Quotes about america
american-businessman
The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.
american-businessman believe
I believe that one-product wonders come and go.
american-businessman asia faster global last pc quarters several
Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.
american-businessman business computer global ipod market might music recently share success
It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.
american-businessman develop learned people run several weaknesses
What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.
american-businessman companies criteria determine footing market steady success terms took
Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.
american-businessman component enter expand hardware large might needs services tend
So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services.
american-novelist college high portland school suburb
But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here. Katherine Dunn
american-novelist explore giving haunted notion outside responsibility second source structure
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power. Katherine Dunn
american-director amount constantly country system tension tremendous
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. Kathryn Bigelow
american-director ongoing purge urge
The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process. Kathryn Bigelow
american-musician bound difficult expect experience filter information life people voice
Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed. Kathy Mattea
american-musician hard middle
What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it. Kathy Mattea
american-comedian
I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror. Keenen Ivory Wayans
america left less traded
We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure. John F. Kerry
american-soldier information work
But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate. John Abizaid
american-soldier forces
Our forces will not be on the sidelines. John Abizaid
american-soldier best key leadership targeting works
I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes. John Abizaid
american-soldier change knock knowing looking plan safe secure unable
Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last. John Abizaid
america benefits common country ground hopefully joe people taken towards
There is common ground we can look towards and hopefully make this country better for all of us. That is what Joe for America means. I want more jobs. I want veterans to have better benefits and not have them taken away. I want people to succeed in this country and have the tools to do so.
american-journalist
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense. Jane Pauley
american-athlete good hit knew throw
When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running. Juan Marichal
american-writer book books-and-reading
When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before. Clifton Fadiman
american-businessman quite reach
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't. Leo Burnett
america developed man scattered since tech
When I was a young man in the 1970s, tech firms were scattered across the developed world. Since then, America has come to dominate tech almost totally. Kenneth Fisher
america fortress longer opinion public slow understanding
We can no longer be fortress America. I think we, like other industries, have been slow in understanding the need to communicate what we're doing to the public and opinion makers.
american-author goes notion
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. Lynn Abbey
american-educator anyone computers except grew
When I grew up, there were no computers that anyone used, except for the big scientists. There was no internet, there were no VCRs. Robert Sternberg
american-cartoonist eventually fighting grew karate studied
When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit. Alison Bechdel
american-musician best felt people wave yeah
When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about me, but I always felt like at least musically, let me just do what I do and be the best at it. Which is what I'm doing right now. Chad Hugo
america cast job
When I came to America I thought, 'Wouldn't it be awesome to get into one movie?' And then I get cast in 'Bridesmaids' as my first job here and it's such a huge movie. Rebel Wilson
america came
When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived. Ann-Margret
american-celebrity came christmas days left next spent thirty tube
When I came out of surgery, I was on a respirator and had a tube in my left lung. I spent Christmas and the next thirty days in the hospital. Ryan White