Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jakob Nielsen

On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is difficult to use, people leave. If the homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what users can do on the site, people leave. If users get lost on a website, they leave. If a website's information is hard to read or doesn't answer users' key questions, they leave. Note a pattern here?

Jamais Cascio

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

J. R. R. Tolkien

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Iyanla Vanzant

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

Ellen DeGeneres

The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.

Jeaniene Frost

I was sitting cross-legged in bed, trying without success to pretend I'd misunderstood the image I'd glimpsed. Yeah, right. Because Vlad had been between my legs looking for a set of keys he'd lost.

Jeff Bezos

When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention.

Jim Henson

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

Jerry Rice

Chiropractic was the key to keeping me in the game.

Jeffrey Gitomer

The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and what you do, to statements about them, and how great they are and how they will produce more and profit more from ownership of your product or service.

Jeffrey Gitomer

The reason Trust is requested is because the person seeking Trust realizes that Trust is the key to Yes.

Jeffrey Gitomer

The key is not to call the decision maker. The key is to have the decision maker call you.

Jeff Jarvis

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.

Jesse Jackson

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Jeff Foxworthy

Buying a used rental car is kind of like going to a house of ill repute looking for a wife. Anything that's been driven that hard by that many people, you really don't want to put your key in it.

James C. Collins

To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.

James C. Collins

Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.

James C. Collins

The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.

James A. Baldwin

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Jacqueline Winspear

Because, we assume, these days, you just get in a car, you turn the key, and woosh, you're up the road. Or even now, dare I say, you don't turn a key; you get in a car and you're up the road. And yet with this particular car, it was a five-step process to start it. So how do I let the reader know that?

Christopher Hitchens

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

Gary Bauer

Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.

Fujio Mitarai

Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.

Fuzzy Zoeller

The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.

Christina Perri

Learning to let things go is key for a good quality of living.

Chris Shipley

A key part of helping startups is providing them with a G/SCORE that measures a company on the path to sustainability. We score companies from around the world and use Knoodle so they can easily sync video and presentations together for a more effective pitch. We send these pitches to judges all around the world and it's critical that we have a flexible tool that is easy to create, easy to deliver, and effective at letting audiences understand the entrepreneur and their innovation.

Fran Lebowitz

When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful.

Frans Lanting

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

Jeanette Winterson

The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.

George Eliot

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

George Herbert

He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.

Christian Slater

The attraction of being wild is living on the edge, living up to the reputations of the people you've been following or emulating. People are always talking about how wild and exciting they were, but the key word is 'were', because there's a long list of dead, famous people.

Christa Miller

I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!