Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Moyle

Make diversity too small and you increase the impact of population-level events, make it too diverse and you can reduce manageability and thereby make individual-level events more likely. Heterogeneity has to be balanced with manageability for the organization's maximum benefit.

Dan Bartram

Lucy came out ready to play. But it was a good, balanced effort for us.

John Winters

Maintaining strong fiscal performance combined with balanced investments provides a catalyst for the private sector to continue to grow.

Mike Stock

(Lewis) wants to win so bad. He felt like he had to take over the game himself. But the reason we were here is that we've been much more balanced offensively lately.

Jack Bicknell

Last year, we really just put it all on his shoulders. This year, we're not going to do that. We've got to be more balanced with the quarterbacks, the receivers, and of course, the running backs. They all have to kind of pick up the slack.

John Fontanella

Several market makers have given oversight responsibilities to their marketing organizations. That way the cost and benefit will be recognized, giving the company a balanced view of progress.

Everett Dirksen

Mr. President, there is no royal road to a balanced budget. If there is, I have never discovered it in all the time I have been dealing with the millions of little figures that come to us in what looks like an unexpurgated mail-order catalog but what we call the budget of the United States, which contains some 1,100 pages.

Julian Illingworth

My game has become much more consistent, and I have become a lot more powerful and strong around the court. I was a lot skinnier when I was a freshman and so I was really fast and quick, but it was more of a scramble around the court. Now I am more balanced and in control.

Steve Kimbro

Neoga is a very good team. They take a lot of pride in their defense just as we do. They are very balanced and very interchangeable. They can shoot from the perimeter or post up. They are very athletic. They remind me of a typical Teutopolis or Effingham St. Anthony team.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Bible Bible

So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; / Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

Raul Gonzalez

None of those justices now serving (on the U.S. Supreme Court) have the breadth of trial experience that Harriet has.

Carolyn Rebbert

Franklin had so many interests that we worked hard to get as much in as possible. He was interested in everything going on around him. When you look at the biographical information, his inventions, what he read, who he spoke to, the range of subjects he mastered, there's a chance he had an opinion about it. There are so many aspects, whether the most significant or a little less well-known, that show that breadth of what he was involved in.

Auggie Tantillo

China's proposal is still unacceptable to the US textile industry in terms of breadth of coverage and in length -- number of years covered.

Bill Zollars

Simply put, the breadth and depth of the enterprise is greater than the name Yellow Roadway conveys. We now operate in over 70 countries around the world and our services have expanded to encompass logistics as well as global, national and regional transportation. Our new name, YRC Worldwide, better reflects the reality of what our enterprise is today. Our aspirations for the future remain consistent with our core purpose: Making global commerce work by connecting people, places and information.

Xun Zi

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

Debbie Ford

You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it.

Ben Carson

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

Robert Mazzarella

We don't like being No. 2, we'd rather be No. 1. We will continue to create new alliances. The theme is to provide as much breadth of product for our customers.

Robert Scoble

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

Tony Woodley

Make no mistake, we will be looking, as a matter of the utmost urgency, to explore with the company as well as with ministers ways to have this devastating decision reversed.

Robert Reid

Make no mistake, INTL has been missing estimates recently as the company has missed the last four quarters,

Michael Cohen

Lucent will never be the company it once was.

Henry Schacht

Lucent got off track because we tried to grow our company faster than, in hindsight, we were able to,

Terry Williamson

Major Moves. I support it as long as this private company lets us in on the work.

Bill Ford

Lots of stuff that made this company great started off as something that wasn't in the budget.

Konrad Becker

Last year they had a big contribution from selling company stakes. Next year they won't have that.

J. Hoover

Learn what's important to your boss, understand what your company is looking for and help the fool meet those expectations.

Scott Simons

make it easy for customers to make healthy choices.

John Phillips

Mainly 90-percent of my customers are here for speeding tickets and the reason is they're in a hurry.

Jim Murphy

Mac support for Lotus is a check-box item. We have a lot of health-care customers and maybe 1 percent of a company's research department is on Macs but they have 99 percent of the influence.

