Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Zimmer

Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.

Tony Stewart

All my life I've been that way - ever since I was a kid. It doesn't matter whether we played video games or even before that when we had board games when you played with your sister and mom and dad - I didn't like losing then and didn't want to do anything but win when we played.

The only thing that I would say is that I hope the employees know how deeply the board appreciates their willingness to work with the company to save it.

Quentin Blake

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.

I was like, man, it?s going to be a long day because that takes points off the board when you don?t have a kicker. We were in field-goal range a couple of times and we had to do other things to get points on the board.

Donald E. Graham

I was lucky to become a Facebook board member in late 2008. Restricted stock units granted me at the time have increased many times in value.

Larry Diamond

I finally got out of the office and brought my board up. It's a lot of fun. It looks like a perfect day.

Jason Clarke

I first came on board when Ed and Mike Clay founded the Millersville organization, and it has been a privilege to see it go from an experiment to where it is now.

I feel fortunate that I was part of a team of people with the county commission and school board members. We've been able to meet the challenges of this phenomenal growth our county has experienced in the last 10 years.

I can't reply in detail but have furnished all details to them. There is no truth in the allegations and the present board officials only want to malign me.

I can tell you this much, no school board member ever told me I had to get rid of any coaches. That's being honest with you. Nobody said you should get rid of anybody. I evaluated the situation and made some personnel changes.

Alan Autry

I can't in good conscience be a member of a board that is so blatantly politically driven by special-interest groups,

Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!

Michael Grade

Given the impoverished state of the counties, I realise the England and Wales Cricket Board faced a difficult decision,

Given the heinous nature of this case, it's unlikely the parole board will ever release him,

Getting Richard on board would be a real bonus for us and hopefully we can tie something up in the near future.

getting control and ownership -- some call it god power -- over the Internet through the power to tax. We're supposed to feel comfortable because the current interim board members are nice people.

Michael English

Frankly, we've been happy with HARTline. But if the HARTline board doesn't want us, we'll look at alternatives.

Hugh Johnson

Four days ain't enough, ... It's still too soon for investors to jump back on board until you get more confirmation from the stock market. We've had so many false starts before.

Founding Mother, Linda Axley, and executive directors like Pam Moore and Deana Franke (current director), have kept the vision alive, and have transferred their vision to staff, board members, volunteers and to the entire community.

Frank drove and everybody went to the boards except me. We didn't want to give them another chance.

From a practical economic point it makes more sense for the board to put the building at the Plymouth location.

From Friday evening, right up until this morning we were negotiating with more than one bidder and the board considered multiple offers, and it went right down to this morning.

Further, the board is concerned that Comcast's multi-tier voting structure would put AT&T shareowners at a disadvantage in matters of corporate governance,

I was inquiring as to a little more detail, and he informed me that he had been told that the president and the chancellor and key members of the board had approved. At that point, there was no confusion in my mind. I knew it was over.

Dwane Casey

Kevin did a masterful job of rebounding. We have to have somebody to help out on the boards in the paint.

Jon Gruden

Kenyatta started every game last year and helped us make the playoffs. We made great strides on offense last season and it was our goal to keep everyone on board so that we could continue that improvement.

Knowing this could happen, our board actually negotiated two years with our teachers.

Know that you are making a difference, ... They are going to be future school board members, doctors, lawyers, pilots.

I would say the board is more interested than they've ever been since I've been here to look into permitting home schoolers to be involved in extracurricular activities.

I wrote on the board in the locker room that we're happy, but not satisfied. It was a pretty good win but we're going to learn from our mistakes and things we did better.

Kenneth Lay is charged with abusing his powerful position as chairman of the board and CEO and repeatedly lying in an effort to cover up the financial collapse that caused devastating harm to millions of Americans.

Kenneth didn't have a lot of numbers offensively, but his presence on the boards was felt out there and I think defensively he made some contributions as well. So did Will before he fouled out. He was playing some pretty good defense and scrambling around out there, causing some havoc.