Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bill Vaughan

IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.

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.

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.

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.

Sophia Amoruso

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

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.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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

Peter Norden

Previously, Pope John Paul has taken a position on capital punishment . . . and given clear teaching on the value of all human life, not just innocent human life.

Gale Kaufman

Part of it is he doesn't have a lot of capital with his own party's leadership. Part of it is he just doesn't understand the process or care to engage in the process.

Kevin McFarland

Our main goal is to go downstate as a team. We definitely have to capitalize on the opportunity we've got.

Michael Butler

Our New York office put us closer to the private equity community. The San Francisco office offers greater proximity to the venture capital and growth equity communities.

Clayton Christensen

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

Clayton Christensen

People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.

Paul Kasriel

Sustained economic growth is dependent on profit growth. Without profits, there will be no new hiring of workers and no new capital spending.

Bill Curry

Split shipments are not always bad. We look for an optimum inventory level instead of having every item in every distribution center. It can be a better use of capital to occasionally do a split shipment instead of stocking every item in every center.

Jeff Suppan

Some of these games, it's hard to come up with an explanation. They were able to capitalize on my mistakes and put together some good at-bats, and I didn't make pitches.

George Gero

Recently, funds who were selling oil also were selling the metals, but then everything seemed to change. Investors see that there are whiffs of inflation out there.

John Foley

real movement toward better funding and toward smaller service, smaller supports and more employment, more real employment, rather than meaningless day activities.

Jeremy Siegel

Relative to the $7 trillion mutual fund industry, it's very little money, maybe one or two percent in returns.

Mel Carnahan

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.

John Gunn

Past performance doesn't have anything to do with future performance. It's a massive delusion. It's the most insane thing in the world. You want a pick a fund with low turnover where the management has been around for a long time.

Tesema Negash

Our lack of funding has given us little choice.

Lou Marcoccio

Some of them (Y2K Fund companies) will do well, some won't?but none will be big losers.

Joel Sawyer

Overall, I would say we're pleased with the funding requests for Savannah River.

Joe Hunter

We never pass the plate, ... But 80 percent of our funding comes from individual truck drivers.

Ben Bernanke

All the Federal Reserve can do is make loans against collateral.

Kemal Dervis

Turkey could not have obtained loans under better conditions.

Mark Milner

These non-traditional loans transfer risk to the borrower.

Jean Chatzky

I've never been a fan of loans between relatives or friends. They can divide relationships.

Scott Hoyt

It just suggests that consumers, particularly lower-end consumers, are going to be more stretched when these loans reset, with potentially negative implications for spending growth.

Bill Cunningham

I don't think we want to venture into that, if this is what they're saying.

Charles Babbage

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Bill Gurley

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Ehud Barak

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Albert Camus

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Douglas Leone

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Italo Calvino

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.

Jean Cocteau

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Jeff Probst

Survivor. With all the women together, there's no modesty.

B. R. Ambedkar

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Carrie Snow

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

Carrie Chapman Catt

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Bette Davis

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Heinrich Heine

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day

Stephen Lewis

It is always the village women who drive these things.

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.