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If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

~ Charles Kettering

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

~ Richard Bach

What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.

~ Paul Graham

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

~ Tim Berners-Lee

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

~ Shaquille O'neal

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

~ James Cash Penney

We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.

~ Vince Cable

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

~ Anthony Mackie

You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

~ Carl Icahn

That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

~ Dan Quinn

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

~ Joyce Meyer

If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation.

~ Vladimir Putin

I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with me, but I've always had a bit of a headstrong attitude of only doing the things that I really believe in and want to explore.

~ Brie Larson

This generation... they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it - they're very hedonistic and sensual.

~ Steve Wynn

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

~ Zubin Mehta

Adele shattered the image of how the stereotypical singer is supposed to look. She has that whole 'Screw you, I'm awesome for what I do' attitude, which I really look up to and want to be a part of.

~ Mary Lambert

Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.

~ Kathleen Hanna

The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

~ Dan Quinn

I don't want just attitude and loud opinion.

~ John Mclaughlin

I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.

~ Peggy Lipton

'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'

~ Dwight Schultz

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

~ Cheryl James

I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.

~ Freddy Adu

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

~ Maria Bartiromo

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

~ Donald Knuth

I'm not concerned that my stuff isn't extreme. I don't want to be heavy. I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and a positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

~ Robert Palmer

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

~ Lewis Grizzard

The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling our country out of the difficult position it finds itself in. The banking system of our country will survive and grow.

~ Nicos Anastasiades

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

~ Joe Flaherty

Money you know you need or want to spend in the next few years is savings. Money you keep handy for an emergency belongs in savings. Money you hope to use soon for a down payment on a house belongs in savings. And all savings belong in a low-risk bank savings account or money market account.

~ Suze Orman

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

I want people to know that I'm not just 'Chillin' It.' I'm a real person. There's heartbreak and trials, and I hope I put that in my music.

~ Cole Swindell

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

~ Desiderius Erasmus

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

~ Lou Holtz

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

~ Paula Deen

I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.

~ Joel Schumacher

Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this - so I don't want fancy descriptions getting in the way.

~ Ronald Frame

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

~ Denis Leary

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

~ Kelly Clarkson

If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.

~ Kim Dotcom