.

Andrew Burke

Look. We will give you the servers. We will give you the DRM. We will give you the middleware within the box. And we'll make sure that all of those work effectively together.

Josh Beekman

Now they want to be sure when you come in that you're going to graduate.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Kenneth Lay

I did everything I could humanly do during this time. Did I make mistakes? I'm sure I did.

Jeff Hanna

If anything, it was, 'Are you sure you want to do this?',

John Currie

We need to make sure they all understand that this is a different Northeastern than it was 20 years ago,

Joe Wineke

We need to make sure our vote is out there.

Alexandra Adornetto

Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Elizabeth Drew

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Eliot Spitzer

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

David Jenkins

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Edward Witten

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.

Trinity Morgan

She's understanding the value of that. She worked ridiculously hard.

Source Unknown

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.