Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

John Grisham

We want to raise all we can and then take the next two years to spend all of it, ... Hopefully then we'll be out of business and there'll be no more hurricanes.

Dennis Kavelman

We have seen a recovery in subscriber additions and business momentum since RIM settled the patent litigation.

Jochen Clausnitzer

We have no indication that business connections have gotten worse between German enterprises and their partners in the Middle East.

Amit Bhatia

We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

Roman Romanenko

Whenever we went on a trip, picnic, or business trip, I was always with my dad, and I would just always be in contact with cosmonauts, and I thought it would be always normal to be with them.

Denise Barrett

We want residents to take the time and refresh the information, if it has changed. People's cell phone numbers tend to change or business phone numbers, and they may have changed jobs.

Martha Stewart

We want people to see what real business is really like,

Mark Gaines

We want our customers to think of energy efficiency as a critical business issue, and to look to The Gas Company for valuable solutions. We also invite any food service representatives to think of the Food Service Equipment Center as their one-stop resource for fine-tuning all of their kitchen operations.

John Updike

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

Al Jarreau

I'm saved every day by the intrinsic value of the work I do, which I truly enjoy.

Adonal Foyle

You have to start making those an intrinsic part of what you do. I think the more we do that, the better we're going to be as a team.

Eugene Fama

In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.

Jim Hopson

We did find ourselves in a position of having to go back and manage our customers' expectations.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Michael Carty

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Charles M. Schwab

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Alexa Von Tobel

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

H. Hunt

Most people have enough money. It's that they don't know how to manage what they have.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Eliot Spitzer

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

Joe Trohman

I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to run at optimum speed.

Janet Cangemi

You need that much sunlight for optimum plant growth.

Brian Billick

That's all about getting him in his optimum shape for the opener,

John Lee Hooker

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Rob Enderle

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

John Scalzi

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

Jerome Flynn

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

Bill Stoneman

One of the strongest parts to our organization is depth. It allows us to do a lot of things.

Bill Cosby

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

Larry Rice

The parts are worth more than the whole.

Steve Daignault

We need to get the other parts on.

Jim Tracy

We need to get him back to where he is completely functional, rather than seeing parts of him here and there.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Albert Murray

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

Errol Morris

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Gregory Petsko

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

Michael Foreman

Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.

Marie Windsor

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

John Ashcroft

These individuals are being restrained and properly so. They are terrorists. They are uniquely dangerous,

Russell Tovey

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Riley Wallace

We've got a lot of new systems going.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Carlos Mencia

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Dave Barry

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

Bryan Stevenson

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

John McEnroe

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Paton

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Juvenal

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Cass McCombs

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Brian Weiss

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

Brian Cox

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy