Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Morrison

I'm sure businesses have been affected, but they are very positive and very patient.

Joe Hogan

Most of these businesses are growing between 8 and 15 percent.

John Gage

With all the businesses of the world together we can link all of the poor countries, the schools, hospitals and health clinics of the poor countries and get them all on the Net. That helps enormously, for example, in sending information about AIDS.

Brad Anderson

We exceeded our revenue expectations for December, which positions us well for our fiscal fourth quarter. We're pleased and encouraged by the fact that virtually all of our businesses met or exceeded our expectations for December. As usual, customers shopped later than ever and results strengthened as the month progressed. Our employees capitalized on the trend with strong offers and improved in-stock positions.

Frank Fahrenkopf

We are the engine of the economy there, ... If the goal of creating an economic opportunity zone is to get businesses running and people back to work, it's counterintuitive that they are not going to include the largest employer.

Martin Gleeson

I think he (the owner) was going into one of the businesses that are located at that address. He left it running. The perpetrator saw it as an opportunity.

Kim Elliott

It gives businesses guidance on how to take the next steps.

Jane Jankowski

Remember that if this is a deal that we end up finalizing, that this company will want to maximize the use of the Toll Road. They will be eager to have local businesses involved.

Paul Anderson

Our major businesses contributed to the improved results in 2005. I expect the company to continue on a positive trajectory with an equally strong performance in 2006.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Chuck D.

It was a huge step forward for our program and our school for the type of competition we're in.

Alan Greenspan

Competition is the necessary driving force toward delivering a superior product or service, ... We should not shy away from it.

Dave Kasper

During his short time with us last season, we got a good taste of his professionalism and competitiveness. He is a young, exciting player, and we look forward to his contributions to our team.

Jon Hogenson

Eagan went out of our section, and then won state. So it's a tough section and the competition will be strong all year.

Steve Smyers

We've got a big golf course here, but what we've got are 16, 17 and 18, that if you come out and play a friendly match or if we have a competition here, there can be a huge spread of scores.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

Andrew Hudson

I could not be happier to see Peachtree Ridge and Grayson having solid cross country programs, ... It's great for the county. It's great for us. The better the overall competition is, the better everyone becomes.

Don Mattingly

I think it helps to be away for a while. You're ready to come back. You make the choice, you want to do it. You're not doing it because you have to. As soon as you start getting into the competition of the season, it comes right back to you.

Isabelle Huppert

The story is very cruel and very sharp,

Richard Gallienne

The cry of the Little Peoples goes up to God in vain, / For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

Jerry Patterson

The economics work, and they work well, and we're excited about it. The environmental impacts are very positive.

Pamela Falk

The economics of Washington's strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

Jeff Kleintop

Once again, we're seeing a reaction to soft economic data.

Ross Gittell

It?s a very different economic environment from 10, even five years ago.

Rick Harris

A flat market is normal during the winter months.

Spencer Roecker

Flat Rock is a good team. There's a reason why they're in the top one or two teams in the league every year.

Bobby Hauck

We just had our lunch handed to us by a real talented, well-coached football team. We couldn't handle their front four on defense. It starts with them. We just flat couldn't handle them.

B. F. Skinner

We went flat and started coasting after the 7-1 lead after two innings. But I thought we played pretty good for the first game of the season.

Mason Cooley

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

John Sevier

Should I be so happy as to merit your patronage, I flatter myself neither you nor my country, could have any occasion to regret.

Jean Paul

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

Janet Jackson

I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Stephen Bennett

Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter. The company's performance positions us to end the year on track to meet our stated revenue and pro forma profit goals.

Chuck Jones

CA isn't well positioned from a growth standpoint.

Tim Wallace

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Ma Jun

The objective is to slow down investment growth and loan growth.

Brian Gordon

The numbers we're looking at represent phenomenal growth rates, not likely to be duplicated in any other industry.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

S. Walker

Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard part is to reel them in.

Brian Fanelli

Once you get down by 12 or 13 and you get it all the way back to two it's hard to sustain and keep going.

Clarence Curry

Once you get a taste of making it in the NFL you don't want to go back. I just want to play hard and become part of the organization.

Robert Davies

Sometimes, it's hard to tell people what to do.

Andre Roy

Sometimes it's hard to get going because it's early, but I think once you're in the warm-up, you're ready to go. And I kind of like them in a way because you get done early.

Evgeni Plushenko

Sometimes it is so hard to walk on the street that I would like more to be in my car. It is unbelievable - crazy, crazy, crazy. People screaming, wanting autographs, wanting to take pictures with me. I like it, but sometimes it is too much.

Maelle Gavet

Russians are not a very friendly people. It's hard to get them to speak nicely to the customers. It's just not in their culture.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

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.

Albert Einstein

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Maurice Chevalier

Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

John Ralston Saul

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Hippocrates

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

H. G. Wells

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....

Hannah Arendt

Every thought is an afterthought.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.