Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Viscott

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

David Walliams

I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end.

David Walliams

Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.

David Rockefeller

Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the world's economy. Because of my name and prominence as the head of the Chase for many years, I have earned the distinction of the "conspirator in chief" from these people.

David Rockefeller

Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

David Henry Hwang

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

David Hewson

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

David Hilbert

We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culter and are content with the unknowable in a self-satisfied way. For us there is no unknowable, and in my opinion there is also non whatsoever for the natural sciences. In place of this foolish unknowable, let our watchword on the contrary be: we must know - we shall know.

David Hilbert

Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.

Thomas Perez

When you put more money in the pockets of working families, they spend it on groceries, gas, school supplies, and other goods and services. And that helps businesses grow and create jobs. So many forward-looking employers, large and small, understand this.

Kevin Mitnick

To have transactions made on your web site via credit card, you must be PCI compliant. Businesses make the mistake of thinking that because you passed the requirements and are PCI certified, you are immune to attacks.

Robert Reich

The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Danny Brown

Lot of these businesses ain't going to get no business because of the road construction. It needs to be fixed. Eight months is long enough. They prolong it too much.

John Frisbie

Many of these ministries ran various industrial sectors, and U.S. businesses had to deal with them, but today hardly any of them are in the industrial sectors.

James Zimmerman

This was a solid third quarter for Federated, propelled by strong sales and earnings in our department store segment and a level of performance in our direct-to-customer catalog and e-commerce businesses that was in line with what we had anticipated, ... We are entering the fourth quarter with our inventories in good shape, and we remain optimistic that it will be a good retail Christmas season.

Karen Mills

If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

Wang Jianlin

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

Bob Cook

We're going after companies like ADP, EDS, Boeing and others I can't mention yet to help young people make a decision whether to stay or leave.

Sam Altman

All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.

Sam Altman

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

Kevin Mitnick

A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people.

Laura Bullock

Let's put it bluntly. If rail would be profitable, private companies would be doing it already.

Michael Atmore

Let's wait and see how the two companies mesh. They can learn from each other, if they're smart.

R. Halloran

Libya has been a fairly easy place for these companies to deal with, and I think they welcome the opportunity to get back and be able to operate there again.

Richard Bernstein

Lower quality companies are dramatically overstating their growth rates by using pro forma earnings.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk (Bonds), even before Mo was here. The only thing is, the guy wants to hit a few home runs.

Kid Nichols

We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy - not for the money, but for the glory of winning.

Grant Hill

We had been to the Final Four a few times. But we weren't thought of at the time like we are now.

Bobby Jones

When I have started him, he hasn't played as well. I guess he just needs to watch for a few minutes before he goes in. That seems to work. We are still finding out what works, but this team is giving me great effort.

Patricia Wysocki

When I look back, it was like putting a Band-Aid over it. It cheered him up for a few minutes.

Maria Semple

When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.

Laurynas Mikalauskas

We needed a few stops; that's what we were thinking. I wasn't really actually worried that we were going to lose because I knew that my teammates were going to pull it out. I knew we could play better.

Jack Garrison

We needed a few more pins, they pinned us more than we pinned them and that hurt us. But I'm proud of the kids. Every week they look a little better.

Adriano Galliani

We needed a few additions to an already impressive roster.

Sathya Baba

Love towards all beings. The founders always had in view the Unity of all life and the progressive march of man towards Divinity.

David McCullough

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

Kathryn Minshew

Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job.

John Lasseter

Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away.

Naval Ravikant

Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

Carly Fiorina

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

Don Garber

The selection of the league's all-time leading scorer in our nine-year history and the inclusion of one of the top youth prospects in the world helps recognize the founders of this league and celebrates the promise the future holds.

Sam Yagan

Something like a quarter of the founders that have gone through Excelerate and Techstars are women. I'm incredibly proud of that.

Charles Schumer

There is zero consultation, ... That is not what the founders intended.

Antonio Tabucchi

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Charles Freeman

When the market broadens, our fund typically does well, ... At the very least, this is a level playing field.

Terry J. Lundgren

When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer had the funds to pay for college. If I wanted to continue, I would have to do it on my own.

Lisa Nelson

We're looking at using the funds strategically for market and merit raises.

Tim Butler

We're looking at several different sources. We haven't secured a particular funding stream yet.

Rod Blagojevich

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.

Jason Calacanis

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

Janez Drnovsek

One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.

Ben Feldman

Fundamentals are right down to earth. And one fundamental is: You have to make calls. Nothing happens until you make a call. It’s that fundamental!

David Brainerd

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Alain de Botton

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Al Davis

Time never stops for the great ones

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Bill Swank

We're looking at it as an investment on our part.

Jason Calacanis

Let's make it so the more you invest in YouTube, the better deal YouTube gets for you.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Joe Portera

The prudent investor may want to take some of their money off the table and maybe they should be looking overseas.

Stephen Cambone

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Brad Bradshaw

This Quest represents the largest mid-life investment in Nissan's history. We realized the styling of the Quest was polarizing for some owners.

Ted Falgout

Monday morning, take every penny in your wallet and invest in oil.

David Walliams

The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.

David Hockney

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

David Hume

There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty.

David Brainerd

In the morning was again distressed as soon as I waked, hearing much talk about the world and the things of it. I perceived the men were in some measure afraid of me; and I discoursed something about sanctifying the sabbath, if possible to solemnize their minds: but when they were at a little distance, they again talked freely about secular affairs. Oh, I thought what a hell it would be, to live with such men to eternity!

David Brainerd

This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome. ...I cared not how or where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

From the time they get up in the morning and flush the toilet, they're taxed. Then they go and get the cup of coffee, they're taxed....This goes on all day long. Tax, tax, tax.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

Barney Ross

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

Barney Frank

If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

Ed Stewart

Unfortunately, no one other than Southwest has been willing to come to the table.

Ben Jonson

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

Bryan Winkler

I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Scott Carson

wanted more than we were willing to give.

Drew Brees

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

David Jones

He's disappointed, but he understands that's what you have to do. He's willing to go in and work a little harder.