Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Charles Caleb Colton

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Charles Stross

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

Alan Greenspan

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Alan Greenspan

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

Alan Greenspan

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

David Holden

We are a five member board...we had no discussion,

Ron Gardenhire

We're in a pennant race here, ... We're doing everything we can to win. And five runs in two innings, we can't do that.

Irwin Redlener

We started from zero five weeks ago to all this hot, hot spotlight on pandemic flu, but we're not going to be ready.

David Grant

We started five minutes after (Kline) lost. It's something you reel in right then. You start helping him refocus. You don't talk too much about the match he just lost but about what we're going to do in the future. You have to be there to help him.

Felipe Alou

We spent five months losing series. That's what has us five games back - not the loss tonight.

Lukas Rosol

I never had goals to be in the top 10 or top five in the world. I just try to find the borders, find what level I can reach. I have a good team around me, so hopefully it's going to get even better.

Lewis Hallam

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

Erick Dampier

We're not going to make excuses. You put five players on the court, regardless of who's hurt. Obviously, we have enough talent to win.

Terry Stralow

We also sponsor four or five softball teams which helps us during the summer months.

Kathleen Sebelius

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Gary Johnson

I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.

James Carter

He said I don't know what I'm going to do because I don't have any insurance and I said you're going to start rebuilding now, because I'm volunteering my services right now.

John Corlett

I think the public's primary consideration when they shop for insurance is price.

Lynda DeLaforgue

There are lots of people who have insurance through their employers, and they inadvertently sign up for these plans. Then, they lose their employers' insurance.

Brian Cashman

We will need choices, You always do. It's somewhat of an insurance policy. He's also prepared to go to Triple-A.

Dr. Raley

While our 'Errors and Omissions' insurance is not terribly expensive, that would be one thing I would not have to spend money on if the state provided that.

Bob Enos

We raised $12,000 to get the dog, because insurance doesn't pay for that.

Verna Rutherford

People are ramping up and spending insurance money on repairs being done, and they're doing it as much as they can at home.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Charles Caleb Colton

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Charles Spurgeon

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

Alan Greenspan

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

Chris Cornell

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

Cale Yarborough

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

David Castillo

When you've lost something, and you find it again, it has so much more meaning.

Kyle Petty

When you've lost a son, there's no price you can put on safety for the driver.

Lewis Carroll

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

Charley Reese

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

Asia Argento

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Bruce Douglas

We are required to do it. We have to do it.

Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

Fred G. Gosman

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Beck

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

Leo Kipfstuhl

It required us to put on more workers.

William Amelio

In this industry, it's required of us to be best-of-breed in terms of operational efficiency.

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Sal Viveros

Most U.S. users updated their anti-virus solutions because of Melissa, so they are safe.

Neil Jackson

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Emmanuel Jal

Education is the only solution for peace.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

Gregory Nunn

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.