Famous Quotes & Sayings

Loren Thompson

He has always taken the role of a controversial visionary whose job is to articulate a new path forward to people who don't want hear it.

Anthony Chan

He not only was articulate in his views, but justified his views without making financial markets balk. He was impressive, maybe not as impressive as Greenspan, but Greenspan had 18 years to practice.

Kent Thompson

part vision, part coaching, part recruitment and fundraising and part conversation and collaboration. My job is to articulate the vision of the theater and to make it happen, and I know the only way I can do that is to have a lot of people joining into that vision. I view it as a serve-and-lead kind of job. The hard part is figuring out when you need to do which.

Patrick Guerriero

If you ask most Americans if they compare gay and lesbian Americans to polygamists and folks who are involved in incest and the other categories he used, I think there are very few folks in the mainstream who would articulate those views.

Clayton Christensen

If you understand cause and effect, it brings about a set of insights that leads you to a very different place. The knowledge will persuade you that the market isn't organized by customer category or by product category. If you understand the job that consumers need to complete, you can articulate all of the experiences in that job.

Clayton Christensen

In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.

Marton Csokas

Because all the falls that I took weren't meant to be pretty or articulate and grace and elegant and things like that, so those things I remember.

Bob Scott

His gifts were being passionate about this ministry and being able to articulate it very clearly.

Chris Evans

I really like people who have the gift of the gab. I like characters that are very eloquent, articulate and confident in what they're saying. Especially coming off 'Captain America,' who's very internal and intimate, I'd love to play someone who wears their emotions on their sleeves, potentially to a fault.

Peter Thiel

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

Mark Augustine

We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last year for 2005.

Mary Shapiro

I don't know whether they will say yes or no since there are all sorts of administrative, financial and legal issues.

Dick Cheney

He doesn't have a financial interest in the company,

Ruth Handler

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

Al Becker

In the past when we've gone through periods where we're eliminating jobs, we've tried to do it so it'll have as minimal an impact as possible. In this instance, the financial situation is such we're just not able to do that.

Randy Sharp

I think no question this will have a financial impact on American Girl.

David Peterson

I have no financial relationship with the firm. I'm not a lobbyist.

Dick Cheney

I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had, now, for over three years.

David Briggs

Greenspan sparked a reaction. I guess people like to be verbally reassured that we can get through the oil prices.

William Sullivan

Greenspan is suggesting that the recovery is going to be slow and that there are obstacles to a swift rebound.

Gabriel Jafet

The market was really just accompanying Wall Street. The ongoing uncertainty over U.S. interest rates was making investors reluctant, especially with Greenspan speaking near the close.

Ian Gunner

The market is correcting Friday's move (after payrolls). People are looking toward Greenspan and waiting to see how the U.S. will react after Labor Day.

Bruce Steinberg

They've already been working together. Summers sits in on the meetings Rubin has with Greenspan much of the time.

Owen Fitzpatrick

Productivity has been this huge issue for the market, and people remember Greenspan highlighting it in the 1990s.

Tom Schrader

Sometimes Greenspan tends to spin a web when he's talking, so I am not sure how many hints he'll give about the size and speed of interest rate hikes.

Ben Bernanke

the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.

James Johnson

I'm not surprised; he's a tough young man. He was just an impressive young man, even then. He had a can-do attitude.

Kellan Lutz

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.

Erin Hertzog

It's something impressive because it's something we could use in Arizona.

Kip Anderson

They have done remarkably well, and they are all very talented. That's just so impressive that they are so young and they are doing these things.

Lee Corso

They smacked that Oklahoma team (for the national title) in what was the single most impressive one-game performance I've ever seen.

Pat Dowling

For a while anyway, it is not going to be that visible a project. There is no one day that will be more impressive than another.

Todd Allen

It's the most impressive thing I've ever seen.

Wayne Thomas

It really looks impressive when they're all through. We've been doing that for a long time.

Jim Reed

It was the most impressive storm surge I've ever witnessed. We had plenty of wind as one might have imagined, but what left an indelible mark was the power of the water.

Eric Wilson

I made a mistake, and I'm going to rectify that. Whether the money is justified or not is something that should be discussed.

Johannes Rau

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

Paul Krugman

I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't.

Justin Timberlake

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

Peter Drucker

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

Reg Keys

If this war had been justified by international law I would have grieved and not campaigned,

Jeff Cooper

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

Graham Chapman

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

Jerry Bridges

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Alan Levenson

I think they have sent a message that I'm surprised that they wanted to send to the market. I think the markets are seeing the neutral directive and they are saying, 'Well, they're done,' which I think is wrong.

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

David Pursell

The markets will treat it like it's Tyrannosaurus rex, but bigger.

Tim Evans

The markets are bracing for Thursday's DOE reports, with traders cringing since the recent (supply) trends have been bearish.

Michael Allen

They need to have sustained growth, so they can't concentrate only on the high-density market. What they've done for the most part is go into very big destination markets like New York to Southern Florida.

Frank Lesh

It's nothing more than a psychological spot; it's like 10,000 on the Dow. In reality, the markets themselves don't see anything special about that $50 level.

John Felmy

Right now, the short-term markets are going a little crazy. If there is little damage, they can reverse themselves.

Martin Winterkorn

The United States will remain one of the most important markets for VW.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Sam Hunt

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Thomas Piketty

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

Carlos Mencia

Going there is paying your dues. You always have to pay your dues. . . . You've just got to do it. Maybe I come from a working family. Maybe it's the voice of my mom saying, 'You've always got to be nice to people.' I look at it as saying it's going to be fun. Those people are going to be really, really happy.

Svetlana Kuznetsova

What do I do, kill myself? No. I'll just take the positive things out of this and maybe I'll try to learn.

Tim Bowen

We've been waiting for (Guy) to come out of his shell. Maybe that's what he and us needed.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

Trisha Goddard

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.