Famous Quotes & Sayings

While President Bush maintains an unwavering commitment to rebuilding the Gulf Coast, Democrats remain just as committed to political posturing for short-term gain.

While Pfizer's cash flow would likely be impacted by the loss or change in structure, we note that a partnership with another consumer health business could create increased clout for shelf space and thus operate with new synergies.

While overall confidence remains relatively positive, the latest reading reflects growing concerns that U.S. economic growth may be slowing down. And, while the outlook for corporate profits remains optimistic, rising interest rates and oil prices may curb business leaders' projections.

While our profit was substantially enlarged by the Microsoft antitrust settlement, our core businesses also contributed to that profit.

While our checks suggest that there was a general pickup in hardware business at the end of the March quarter, this was probably not sufficient for IBM to make our original revenue forecasts.

Muhtar Kent

While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.

Winning new business is the way that we create and sustain jobs going forward.

With a franchise, you have someone who cares as much about the business name and image as you do because they own it.

With a coach like (Parcells), he has his agenda, ... He had his guys in place and that's part of the business sometimes. It was good at the beginning, but this is a business and that is the kind of coach he is.

With 22 train yards and 19 bus depots, it would be extremely difficult to pinpoint exactly which services will be up and running first.

Mark Skousen

Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffett can use his surplus funds more effectively in private business and creating jobs than the government can.

Max McKeown

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

Marya Mannes

Who's kidding whom? What's the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Quart and full quart? Two-ounce and big two-ounce? What does Extra Long mean? What's a tall 24-inches? And what busy shopper can tell?

Robbie Williams

I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not currently understood.

Robert D. Hare

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.

Rivers Cuomo

I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent.

Robin Wright

If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow.

Prince

Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business.

Preity Zinta

It's not that acting was something I'd always wanted to do. I had no formal training; I'd never really imagined I'd be an actress. Business was something that had always been in my mind, but when I got into acting, I learned everything on set, and for me at that point, I wanted to excel at what I did.

Preity Zinta

When I entered films, I rose to the top. In business, too, I want to be at the top.

Serge Schmemann

Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on tires under the Champs-Elysees and beyond.

On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops.

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

Rob Thomas

I always just wanted to write and maybe direct. I'm really only interested in that. And yet the business that I'm in has forced me into being a salesman - that's the last thing that 17-year-old me would imagine I'd end up being. I'm uncomfortable trying to sell anything, but that's what you're doing every time you walk into a pitch.

Rachel Sklar

I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.

Rebecca Pidgeon

City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business.

We like the fact that they are constantly developing novel marketing concepts. And we like the charismatic, but somewhat off-beat management team. When small businesses like these are incorporated into a big company they are usually killed - because you make people managers and not entrepreneurs. It is this entrepreneurial talent that Unlimited is trying to protect.

We like the cable business, ... We think that's a business that's going to be a consolidating business over the next couple of years and we'd like to be in a position to play in that consolidation. And I think this puts us right in the midst of it as we speak.

We like GE at this point primarily because all of its big business segments are really firing nicely.

We were really good at manufacturing. We have a real niche ... so we started manufacturing index tabs and started marketing those nationwide and selling to other printers and print brokers, and all of a sudden that business took off. The norm was two weeks, and we were offering next-day service, which really got people's attention.

We view the opportunity as planetary in scope. Businesses are going to be investing in what we've got.

We don't need to stifle our businesses with unnecessary bureaucracy and taxation.