Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Affleck

Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone who is actually an important person.

Jimmy Breslin

The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public.

The police called me at the restaurant and said his car was still in the garage. I told them that if his car was there, he was there, and they busted down his door.

The pilot did not set out to get a business benefit, but the overriding fact is that we will have to fall in line with suppliers.

The overriding consideration on everyone's mind was to get the Certificate of Occupancy. It was issued on the first inspection by the fire inspector, which was an extremely important goal because you can have all the businesses open, but if you can't park anywhere, it's not going to do you any good.

The overall economy does not seem to be improving for business customers of any size. As a result, we expect sales in that division at lower end of the low to mid single-digit range for the third quarter,

Donald Rumsfeld

the Pentagon is functioning. It will be in business tomorrow.

The P/E is reasonable for a software company that's growing at the rate that Symantec is. If anything, I think that their business is going to strengthen as time goes by.

The PC business isn't going away. It has become more competitive. But International Rectifier is positioned beautifully, with power chips for the laptop marketplace, which is a strong area. It is depressed like all the others in semi, so I'd want to own it.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Xerox's innovative technology and service offerings - delivered through an expanding distribution system with a lean and flexible business model - continue to solidify our market leadership, driving consistently strong earnings performance.

Brenda Russell

I follow my instincts. Maybe I'd be more successful in my business and my private life if I did things like everybody else. But I just feel like I'm different from everybody else.

Brian Kernighan

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

Bobby Rush

The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.

It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.

Brunello Cucinelli

In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.

Brunello Cucinelli

I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.

Bonnie Tyler

When you're in the music business, every day is the same. If you work 9 to 5, you can't wait for the weekend, but in the music business, you don't know one day from the next. It's always the weekend.

Bikram Choudhury

Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.

Beverly Cleary

I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

I am no technophobe. I like being able to calibrate communication, depending on the situation - texting for the simple and immediate; email for business or when I want to put some lag time into the exchange; Twitter to promote something; Facebook to draw a crowd.

David Malpass

While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government has become a huge silent partner in all businesses, often taking a majority of the profits and forcing many unprofitable business decisions without the risk that it will be fired.

David Crosby

I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was true. It is, of course, the complete opposite. I'm neither rich nor do I make a lot of money.

Chris O'Donnell

There are obviously peaks and valleys in everyone's career. This business can be a roller-coaster ride, and it's really hard to stay on top all the time. Very few people do.

Cilla Black

I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.

Christine Gregoire

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

Desiree Rogers

In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.

Desiree Rogers

I think it's fair to say I feel much more comfortable in business than in politics.

There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.

Donald Trump

The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

Barack Obama

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

Benjamin Franklin

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Barack Obama

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

Nat Wolff

It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.