Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Merkle

If you have a distributed manufacturing technology, one of the great advantages is that it should let us have a much lower cost infrastructure.

Sarah Hale

In this age of innovation, perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.

Dick Parsons

In the fourth quarter, we'll continue to extend the competitive advantages of our cable company and our other businesses to fuel growth in 2006 and beyond.

Jeff Nelson

Integrating and expanding many commerce functions under the Blackboard Transaction system will offer significant advantages for the students, faculty and staff at Bowling Green. With the Blackboard Transaction System we will be able to better control the costs of campus service offerings while improving efficiency.

Shaw Wu

In our view, Dell is pretty much the same company and we believe most have forgotten about its structural and cost advantages with its world-class supply chain and direct model,

Zhou Xiaochuan

In particular, the developed countries, while enjoying low-cost imported goods and services, have to restructure their industrial sectors quickly to create job opportunities and export advantages to improve their competitiveness and dampen protectionism.

Kenneth Relihan

It has its advantages and disadvantages. This is the way the state of New Hampshire has chosen to structure its system.

Sunil Gavaskar

I only wanted to show the advantages of a good footwork, they need to be positive about their movement.

Jane Pauley

I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Tony Stewart

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

Max Spevack

What we weren't counting on was the rapid progress of the Open Invention Network, which serves a similar purpose for businesses in a much more compelling way.

John Davidson

What we've seen has really been priced into the market. At this point we need to see evidence of rising spending on capital and businesses hiring employees.

Shannon Sessions

He's hit ten different businesses in Lynnwood, Edmonds and unincorporated Snohomish County. He runs in with this mask on, waving around a gun and demanding money, then running out.

Carl McDonald

I think their focus for the early part of 2006 is going to be integrating the businesses they've acquired.

Laurie Wieder

I think when you have situation where you cannot reliably know how long it's going to take to get to a certain place, or when you have businesses that are making the decision not to grow because of the state of transportation, or when you have families that are separated for such long hours because people are spending an hour-and-a-half to two hours to get to work, then I think you're in crisis.

Joseph McAlinden

I think the Dow will hold up fairly well. The stocks are much cheaper (than Nasdaq issues), and the supply-demand conditions in the businesses are much more positive.

Domingo Garcia

It is going to be the equivalent of a snow day in terms of the effect on the economy. You are going to have a lot of businesses closed, especially in construction, restaurants, hotels and the service industry.

Pete Harpolis

The purpose of this testing is to cause defects to occur during testing before placing a cable back in service. It forces weak cables to fail during testing.

Peter Chernin

We are extremely pleased with Fox's results for the year, particularly at our cable and television station groups,

Dennis Lee

I think this will eat into its cable television revenues as early as the second half of the year.

Chris Murray

We can expect to see fewer deals and higher prices, just as we've seen with the mergers of cable companies.

Bob Woodward

Roger Ailes, former media guru for Bush's father, had a message. Rove told the president. It had to be confidential because Ailes, a flamboyant and irreverent media executive, was currently the head of Fox News Channel, the conservative-leaning television cable network that was enjoying high ratings. In that position, Ailes was not supposed to be giving political advice.

David Zaslav

Our partnership with Time Warner Cable will provide viewers with a robust 2006 Olympic Winter Games experience. NBC is committed to providing our distribution partners with unique digital offerings to help them drive their businesses.

Kenneth Davis

In today's world, these are not funny things. Maybe if you are a professional comic on cable TV, you can get away with it. But not when you are in public life.

Jeffrey Mazzella

In the past 10 years, under the old rules, cable companies have been virtual monopolies and their rates have climbed unchecked.

Gary Bettman

If you want to judge this (TV deal) on one year experience, I don?t think you?re being fair. Over time, we think we are going to see continued improvement on the cable coverage.

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Scott Bilker

Keep all your records. By law, the credit-card company must investigate your dispute.

Gray Davis

Just the other day, we had to pay $1,900 for a megawatt hour, which a year ago would have cost us $30, ... And the reason this company named Reliant out of Texas gave us for charging us that much money was, they said, the state's credit isn't any good.

Stephen Roelofse

I think in time they will probably make an offer (for Western Areas). I can't see them taking a passive stake in the company like that.

