Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lance Reynolds

Some guys, when they get into coaching they're just dying to be a head coach, ... I was not as much that way as some guys are, because I like the coaching part. Every time I see a head coach, as they become a head coach, they become more of an administrator and CEO and less of a head coach.

John A. Logan

I think these are all very precarious relationships, ... Often there are really no more than a piece of paper committing management and unions to cooperative relationships. If a new CEO is no longer committed to it he can simply rip up the cooperative relationship and that would be the end of it.

Jenny Susser

Just because you're a CEO doesn't mean you're dying to go to work.

Jim Breyer

Jeanne was one of the first people we thought of when we started our search for the CEO position. She is an exceptional leader who will help us fully leverage the trusted Wal-Mart brand.

Carlos Cardoso

I think that an effective CEO is a generalist in many waysone that can represent the company well to the customers, to the investors, to the community. You also have to represent yourself well as a leader at all levels of the organization. One of the things I have learned since my younger days is that everyone in the organization counts.

Joe Galli

I was very excited about the prospect of being the CEO of a fast-growing technology company, particularly in the B2B sector,

Alan Ackerman

I think people need to be concerned about the length of the technology cycle and the inability of most CEOs and analysts to predict the course of corporate earnings over the next several quarters.

David Healy

Half of his pay is dependent on the performance of the company, so that looks pretty reasonable relative to the pay of other CEOs at big companies. It probably doesn't look reasonable to the guy who just got laid off.

David Rosenberg

If CEOs are just frozen in fear, ... who's going to go on a spending spree.

Mary Rich

Previously, when you called the electric company, the field guy would come out to connect or disconnect you, and then it would go out on a bill. Today that same transaction could touch up to a hundred systems.

Andy Ball

Our outlook as a construction company for the next two years is very, very positive.

Carl Icahn

particularly important at Time Warner because of the difference of opinion between many large shareholders and management concerning the direction of the company and the lack of share price performance under current management.

Scott Weiss

Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you don't get to the right milestone before you run out, then the company goes under - it's over.

Bill Gates

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

David Litchfield

Oracle still has not released an official patch, so it is still leaving its customers at risk. It is a trivial thing to fix. If the company is still working on it, I do not understand why.

Shawn Willett

Oracle says a company could, for example, take out its BI tool and replace it with a third-party app. The question is, how practical will that be for users?

Charles Bona

Oracle has been and is a database company, and that's where the focus should stay for now.

David Menlow

People have to understand: As a shareholder, in general, they don't have any say in the company. People complain about it, but those who like what the company does will continue to view the stock as a vehicle for profits.

Andy Reid

Releasing players that have worked their tails off for the team is one of the toughest days for me,

Anne Coates

Preview days are the worst days of your life.

David Stevens

Or, from time to time, I've spotted people a few days until we can get something worked out.

Dana Williams

Our office has 30 days to make sure this petition is significant.

John Mattos

Our next twenty days are our rest days. We get to fine-tune all the little things we have maybe done wrong and concentrate on the those we've done right.

Roy Blumberg

Oracle is putting pressure on the technology stocks, but the Dow was up for seven days in a row before yesterday. The market was more than due for some kind of a sell-off.

Ellen Wheeler

People invite these families and actors into their homes five days a week,

Judy Tenzer

Sports is like life you have good days and not-so-good days, ... We always think about the what-ifs. We are making some adjustments with the ad....Andy will still be visible.

Lauren Pelletreau

Some of these 4-pass products may not have all 4 days left on them.

John Devenanzio

Paula was so effective at what she did. I just thought she was being mean, but she was doing everything in her power she could do to make sure she didn't see me with other girls.

Jim Cain

People need to realize it can't and won't last forever. It's been effective for us and it sets us up well to introduce some new models. At this point, our plan only goes through Labor Day.

John Engler

Susan Schwab is an excellent choice. She will be a strong and effective voice for leveling the international playing field.

