Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maggie Gallagher

Let me make this clear: I didn't want a fight. What I wanted from President Bush was a nominee about whom, win or lose, we could all be proud. Instead, turning to His Girl Harriet, President Bush for once thought small. And that means, on this one President Bush is already a loser.

Bob Garfield

Marketers are desperate to find ways to reach people. Especially young men, who are far too busy playing 'Grand Theft Auto' to notice, say, a 30-second TV commercial.

John Stevens

Mardi Gras is our Christmas. Business is 200 percent, 300 percent more than usual.

Bob Arum

Mark's a straight shooter. You're not going to be able to feed him (nonsense). He knows the numbers down to the penny and he knows the pay-per-view business like no one else.

Mark plays by his own rules. As downtown was faced with competition from the suburbs, Mark has hung in there. He's transformed his business using modern tools. He has a real entrepreneurial spirit.

Many young couples are so busy being romantic that they forget to talk about anything practical like personal finance. Money isn't a romantic subject, but marriage should be seen as entering into a financial as well as a romantic partnership.

John Landis

Material comes all kinds of ways, and it's never a question of a lack of material or a lack of projects - I have tons of projects. The issue is to convince someone to give you the money. And it's a very different business than it was just 8 years ago.

Alice Munro

And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.

That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.

Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.

Clay Aiken

I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.

Clayton Christensen

There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.

Clayton Christensen

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

Daniel J. Boorstin

We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires.

Daniel Kahneman

Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

D. H. Lawrence

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

Crystal Eastman

Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.

Cullen Hightower

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Clint Eastwood

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Clarence Darrow

The law is a horrible business.

Clarence Darrow

It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.

Daniel Cudmore

If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.

Leah Busque

The excitement of being a Task Rabbit is that you can create your own businesses and become an entrepreneur. We're creating jobs for people in this economy. Some of the Task Rabbits are cashing out at $5,000 per month.

Richard Foreman

The fact that everything is back on the drawing board, with respect to partitioning the printer business, makes the stock more attractive.

John Edwards

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.

John Grahame

We'll have other chip players in this business in another 18 months.

Shia LaBeouf

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

Abraham Cowley

Well then; I now do plainly see, / This busy world and I shall ne'er agree.

Byron Scott

Well, the door is still open. It is only open slightly but it is open. It's a matter of us taking care of business and getting a little help.