Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Ballmer

We're talking about making people in business more productive every day. IBM is talking about doing a project.

We've been lucky in that we've guessed right most times about who we want to get into business with, whether it's writers that we're giving a big chance to or people that need a little rehabilitation, You can just feel it if someone really has something they want to say.

Steven Jackson

We've been kind of down around here ... because you know your head guy is a little sick. And everyone cares about him. We want to make sure that he gets right. As long as he's doing that, we're going to take care of business on the field.

John Sullivan

We've been consolidating this business for the past several years and this presents another opportunity for us to further expand into profitable locations.

We've been clear with the Israelis on their obligations under the 'road map' and President Bush has specifically called on the Israelis not only to remove illegal outposts but to stop settlement expansion.

We've been busy nonstop. This is like it was last year. This is pre-Super Bowl.

We've been as busy or busier than the Christmas holidays. There's the Super Bowl, and right after it is the Olympics, and then there's March Madness.

We've been a little banged up and sometimes it feels like we've been on a bus or a plane most of the time since the start of the season.

We need to get the government off the back of the business community. We need to be a more job-friendly place.

We need to get out of the business of subsidizing people who are in harm's way.

We need to get a pulse and see what people are feeling regarding what type of business and organizations might augment our already vibrant city.

We need to get a lot more maturity in that space, and right now the Web infrastructure players have more sustainable, more realistic business models, and that's where investors are flocking to,

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives.

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

The Government should officially confirm the reintroduction of the 10-year tax holiday for investors starting up viable businesses in Uganda and ensure land availability free of squatters. The Government should immediately transfer ownership of the fresh handling cold facility at Entebbe so that the sector owns it.

The government cannot do business with a man who said such a horrible thing about our ill prime minister.

Alan Arkin

I'm not sure if I've learned anything from show business. Life in general has taught me if you're kind to people, everything gets easier. Being a decent person really smoothes the way for you and everyone else.

Ashwin Sanghi

Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation of conflict with other stakeholders. The moment I started writing, my creative impulses were finally channelised.

Atul Gawande

Doctors quickly learn that how much they make has little to do with how good they are. It largely depends on how they handle the business side of their practice.

Amanda Palmer

I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

Andie MacDowell

I've had a great experience in the fashion business.

Abraham Verghese

I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.

Anna Wintour

The Fashion Fund celebrates the real passion that underlies the fashion business, not the frothy world of glamour and celebrity that so often surrounds it.

Adam McKay

If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?

Bernie Sanders

Comcast rents modems directly to consumers, thereby competing directly with companies like Zoom. It has every reason to make Zoom modems more expensive or even to drive companies like Zoom out of business.

Bernie Sanders

At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.

Bruce Robinson

When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.

Brande Roderick

You know I'm proud of all of them but I think that I am most proud of all my businesses and just being a business woman and being able to do that as well as you know hold my career as an actress.

Brad Wenstrup

In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

Bobby Schilling

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Bill Gurley

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.