Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophia Amoruso

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

Jacqueline Novogratz

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jack VanDerhei

Those people frozen into inactivity ... they just need someone to get them started. If you haven't started and won't start because you don't have the financial acumen to do so, pay somebody a couple of hundred bucks to get you on track.

Isabella Rossellini

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Isabella Rossellini

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

Rick Perlstein

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Robert Osborne

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Marc Morial

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Daniel Callahan

Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field,

Ivan Seidenberg

Like all companies, we are closely monitoring the economy, but what we see at this time indicates we can hit our target for full-year revenue growth,

Jeffrey Kaye

Many times workers work very closely to each other in the 'cube' environment, and that is very stressful because it's noisy, there's little or no privacy, and there is a forced conviviality.

Walt Riker

McDonald?s priority focus continues to be on our customers. We listen closely to them and welcome constructive feedback. We welcome an objective and fair discussion about issues important to our customers.

Eleanor Catton

One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the quality of their thought is very closely identified and analysed.

John McCarroll

More and more people are talking about the 'one community' concept, and emphasize that the university and the community are very closely related. The success of one means the success of the other.

Ed Rohling

Now that our overall portfolio is in a more competitive position and our markets are rebounding with the national average, we are focused on maximizing the returns on these upgraded assets. We will face some ramp-up time, but we are working very closely with our general managers and sales directors to realize the full potential of these renovated, highly competitive hotels.

Jan Egeland

NATO is planning to increase its operations further, and will work closely with the Pakistan government and the United Nations in this regard.

Mark Gwozdecky

From our satellite photos, we've seen evidence that some of the facilities we used to monitor closely have been dismantled completely,

Laura Miller

From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.

Lionel Anderson

Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It is what we do. We play basketball.

Dan Popowics

Lowe's has had a lot of momentum as it expands into the Northeast and other areas. Americans continued to spend on their homes, with the kicker here being the warmer January that drove more traffic into stores.

Nancy Connelly

Losing those players really hurt us. In the second half, we continued to play on, but couldn't score. It was a good team effort, and a very disappointing loss. I felt as if we could have come out on top if not for the injuries.

Ralph Connor

Last year she ran 16:59 here. She ran faster here than last year and last week. It's a good time on this course and she continued to show that she is one of the better runners in southwestern Indiana.

Ralph Connor

Last year she ran 16:59 here, ... She ran faster here than last year and last week. It's a good time on this course and she continued to show that she is one of the better runners in southwestern Indiana.

Naomi Wolf

Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

Castor Pang

Many investors and funds continued selling... as the market lacks fresh good news. Interest-rate worries continued to dampen sentiment.

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices gained as New York stocks continued to rise overnight.

Stanley Chou

Mobile phone stocks primarily contributed to the main board's rise given hopes continued strong demand will help Taiwanese handset makers report solid revenue growth in the next few months.

Steven Frankel

Macromedia is all about rich media and Adobe is about the creative professional focused on document workflows and image workflows, ... You can imagine a scenario where Flash makes it easier to render a PDF document on a handset.

Andy Garcia

So for directors, actors, producers, writers-whoever encompasses the creative elements of a film-you have a hit, everyone's happy, and you're the hottest thing in the world. But if the movie doesn't open, then those realities do come into play.

B. R. Hayden

One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.

James Mercer

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

Roger Craig Smith

My favorite job is the next one. It's such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction.

Chris Cornell

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

Debra Messing

I love every aspect of the show. I've been very involved. It was important for me to be very involved in, you know, all of the creative elements. And so, you know, it - David, you know, being brought onto the show, you know, that - I always just wanted to make sure that we maintained the sophistication and intelligence of (the) - and the comedy that we were able to establish in the mini-series.

Dieter Rams

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

Skylar Grey

I didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn't know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.

Bill Cosby

Network executives never did understand what made our show work,

Rebecca MacKinnon

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

Dick Wolf

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Sue Shipman

What I have found working with entrepreneurs and executives is what they really want is their life back.

Larry Lucchino

Henry said. ''He may, however, go to Palm Springs to talk with possible candidates, if there are any executives he has been given permission to talk with.

David Cole

The executives really took a huge hit. That's typical in a bankruptcy, where executives lose a significant part of their compensation.

Rick Moranis

By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.

Christopher Cox

Our purpose here today is to help investors keep an eye on how much of their money is being paid to the top executives who work for them. It is about wage clarity, not wage controls.

