Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sena Lund

I think it's a decent choice, and with the challenges Merck faces, they needed someone who knows the company and knows the environment,

Venus Williams

Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

Satoru Iwata

If you do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we always have to challenge the status quo by making something new, rather than competing in an existing market.

Sarah Polley

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

Walter Cronkite

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

Salman Rushdie

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Rod Blagojevich

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Vikas Swarup

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

Rufus Wainwright

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

Bronwyn Belling

It can cost over $15,000 to take out one of these loans.

Javier Bardem

There are so many movies and it's a waste of time and a waste of money. Basically, movies are made with what it costs the external debt of all Africa.

Mark Rebholz

He shared in the cost for the privilege of being the pilot, ... It worked out well for all of us -- we finished our project and he was part of a grand adventure.

David Holden

I think it's a prime property, ... I know that we're looking for funds, but if we need any properties in the future, it would cost considerably more (to purchase property).

Kay Runge

It costs us probably a third per square foot to run as the other building.

Marilyn Rush

It costs so much money, and we're poor people.

Dennis McAlpine

It costs more now to go skiing than to go to Disney World. That's going to drive skier-days down.

Tom Driscoll

It could cost $75,000 more to remove the paint.

Rory Bruer

It cost in the neighborhood of around $18 million to make, so it will be very successful for us.

Andy LaVigne

This decrease is largely due to smaller-than-expected fruit size.

Laura Ranum

President Lincoln was a truly great, great leader. It would do a lot to decrease the stigma of a disability, and to highlight the abilities of people who have ataxia, if he could be that great and have this.

Rick Morris

It would be better to just decrease the speed.

Tom King

I see this as a wondrous tax decrease for the working people of Mississippi. I urge you to search your heart - not your party.

Warren Jenson

We expect strong year-over-year sales growth in the first quarter, and our outlook for growth in 2000 remains strong. We expect that in 2000, our overall operating loss will decrease significantly as a percentage of sales.

Phil Evans

We're going to work hard to decrease the ratio of NBA teams to D-League teams.

Stan Lee

The results were very good, even if its net profit looks to have been inflated due to a decrease in tax expenses.

Robert Iger

We sold it in the upfront under relative conservative circumstances, actually expecting that there would be a decrease in ratings.

Jeremy Duxbury

From last year there is a slight decrease because we have increased the size of the squad from 25-30. But we are working on the same budget. We have given each team an expense account. This to be used for expenses at training.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Jon Burnham

I think the earnings are going to be better than expected, but I don't know whether the market's going to rise on that.

John Davidson

I think that overall we are in for a pretty good earnings quarter, and that may be a positive for stocks.

Donald Selkin

The IBM earnings were good, but is this enough to turn things around?. I guess the futures could rally overnight, but as it stands, we're headed toward a lower open.

Chuck Hill

The estimates are for earnings to be down 50 percent in the second quarter, 37 percent in the third quarter, and 12 percent in the fourth.

Brett Gallagher

The majority of earnings have been good, but there have been some misses and the market has reacted violently to them. This is a week that has put me on alert.

Mike Lenhoff

The global outlook is OK, so that suggests that the earnings (growth) will still be there, and as long as they are, people take the view that the wherewithal for dividend growth and share buybacks will be there.

Barry Hyman

The economy is still strong, earnings will be good, and that bodes well for the stock market,

Bob Nardelli

It's all about getting more out of our existing assets. It's all about store productivity.

David Bondy

We found perhaps many of our existing policyholders would shift their work focus away from what they had been doing to trades and operations that were more in demand.

Stephen Byers

our existing security measures had not taken into account.

Michael Grice

We're looking for ways to reach out to new students, existing students and faculty, and a large part of this will be with marketing,

Laura Behrens

Plenty of them are putting their stuff out there in the hopes of being found by the existing system.

John B. Hood

For students, especially international students, we are focusing on not only their existing performances, but their potential for future development as well,

Ronald D. Moore

I felt that 'Deep Space' was the way to do a spin off series of an existing franchise where you really are doing a very different show. It's a different format. It's a different feeling.

Terry Thompson

Our initial focus is acquisition of existing assets.

Mark Wasserman

Our priorities right now are land acquisition for parks and renovating existing parks.

David Hansen

We will not have an open wallet for this. We will have to keep food and lodging expenses to a minimum.

Toye Taylor

I'm looking for quality of life, non-recurring expenses for these funds.

Ed Conley

For instance, you may have some people who have insurance and insurance is meeting their living expenses while they have been displaced. It is going to vary by family.

Frederic Bastiat

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

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,

Art Hogan

The larger trend remains to the upside, but its hard to say whether we'll see gains in the short-term,

John Christopher

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

Michael Fay

All that poverty alleviation means is an increase in exploitation of the resources, and it provides short-term and relatively superficial gains for people in Africa,

Ryohei Muramatsu

The dollar's gains today were capped around the recent peak level of 119.39 yen, because this level is also a key resistance level on charts.

Myles Munroe

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

Mark McGwire

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Betsy Beers

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Theresa Carroll

All I can say is that it's been better every year since I've been here. And I don't know how long it is, but it was here before I got here.

Jose Antonio Vargas

All I've ever done since I was 17 is tell stories. You know, I'm a storyteller. And that's what I'm going to keep on doing, especially now, kind of embracing and making sure that we tell immigration.

Steve Collins

It's been a while since we've really been tested.

LaDainian Tomlinson

It's been a while since it's been like that.