Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

Samuel Gompers

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

Van Jones

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

William Godwin

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

Washington Allston

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.

Atsushi Osa

Investor expectations about profit gains at brokerages grew stronger.

Marshall Wittmann

Clearly, they have to make gains in 2006, or it's possible there will be a contest.

Chuck Robinson

I'm just not sure it gains us anything,

Matthew Morrison

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Bill Sharpe

Guys like Greg and Rusty grew up as watermen, because their dad's one, too. And being a hot surfer was secondary to being a true waterman.

Bob DiBiasio

Hal was a real journalist. He grew up in a time when newspapers were kings and always kept the sense that the printed word was magic.

Quinton Aaron

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

Laura Vandervoort

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Stefan Edberg

I think that over the years people grew to understand what I stood for. They knew what type of player I was. I think they respected me for that.

Cara Buono

With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

James Nesbitt

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

Bob Wietharn

It is my heart, where I grew up, and where I'll always be.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Art Hogan

I think we'll start getting investors into the marketplace later in the first quarter,

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

E. O. Wilson

investors may be saying 'it doesn't get much better than this, so let me take some money off the table and wait until some of the uncertainty flushes out.' After that, the stocks are back off to the races again.

Maelle Gavet

Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

Lee Hak

Investor sentiment is recovering on lower oil prices.

Markus Steinbeis

Investors are taking profits in insurers because it (the sector) has been one of the top performers since October.

Nick Angilletta

Investors are looking at this market and taking a step back.

Alan Ackerman

Investors are likely to say, 'Aha! Merrill tried to pull the wool over our eyes,' ... It will make them even more suspicious and cautious.

Rick Hind

I think the industry's trap is they're in a quarter-to-quarter profit cycle.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

Zong Qinghou

The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isnt so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.

Yvon Chouinard

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Mahatma Gandhi

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

James Cook

Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit.

James Cook

Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.