Swami Sivananda

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Danielle Tiedt

Search is now the Web gateway to information. It's not just search for what's on the Web. Our end goal is, every question somebody has, we want to be able to answer. You can't do that with just Web pages.

Mayor Cartmell

Maysville really couldn't do without it now. It is an extraordinary gateway to Kentucky.

James Gleick

One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways.

Derrick Brooks

Obviously, we wanted to play better than we played last week, come out of the gates a little faster. We had an opportunity to make some plays ... and we did.

Rick Reilly

One time after one of these long trips, my wife and I had been separated for a long time and I called her and said, 'Baby, you better meet me at the gate with a mattress, ... And she goes, 'You better be the first guy off that plane.'

Alberto Tomba

Giorgio tried to push away from the gates during the race as I suggested to him. But unfortunately he was wrong. He made a mistake. It shouldn't have happened.

Lennie James

One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.

Ed Nelson

Yeah, Antonio Gates is somebody I point to as I try this transition. I know it's not easy, but I also know it has been done.

John Abraham

My instincts are where I need them to be,

John Cooper

I feel tremendous pressure. But then when I start to feel pressure I go, 'I have to trust my instincts.' Every time when I haven't trusted my instincts is when I've made mistakes.

Katrina Kaif

I think people who are regarded as better actors must have better instincts because, at the end of the day, once they say 'action,' it's you who has to do it right. You can do all the research and preparation or none at all, but it's your instincts that tell you, 'No, I'll do it like this.'

David Peck

Had he not trusted his instincts and went back to pick this man up, he (Boatman) might not have been caught.

Therman Statom

There are no rules here. Trust your instincts on this one.

Courteney Cox

In this movie, I feel like I didn't notice Monica in it at all, ... Your instincts would probably be to think about Monica, but I have to make sure you don't.

Chad Brown

His instincts are still there and that's what separates him from other linebackers,

Chris Samuels

It has to be instincts because he's been around a long time.

Sass Jordan

the most phenomenal, natural instincts for being a performer.

Charles Spurgeon

Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.

Charles Spurgeon

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

Charles Spurgeon

Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.

Dennis Hastert

There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

Eliphas Levi

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

Michael Pitts

I wish there were . . . tigers and lions and elephants. Hopefully, maybe in the future, they'll have those.

Greg Davis

I don't know enough about Roy's numbers to be disappointed. I don't watch enough Lions games. I think Roy will be an All-Pro. If he stays healthy, he'll be an All-Pro before he's through.

Charles Spurgeon

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.

August Wilson

I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.

Mark McGwire

Like I said. I'm not going to talk about the past,

Robert Davies

Lycos has experienced phenomenal success during the past several months,

Alan Doss

Liberia has been the epicenter of progressive waves of instability that have swept through this region over the past 25 years,

Mike Nugent

One of the things I've been concentrating on is not worrying about the past, ... Even if it's not my past.

Chris Klein

Ocean's Twelve. Her and my relationship is a time in the past.

Bible Bible

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Landon Donovan

We (had) been in a rut for the past 12-13 games. Now we don't have any excuses. Everyone's here. Everyone is available, ... We have all the training time. We have only two more road games. We've got to show that we belong.

Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

Diane Ravitch

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Tyrone Willingham

We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Prakash Karat

Disinvestment of shares in profitable public sector units is not the proper way to raise resources.

Mark Constant

Merrill Lynch is still quite profitable in a very tough year.

Clive Beddoe

We'll be profitable in the third quarter. There's no question about that.

Keerti Melkote

We recently turned in our first profitable quarter.

Jeff Wright

It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.

Nancy Bell

It's important to have documentation that it is going to be a profitable business,

Kevin Cox

They can test this marketplace, ... They don't have to sign a long-term lease. If they would take such a chance, they'd find it to be quite profitable and beneficial, as would the traveling public.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Chris Elliott

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Dick Wolf

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

Dick Van Dyke

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

Dennis Potter

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Dennis Prager

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

Debra Wilson

I got an early education from television.

Dirk Benedict

Movies are movies, television is television.

Dirk Benedict

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

Dave Navarro

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Josh McDermitt

One person I haven't worked with yet, who I find hilarious, is Chad Coleman.

Stephanie Herseth

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

Kyrsten Sinema

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

Sally Kellerman

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

Jeremy Corbyn

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

Sallie Krawcheck

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.