All Quotes

Professional golfer... what a life.
‐‐ Billy Bush

Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.
‐‐ Robert Mankoff

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.
‐‐ Jim Evans

Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
‐‐ Ogden Nash

Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
‐‐ Alessandra Ambrosio

Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.
‐‐ Viswanathan Anand

Professional politicians are busy looking out for their jobs. Send me to Congress so I can look out for your job.
‐‐ Robert J. Garagiola

Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
‐‐ Evelyn Waugh

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

Professional sports are something they can't control.
‐‐ Troy Vincent

Professional sports is a business.
‐‐ Lynn Swann

Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.
‐‐ Sania Mirza

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
‐‐ John Updike

Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.
‐‐ Bill James

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
‐‐ Bill James

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.
‐‐ Chili Davis

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.
‐‐ Lucy Griffiths

Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.
‐‐ Jonah Hill

Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
‐‐ Valerie Bertinelli

Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
‐‐ Maiara Walsh

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
‐‐ Ed Bradley

Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.
‐‐ Elliott Erwitt

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.
‐‐ Lydia Leonard

Professionally I would say taking up my constituents' problems is something I continue to enjoy after 22 years as an MP.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

Professionally, the first time I sang was on 'Alice Upside Down.' It was the first movie that I did, and I had this little mini singing part.
‐‐ Bridgit Mendler

Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.
‐‐ Olivia Newton-John

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.
‐‐ Tom Bodett

Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking's writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?
‐‐ Kirk Cameron

Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
‐‐ Erich Segal

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
‐‐ Hal Boyle

Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.
‐‐ Tyrone Hayes

Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows.
‐‐ Jam Master Jay

Profiles aren't journalism.
‐‐ Fred Wilson

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
‐‐ James Rouse

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
‐‐ Sophocles

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
‐‐ Carlos Ghosn

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.
‐‐ Jimmy Reid

Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.
‐‐ Fred DeLuca

Profit per se is not my motive.
‐‐ Chris Hughes

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

Profitability, growth, and safeguards against existential risks are crucial to strengthening a company's long-term prospects. But if these three factors constitute a company's 'hard power,' firms also need 'soft power': public trust and acceptance, won by fulfilling a company's social responsibility.
‐‐ Klaus Schwab

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
‐‐ Carlos Slim

Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.
‐‐ John Mackey

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
‐‐ James Buchan