Eugene Christiansen

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate. You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Susumu Tonegawa

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

David Wray

There are studies that show participants in a 401(k) plans are less likely to leave the company and are better workers.

Gilles Frydman

Have you ever seen a company that offers two services, one free and the other paid, provide as good a service to the free one? It is guaranteed that the quality of service for those who do not pay will go down.

Peter Conte

Having said that, the verdict for the company does not mean these employees were wrong to express their concerns. It's important for employees to feel that their concerns are addressed through meaningful action.

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.

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.

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,

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Daniel Chan

Job prospects will continue to improve. Job security has increased and this will lead people to spend more.

Jack Baker

Joseph Sibley was one of the premier historical figures of the oil region and his influence extended worldwide.

Jim Tracy

He was adamant about doing everything to get back quickly. He's not 100 percent healthy. The running aspect, he might not be able to fully extend himself that way. Defensively, it isn't a problem.

Ed Cange

We talked all week about playing fundamentally sound. When you do that, it's hard for teams to make extended runs and come back on you.

Don Fehr

I think we will (have a tougher new policy). I don't think it will take an extended period of time.

Adrian Moss

I went into the Tournament thinking that each game could be my last, but these guys have extended my career.

Robert Molleda

The rains don't weaken as fast as the winds do. As far as the rains are concerned, they are going to extend over a large portion of the state.

Ralph A. Cram

Republicanism rapidly extended itself to all the governments of western Europe, but it could not maintain itself in its primal integrity.

Matthew Scully

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

Johnny Damon

In the past, we always knew we had to make up ground. Now we need to extend our ground. Hopefully, that starts tomorrow night.

Mark Tiby

I yelled out to her that the fourth quarter was hers, and she took it.

Rick Carlisle

He (Redd) was phenomenal with his shot making, especially in the third and the fourth (quarters). Then all of them were hitting threes after a while. The third quarter did us in.

Vance Belew

I thought we were in good shape, having them in about a fourth down and 25 situation.

Alan Graf

We're proud of our fourth quarter, and we're back.

Robert Toomey

We're only in the third or fourth inning, there's still a long way to go.

David Wyss

We're now looking at a 3 percent first quarter on top of that 1.4 percent fourth quarter. We've been the optimists, and I haven't been optimistic enough.

Chad Jackson

We've got to step up our conditioning. I was surprised to see them getting winded in the fourth quarter.

Rob Salter

I thought the third and fourth quarters we did a terrific job making them take some tough shots.

Pat Garrity

I think we had good spacing on the floor, and I was able to get some open looks. In the fourth quarter, they tightened up defensively on me. In overtime, I had some good looks.

Greg Brunner

Just making shots slows (Michigan State) down a little bit. And then we had some silly turnovers that we don't normally have. That just better fuels their offensive aggression.

Gunnar Lindstrom

It (hydrogen fuel cells) needs a major breakthrough in technology.

Ricky Craven

If we come into the race with the idea that we have to do everything we can to save fuel, there will be 36 cautions and fuel will be irrelevant,

Robert Mills

I am losing $2,600 a week on fuel that used to go toward my profit,

David Cummings

He has to be seen to be doing something and I think removing the GST on fuel excise, which is a tax on a tax, is a tangible way to show the Government cares.

Richard Baxter

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Veerappa Moily

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Willie Nelson

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

Katsuaki Watanabe

In the United States people are getting more fuel conscious,

Gus Faucher

Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half of next year,

Bill Cheney

Job growth has kind of stalled out. It's a puzzle.

Mark Zandi

I suspect this is a pause and we still see a resumption of top line growth and, ultimately, better hiring in tech.

Wayne Pace

He wants it to be profitable growth, sustainable growth and responsible growth,

Jill Dougherty

He did say that it must meet Russia's national interests and also that it should not restrict its growth and social development,

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Shuchita Mehta

Growth momentum remains strong and that should lead to higher inflation and interest rates.

Zheng Jingping

It is fundamentally normal but it is at the upper end of the potential growth range and we need to take note of it.

Graham Cluley

There is going to be a real growth in 'pump and dump' spam.