Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Welch

So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well.

Jack Welch

Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.

Jack Welch

Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.

Louise Gluck

You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you.

Louise Gluck

I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth?

George Foreman

You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.

James MacArthur

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

James Lovelock

I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked.

James Lovelock

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.

James M. Barrie

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

James M. Barrie

For to have faith, is to have wings" Peter Pan

Joe Paterno

Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.

Joe Nichols

Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.

Joe Rogan

Cities are natural, that's why they're everywhere. It's not like there's only one city, and everybody's like 'What the f**k is this?' No, cities are all over the place. They're natural. You know what's not natural? You, in the middle of the mountains, in the middle of the winter.

Joe Gibbs

You don't win with X's and O's. What you win with is people.

Joe Gibbs

A winning effort begins with preparation.

Joan Didion

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

Joan Didion

It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

Jimmie Johnson

There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.

Jimmie Johnson

We've got a lot of racing left, but when we're winning at places we're not supposed to, you better watch out.

Jimmie Johnson

It is just awesome, there’s no other way to describe it. To be the first to win in a Gen-6 car … I’m just very proud of the moment.

Jimi Hendrix

Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.

Jim Himes

I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.

Jim Morrison

Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine....

Eric Thomas

Go Fast! Go Hard! Finish! And Win the Day!

Eric Lindros

I've been excited since I received a phone call from Paul Holmgren inviting me to represent the Flyers and Flyer fans at the alumni game of the Winter Classic weekend.

Eric Ludy

For a life to be fully yielded, it must wrestle the impossible and win.

Emma Goldman

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Emma Watson

The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.

John McEnroe

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

John McCain

We conservatives can win the ideological battles on a level playing field. Our ideas are better. Given fair elections based on contributions from regular voters, instead of $100,000 checks from business-as-usual special interests, we will prevail.

John Irving

It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.

John Howard

I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.