Famous Quotes & Sayings

One of the big challenges of family companies is attracting outside talent.

Obviously, we hope to attract some of the top professional players. Some of these poker professionals have become rock stars, so we hope they come and check out our room.

Blue Nile has a great opportunity. It has created an attractive little niche in the jewelry industry and it should continue to grow so the valuation for the longer term is fairly attractive.

Jay Rosen

Big Media does not know how to innovate, ... What capacity for product development do news organizations show? Zip. How are they on nurturing innovation? Terrible. Is there an entrepreneurial spirit in newsrooms? No. Do smart young people ever come in and overturn everything? Never. Do these firms attract designers and geeks who are gifted with technology? They don't, because they don't do anything challenging enough. They don't innovate, or pay well. So they can't compete.

Harmony Korine

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.

Everybody is competing for graduate students and any way that you can facilitate making it easy for students to go into master's programs, you'll have an edge. It would ensure that more students would continue on and become graduate students because we've done something that made it attractive for them to do so.

Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.

If rates are rising worldwide, that makes our bond market less attractive. I think rates are going to have to go higher to continue to attract funds from overseas.

If qualified employees can't be found, the hotels must increase salaries to attract candidates from other industries such as restaurants, banks and insurance companies.

Mark Zandi

If protectionist sentiment boils over, that could be a precipitating factor for the dollar. In a dollar crash scenario, it puts the Fed in a particularly difficult spot. Do they tighten policy (raise interest rates) to attract global capital or do they loosen it to help support the economy?

Flavio Briatore

I pay enough. The driver moves around but the team stays. What you need is a solid, efficient team. This attracts a good driver.

The past couple of years I've had other opportunities that were fairly attractive to me, but I'm committed to this. I still perceive this program to have great potential. I think we can do something special here.

This recognition is validation that MATRIX places strong emphasis on building a workplace that attracts and retains the best people in our business. By providing a desirable work environment with an emphasis on work-life balance, we enable our employees to perform their best in delivering superior service to our customers. Investing in our people and culture is smart business as it ensures the continued success of our company.

This show has caught on so fast with audiences and has consistently lifted us at 8 p.m.. The fast pace and the potential for a true reversal of fortune has attracted a lot of people for us in that crucial time slot, and we look forward to seeing more of the same with these new episodes.

This should preclude valuations from retesting previous troughs of this year, making the stocks very attractive following the pullback of the past week.

The good news in some ways is that we seem to be attractive to young families with kids. The problem is the people coming in tend to have less capital at their disposal. They're less educated. They're more likely to work in 20th century as opposed to 21st century jobs.

Annette Bening

I had never been attracted to younger guys. I had, from my late teens, always liked men who were older than me.

We've owned the land for a long, long time -- in some cases for over 100 years -- and we think we've got a . . . very attractive value for a world-class-asset.

We are excited to introduce Nokia's smallest ever Bluetooth Headset BH-800 to the market. I'm confident that the stylish minimalist design coupled with the tiny size of the product will attract completely new consumer segments globally.

We are excited to be playing a key role in Cisco's execution of their IP next generation network vision. As the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world, Cisco recognizes that a policy-driven resource control layer is needed to effectively drive powerful triple-play features. With the Broadband Policy Manager, Cisco is able to empower their service provider customers to tap into the world of high-margin premium IP services that excite and attract both consumer and enterprise subscribers.

Unemployment is so low that that's really not much of an available labor pool if you're trying to attract new jobs or encourage expansion of existing businesses and companies, so what we're seeing is that here are some people who are seeking better jobs.

The reason they're jumping on board is because of the attractive returns that the commodity markets have seen over the last 2 or 3 years. If you go into a more sideways pattern those returns get a lot less attractive.

When Sharapova, Venus or Serena do things outside the sport to get attraction it can only be good for the game. We're in a world where it's not just about sports it's about entertainment.

Finance sites are attractive to advertisers as they tend to represent a pretty good demographic. It of course depends on the quality of the site, but it stands to reason that people who spend time reading about money and stocks, et cetera, probably have some money to invest.

Fifteen years ago, the negative was huge. They talked about organized crime. They talked about how gambling would attract prostitution. It would bring in the wrong kinds of tourists. Now it is better than 2-to-1 on the positive side.

Few people travel from a long distance solely for one attraction or one part of an experience. I think the job here is to complement the Rock Hall with other venues that are also attractive. If the Rock Hall has not reached its peak yet, it's because we are not drawing enough to other venues.

Larry Graham

First and foremost the highway is needed for safety, but then we started looking at the economic development impact. We know how important transportation is when attracting businesses.

Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.

Family households often believe they have no choice but to move to the suburbs. They will only be attracted to communities that have food, schools, parks, child care facilities, services and community centers. These are the very households that make up most of the demand for urban sprawl.

Families have been finding it more attractive in many cases to look towards state universities, others schools that are lower cost. And we've decided to respond to that need by protecting their savings and home equity to a greater extent than before.

James Nasmyth

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.

Elie Wiesel

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.

Audrey Hepburn

My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.