Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas II

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

Little Richard

I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.

We don't have any comment on our business until we're complete with our business.

Yeah, I remember that. I was not going about the business the way I was supposed to.

Brandon Heath

Whether we have Marcus or not shouldn't matter. If we take care of business with whoever we put on the floor, everything should come out positive.

Cary Sherman

Whether or not it is lawful for users to share music one on one, it is entirely different for a commercial entity to create a business that induces users to do that,

We've always worked well within DoD guidelines and of course will continue to do so. We support the directive and all regulations that would protect military members from unscrupulous business practices.

We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.

Nitin Nohria

We've always treated the historical context of a particular time as a kind of sidebar to any discussion about business leadership. But we've found that context is far more salient than we ever imagined.

We've always had a successful business here, but you have periods of financial difficulty, and we don't deny that. I've always taken care of my obligations. Sooner or later, we take care of our obligations.

We've always felt that this Business 40 effort could be a model for other projects.

Ice Cube

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

Steven Pinker

You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet?

Tomorrow will be a business day, and we expect them to be back in service, ... Chill out tomorrow morning. It's going to be a rough commute, but everybody will get there. Just remember, we're New Yorkers.

We're marketing to international business travelers, those people who get on a plane, fly overseas and go right into a meeting.

We remain on track for your consensus earnings per share estimate for 2001, which is consistent with our longer term business model.

We remain of the view that the Fed's near-term objective is simply to support the stock market until consumer and business sentiment improves,

Henry Blodget

We remain enthusiastic about eBay's business model and market leadership position.

We remain deeply concerned for the future of our business and the livelihood of thousands of our staff and subcontractors.

Mark Foley

We're going to spend the next 30 days at least focused on relief restoration rather than business as usual.

We're going to say more about the business model when we know more.

My mother, when I told her I was going into the jewelry business said, 'Kenneth, don't tell anyone.'

When we have a special event, our sales triple. If you don't do anything, business goes on as usual. It's challenging to do business in the Square. Every merchant is trying really hard.

When we got our students back, the population of New Orleans increased by 10 to 20 percent. A lot of businesses pegged their openings to the return of our students. We expect the students to be a big part of rebuilding.

When we got everybody out we had men at the end of each road to make sure nobody got in because everyone's home and business was wide open to thieves,

When we got back together, we weren't on a label, and we didn't have a business plan, and we didn't know what we were going to do.

Mary Anderson

When we first came to Pascagoula, we saw him quite a lot. He came in here a lot and we always thought he was quite a gentleman and very nice, very pleasant. My son rented furniture from him and he was very nice to him. We always felt he was a kind person and very good to do business with.

Peter Gabriel

We wrote a little manifesto with just some ideas on how this digital revolution could transform music-making itself, and that is the part that people have generally ignored so far. They've been totally preoccupied with the business side of it, but not so much with how the new formats - or the freedom of formats - could change the nature of what exactly is created.

We found that our success depended heavily on the support we received from the business world. It's because they have seen value in the project and in the partnership opportunities that we've been able to come here five years later and state that we haven't had to raise our ticket prices!

We found that only about 4 percent of our guests smoked in their rooms. Obviously, it was a risk, because 4 percent represents millions of dollars in revenue. But we concluded we could get more business as a result of making this change.

We grant small business loans between $5,000 and $350,000 while personal loans, which are salary deducted are between $5,000 and 200,000.

We felt it was really important for their to be a strong citizen presence at the Capitol today and let them know that people are watching and they're not happy with the way the public's business is being conducted.

Web site operators won't be able to stay in business if they can't meet consumers' expectations in these areas.