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 Perry

The power of Facebook is not only in the vast size of the connected audience, but also in the quality of the social ties and interactions that occur within the network. The Facebook social graph fuels our mantra 'Try it for free', 'Share it if you like it', 'Buy it if you love it.'

Barry Commoner

Everything is connected to everything else,

Eben Alexander

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe.

Allen Staggers

What they will determine is what needs to be connected electrically that does the most customers the most good.

Cameron Mathison

The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

Armin van Buuren

Everyone's connected but no one is connecting.

Roger Martin

We have previously stated a preference for the field to be connected by pipeline to an LNG plant in Darwin and that is still Woodside's position, but it is not something that has been settled.

Ryan Ford

When I'm in town, I sit in front of my computer, connected to the world. I need to go away in order to think.

Rob Sanderson

The Palm OS I think will be the dominant platform for the disconnected and sometimes connected PDA, ... But that market is shrinking and the margins are diminishing. They're in a tough spot.

Lisa Jakub

What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it.

Michael Steele

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

Ghazi Hamad

The position of the (Interior Ministry) general inspector was not created by the government, it had been there before the new government was formed.

John Brown

the people who create it want the most to protect it.

Aaron Guillen

We've actually tucked the elementary school back with the industrial to create a little more buffer.

Jerome Antone

We started out on a full-court press, but we had to switch to a man all over the floor when the press was not working. We created a lot of turnovers and our defense made opportunities for our offense. That is the greatest defense we have played all year.

Eric Keller

We spread the offense to spread the opposing defenses and that really creates running room.

Omar Vizquel

Wherever he goes, he's probably going to create a lot of controversy. That's why he's one of the greatest.

Art Shell

When you walk out there, when you into that stadium, you walk out there with a presence. Mr. Davis called it a swagger. I just want to get back to the point where when we walk into a stadium, they know the Raiders are in town. And when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here. ... We've got to create that attitude, and that's what I expect to do.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

Charles Gounod

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

Bing Gordon

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

Steven Hatfill

Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

Johan Cruyff

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

Bruce Allen

We have improved the foundation of this team with young players. It gives you high hopes.

Joe Farmer

We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of its way.

Becky Harrold

When we got the passes, we could not get our hits to fall. We were doing all the things we needed to do, but were not doing them well enough.

Stephanie Carroll

Were just not getting hits when we need to.

A. N. Wilson

We're getting a million hits a day on our site,

Rod Carew

Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself.

Donald Lowe

When the meteor hits the surface, it instantaneously melts and vaporizes rock, and that rock vapor is sucked right back up the hole into the atmosphere,

Greg Sims

We're hitting the ball. Just not at the right times. We haven't been able to put together a combination of hits in the same inning.

Ron Gardenhire

We did our part on the pitching but didn't get it done offensively today. We have to keep playing to see if we can put together some hits and get going.

Stephen Ryan

We have had 6,000 hits in the first 24 hours,

Bob Kane

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

Antonio Porchia

The fear of separation is all that unites.

Condoleezza Rice

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

James Madison

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

Louis D. Brandeis

Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Jennifer Capriati

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

Buddy Bell

There's not a whole lot of separation between them, to be honest.

Ed Mathey

After this weekend you will start to see some separation in the standings.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Christopher Walken

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.