Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Schultz

I think many start-ups make mistakes because they are focusing on things that are farther ahead, and they haven't done the work that has built the foundation to support it.

Fred Wilson

Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market is less than $1 million. And the returns, when things work out, can be enormous.

With CDs and the extra material, really what's happening is that the cost of that is being built into the textbook, and then it's being bundled as a value add, ... If we try to buy only the textbook, we're paying as much as we would for the bundled material.

Dree Hemingway

I think people are always like, 'She's a model-turned-actress.' And I don't want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn't have built the confidence to do acting if I didn't model.

The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.

Robert H. Schuller

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.

Bruce Sutter

Young pitchers don't throw enough in the minor leagues, and when they get to the majors, they don't have the stamina; their arms haven't been built up.

Bill Paxton

It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.

I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.

Billy Sherwood

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

Ray Bradbury

I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

We have shown our improvement at Twickenham, and we've built a very strong team philosophy at Twickenham.

The park started sinking because there wasn't a profit center built in out there. To further its sinking, the park has been under-utilized.

This really is the hub of Fairfield County. More pools are built in warmer climates, but this still is near the financial epicenter of the world (the greater New York metropolitan area),

Alex Shoumatoff

In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't get into exclusive golf and tennis clubs and were looking for a nice place to live and raise their families.

The government's case is built around wiretaps and the testimony of proven liars and cheats.

Adam McKay

Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

Jack Adams

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

Traffic, access, noise, residential protests are problems with outdoor amphitheatres, especially those like White River that are built in rural areas. The traffic issues have to be resolved because ultimately, it's the customer experience that determines whether White River is successful in the long term.

Yes, they are. And they're built better and last longer. So, I'm for doing away with it.

Eric Brewer

You are not going to see gray-and-blue stores being built anymore.

Extreme Networks offers an innovative and open approach, stressing high availability, security, ease of management and integration with other best-in-class technology. The result is a network infrastructure built to accommodate different forms of traffic and media, and designed to transform connectivity into a business utility.

Kate Warne

But overall, despite earnings, good news, the market is up but not as strong as you might have expected. So all of it was obviously built into the stocks already.

Alice Waters

In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

Alex Berenson

After a generation of misrule under Mr. Hussein, who built a huge military infrastructure while neglecting civilian investment, and a dozen years of United Nations sanctions, Iraq's unemployment rate tops 50 percent.

Peter Coyote

My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.

Barack Obama

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

The government may not be able to stop the BOJ from shifting policy after all the speculation that's been built up in financial markets.

Steve Williams

There are a number of options, but since the school- when it was built - was not elevated, there is very little slope.

When you look at their offense, that's what they're built for. They pride themselves on being a physical team, even back to the days that Eddie George was there. They still have that attitude, and you can see it on tape.

When you look around and see what happened to the rest of the community, I think we're real lucky. This place was built as the result of Hurricane Andrew, and it was built like a fortress.

When you have a company that's built on technology and connection with the customer, those are not all profit-driven concepts.

Harvey S. Firestone

Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.