Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Scott

Part of my surprise is that British culture is much more aligned with American and Australian culture, and this is a cultural and social issue, not a financial issue. Part of my surprise is that Wimbledon is the last one standing.

David Morgan

Our managing partners have regular quarterly meetings with all partners to make sure we're staying aligned with the goals of the organization.

We've made much progress in this past quarter, especially in getting our inventory more closely aligned with sales, restructuring our organization into functional operating units and putting people in key leadership roles,

We have some people this year who bought a Fan Forward for George Mason. They may have bought ticket rights for $5, thinking that this was the year the stars were aligned in their favor. By purchasing this reservation early, they now have the chance to buy Final Four tickets to see their team at face value.

We do that as another part of making sure director interests are aligned with shareholders. The best way to do that is to make sure they are shareholders.

We invest millions of dollars every year, and now more than half is being aligned through vertical marketing efforts for partners. This is a significant shift for us, because two years ago we weren't doing that at all." ()

We intend to supply more than simple investment, by bringing to bear the experience and perspective that's put Sun in a leadership position on the Internet, ... We're looking forward to promoting the success of companies aligned with Sun's vision, and broadening our strategic portfolio.

Borland is an innovator with software development. And our emphasis today is entirely aligned with that.

Any evaluation of Robertson would be fairly mixed. If you're in the White House, you wouldn't want Robertson on his TV program attacking you. On the other hand, you probably wouldn't want to be closely aligned with him.

Adjustments are being done through normal performance management, identification of overlapping or redundant efforts, removal of excess management layers, and ensuring we have the right skill sets aligned with our business priorities and growth objectives.

There was a lot of attention given to continuing the character of the historic Third Ward, and we aligned with certain courses and rhythms in which the structure expressed itself that are reminiscent of things. But it's not a replica of anything, and it's a very contemporary expression of an old idea.

Projects that were not aligned with compliance and corporate governance were delayed or cancelled, and SOX efforts inhibited the purchase of large amounts of software related to building new technologies and deploying new projects. However, by the second half of 2005, increased interest in IT solutions to ease the burden of compliance has begun to drive new spending.

The way the knee is aligned in the female, ... they can have a different angle at the knee joint because the hips tend to be wider.

This cost restructuring initiative is part of the comprehensive transformation of Novell's business that the management team has been designing and implementing over the past year. While it is a difficult decision to eliminate positions in our talented and dedicated workforce, this move is necessary to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

You would find it hard to find two companies more closely aligned from a cultural perspective, a technology perspective and a heritage perspective.

They are so demanding that Chinese products are not very successful on that market. That is why I foresee a good future for our products, as we have similar quality to that of the Europeans and North Americans aligned to competitive prices and excellent services.

Leo Hindery

There will always be people who were so closely aligned to other candidates that they're exhausted. We're finding, in general, that the reaction has been very positive.

Matt Mullenweg

It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community.

It's a terrific move. It creates two businesses, each focused on their own area, and two investment vehicles that are more closely aligned with the kind of performance that investors are looking for.

Roger Avary

Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You'd be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, 'I love these characters'.

B. F. Skinner

Strategic initiatives aligned behind McDonald?s Plan to Win are strengthening our competitive position and delivering positive results worldwide. Performance for the first quarter reflected more customer visits and enhanced profitability as we continued to connect with our customers and increase the relevance of our brand.

Lisa Jones

Somebody was smiling at us tonight. The stars were definitely aligned for us in this game.

The moons were aligned and the stars were aligned, ... It was probably one of our best quarters in many, many years.

The stars are aligned right now for Japanese investors.

John Burns

The stars are aligned for another good year right now. We have a strong economy and very little construction (of new homes). That's a recipe for continued price appreciation.

The stars aligned well for me and Mike. He wanted to go somewhere that had the patience for him to develop and by us being on probation, I had the patience because I wasn't under a lot of pressure to win a conference championship. ... Now he has helped elevate us to national prominence.

The business model associated with what we do with blade network technologies has to be very closely aligned with how server vendors operate, how they get products and how those products are supported. That is very different to how networking vendors operate.

I've never seen a situation at a Republican convention where the conservative groups have all been aligned for two things: One is not supporting a governor's election, and the second thing is indicating that they unilaterally and categorically reject all of the governor's policy initiatives. This governor has gotten a free pass from conservatives for two years. The party is over.

You had 10 different layers to the story. All the planets were aligned that day.

We teach what the state curriculum tells us to teach. We have our aligned our curriculum to the state's.

We just played that four or six minutes in the third quarter tentatively. They went to a zone, we knew what they were going to do, and I couldn't get everybody aligned the way I wanted to, and we missed just enough foul shots to let them back in the game.

We felt the direction vintage sports clothing went in the last few years is not what we believe in. We want to return to our core values. We believe vintage American clothing doesn't go out of style. I never designed for fads. The emphasis the last few years by the people who bought our company was on the hip-hop clothing trend. That's not the reason I started this company. People were wearing things without any kind of context. Things just went full circle and some of the people we were aligned with before we sold popped back up to support us. Timelessness is important to us.

The core concept around utility computing has not changed. The priorities are to solve immediate problems, and give customers the confidence that we can set them on a path towards a data center that will be more automated, and aligned with business needs.