Robert Tillman

Lowe's today is in a better position to weather interest rate increases because we've shifted our customer focus,

Anne Murray

Last year, we introduced DING! for Windows and immediately heard from our growing number of Customers that use Macintosh computers. Today, we will eliminate our Customers' DING! envy by offering a Macintosh version of the tool.

Mohamed Ghuloom

Learn to say No to customers out of your target, those in your target will learn to say Yes to you.

Howard Davidowitz

Lean inventories won't help retailers this year if they can't lure customers into their stores.

Peter Kelly

Many of the enterprise customers we talk with wouldn't want major updates more frequently than a two- to three-year cycle, even if Microsoft could deliver updates on a faster cycle.

Don Harrison

Seventy percent of our customers are weekend warriors who do their own work. The other 30 percent are contractors.

Cheryl Fey

My favorite thing about watching Joe is his sense of humor. He just has the most wonderful sense of humor. And he has this kind of depth which shows so much intelligence. You can tell because his take on the world comes out in his paintings. His take on the world is profound.

Doug Bennett

One of the things we're going to have to do is have the keel modified. Right now the keel is about 18 feet, and the maximum depth in Newport Harbor is 12 to 14 feet.

Jamie Dixon

One of our strengths as a team is that we don't foul or over-extend ourselves. We try to play sound positional defense, which keeps us out of that kind of trouble. Even with the depth we have, we always stress to our guys that we can't give fouls away.

Olaf Kirsten

I feel like we've got more depth this year than we've had in past years. We did what we needed to do in order to win the game. We had some different players step into different roles and do a really nice job for us.

Lindsay Davenport

On the men's side, obviously, you have some upsets still here once in a while. Hopefully women's tennis will get to where there's a lot of depth from one through 100.

Ron Rivera

I would say depth there is something we probably need to look at.

Mike McCall

I felt like we were gonna have depth at running back.

Marckus Boswell

If they had offered earlier, I probably would have signed with South Carolina. It was like I was last on the depth chart.

Tony Brock

I don't have a depth finder. Don't need one.

Meg Symington

Because the U.S. conservation groups are participating, we are able to provide technical expertise regarding how these funds should be used and ... the most important places where they should be spent.

Brad Hintz

Trading expertise is something that you can purchase on the marketplace.

Philip M. Parker

When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.

David Trachtenberg

We have the expertise to provide the Latino market with the Internet power and resources it needs and is ready to use.

Tom Starling

We get their expertise and their connections in the community, and they get to help.

Kofi Annan

We don't have money as the U.N., but we'll come with some expertise and experience,

Jim Lee

Tom's financial expertise was extremely important in our business. He got us through some tough times and I selfishly wanted him to come back to us.

Mary Roach

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

Carl Jacoby

But it won't be with my merchandise, my expertise or my wife's.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Van Honeycutt

One thing that we've seen difficulties with is recruiting of senior management.

Mitsuo Kinoshita

Getting overseas staff to share our views on management and quality is very difficult. But that task is urgent.

Jack Sebbag

From a management standpoint and a cost-reduction standpoint ... you can now with a single console, with reduced costs, manage all these point products with just one resource and one just one technology.

Mark Horstman

From a management perspective, if it surprises you that someone leaves, it's because you weren't in touch with them.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Rob Guinn

I don't know what management is thinking. But I think we've got a good, solid team, and I think teams are going to be scared to play us in the playoffs.

Mark Siegel

This streamlines the management structure in terms of the way we respond to our owners.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

Joan Buyce

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

Richard Cripps

The Nasdaq is simply crowding out the rest of the market. If you are a portfolio manager, you have to own some of these (technology) names.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Bill Graham

We think Web services has a way to go yet.

Estella Olguin

We're going to try to get him some therapy services right away.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

Pranab Mukherjee

Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

Edgar Allan Poe

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

Elizabeth Bowen

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

Chris Sierzant

I have 14-year-olds that are stronger than some adults.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

No matter how many times you have slipped or fallen, rise up... You are stronger than you realize.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Bob Marley

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

Ai Weiwei

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.