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.

Bill Boynton

We?re interested, maybe intrigued, but not to the extent we would pursue it.

Rob Lowe

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

Wendelin Wiedeking

When we were buying, many others were also buying, and to a great extent in fact and at prices that we never would have wanted to pay.

Ned Collins

With the market's oversold condition, a small rally is expected. The extent has surprised everybody.

Lowell Peterson

We're hoping that that money will make its way to the workers, ... To some extent that is out of our hands.

Sherry Jeffe

Three words: George W. Bush. His personality to a large extent got him his victory.

Jim Johnstone

We've never been threatened to the extent that Katrina and Rita did, ... Unfortunately we're not going to have a true test of the system until that occurs.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer.

Gary David Goldberg

I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Umera Ahmad

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

Marianne Williamson

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

John Nienstedt

You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

Phil Klay

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Lord Puttnam

The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.

Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Edgar Quinet

What we share with another ceases to be our own....

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?