Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Davidowitz

Kmart went into bankruptcy a cadaver and it'll come out of it a cadaver,

Joel Denney

It certainly is signaling there is financial stress on Northwest. It's telling everyone they may now be looking at bankruptcy as a strong option.

Severin Borenstein

I think that's a big issue that a bankruptcy court is going to have to confront. What's the ongoing responsibility of the company and what's the legal liability in the contracts.

J. C. Watts

If your credit report shows that you had six or more inquiries in the last 12 months that you triggered, you are eight times more likely to go bankrupt than somebody without any inquiries.

Bill Dreher

I really would be surprised if they filed. The part of the equation that is missing in a typical bankruptcy situation is that vendors are not clamping down on them. Vendors are not limiting the distribution of merchandise.

Michael Heisley

I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.

Alan Martin

The cost will be borne by the bankruptcy estate. It is not completely clear how broad the scope will be. All of these administrative expenses must be paid at the time the repayment plan is implemented. That is a big deal.

Ken Lewis

The impact of the change in bankruptcy laws and changes in our practices for overdraft charge-offs and over-limit credit card fees reduced pretax results by about $320 million. In addition, we had a weak trading quarter that was well under our performance in recent quarters. The bankruptcy issue will not recur and should actually benefit us going forward as we expect a reduced level of bankruptcy filings under the new law.

Bill Daly

The union's proposal was intended merely to preserve a status quo that promises escalating ticket prices, competitive imbalance, bankrupt franchises, hundreds of millions in team losses and 20 teams losing money - all of which imperil the future of our game,

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Patrick Burke

There is a fear of the unknown, ... I was the general manager for the chain, and it's one thing to manage someone else's company and another thing to be on your own.

Jeff Immelt

The purpose of this generation of GE leaders is to make the company as good externally and commercially as it has always been operationally and financially.

Peter Adderton

We're positioning ourselves not so much as a wireless company but as a mobile media company, ... We really see ourselves as going after the high-tech consumer, someone who wants a lot of multimedia on their handsets.

Paul Walsh

We're positioning ourselves as a company with double-digit revenue growth and 20-percent operating margins.

Bill Curry

We feel it's what any company would do, that it's part of their business. In the event that there's a sale in the future, the customer records go with the company, as part of the company. We're being forthright in disclosing it, and we're getting criticism for being candid.

Brian Redican

We've gone through a period where everything has gone right for company profits, but over the past 12 months some cracks have started to develop.

Bob Wood

We've fought this company for three months and this is definitely not a loss. We did get some improvement in our medical insurance and medical insurance is what this strike was all about.

Tom Ryan

We are gaining a premium company and valuable real estate that provides an immediate critical mass of stores that would have taken years to develop organically. These are successful stores.

Sherron Watkins

In the beginning, Enron looked good on paper,

Jodi Howell

I went out to shoot with (my dad) and he let me know straight out what I was doing wrong and how to fix it. It's mostly my fault for getting down on myself. My teammates have tried to pick me up the whole way.

Corey Simon

I don't know whether to fault the seamstress or the guy I was playing against.

Truman Capote

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

William Wordsworth

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

Valentino Garavani

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

William Penn

Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.

Tommy Tonelli

I really can't find fault with our shot selection in the second quarter. But for the most part they were good looks. They just wouldn't drop.

Sergei Kupriyanov

In this situation, which is the fault of the Ukrainian side, we have been forced to start reducing pressure in the pipeline to Ukraine.

Pam Borton

I'm taking personal responsibility for what's going on but not full responsibility. It's never one person's fault 100 percent. You never hope it comes down to this. We do have to find out how we can do things better.

Frank Scafidi

The fraud comes in when you get vehicles owned by big-time salvage guys or small-time knuckleheads who wash the title through states that don't have strong title laws.

Craig Fugate

The intent of the program was not to provide you a generator for free. We don't want fraud and waste in our programs.

Eric Carlson

There was just very little fraud going on. I just don't think it was nearly as much of a problem as they suspected.

Adam Ereli

There were major irregularities and fraud that are of serious concern.

Tony Dixon

Unless there is negligence or fraud there must be some sort of limitation of liabilities, such as a multiple of fees earned.

Jeffrey Lichtman

a fraud through and through, a real snake-oil salesman.

Safwat Rashid

No wide, premeditated and systematic fraud was noticed.

Joe Hansen

The state report showed there was an opportunity for fraud ...,

Benjamin Cardozo

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Tim Gordon

I think what you see is nine very proud parents today because this is our baby.

Michael Owen

He even offered to give up his number nine shirt but I have declined. Number 10 will do for me.

Bobby Bowden

He does that several times during the game, ... And nine times out of 10, he's right.

W. C. Fields

I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine

William Feather

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Rudyard Kipling

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

Ron Robson

I play for six or seven teams in Florida. I sometimes play nine or 10 times a week.

Jalen Rose

In the second quarter we just could not score. We had nine points in the second quarter, and obviously in the NBA, you can't win with that.

Charles B. Rangel

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

Gwendoline Christie

I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look.

Dina Emde

I really wanted the record to be quite honest.

Gabrielle Aplin

I'm quite annoying and can't imagine what it would be like living with me 24/7.

Gerald Smith

If not, it's going to be quite a nut.

Lawrence Jacobs

I have never seen anything quite like this.

Lee Janzen

I'm not going to say it could never be that way. But I don't think (Woods) is quite there right now.

Jeff Saturday

I'm ready to get back. I probably could have come back a while ago, but it just wasn't quite ready.

William Bolcom

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

Michael Lewis

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

Michael McFaul

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.