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.

John Brady

We want to see the figures, refinery runs and all the others. There will be a decent draw in products, especially gasoline.

Andrew Flintoff

We are pleased with the total and the fashion we got it. I think we've had a decent day.

Robert Long

There are some genuinely problematic reports out today, like Merck, but there's a lot of good stuff, too, and people are taking some pretty decent earnings and focusing on the negative.

Mike McGowan

We're in pretty decent shape as it relates to fuel supply, but who knows what's going to happen here in the next few days.

Ron Fellows

We started our session a little late and when we finally got out there, we got 'black-flagged' just before I was going to start my quick lap, ... Our guys have been working hard and that's a decent result for my first time out. I just want to thank Paul.

Jean Nidetch

When you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you're not so hungry that you can't get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can't fight hunger, but we can fight habit.

Charles Schumer

Tom Ridge is a decent man and a fine public servant, but unfortunately was not given the leeway or resources to tighten up homeland security in the way it should be done,

Charles Barron

We're going to stay here until every one of them has a decent place to go.

Brad Shove

We got what we deserved today. We didn't come ready to play and we put ourselves in a big hole. We played very poorly. It was everybody. We played hard in the second half and made some good adjustments, but you can't expect to win with one decent half.

Raheem Brock

We want to show our defense is going to be better.

David Korten

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

Camille Paglia

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

Bill Snyder

The positive side is that we put together about 12 minutes of play where our offense, defense and kicking game played probably as well as we could play at this particular point of the season. That was only 12 or so minutes, though.

Guy Greening

We are pretty strong at defense and midfielder.

Pam Adams

We've always been known for our defense. We have so many seniors and they've worked so hard. Defense is just what we try to do.

Tyrell Sutton

We've all had a month to prepare for this game, so they've all been studying us in and out. Everyone hyped this up to be an offensive game, and definitely the defense stepped up better than the offense did.

Hill Denson

We usually play better defense than that. That's usually the thing that keeps us in games.

Jack Smith

We started playing better on defense and I think Eagle Valley got a little worn down. In the third and fourth quarters, they (Rifle) kept the intensity up, which I appreciate.

Evan Smith

The potential for a weakening dollar is definitely a driver for gold. We could see $700 an ounce in two years.

Jonathan Vilma

We've already been talking about it, how definitely as a unit we're going to step it up another notch. It would be great if we could all stay together and get it rolling for next year.

Greg Rusedski

We usually say it doesn't mean much, but it definitely does.

James Thomas

We are aggressively looking at expanding our coverage. In terms of our distributor and reseller network I would not get into forward projections but what I can share is that we would definitely expand our coverage.

Cathy Keefe

There are definitely more people traveling. And they might not be spending more on each trip, but they are definitely taking more trips.

Jason Rogers

There are definitely high expectations of him, he is saying the right thing, trying to please everybody. But the proof is in the pudding.

Peter Judge

There are definitely going to be lessons we'll be taking away from this,

Pawel Janas

There are definitely going to be a ton of Polish fans there to root us on.

Matt Hasselbeck

There are definitely enough resources of people that have been there. Even guys on our team that have been there and played in this game, and I guess you just have to listen and try to learn what you can from those types of people.

David Nail

I love barbecue, its my favorite thing to eat.

Marisa Miller

One of my favorite things to do is cook. I love taking the time to plan and prepare meals. I try to use all organic ingredients and make everything from scratch.

Noah Gray-Cabey

I went through a period of time when math was my favorite subject. Then math wasn't as fun so much.

Ed Helms

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

Peter Warrick

We like being the underdogs. Whether we're the favorites or they're the favorites, we still have to go out and play like we're the underdogs.

W. Hull

Mandy... that's my favorite song of all time. Man, oh, man.

Anna Kendrick

My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.

Talisa Soto

I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.

Brian Posehn

Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Henry Samueli

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Rick Adelman

We're not going to sit back and let this continue. We're not happy about what's going on, and I know Mr. Geoff Petrie (the general manager) is not happy either. We have too much talent for this.

Phil Garner

We're going to leave that to our general manager. Sure, I'd like to have Clemens back.

Richard Armitage

Yes, and it's generally on. And I won't tell you what it's on,

Jim Harrison

We're generally opposed. We feel there is already a high return rate.

James Sinegal

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

Madeline Albright

We were always willing, if they cooperated, to go to a comprehensive review

Gordon England

We had a very comprehensive and in-depth review of this transaction.

Dr. Wyman

Somebody has to review everything to make sure it was done right.

Anish Kapoor

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

Naomi Compton

Mt. Carmel will do an architectural review to select one of these buildings.

Andrea Arnold

I don't read reviews.

Pat Davis

We are going to review the report, and we are going to take into consideration this analysis.

Stephane Dujarric

Her status may be reviewed after her rebuttal is received.

Blake Lively

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

Peter Thiel

Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.

Hector Garcia

I'd like to go back into another sector other than hospitality,

Harvey Weinstein

We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

Robert Brady

There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.

Jon Burnham

I still like the tech sector very much,

Lynn Reaser

This is another sign that the manufacturing sector is positioned for an upswing in the third quarter.

William Hummer

The services sector is showing some inflationary pressure, and wages are starting to climb.

Marco Rubio

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

Markus Steinbeis

The sentiment for the whole telecoms sector has now cooled down.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

Dan Grunfeld

We are just seeing more and more of it.

Von Roebuck

We are seeing some cases. It could be life-threatening.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Steve DeLuca

These stocks come in and out of favor.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.