Famous Quotes & Sayings

I could have done without a long road trip to Basingstoke on the Saturday and then an overnight bus trip back to Murrayfield to face Sheffield who are one of the strongest clubs on the circuit,

Jane Krakowski

I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.

Erich Fromm

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Eric Cantona

Great businessmen are creators.

Jason Patric

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

Hillary Clinton

I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them.

Herbert Marcuse

Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.

Evan Esar

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Evan Esar

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Isabelle Adjani

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

Irwin Edman

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

Ingvar Kamprad

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

Jack Ma

Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers.

Jack Anderson

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark..

Jack Benny

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

J. C. Watts

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

Irving Azoff

It comes down to that ... business tactic: the guy that yells loudest is right.

Irving Berlin

There's no business like show business.

Because he was taking care of business for me.

Because he's in the business of insuring catastrophes, Buffett expects to get tagged now and then by a large event. It sounds like things were pretty good if you take out the insurance loss.

Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

Jim Irsay

Certainly the Peyton Manning deal was not an intelligent business decision if you look at it in the short term, because what you're doing is writing a check out of your own personal wealth and hoping things will change in the near future. But this problem has existed since the late '90s and going into the 21st century.

Sharron Angle

Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.

Check Point is highly profitable, which is good in this kind of market, and they're only getting more profitable, so they can't really invest in their business at levels that keep up with the revenue growth. It's a big plus that you're taking about a company that has 45 percent operating margins and investors can actually see real earnings.

Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.

Chapter 11 has come to mean that you can ignore the demands of pension-fund people, for instance, and still stay in business without a fundamental rethink of your strategy.

Joe Tripodi

Changing the face of insurance for consumers does not happen overnight and it certainly doesn't happen without the highest levels of cooperation and integration within an organization. Mike and I hope that the story of our partnership at Allstate and the results we are driving for the business will serve as inspiration for the next generation of marketing and IT professionals.

Certification has now become a risk and threatens our business plan.

O. J. Simpson

Certainly we want our town to cast a positive light for the business people who look at the community.

Kevin Johnson

Certainly we have entered into a period of maturity for voice over IP with business customers.

Chief Lawson would like to know without communication, food, water, enough buses and gasoline, how long would it take another American city to reach the limits of its compassion?

By automating controls for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, enterprises like Cummins realize cost and time-saving benefits. Longer term, Movaris Certainty will create an environment of tighter overall financial control management for Cummins and its many business units.