Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Cook

As an investor, I'm concerned with the later phase. There's a higher level of commitment from the venture capital firm by then.

Dan Levitan

As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.

Bea Bone

A white cap is going to be coming at you, and a spout is going to go straight up and hang.

Steve Stinson

As Matlock would say when people see the funny pinwheel cap they knew who you were and what that meant. They knew it was going to be a fight with a team that played hard. That's what people knew every time they saw that funny hat.

Li Zhi

Raising profit thresholds are in line with the regulator's pledge to help good-quality companies raise capital and upgrade market fundamentals. Investors will be glad to see the market shutting its doors to poor performers.

Byron Callan

Rapid growth in new orders and sales does not automatically translate to higher profits. New employees will need to be hired and trained. Suppliers need to expand capacity too. Can all this be handled without margin degradation?

Phil Anderton

Rangers will receive 2,100 seats - the equivalent of 12 per cent of our capacity - a figure that we feel is more than fair.

Gerard Burg

Prices are expected to ease in 2007 as expanding refinery capacity reduces some of the bottleneck in that sector. However, the likely strength of oil demand, as well as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' intention to support higher prices will maintain crude oil prices at historically high levels.

John Porter

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.

Henry Hughes

Any time players have an issue or concern like this, we take a look at it. It's really not an issue from our standpoint.

J. C. Watts

Another thing we need to concern ourselves with on the coast, is the (hurricane) season is not over.

Shane Richardson

As far as we are concerned 'Mad Monday' doesn't exist,

So Taguchi

As far as the team is concerned our target will be to win the World Series. For me personally I want to establish myself as a regular in the team.

Nick Fazekas

As far as I'm concerned I don't feel we've won the thing yet. We talk about sharing the title. We don't want to have to share the title with anyone.

Felipe Alou

As far as I'm concerned he's playing (tonight). (But) everybody wants him to play in the home opener. At this hour, I really don't know. My plan was not to play him (tonight) and play him in the (home) opener and go from there.

Milan Mandaric

As far as I'm concerned he'll never die... he's been a very special friend and a very special man.

Alan Curbishley

As far as I'm concerned Darren has just got to keep in Eriksson's face. I don't mean by scoring every week or getting to 20 goals, he just has to perform well and try to improve his game. There are going to be games when he isn't going to score so he has to contribute more in other ways. If he can do that it is only going to enhance his position.

Arthur Williams

As far as I am concerned he is still a member. He hasn't resigned.

Bill Murray

As far as the consumer is concerned, they think it's a stand-by ticket where you have to sit in the back by the toilet,

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

Mark Batty

People are worried about possible net interest margin compression and credit quality deterioration, as well as slowing consumer loan growth.

Dannielle Romano

People are witnessing how interested consumers are in experiencing digital music, consuming it that way, and having the convenience of consuming it that way. It's a quickly growing, voracious audience.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the combination of somewhat slower growth of productivity in recent quarters, higher energy prices, and a decline in the exchange rate for the dollar, core measures of consumer prices have registered only modest increases,

Anne Sweeney

The strategic utilization of new technologies to meet consumer needs is of paramount importance to the growth of the Disney Media Networks Group.

Eric Wold

A few years ago the big question was could IMAX get Hollywood content on their screens and theaters to sign up. But studios now see the value of putting movies on IMAX screens since consumers have much better home theaters.

Linda Pinney

Prescriptions going to consumers is like money going to consumers. The margin for error is zero.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Barry Hyman

The moves in media stocks are never earnings based.

Jack Ablin

Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling the market.

Jim Volk

Right now the perception is we are not going to get the earnings recovery we thought we were going to get.

Takashi Ushio

Right now the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results.

Takashi Ushio

Right now, the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results. But investors are also in something of a wait-and-see mood, as we have earnings from industrial electronics firms tomorrow.

Brian Gendreau

Practically in every quarter lately, we've had this feeling that we're at the peak, this is it, no more growth. That's why you see a lot of volatility but, ultimately, the Dow or the other indexes end up not having moved much. But one day we may see earnings growth decelerate, and it could be this year.

Rick Meckler

It was too much for the market to overcome. Otherwise, it could have been an even better year profit-wise if so much of (companies') earnings weren't deflected into energy costs.

