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.

Gore Vidal

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

Joe Cocker

There are people who'll dismiss me as 'just' a singer. That's how it is, how it's always been, but just because I'm not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn't mean I'm not putting in the graft.

Rick Perlstein

My liberal friends love to dismiss Reagan. You know, they'll say something like, 'Oh, didn't he, like, only read one-page memos when he was in the White House?' Well, that's just good managerial practice. I mean, Franklin Roosevelt made people write one-page memos.

John Sheffield

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.

Anthony Chan

The overall weakness was so pervasive that it would be silly to completely dismiss the devastating weakness of this report.

John Perry Barlow

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

Anne Wojcicki

I still meet old-school scientists who are like, 'Oh honey, women aren't good at science.' You kind of dismiss them as insane.

Chuck Palahniuk

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

Mike Blouin

I don't think you dismiss out of hand an independent, nonpartisan report from an entity that's looked and used the same factors to grade all 50 states as something that's totally erroneous.

Jane Austen

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Masaaki Kanno

We are seeing a series of good indicators pointing to solid recovery: improving production, improving exports, improving employment and improving spending.

John Waller

When you take out the lands that are encumbered or don't have servicing, you come down to an 11.8-year supply of employment lands,

David Hume

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

Bob Black

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

Ted Cruz

We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

Denis Healey

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

Karina Litvack

We have hired employment lawyers to come up with model language for contracts. We are hopeful this will be emulated by others in the industry.

Ranil Wickremesinghe

We need a policy framework which will hold whatever party is in power so there will be peace, prosperity and plenty of employment opportunities,

Alan Rickman

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

C. Wright Mills

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies

David Menlow

We are looking for the energy sector to be the odds on favorite for market leadership that could reawaken the sleeping IPO giant.

Tyler Brand

We stressed in the locker room before the game that we wanted to come out with energy and intensity, and we didn't do that right at the start. But I was happy with us extending our lead and making that run.

Flip Saunders

When you watch film, you see we're maybe not getting to spots quick enough. Or there are some things where we lack the energy that I know when we get rest that we have. So we'll see.

Gretchen Rubin

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Edward Hopper

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

Ed Begley, Jr.

For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

David Walton

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

Greg Stuart

We actually think the (Internet) penetration in households is higher.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

Mamie Gummer

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

Darrell Issa

I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

Thomas Sutton

He loved his job. Even after he retired, he kept spreadsheets with all his household bills.

Elaine Pagels

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

Beverly Jones

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

It is possible to do many household cleaning tasks by simply using ingredients from the store cupboard, which are also safer for the environment.

Chris Abani

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

Chogyam Trungpa

The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure

Chip Conley

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

David Greenberg

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

David Guterson

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it.

David Crystal

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

David Suzuki

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

David Suzuki

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

David Suzuki

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Ed Stern

You look for a stage manager who really is in charge, who can really smooth things out.

Paul Anka

I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Bill Lee

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.

Michael Bell

We've talked to a lot of students and property managers about this, and we're trying to sort out the pros and cons, ... A staunch position, yea or nay, can't be reached at this point.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Jim Wilkinson

We're not going to sit here and say that all the plans are perfect.

David Rockefeller

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

Joe Dumars

We have no plans to do anything with Derrick at the moment.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Dianna Agron

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

Ricky Gervais

I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

Charles R. Swindoll

God's heavenly plan doesn't always make earthly sense.

Daniel Handler

Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

Atul Gawande

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

Daniel McConchie

I don't think it's the most prudent thing to do at this time. It's really a long-shot type of situation." ()

Andre Gide

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

Brian Billick

For Todd, it's time to go after it, ... We'll be prudent about it.

Dennis Rosa

This seems like the prudent thing to do. Some of this may have been a surprise to some of us, but it's a timing thing.

Bob Gainey

Whenever it's around the eye, I think it prudent and wise that all cautions should be taken.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.

Don Madden

It's just being more prudent with the resources we have.

Tim O'Neill

It's really our responsibility to do this audit. It's prudent to do this.