Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Karcher

With a shrinking pool of young workers and a decreasing unemployment rate, all restaurant chains have to be more creative in their recruiting efforts.

Arnold Rothstein

As long as they're willing to pay to prove it, I'm willing to let them.

It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

Value people on their potential, not on their history.

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.

Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most.

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.

The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.

Orville Redenbacher

We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.

Ezra Cornell

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

J. Paul Getty

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

J. Paul Getty

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

J. Paul Getty

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

James Cash Penney

Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

Andrew Carnegie

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

Gary Bettman

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.