Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Hawkins

I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.

Mike Mularkey

I've taken business as usual like I'm going into the season as head coach. There's more question out there than there was in here, especially with me. I've approached it full speed.

Janet Yellen

Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning.

Uncertainties over how Toshiba will run the nuclear power business and its financing scheme for the acquisition prompted investors to sell.

Twenty-five years from now, we'll have an opportunity to see whether Superstition Vistas turned out to be business as usual, or something very, very special.

Tweeter has been losing market share to the big guys. It served a higher-end customer, and historically it differentiated itself with home audio, but that business has fallen off a cliff. No one buys stereos anymore. They buy MP3 players, and you don't need the same kind of service to sell these lower priced, lower margin products.

We don't really know how business is. There is nothing to gauge it against, there is no one out there doing what we are doing.

To its huge credit, GUS has moved from being a rag-tag of businesses with a reliance on a declining home shopping market to a very focused retail group.

To have such a strong Thanksgiving and the second-best ever business in what has overall been a down year is pretty impressive. Thank goodness for Harry Potter . It has reinvigorated a lot of people to go to the movies.

Mike Epps

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

Tom Sherak

You have to pay attention. I'm not quite sure it's a good thing for the business as we know it, but the business changes every 20 seconds now.

You have to learn to overcome those feelings when somebody is negative about a production you love or if that production doesn't do well commercially. After 'Gone With the Wind', I felt older. I even thought about quitting the business.

You have a risk of problems occurring just by virtue of having people involved in the real estate brokerage business inside or outside the city. They may have to deal with brokers who are doing work inside the city.

Jamais Cascio

With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.

With profit warnings averaging 92 per quarter in the 12 months to the third quarter, businesses are clearly finding it difficult to forecast.

James Worthy

You have to totally drop your ego and start from scratch, and learn a new business,

You have to get the engine room of the business right so you can make money delivering that proposition.

Phil Schiller

We always like to have more customers and we haven't stopped working hard to gain more. We are very proud that, over the last three quarters, our business has been growing twice as fast as the rest of the industry.

This year, professionals worldwide indicated that information security is now being perceived as a business enabler rather than a business expense, and as a result, they are increasingly being included in strategic discussions with the most senior levels of management.

This year is shaping up to be a year of business as usual, dealing with very challenging economic times.

Ted Turner

When you lose small businesses, you lose big ideas. People who own their own businesses are their own bosses. They are independent thinkers. They know they can't compete by imitating the big guys; they have to innovate. So they are less obsessed with earnings than they are with ideas.

Joe Lhota

What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.

What this means is that business leaders are not convinced that strong sales numbers will be maintained on or at the same level.

We've really put the power train in place to connect the business application to the people and we've really driven a fundamentally different set of results.

What happens in the drug business, what happens in the supermarket business, what's happening in the department store business and is happening in the telephone business is that the big are getting bigger.

Joe Gibbs

Whatever your business is, we all have a drama going on in our own lives. We're all unhappy about something. You have sickness, marital problems, a myriad of things going wrong in everybody's life. You have to deal with those things right away. You have to get their full concentration on football. I'd like to be able to communicate even more with my players when things aren't going bad, but it's just like everything else in life. The problems take over, and you wind up chasing the problems. I'd say handling people is the most important thing you do as a coach. Dealing with people, really, is all football is.

Mark Ruffalo

Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.

Jim Murphy

What companies need from this stuff is quicker applicability to business problems.

Juan Pierre

We're playing all the teams that are right there with us. You can handle your business and control your destiny. That's what you want to do in September. This is the road trip to do that.

We're paying for some of the sins of the past. But we have made great strides, and some of that hard work is going to show up in the coming years. And we also have some ideas in place to shore up short-term business as well.

Keith Baker

We tend to think of emerging markets as small countries with small companies. But there are some world-class businesses that just happen to be registered in emerging markets.

We tend to see a lot of glamorous-type people traveling on BA, and it's been wonderful for business lately.

Karen Mills

We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.