Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vitruvius

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

Vladimir Potanin

Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time.

Carly Fiorina

Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

Wolf Blitzer

What we have said, and we said it in the report, we have numbers of Iraqis who tell us that Saddam was committed to acquiring weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons,

Lee Hamilton

was sent to Iraq several times in the late 1990s for help in acquiring poisons and gases.

Denis Diderot

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Mike Tannenbaum

We have tremendous flexibility in acquiring more players that fit.

Jon Feltheimer

We are acquiring a company with a strong distribution infrastructure, a valuable library and a gifted, experienced and highly entrepreneurial senior management team,

Yotam Ottolenghi

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

William Hamilton

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

William Kirby

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

William Hung

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

William H. Gray

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

William John Wills

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

Whitey Ford

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Jon Thorn

The outlook for the remaining quarters of the year is quite clear and the momentum will be continued. Generating such cash flows will help the company in its plans to make its refinery the world's largest.

Keith Collins

We probably really are not going to get a test on what happens with cattle prices until we get into next week, and we start to see the normal resumption of cash market trading,

Vance Coffman

We are deeply disappointed with this reduced outlook for our company. This level of earnings and cash generation is unacceptable for Lockheed Martin.

Rafael Ramirez

We are not handing out cash in any of these deals. The state's shares are class A, the majority and with a different power of decision-making.

Lee Iacocca

Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.

Birdman

Drake was a fan before a friend. He already was a Cash Money millionaire. When opportunity came, maybe we put the most on the table. That was my thinking because I just thought that this was a very talented young man. We saw a future with him, so it was about him being comfortable.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

Dan Packer

We have an immediate need for cash because our goal is to continue the restoration effort.

Red Herring

Today?s (venture capital) money chases older, more-established companies with real cash flows, rather than pie in the sky projections. Silicon Valley has evolved.

Walt Mossberg

Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.

Virginia Postrel

Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.

Elizabeth Warren

I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.

Patrick Holden

The pioneering companies that developed the market -- the successful ones -- are now making a lot of money. We are now seeing the second tier of companies that are currently marketing conventional foods realizing that they've got to get involved.

Stephen Levy

The overall trend is that companies can do very well, without it spilling over into job growth. I think 'modest' is the correct word.

Hal Stratton

The penalty process is just one piece of the process by which we keep families safe, ... The idea is not just to penalize, but to publicize those penalties to serve as a deterrent to those companies that might not meet safety standards or constitute substantial product hazards.

Roger McNamee

The PC industry is having a terrific year, particularly if you are one of the big four producers. Those companies are growing twice as fast as everyone else in the industry and gaining very rapidly.

Justin Welby

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

David Pratt

The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make.

Walter Rudolf Hess

The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

Gavin Thompson

We have looked at the price they paid for the deals. Our conclusion is that they are not overpaying.

Peter Ueberroth

we discussed whether we should or not bid, and we have not come to a conclusion whether we should or not bid.

S. Walker

We disagree with the FDA's conclusion about our drug. But we understand they made a scientific decision, and courts tend to defer back to the agency.

Klaus von Klitzing

Semiconductor research and the Nobel Prize in physics seem to be contradictory since one may come to the conclusion that such a complicated system like a semiconductor is not useful for very fundamental discoveries.

Stewart Hall

Tomorrow is largely a foregone conclusion in the mind of the market.

Richard Burr

When you sift through the realities, ... you will come to the conclusion that the right sentence is a life sentence.

Wu Dawei

We haven't reached a conclusion yet, but you can have some expectations.

Leonie Brinkema

The quantity and quality of the defendant's pleadings strongly reinforce our conclusion that standby counsel must remain on this case,

Kent Thompson

The only downside I can see is that we can't prepay until 2014, rather than 2010.

Alan Greenspan

It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.

Gary Linden

We have a market all of a sudden. The downside is, we don't have product. It's not fun not being able to help people in their time of need.

Scott Silver

We haven't gotten any negative feedback. It's all positive; there's no downside to it. We see the results of husbandry training on a regular basis.

Jerry Frament

The only downside that I see is possibly a low appraisal.

Brian Moody

The only downside is that they're not as big as SUVs and can't go off road as much.

Mike McGrath

The only downside is that your yard will smell like an Italian restaurant for a few hours. If that's a downside.

Penn Jillette

Well, see, there's a downside to that, too,

Ed Perkins

In today's travel environment, the more information you have the better. As long as the information is accurate, I don't see any downside for travelers.

Richard Daley

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

F. Sionil Jose

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

Sylvester Stallone

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Alan Cohen

Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you.

Bradley A. Smith

There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.

Frank McNeil

There are other positions I would have liked to have seen a greater presence of African-Americans in, ... It isn't over until it's over. My role is to keep the pressure on.

Bob Uecker

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

Joe Hogan

We can see what's going on with greater specificity. The need for biopsies will be reduced.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Bob Diener

We predict, a year or two down the road, that there will be a higher supply of hotel rooms. And a higher supply means lower occupancy, and a lower occupancy means there should be better rates for the consumer.

Tom Brokaw

I'm in remission. I need to get my physical conditioning to a higher level. I was always very fit. I need to get back to where I am very confident in my ability to bike a long way.

Valerie Simpson

We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

Leigh Lezark

Heels are a must. The higher the better. And when in doubt, go with black.

Ben Shapiro

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

Albert J. Nock

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Peter Beutel

We are looking at prices dramatically higher than a year ago in some cases.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cynthia Ozick

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

Andy Williams

We played 90 minutes of hard-fought soccer, which we didn't do for one minute last week.

Nigel Newton

We have made a number of big purchases in the last six months. We're in a position to do so.

Jim Rogers

We did very well with the last legislative session and I think we will do very well in the next session so long as we can prove our case.

Kenichiro Sasae

We are not necessarily satisfied, ... working up to the last minute.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Michael Carty

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Michael Bell

We've talked to a lot of students and property managers about this, and we're trying to sort out the pros and cons, ... A staunch position, yea or nay, can't be reached at this point.

Bill Lee

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.

David Hensley

The (Purchasing Managers Index) points to robust, broad-based growth.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Isaac Mayer Wise

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

Austin O'Malley

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Leonardo da Vinci

Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

Mike Dunlap

Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.

T. Harv Eker

You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.

Khalil Gibran

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

Henry Fielding

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

Mahatma Gandhi

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

David Brewer

When they are available, they are relatively inexpensive.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Charles Caleb

Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more

Joy Harjo

When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

Paul Sagawa

So it's relatively significant that they said flat-to-down.

Kevin Huck

We have a relatively young team with Keith Overton (160-pounder) the only senior starter.

Kenneth Branagh

A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.

Lara Rhame

It erodes the relative interest-rate support for the dollar.

Louisiana Tech

we'll be there a relatively long time ? I would see it in months, not weeks.

Brian Higgins

The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Dear Abbey

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

York Chow

We need to have some time to investigate to be sure that this is a new virus and has the risk of human-to-human transmission.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Charles de Gaulle

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Alan Watts

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...

Alan Greenspan

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Susanne Bier

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Nikita Khrushchev

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

Bill Vaughan

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

Bob Hill

His upside is a joke. He could be really special.

Georg Baselitz

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

Paul Leming

There is still substantial upside in AMD's stock,

John Heider

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

Anna Deavere Smith

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Shawn Gilmer

If there is an upside to this game, it's that we didn't quit.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Phil Castellini

We're using every nook and cranny we've got.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Steve Dixon

If youre using the same filter, youre going to get a lot of the same byproducts at the end,

Maxwell Maltz

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

Jeremy Jordan

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.