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.

Charles Caleb Colton

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Dane Bradshaw

We've all just learned so much from (Pearl), and we're a reflection of him on the court. He's working just as hard as we are on the sidelines, and we're just very fortunate to have him as well as the rest of his staff. It really has become a perfect fit, and I'm very happy for the seniors that they're able to have this success under him in their last year.

Avery Johnson

We struggled to guard Yao in the first half, but we made some adjustments and were much more physical in the second half. We were fortunate enough to hold him down then.

Geno Auriemma

We're incredibly fortunate (to still be playing), and we're going to make the most of it.

Edward Gibbon

The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . .

Carlos Fuentes

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Michael Mann

When you say that I can go and make a movie, I feel like I'm one of the most fortunate men. I feel myself to be a fortunate man that I found something to do that I really love.

Charles de Gaulle

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

Bill Wyman

I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

Nell Newman

I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Marcel Dionne

The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Robin Butler

I'm still undecided about who I'm supporting for governor, but I'm a person who supports the anti-Nussle campaign.

Steve Gillis

They say they're supporting the troops, but they're not.

Robert Maillet

You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being an actor, I'll take any role, whether it's supporting or leading.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Robert Lowe

The E.U. has a long tradition of supporting the Palestinians.

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

David Mitchell

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

Chris Linsley

We're so thankful that we've been able to have what's a speedy recovery.

Brian Tracy

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Nathan Kress

I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Ben Saunders

What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe... but thankfully it's still intact.

Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Babette March

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Albert Schweitzer

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.