Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Slenker

Another reason for fewer jobs is the increased productivity by companies. More production is gotten out of few people because of automation and improved manufacturing processes.

Nariman Behravesh

Auto numbers reflect the ripple effect of incentive programs pulling forward sales from the fourth quarter into the third quarter.

Betsy Meter

Auto execs are grappling with the dynamics of increased competition, rising commodity and healthcare costs and the need to invest in new manufacturing facilities. All of this is leading to a rather bleak outlook on profitability through the rest of this decade and a trend toward greater consolidation.

Charles Pelly

Auto designers usually have to think in terms of the standard categories: SUV, sports car, etc.

Grant Whitmore

Auto buyers like to know what automotive professionals consider the best cars and trucks on the market. With so many factors to evaluate when purchasing a new vehicle, the Most Significant New Introduction Awards help consumers identify one worth considering.

Suze Orman

Raise your auto and home deductibles to $1,000 or more, and your premium cost falls at least 10 percent.

Michael Englund

Producers tried to catch up with strong sales starting in June and July, but they can't keep up. Auto inventories took a big hit.

David McKay

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Tom Humphries

Northeast Ohio has not landed an offshore auto manufacturer yet. Is there a Honda for us? Can we compete for that? If we can't, then why can't we?

Patrick Sheehan

If they cut tournaments, the little guys play less and the big guys make more money. At least now, the little guys can play and make money. ... If the rumors are true, it's looking pretty bleak for middle-of-the-road guys.

Willie Randolph

I feel very positive. No matter how bleak it might look, this clubhouse is going to stay positive.

Mark Aaron

As commodity prices go up, ultimately everyone will raise prices, including Tiffany. Tiffany wants to maintain its competitive position in the industry.

Ben Simpfendorfer

The narrowing trade surplus reflects some weakness in electronics exports and rising commodity imports but it's unlikely to be enough to relieve pressure from the U.S. in the short term.

Chris Woodruff

Oil and gas goes up and down. Now, it's a high commodity and high production. As long as it holds, we'll see that kind of valuation.

Mark Ritter

DBC is designed for investors seeking portfolio diversification and exposure to global commodity returns, which have one of the lowest correlations to US equities and bonds. This platform will provide investors with systematic exposure to global commodities without the complication and difficulty of investing directly in futures contracts or in the commodities themselves.

Todd Rosenbluth

Competition is going to rear its ugly head as companies cross over into each other's territory, ... Price has always been the key focus for telecom. It's a commodity business.

George Carl

Dennis saw our Web site, and doo-wop music is a hot commodity on the East Coast. With our contract, Collectables will license, manufacture, advertise, promote and distribute the album. We then get a percentage of every piece sold.

Craig Pennington

The oil market has been driven by speculators, by hedge funds, by pension funds and by commodity indexes, but the fact of the matter is that it's mostly been driven by the fundamentals. Prices are supported by the fact that there is no spare capacity.

Max Clifford

This is an extremely lucrative sport and a glamorous one. He can make a lot of money and be a very valuable commodity for advertisers.

Linda Jespersen

We've seen a recovery in gold and crude oil prices that has supported the commodity currencies.

Bill Fleischli

No one wants to pay higher fuel costs and Americans don't want to be told what to do.

Irene Towell

Once we get into kitten season, our costs start to skyrocket again.

Craig Johnson

The more costs Wal-Mart can take out of the system, the more it's able to pass a portion of the cost saved on to the customer in the form of lower prices.

Chu Sik

December's usual inventory write-offs and increased marketing costs led the operating profit margin to fall to 8 pct from 11 pct a quarter earlier.

Jim Higgins

Compensation costs are going up. United has seen to that,

Don Carter

Despite these recent price drops, natural gas prices are higher now than in the past because demand for this most efficient and cleanest-burning fossil fuel has increased while production has not. The natural gas market is extremely volatile, and Elizabethtown Gas will make every effort to hold costs to the lowest reasonable level.

