Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are a lot of companies out there whose essential business operating concept is past its prime and therefore their comparable sales are on a gradual decline.

There is a lot of business to be done.

There is a lot at stake for Microsoft. If this were to become a tremendously successful initiative, it could perhaps open the floodgates to other governments and business enterprises doing the same thing.

There is a long history there, when new businesses look to relocate to Zanesville, (they) go through the chamber first, ... It just makes a lot of sense to have someone in the chamber be a part of the Port Authority.

Jason Earles

There is a little chubby kid in me just waiting to bust out. I usually go running but am looking for a good gym.

There is definitely an anti-business feeling here compared to South Carolina.

There is business risk with respect to future environmental requirements, and it just makes good business sense to consider those risks in your planning and in what you do.

Conrad Black

There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Mark Warner

When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.

Avril Lavigne

When I'm home I go out with my friends. I go shopping, I go to clubs and I go to movies, ... There's just a certain way you have to do it, and I know how to handle myself and I know how to take care of myself and where I can and can't go and when I can and can't go. It's all do-able. I still have a life. I may have to work a little harder at it, but that's totally fun because most of the time I'm busy anyway.

When it was time to get the job done and win games, he was right there. Kind of a quiet - not a mean streak - but that mentality of business first, fun later when you're off the ice.

We use this less-conservative format to celebrate the successes and to thank businesses for their investment in the economic development of our community.

The people of Pakistan are rather disappointed. They have seen the U.S. pay a great deal of lip service supporting democracy in Muslim countries, but when we look at what is happening in Pakistan, President Bush says he shares the president's views and his democratic vision for Pakistan. For a great many, that is flawed.

Richard Engel

The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.

The people in the group were so knowledgeable and eager to share information or mentor each other. I learned so much about how to run my business from this group.

Thad Cochran

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

Terry Zwigoff

My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You're treated like a second-class citizen at most film festivals. You take the bus while everybody else is flown first-class. If you're a feature film director, you're put in a five-star hotel, and if you're a documentary director, you stay in a Motel 6.

Terry Zwigoff

I collect old Coon Chicken Inn memorabilia. I collect black memorabilia, like old minstrel posters. It was a real place. There was one in Seattle, one in Portland, and one in Salt Lake City. They started in 1925, and then they went out of business around 1958.

Thomas Perez

Employers have recognized for some time that it's smart business to have a diverse workforce - one in which many views are represented and everyone's talents are valued. Well, disability is part of diversity.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I made mistakes, but I'm luckier than most. I've got a successful business, lots of fans who think a lot of me and a family who loves me.

Aristotle

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

Aristotle

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

Aristotle

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

Ben Huh

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

The prime minister regards the visit of President Bush as an important one that will enhance the multifaceted dimensions of the relationship.

David Barnes

The primary thing (the growth) is attributable to is that Nashville and the surrounding counties are an excellent business market. Houses sell because people have jobs. People have jobs because you have a good, diverse economic base.

The primary business of small business owners is business not technology.

Joe Manchin

The price of gas at the pump has impacted this nation. It's killing all of us, ... We're seeing it in the cost of doing business running the state. We're seeing it in the cost of a family trying to take care of themselves.

The price of energy is driving everything up. Businesses are paying so much more for fuel and even plastics. It's (one reason) why we don't see lower prices.

The price is typically predicated by the cost of doing business in an area. However, there usually is a significant price difference between buying a casket at a funeral home and buying one at Costco.

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

Alberto Gonzales

To preserve the integrity of our free market economy, individuals who defraud American businesses and consumers by participating in international price-fixing conspiracies will be prosecuted and sent to prison no matter where they live or where they commit the crime.

We were confident we could reach a deal with Reggie Bush too.