Lynn Miller

That could be one reason. We have always been in the top 15 percent of counties. We are very effective getting families into work activities, ... There are others variables that also come into play.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Our goal is to be effective, and the only way to be effective is to work with the Israeli government.

Jia Youling

Our vaccines are the most effective in the world.

Daniel Perez

Right now, that is the only tool that is effective in controlling avian influenza.

Steve Owens

Recycling is one of our most effective tools to protect our environment. We are glad to support efforts to increase recycling in the Nogales community.

Brenda Johnson

We need participation from the residents because this is their neighborhood and they know it better than anyone. We want them to share that knowledge with us so we can be as effective as possible.

Kughalo Mulatonu

Our main headquarters and all our top leaders are safe.

Sylvia Bennett

Our leaders left us to die, strangers took us in,

Randy Cunneyworth

Our leadership has to step forward, and not just by being vocal in the room.

Yukio Hatoyama

People have raised expectations for leader Ichiro Ozawa.

Jonathan Epstein

People look for their leaders to show progress. And they look at mayors as people who solve problems. When they see someone who can show progress as mayor of a big city, they respect that.

Kip Janvrin

Steven is our top thrower. He did well and started his year off well. He's one of our leaders.

Marvin Miller

Some of the players were leaning on leadership to do most destabilizing thing possible for a union, to open they contract. They will rue the day they did this.

Amber Bowman

Our underclassmen are really stepping up. Maggie and I, we're just trying to be the leaders out there.

Christopher Whitney

Republicans aren't thinking as they used to think on these issues. There has been a role reversal at the leadership level and it has trickled down.

Anna Kournikova

Surfing people haven't learned anything from the I Love You virus,

H. Hart

Some of us have learned to listen when Richard A. Clarke has something to say.

Jason Lane

I think this team learned how to win.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Stephen Bull

It is amazing, I have learned a lot.

John Gibbons

It has been a long year but I look back at it more with a sense of satisfaction and optimism. I think we've learned a lot and we're ready to move forward.

Publilius Syrus

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

J. Hoover

It doesn't matter. What the referees call, they call. I've learned not to worry about that.

Paul Charles

Our market share has risen to record levels on the most competitive routes in Europe.

Chris Dwyer

Stable water levels are really important for management of vegetation.

Rory Fitzpatrick

Playoffs are always a big jump. I've been through it at different levels and in the NHL.

Billy Corgan

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Bill Sienkiewicz

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Ned Yost

I think we all were (impressed). There's some reason why he has jumped three levels in a year and a half. You could see why today.

Greg Miller

He just sets new levels of expectations for himself.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Bill Carter

Like Mr. Bennett, I'm going to talk to people, and if they all say 'no' then that's how I'm going to vote. That's why we're here -- to represent the residents of Pierson.

Clayton Jolley

I think it's great. I think they will represent us very well.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Rob Clarke

If anything were to take place then Daryl Mather can represent the client.

Mariano Rivera

I wish the time would have been different; when we didn't have to worry about Spring Training and could have been throwing already. It is what it is. It's too bad, because you always want to represent your country. I just wouldn't be ready.

Ron Clark

We represent the reputation of BYU, and there is little room for error.

Troy Fisher

We represent peace, goodwill, understanding. We sing songs that speak to those issues.

Carol Patterson

We represent all arts. Not just visual. Not just performing.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Dale Scott

He'd been disgruntled since the sixth inning, so it was time for him to go.

Stieg Larsson

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Ned Colletti

I take nothing for granted. I know the value of finances, I know the value of people. I've had to be street-smart since I was a little kid,

Ken Slater

Burlington will be a big challenge, to see where we're at. It (Friday's game) will be something that will tell us what kind of a team we have and if we've made improvements since Christmas.

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Bianca Lawson

I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.

Tamara Ecclestone

When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Patti Smith

My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

Liam Hemsworth

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

Margaret Spellings

I'm encouraged... we're on the right track, especially with younger students,

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.