Peter Drucker

A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

Yusuf Mehdi

These new enterprise-class enhancements to the desktop search capabilities we introduced last spring will empower IT professionals to deliver higher productivity, lower IT management costs and greater ease of use throughout their organizations,

R. Halloran

The soft underbelly is the costs. The costs are going up quickly for them. It's troubling.

Thomas Sadoski

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

Derek Bok

What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.

Juan Felipe Herrera

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

John Edward

Millions of Americans losing their jobs over the next decade is a good thing? ... I'll tell you what the solution to this problem is, to outsource this administration.

Jim Lee

I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.

Anders Rasmussen

The 1990s were the decade of mega-summits. I think we should make the next 10 years the decade of action.

John Niven

If I hadn't had that decade in the music industry and, perhaps more importantly, time to reach the point of being sick and disgusted with it, I wouldn't have written 'Kill Your Friends.' That book gave me my whole career.

Elyssa Rosen

It's been a decade now that they have been illegally polluting into the Humboldt River.

Paul Williams

The next decade is just going to be explosive. We need to know where we are going to be five, 10, 15 years from now.

Gary Zukav

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

Tom Anderson

You can feel surfaces, you can feel textures, you can feel dynamics and momentum.

Esai Morales

It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the people we've grown to love or otherwise.

Nicola Sturgeon

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Jane Siberry

'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.

Martin Rees

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Louis Reigel

After 9/11 there were some of these sites. It was much greater after the tsunami, and it's even greater after Katrina,

David Williams

Once you understand your inventory, then you can start integrating at a greater level.

Francesco Cossiga

Perhaps, my dear, young Mr. Gates, before putting your new products on the market with so much publicity you should have them tested for longer and with greater care.

John Curtis

The Rockies, by all estimates, will play a much greater role in natural-gas production over the next 25 years.

Jim Wallis

Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Kenneth Roth

Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks

Mike Falbo

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

Brett Gallagher

After a big up day like you had yesterday, you have to have some digestion. Once things run up by a big amount, then investors have to step back.

Yasuo Yabe

Right now the market is rather quiet, but it will be a problem when investors return after the New Year and trade volume increases.

Rob Reiner

This isn't about Republicans or Democrats. It's about investing in our children.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Joe Portera

The prudent investor may want to take some of their money off the table and maybe they should be looking overseas.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Abdallah Salem el-Badri

We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.

Terry Hoeppner

We are going to have 200 motorcycles leading us down (Indiana) 37. They are going to be leading us back into Bloomington.

Sean Landeta

Up to that point, our punt team had done very well. Two weeks earlier, I was leading the NFC in punting, and I thought I was punting well, but they thought that they needed to do something to shake things up.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Steve Taylor

But I think if he's still leading the points, he'll go to Reno.

Bill Self

I could see him being one of our leading scorers,

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Doug Firebaugh

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

Ryan Routzon

Everyone has to step up. Lucas can't be leading us all the time.

Kevin Schmidt

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Derian Hatcher

That's how he does it. That's the outlook of the team, and it starts with him.

Marilyn Manson

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life

Mark Batterson

The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Joel Edgerton

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

Dedrick L.

To be honest, I'd rather be the underdog. We always play better when we're the underdog.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Darius Walker

Hopefully, he'll be rooting for us. We'd rather have him on our side.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Marc Walters

Erskine, they just overpowered us. They are just so much better than all of the rest of the teams.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Linda Bartoshuk

Turns out they are thinner than the rest of us, because there are a lot of things they don't like.

Terry Beauford

This week will give us time to rest.

Paul Morris

Everything went really well so we didn't have to do a lot of laps. We spent the rest of the day sorting out the new (adjustable) seat we will be using at Sandown and Bathurst.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

H. P. Lovecraft

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

Terence McKenna

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Roland Swenson

This is a trend going on around the country.

Anna Deavere Smith

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Thomas Keller

Good food is a good trend.

Tablo

Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

Bethany Mota

I’m not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.

Dr. Roberts

I do expect, if the trend continues, that he will improve.

Zhang Ziyi

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

Ellen Goodman

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

Eric Rohmer

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.