Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Lehrer

I am now finding more and more journalists saying, 'It has taken a tragedy of enormous proportions, but maybe, maybe we are returning to our roots,' and those roots are in the business of information, not entertainment,

If EADS took over Thales, they would have to find ways to hand off certain parts of the business as soon as possible. But getting that through Thales and the French state is especially difficult because in the end it's a dismantling of Thales.

I feel it is an extremely crucial period for Singaporeans to stand together during this economic slowdown so we can pull through it together. This is a better move compared to pointing fingers at somebody or even feeling depressed about it.

I feel I've got unfinished business at international level.

Ray Liotta

I feel I've done everything late in life. Got married late, and I didn't do my first movie until I was 31. But in this crazy business, you never know what's going to happen. Maybe after 20 years of making movies I'll become an overnight sensation.

Boris Berezovsky

I don't want to do business in Kiev, I just want to live there.

I don't think those movies got the repeat business that summer movies got in other years. It's one thing to open big. But a true hit has to get the kids back for two or three viewings. After the summer, we were playing catch-up.

Scott Skiles

I don't think we had any business being in OT, anyway. You don't have to score if you get two or three stops. As has been the case, we had trouble. Five point lead, buck-forty to go; that's a game we won last year.

Aaron Gray

I don't think we did anything different in the way we went about our business of preparing for a game. We put in the hard work that's needed. We expected to make those shots.

I don't think these laws make public officials ethical. They tell the public we mean business because we are serious about wanting an ethical institution.

He's managed to turn that ship around. It's tough to grow these businesses when you have to pay off the kind of debt he's had to handle.

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.

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.

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.