Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kerry King

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums.

Joyce Banda

I prospered very quickly. Very quickly, I became politically empowered. I was running my own business.

Elizabeth Warren

I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.

Lawrence Eagleburger

What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.

In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.

Tempestt Bledsoe

This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young. I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.

In the Philippines, we don't have that much of a problem. There's not much difference between the men and the women. In our business, we always have a good mixture of the men and the women.

For the men, they are more of a risk taker, and for the women, they are more nurturing and more details. So the combination of the men and women is very good for business.

This was a solid third quarter for Federated, propelled by strong sales and earnings in our department store segment and a level of performance in our direct-to-customer catalog and e-commerce businesses that was in line with what we had anticipated, ... We are entering the fourth quarter with our inventories in good shape, and we remain optimistic that it will be a good retail Christmas season.

Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.

Gary Miller

Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.

Elliott Abrams

During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic.

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

Erik King

If you really want to see more work that reflects your values, you have to produce it. You have to be a contributor to the business.

In 1991, only two years into the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice suddenly left her powerful job as the top Russia expert on the National Security Council and went back to California - to get a life.

Ewen Bremner

Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.

The fall couture presentations in Paris are usually my favorite moment on the fashion calendar: beautiful weather, a busy rather than manic schedule, and, let's face it, seeing the artistry, the embroidery, and handmade magnificence that goes into every dress.

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'

Blair Underwood

To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.

Blair Underwood

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

Blair Underwood

I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me.

Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Kevin Ayers

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.

Kevin McDonald

I would also would have liked the part of the Bus Driver.

Jack Ma

What kind of business world are we living in?

Jeremy Stoppelman

When you read reviews on Yelp, you get a good sense of what's going to happen when you walk in the door of that business. The challenge is that there are fifteen million businesses in the U.S., and its very hard to communicate with all of them about how Yelp works, and why it works the way it does.

When you're a cash cow like Federated, you should invest in a growth business and not another buggy whip company.

Thomas Perez

When you put more money in the pockets of working families, they spend it on groceries, gas, school supplies, and other goods and services. And that helps businesses grow and create jobs. So many forward-looking employers, large and small, understand this.

We had been IT-led before my arrival. We had to change governance and say to the business units 'it is your money we are spending' - without a business sponsor there is no IT project. These investments are business decisions.

Roy Oswalt

We had been busting (Edmonds) in with fastballs a lot through the years, and in key situations,

We had a vote on Tuesday that showed Governor Bush won Florida, ... We had a recount that showed Governor Bush has won Florida.

Aaron Harang

We had a very efficient spring. We came in, we took care of business, we got our work done and we got out of there. It makes you want to work harder to get it right from the get-go. If we get it right, we're going to be done with our work and get out of there.