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 R. Brower

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

Buddy Guy

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

Terry Ryan

When you take clubs like Minnesota, Oakland, many of these small-market teams, you're going to have some changeover,

Dierks Bentley

I'm a member of the George Jones fan club, and I'm a member of U2's fan club.

Dennis Bergkamp

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

Dennis Bergkamp

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

Ed Westwick

To be respected as an actor it doesn't help to be seen out in the clubs.

Charlie Chaplin

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

Norm MacDonald

There are these showcase clubs where 14 guys will go on in a row and people are laughing at everything, and I'm like - 'I can't laugh that much. That's so weird to me.'

Cat Deeley

I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'

Charlie Hunnam

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

Shane Warne

When we go to South Africa, it is going to be pretty hostile there. They are going to rip into us and try to nail us down.

Alexis de Tocqueville

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

Kristina McMorris

From 2001-2008, I was the host and a writer for the WB's weekly television program 'Weddings Portland Style.'

Ellen McLaughlin

Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck.

Dan Abrams

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

Brian Brooks

We're looking good, but it's a new season. We're worried about playing the host team on the first day.

Michael Barnett

We host Web pages?businesses, ... We have to stay up. We go down, and so does 2 percent of the Internet.

Domonique Foxworth

We've all seen it over and over again, those kinds of plays. It's just Champ. That's what he does.

Jean Kelly

We have no idea yet how long it's going to take to get rid of it. We're working on all kinds of different ways to get rid of debris, but we won't know if any of them are valid until we see what we've got to get rid of.

Katori Hall

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

John Moynihan

With these kinds of horses, you just dont know, ... Shes just one we really, really wanted.

Duke Ellington

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Source Unknown

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Lane Kirkland

There are two kinds of people in the labor movement: women and people who like women,

R. Inge

There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''

Laurence J. Peter

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, andthose who did and never thought.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Pat Schaumann

We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

Ken Hitchcock

There are times during the season when you have to review. It was very, very productive. We don't have those type of meetings very often, but when we feel like our team isn't playing well, we do.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Lee Olsen

I think a lot of it's psychological. So we have had meetings and we talk about maintaining a positive attitude, supporting each other and representing Hawaii.

Jim Daley

He will miss no meetings here. As I told him Day 1: if I have a problem, it'll be a short-lived experiment.

James Franklin

He handles the meetings well, stays on top of everything and has the time to do the job.

Diane Swonk

If they move between meetings it's usually a move to shore up confidence.

Roy Wilson

If this continues, we set up meetings and they don't show, it is going to take a long, long time.