Famous Quotes & Sayings

Austin Ligon

Our third quarter used car sales growth reflected increased traffic compared with last year's third quarter, as well as continuing strong execution. We were able to sustain positive momentum even as the cross-shopping benefit from this summer's new car employee pricing programs waned. Subsequently, new car sales and traffic levels dropped significantly, reflecting the limited model year close-out vehicle availability that resulted from the success of the employee pricing programs.

Paul Sarbanes

Companies that go public should understand that there are responsibilities as well as benefits to going public,

Kurt Kuehn

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Chicago now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Chicago as well.

John Stumpf

Demonstrating the benefit of our diversified business model, most of our consumer business showed strong growth this quarter and helped to offset the decline at Home Mortgage.

Marc Schenker

The teaching that complements these research efforts will benefit the next generation of public health specialists, as well as local, state and global health agencies.

Keith Edelman

The tax bill is slightly larger than one would expect it to be because we have had employee benefit trusts and there was a decision in the House of Lords we've provided for. We're just being cautious.

Alexander Haig

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Joe Wilcox

So, to get to the benefits that come with this, they have to get past whatever retraining will be needed around the new user interface.

Zina Garrison

So much is owed to this legend. Althea helped me and other women to understand you can be all you can dream and more. The benefits of her contributions to tennis are still being realized and enjoyed by modern-day players.

Craig Benson

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

William Williams

The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.

David Healy

The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.

Eric Shepcaro

A year after the four hurricanes in Florida, 74% of Florida companies have a business continuity plan. And 72% say it's an important priority.

Robert Quiroga

As long as they take care of track, I'll take care of business on the football field. That's what we used to say.

Ralph Hall

As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.

Neil Starkey

As large business use comes into play here, we're going to have more and more pressure to go to open standards.

Alan Ball

As long as I can sell some homes and make some money, that's what we're in business for.

Gavin Newsom

As Mayor, I will partner with community organizations, nonprofits, the business community and residents to improve San Francisco's quality of life.

Takuji Aida

The slowdown in recurring profits reflects rising material costs in manufacturing and higher personnel costs in non-manufacturing.

Tom Schatz

The structure slams the door on any competition. The ULA locks up all contracts, ensuring high costs for taxpayers and stifling innovation.

Charles Bradford

You would think that with their costs going up and prices going up, you wouldn't make much more money or would do a little worse, ... But in reality, there has been a very, very strong correlation: The higher the scrap goes, the more money they make. It just means the market is better overall.

Brian Spears

You spend money to save money. People want to reduce their living costs overall and feel better about the environment.

Dr. Fossbender

There are a lot of fixed costs that we are not able to control.

Jennifer Granholm

Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder.

Jean Chatzky

Every minute you spend looking through clutter, wondering where you put this or that, being unable to focus because you're not organized costs you: time you could have spent with family or friends, time you could have been productive around the house, time you could have been making money.

Al Hartkopf

A traffic signal costs a lot more than $25,000. What can you say? They're getting off cheap.

Melissa McHenry

Costs of this project presumably would be spread fairly widely in PJM.

Meg Casper

School districts should be back in better shape, back to where they were before the hurricanes hit.

Kirby Green

We think it screams for the three districts to come together. So they don't all have to fight over the last drop.

Brian Peterson

Kurt only gave up four points on his feet in 34 matches. The only other points he gave up were from releases. Nobody scored on him at districts or at state. This is a high school kid who doesn't make mistakes or get out of position. He wrestled all season at an extremely high level.

J. Hoover

We have had a water shortage since the 50's. It's all a big joke. They should always be bugging other water districts to lend us water for stuff like this.

Al Diamond

If all efficiency experts were laid end to end- I'd be in favor of it

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

By reducing the number of plasmids, we increase the efficiency of virus production,

Zig Ziglar

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Johnnie Burton

The offshore energy industry has compiled an outstanding safety record that allows development of these resources without significant risk to the environment.

Kirk Hinrich

Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus.

Jon Huntsman

so we can operate government more efficiently from an energy-consumption standpoint.

James Jones

Ross has been really steady for us. He gave us a lot of energy off the bench.

Janet Yellen

I see no evidence of feedbacks from energy prices to wage bargaining. The risk, though, is that, without appropriate policy, we could see a repetition of the '70s-type dynamic.

Janet Yellen

I see no evidence of feedbacks from energy prices to wage bargaining, ... The risk, though, is that, without appropriate policy, we could see a repetition of the 70's type dynamic.

Gavin Maloof

I've been reborn. It's just been a resurrection, if you will. Every time he steps out on the court, I feel so alive. It's a totally different energy than we've all had. I never knew he was this good.

Al Visconti

I've been telling the kids all season about my two 'E' words energy and enthusiasm. When we play with energy and enthusiasm, this is what's going to happen.

Robert DiClemente

The risk of spillover from the rising trend in energy prices will likely prompt the Fed to head off more lasting damage.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Doug Dacar

Environmental issues have always been important to me.

Ray Kurzweil

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

Simone Weil

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

Stewart Brand

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

Ron Finley

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

Michael E. Mann

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

Ramez Naam

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

Michael Shermer

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Flip Saunders

I've been impressed with him since Day One. At times, when I don't play him, I always go home at night, sit and watch the film and try to find ways why I didn't play him.

Judah Friedlander

I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.

Brad Goreski

I used to like going out so much, and now I can't get myself to leave home.

Jalal Talabani

I understand that Italians want their troops in Iraq to come home as soon as possible,

Sarah Waters

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Wally Herger

The impacts of this inflexible law have been real and devastating,

Bill Hamilton

They obviously have one of the largest impacts of any employer,

Rob Reiner

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

Larry Woolsey

Before investing in snowshoes, rent some to get an idea of what you want.

Edward Tenthoff

Biotech investing is no longer a pie-in-the-sky game.

Theo Epstein

We think investing in Coco was a wise move.

Daniel S. Loeb

Timing is everything in this markets.

Robert Reich

Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations.

Thorstein Veblen

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.

Steven Spielberg

I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.

John Templeton

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

James Cook

A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

Brian Berger

They have ownership of this field, it's their baby. It's going to give them a sense of pride.

Ellen Hopkins

Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?

Arthur Blank

There are a lot of reasons owners vote the way they vote. They have their reasons, usually very legitimate.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Never be a minion, always be an owner.

Ron Perry

When you give them the ownership and the responsibility, it makes them more independent.

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.