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.

Mark Shapiro

We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few.

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Rafael Chaves

There are decisions we have to make that we don't like a bit. This was the hardest thing I've had to do. I was his first pitching coach.

Michael Cleary

There are some decisions made historically that we would undo if we could.

Thomas Brophy

When you've got a situation and the mayor's out of town, you've got to have someone making the decisions,

Elaine Chao

We are very focused on the fact that people do not have a paycheck at this point. We want to get money into their pockets so they can make their own decisions on what they want to do,

Bruce Bochy

We have some decisions to make, and we need to get the staff together and talk.

Dawn Ostroff

We have some big decisions walking into our scheduling meetings with as few holes as we have.

Henry Leger

We have some big decisions on our plate.

Ann Crowley

We want the police to stay downtown, ... I do not favor their moving.

Kenneth James

We want to set a standard rate. And five out of the six departments were in favor of this.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.

David Nail

I love barbecue, its my favorite thing to eat.

Dave Cottle

We're in favor of winning some this year.

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.

David Dreman

Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

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.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.