Allan Meltzer

The name that's on the economy is Greenspan. If you want to step back and say Gore's responsible, it's hard to make that connection.

Mark Knold

After operating in the mid-3 percent employment growth range for the first half of 2005, the Utah economy unexpectedly jumped upward during last year's third quarter.

Maureen Allyn

Realistically, they've done a lot already. The economy may be sleepy, but you don't need to hit it with everything you've got.

Michael Boss

Things are still looking pretty good, and the economy seems to be slowing down, right into the Fed's hands.

Joshua Shapiro

Things are pretty healthy. The economy is growing at a nice clip, exports are rising and inventories are being accumulated.

Patrick McGowan

Things are good, but they're not great. We still have a lot of work to do in an economy that is in great transition.

Bill Dudley

Things are going to look a little better. Your going to see an economy that's soft, but not collapsing.

Roberto Sanchez

Things are changing. It's a local economy. In other places people don't know their neighbors. They don't know their names. People don't say 'hello' to each other. Not here.

Lawrence Lindsey

The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. economy,

Sarah Gellar

As a teen-ager growing up there weren't things to watch,

Jake Sinclair

As a kid growing up you watch those teams. Then you're there and think ?wow, this is amazing.' But then you have to go out there and play.

Greg Robinson

As a kid growing up (watching) Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Larry Csonka and all the rest, you always knew about those guys,

Hu Jintao

A sound and steadily growing China-US relationship not only serves the interests of our two peoples, but also contributes to peace, stability and development in the world,

Charli Turner

Reagan is really growing as a leader. I'm really proud of her.

Ian Robertson

Raymarine has a defendable, leading market position in the growing marine leisure electronics market.

Casey Mears

Racing-wise I hate to see it go, but this sport is growing and changing. You've got to move with the times and do what's going to help the sport grow.

Zig Ziglar

Real love is a growing and development process that involves every emotion, problem, joy and triumph known to man.

Michael Klare

The supply of oil has been growing all these years in approximate consonance with demand.

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.

Christine Benz

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

Kevin Rose

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

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Mo Ibrahim

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

Tony Fratto

No one wants to see these kinds of international tensions over these issues.

Mike Wilton

The team did well at times, and didn't play well at times. It was one of those kinds of matches.

Bertrand Russell

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Rob Babcock

We had to do something with our roster. We could have waited but we looked at all kinds of different possibilities, two-for-one (trades), things like that. We just couldn't come up with anything that worked.

Haley Barbour

Those are the kinds of things that will be discussed,

Pat Thomas

Those are the kinds of things people would have never thought would happen.

Al Gillen

Those kinds of things are incremental improvements that really were pretty important.

Duke Ellington

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Source Unknown

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Chris Cichocki

Reading is unusually large for a team in this league, but it has been a problem.

Frank Whitlatch

Often times for very large gifts, there (are) naming rights attached.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

Jennifer Ehle

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

George Beranek

This is really pulling out the big guns. If you think about it, this is working at the margin with a very large volume, so it's going to have a very pronounced price effect.

Doug Parker

The weakness has been largely concentrated in the technology sector.

Gayle Green

That's where socio-economic status comes in. It's one piece of a very large picture.

Claude Mandil

A large proportion of the remainder will be (refined) products ... we have suggested they prioritize products,

Bob Anderson

You're just not going to see these large corporations and large jobs.

Yingxi Yu

Technical trends are looking very strong and people find it very risky to go short right now. I think that's why the rally has been continuing.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Chuck Koons

We're looking for what we could do that was ecologically sound.

Eva Simons

Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine.

Jeff Bryant

We really don't know our starters yet, or where everyone will play. We're looking for the right combinations.

Robert Wood

We've seen the report and are looking into it.

Robin Wagner

At that particular time, I was looking for something in her that maybe she wasn't ready to give me.

Nick Vujicic

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Brett Favre

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Jamie Farr

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

James Van Der Beek

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

Jane Smiley

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

Asa Gray

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Brian Wilson

I earned my famous name.

Brie Larson

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.

Aphra Behn

Dear me no Dears, Sir ...

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Bob Mayer

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.