I have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you have targets for acquisitions, you end up making compromises in terms of valuations, and you buy things because you have a target, and it is not good for business.
We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation.
In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.
I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
All great achievements require time.
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.
There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.
The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party.
I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.
A large part of my career achievements are due to having the courage to ask for what I needed, whether in a professional or personal context.
New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.
Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.
My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.
Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives.
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.
And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
