Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Bennis

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Wentworth Miller

I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.

Wentworth Miller

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

William Cameron Forbes

It looks like business, and people are much pleased.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.

William Reddington Hewlett

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Will Friedle

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

William Cullen Bryant

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

Walt Mossberg

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

Evangeline Lilly

I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely inside out, and I can put the whole thing inside itself.

David Selby

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

Nancy Gibbs

It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

Ninette de Valois

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

Eric Shinseki

I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans' service organizations. We have together worked some major projects.

Caity Lotz

I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!

Don Cornelius

'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

Tom Chatfield

Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions in order to develop skills and experience rewards. When a game is well-designed, it's the balance between these factors that engages people on a fundamental level.

Tamara Taylor

I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I'm walking up. If you don't have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!

Alexa Von Tobel

I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

Katie Hafner

Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.

Jonathan Marshall

The only alternative is that 100 percent of this gets paid by the existing tax base.

Jim Butler

Virtually every new development and even existing project owners are looking at a residential component.

Richard Boucher

We're not going to provide any quid pro quos for North Korea to live up to its existing obligations.

David Bondy

We found perhaps many of our existing policyholders would shift their work focus away from what they had been doing to trades and operations that were more in demand.

Ted Baker

The implementation of the two-referee system to support the New Standard of Enforcement of the existing Playing Rules has resulted in an increase to the number of officials required on our Officiating Team

Shane Kim

A lot of license-holders have existing partnerships. We're not necessarily the number one partner because we're generally focused on the single platform.

Stephen Chick

We've seen some existing home sales figures starting to look weak or negative. That's usually followed by a slowdown in sales at Home Depot or Lowe's after a six- to nine-month lag.

Brian Kernighan

If you don't understand viruses, phishing, and similar threats, you become more susceptible to them. If you don't know how social networks leak information that you thought was private, you're likely to reveal much more than you realize.

Dolly Parton

I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

Noreena Hertz

All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.

Tom Bergeron

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.

Alice Oswald

Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

Louis Miller

We are not going to give up. The report is very thorough, and we are going to use the information as a valuable tool to find potential markets if situations change.

John Walters

All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.

James Gleick

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

Clint Hurdle

We're not going to continually put 20 rookies out there. That's why we took the inventory that we took the last two years to find out what we had, and find a wave that would land and stay on beach, not be sent back out to the sea.

Dave Barry

The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.

Bob Moulton

We're making a transition from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Inventory is starting to swell.

Phil Garner

We're going to have to take a personal inventory as a team,

Kevin Logan

You can only run down inventory for so long.

Tetsu Emori

Most of the traders are looking at the Iranian issue over the bearish inventory report.

Bruce Lee

Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

Jeff Bezos

Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

Sage Marie

The only thing that will keep us from selling more is limited inventory from Japan.

David Eagleman

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

Pete Rose

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

John Reid

We're not sure all that legal procedure has worked all that well at the tribunal.

Sandy Close

We haven't been listening to legal immigrants. We've been taking their name in vain.

Ambrose Bierce

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Stewart Baker

The point is, you can't be sure if you're legal in a lot of areas.

Tom Jackson

What he said to me was that it's the right thing to do. It might be legally gray, but it's the right thing to do.

John Roberts

Well, senator, as a legal matter, it is abstract,

Rijkman Groenink

You can safely take that any legal procedures will be stopped.

Ludwig von Mises

There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.

Ludwig von Mises

Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

Guy Dolle

Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.

Jack Welch

Be candid with everyone.

Jack Welch

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

Craig Bellamy

We will prepare as if he isn't going to be there and if somehow he manages to get up, then that would be a massive bonus.

Tommy Bowden

I want to see some big plays (offensively) and how Will manages the team. This will be the first time we will get to see him do that.

Santigold

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

Charles Saatchi

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Drummond Money-Coutts

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Tamara Tunie

I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

Seinabo Sey

Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.

Laura Marano

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

Michael Davis

TI is performing well but it is being unfairly tainted,

Adam Smith

We are not ruling out that if a program is performing poorly, it doesn't get funding.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

David Tudor

I persist in performing.

Alan Perlis

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Marianne Moore

I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

Larry Parker

Yes, I think some procedures can be tightened up. Improvements can be made.

George F. Kennan

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

Charles Gittins

He did the procedures that are required to do a proper periscope search. Unfortunately, he didn't see the target.

Sigmar Polke

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.

Phil Roe

I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.

Brian Schmidt

The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.

John Felmy

What you've got are a whole series of requirements and processes and that takes days, if not weeks.

Linda Pinney

There is a very strict authentication process to use the machine.

Gary Flake

We can streamline the whole process of how we innovate.

David Parsons

Today's process is God's faithfulness to his promise.

Jeremy Nichols

Unfortunately, this is the way the process often works.

Rogelio Golfarb

We are going to start the process of negotiation now; we need competitive terms from Argentina.

Michael Tigar

We'll wait until the process is completed, The verdict speaks for itself.

Tom Schnackenberg

We had to undergo a very rigorous process with the measurers.

Samuel Butler

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Carl Hiaasen

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

Bo Bice

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

Blake Shelton

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

Beyonce Knowles

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

Dee Dee Warwick

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Dee Dee Ramone

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

Teemu Selanne

This schedule is unbelievable. I don't know what kind of Superman you have to be to stay healthy.

Allard Beutel

We know there is going to be a schedule impact, ... We don't know what that's going to be yet.

Bryan Ferry

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Ato Boldon

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

Arthur Bloch

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Mark Few

When it all shakes out and these teams play on, it's going to be the toughest non-conference schedule in the country.

Nathan Fennell

We're going to play a rougher schedule this year than we have for many years.

Aaron Sorkin

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

Bill Hybels

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.

Don Shula

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

David Byrne

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Colonel Sanders

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

Brooke Burke

I've always done ab work, even when I was pregnant.

Dennis Christopher

Work has been my lover - I've shied away from any commitments.