Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Chavern

There are companies being told they have tens of thousands of material financial controls that have to be attested to, which on its very face is absurd. They can't all be material.

Kelly Chesney

There are some companies that use it for a direct mail piece they have within a community.

Claire Kent

The reason companies want to go public now is that (luxury good stocks) are at record high valuations.

Cummins Catherwood

We still keep seeing better-than-expected earnings. The important part of it to me for the market is that these are core companies and industries.

Kenneth Wong

We're in discussions with retailers in the upscale category, including traditional department stores, entertainment companies and restaurants.

Patricia Chadwick

We're in a zero-price environment. What really allows companies to earn is to cut costs and be in growth sectors of the marketplace.

John Palfrey

Where it is going to be tricky is in the gray area. That's where we will earn our keep. Where it's something unethical, but maybe not illegal, we want to put companies on notice that we're going to shine a light on them.

Long Nguyen

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.

Olympia Snowe

Until then, the four companies will continue their work,

Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Chip Kelly

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

Edward Hirsch

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Bear Grylls

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Audre Lorde

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

Frederic Bastiat

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Ray Johnson

We always expect a good game from them. It's playoff intensity.

Derek Jacobi

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Martin Angel

A lot of investors are still unsure which way the market will go and so are reluctant to jump in.

Robert Hazlett

For investors in Pfizer, this is a meaningful event. This risk has been a significant overhang for some time.

Robert LaFleur

It's the uncertainty. Investors are pretty tuned into it and want to know what's going on.

Linda Killian

It was a very middle-of-the- road market, but the returns were decent. Investors are still very picky.

Steve Tuen

Any ray of sunshine that investors can find is a big plus for the IPO market.

Sukhbir Khanijoh

Prices quoted vary but most analysts set a target between THB50 and THB55 for Shin, so investors should keep vigilant if its price rises too high.

Richard Bernstein

Private investors are usually late to the party.

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Omar Epps

We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.

John Lackey

When we have two jurisdictions, we have to have a meeting of the minds.

Emmett Hanger

We've got more work to do there. In order to meet our targets for 2010, it's going to run us about $100 million a year.

Tim Collins

We're doing everything we can to meet the needs of our customers, but things are going to be kind of crowded.

Amanda Brown

We're doing everything we can to meet that goal.

Robert Worthy

We're really getting into the meet of our schedule. This is really important.

Dave Uhrich

A lot of track meets aren't scored. Going in, we didn't know that it was going to be a scored met, and we didn't plan on taking this meet that seriously. But we did end up doing well.

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

Franz Beckenbauer

It only surprises me that no one thought of it before.

John Fischer

There's nothing really going on right now. I don't really understand these jumps. It surprises me the way it's been fluctuating.

Patrick McDonald

What surprises me is (residents) want everything for nothing.

Frank Morgan

Certainly, as expected, there were no real surprises here.

Jeff Graff

I don't think there's going to be a lot of surprises in the quarter.

Billy Donovan

I don't think anything surprises at least me any more in this tournament.

Peter Gade

Anyway, in the new system, many surprises could happen.

Arun Sarin

Those were the big surprises for our shareholders,

Alan Cooper

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

Alaina Huffman

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up.

Chip Kidd

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

David Hockney

I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

David Hockney

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

David Hockney

I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.

David Bromstad

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

Ben Whishaw

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

Paul Leming

There is still substantial upside in AMD's stock,

Anna Deavere Smith

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Nikita Khrushchev

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

Bill Vaughan

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

Georg Baselitz

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

Bob Hill

His upside is a joke. He could be really special.

Susanne Bier

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

William O. Douglas

Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.