Business Estimates Quotes & Sayings

I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago. — Mary Quant

"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential for his segment is tens of billions. It doesn't matter if the product is bar mitzah planning software or 802.11 chip sets. Venture capitalists don't believe this type of forecast because it's the fifth one of this magnitude that they've heard that day. Entrepreneurs would do themselves a favor by simply removing any reference to market size estimates from consulting firms. — Guy Kawasaki

I don't pay attention to the ratings. — Martha Plimpton

I was reading, absorbed in an assault on K2 by a team of Japanese mountaineers, my lungs constricting in the thin burning air, the deadly sting of wind-lashed ice in my face, when the record
Le Sacre du Printemps
caught in the groove with a gnashing squeal as if a stageful of naiads, dryads and spandex satyrs had simultaneously gone lame. — T.C. Boyle

I don't see traffic fines as a substitute for a commuter tax. — Robert James Thomson

Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me. — Emmanuelle Vaugier

Life is a series of tests; but if you pass your tests, you look back upon them as good experiences. — Peace Pilgrim

An individual is never greater than a nation, Nana. But Gandhi has started considering himself greater than the nation. — Nathuram Vinayak Godse

I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over the memories she had of Dad, memories that soothed her even while they made her sad, because she'd built a world out of them she knew how to survive on even if no one else could. — Nicole Krauss

Many people, in the small hours of the morning, scribble passionate lyrics of supreme beauty; only to find, next morning, that daylight has washed the beauty away, leaving only ashes. — Edith Olivier

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try. — Laura Osnes

What's so hard about love? You simply grab the other's hand and refuse to let go. — Lee Min-ho

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange. — Martin Lewis Perl

The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you ... — Bob Teague

By some analysts' estimates, the Cupertino company now pockets as much as 80 percent of the profits of the entire cellphone handset business. — Brent Schlender

Am I good enough?
Trust. — Tom

Kids lead a very private life. — Maurice Sendak