Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Teuber

IT budgets remain closely scrutinized and customers continue to exert conservative capital spending strategies.

Michelle Bailey

IT budgets, often strained by the need for real estate, power and cooling, will shift toward building new applications and IT services that are specifically developed to drive new business.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

Mark McInnes

When household budgets tighten up women continue to buy for themselves. It's happening now.

Franklin Raines

We think that it's unwise to put into the constitution a mechanism that enshrines for all time a particular way of measuring the budget.

Harry Stonecipher

I think it's particularly important as all the defense budgets around the world come under pressure that we have a balance.

Cao Gangchuan

It is not necessary or even possible for us to massively increase the defense budget,

Marc Ganis

It is more difficult to get public funds for sports facilities. State and local budgets are strained, services are being cut, taxes are being raised.

Eric Johnson

Like most budgets, it's a roller coaster, ... We will strap ourselves in and see how many loop-de-loops there are.

David Novak

Kentucky Fried Chicken is the one big trend that's going on in the world today. We're the chicken capital of the USA.

Shia LaBeouf

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

Sarah Martin

Kids today have so many sedentary pursuits. We really need to capitalize on any opportunities for physical activity, and this is one of those opportunities.

Chris McCarron

I think it's a golden opportunity for someone who wants to become a race rider to capitalize on by getting an education from a group of people who have been there, done it a long time and are not trying to pull the wool over their eyes so to speak.

Paul Sarbanes

He was a critical partner in our efforts to enact legislation to curb corporate abuse. ... We were united in our objective to restore investors' confidence in the integrity of our capital markets, which had been so egregiously undermined,

Carl Charles

Having a force in the post like Galvin is every coach's dream. It makes defenses double up on him, which always leaves someone open. We've, so far, been able to capitalize on that very misfortune for our opposition; it's been key to our success.

David Stanley

has operated with an extremely burdensome level of debt, which has limited capital expenditures during a period of unprecedented competitive pressure.

George Packer

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

Thomas Piketty

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

Greg Yurek

Kevin has made significant contributions to American Superconductor since he joined our team. While we are sorry to see Kevin depart, we wish him every success in his new position. At the same time, we are pleased to have Tom Rosa, who has worked very closely with Kevin and me, move into the position of interim CFO.

Matt Harris

I would say it's very closely being looked at. Growers want to know, sheds want to know: Are they going to continue dumping duties or are they finally going to drop them?

Gary Rose

It can be detrimental to connect too closely to an unpopular president, particularly in a moderate district.

Roy Wilsher

Hertfordshire has had six recent training exercises on site in the last six months - the last one three weeks ago - and has worked closely with the site for many years to prepare for any incidents.

Brian Halla

Going forward, we will continue to closely control costs while investing in key markets to maximize our potential for profitability.

Mark Few

He's just got a knack for hitting closely guarded shots. And there aren't many players who can do that.

Drew Matus

His speeches are well thought out. After Greenspan, he's the one whose comments are most closely watched by the markets.

Paul Thompson

I thought about it very closely and I felt to illustrate the story it was the right thing.

John Carey

I think the focus will shift toward corporate profits. Whether they (the Fed) raise rates a quarter point or not, I think it's not going to be the main focus of investors' attention. People are going to be watching the earnings pretty closely .

John Bunting

I was looking at the scoreboard all night, ... You can really get mesmerized by that thing. It goes on and the fireworks continue to go off (after each score). I thought at one point they might run out of fireworks. That's a big number and, basically, I'm numb at this point.

Paul Quesnel

Kiss is getting its flour supplies from NFM today and our operations will continue as normal. I've been told that NFM workers have gone back to work and negotiations are to continue.

J. Hoover

Kids have a tendency to rest on what they do well and it's human nature to continue to work on the things that you do well. But this summer, I saw him working on the things that he needs to work on to be effective at the next level. I have no doubt that he'll contribute as a freshman. He's highly competitive and he knows what he'll have to do to compete.

Patterson Hood

I write a lot of songs (about the South) and will continue to, but we wanted to do a record that wasn't so specific in the geography. We're from the South, but that's not all we can do.

Tom Davis

Keeping our staff intact enables us to continue to recruit as well as teach.

Charlotte Ronson

Just watching the people on the streets of N.Y. is inspiring; there are so many styles and unique points of view. Fashion is very much inspired by the streets, has always been, and I'm sure it will continue to do so.

Darren Sharper

Just not panicking, just feeling as though you can continue to play each game week by week and really keep grinding it out. You never know, because the season's so long. Teams are going to drop games, so you never really know how you're going to be in position.

Lofa Tatupu

Just that success only comes one way -- that's through hard work. Just continue to try to improve on getting better and it'll happen.

Dave Wannstedt

Joe's a good player for us and Joe will continue to be a good player for us, but we need to threaten people,

Craig Johnson

I wouldn't necessarily say that Target is stealing market share away from Wal-Mart because Target's customers are slightly more upscale. Where it's outperforming Wal-Mart is in grabbing market share away from department store chains.

Jeremy Roche

I would say that, at the moment, we are seeing more buoyancy in the market. Most of our members are reporting that they are seeing customers investing in software and infrastructure again.

Daniel Boulud

I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.

Mike Greene

He wanted to see how truly profitable his customers were. He had an intuitive sense -- we've got all these great customers (we think) but we need to find what it's costing us to serve them. His intuition was correct.

Greg Madinger

He walked in stood at the front door and had the gun pointed sideways at the clerk. There were few customers in line.

Steve Williams

Hella is a great place to work. We are a growing and stable company, yet still small enough to recognize and encourage individual accomplishments. We're hiring people who can help us grow and provide our automotive customers with exceptional service.

Joe Redling

What we've seen from early indications is that as we've moved customers from dial-up to broadband, we've seen significant improvements in member life.

Ronald Cohen

have great reaction time, and give their customers a lot of personal attention.

Todd McCormick

Having all those windows open greatly increased their estimating productivity. While this is not unique to McCormick, the response from our customers was so enthusiastic that we think two monitors will probably be the standard from now on.

Travis Bradberry

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

Ken Tower

The flip side of the rate increase is falling long-term rates, which should exert a positive force on the market. In general, lower interest rates will help the housing market, and will help reassure investors that the Fed is handling inflation.

Haruki Murakami

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

Todd Campbell

Nanotech is a burgeoning field, but I want to see a leader come out and exert itself, and we don't have one yet,

Ernie Paragallo

That was nothing more than an open gallop. He didn't really exert himself.

Carl Gustav Jung

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible toinfluence.

Howard Florey

I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom we commemorate today, do not fail from lack of purpose on the part of scientists.

Tai Park

What will probably happen, is that she'll remain out on bail.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Unknown

Here's to the new husband, And here's to the new wife, May they remain lovers, For all of life.

Tracy Morgan

Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'

Grace Fey

I think it (the sell-off) was very overdone. For some of these companies, the fundamentals remain very strong.

Pranab Mukherjee

It is open. It will remain secular and apolitical.

James Rosenquist

We may seem insignificantly small, but we exist. So I remain optimistic.

Saudi Arabia

I didn't want to talk to them. I had a right to remain silent.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

Wilbur Ross

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

Timothy Parker

In my opinion, anything educational is worth what they're spending on it,

Jonathan Safran Foer

What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

Jonathan Anderson

You've got spending going on. Overcapacity is actually going to be going away.

Bret Ellis

After spending three years with Patrick Bateman (from 1991's

Beth Smith

I want this to succeed for Tim, because if it succeeds for Tim, it succeeds for us, because we'll be spending more time together.

Pat Toomey

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.