Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Falconer

We made estimates of what gains we could make. We made some gains but we did not make the gains that we had hoped to make.

Mark Grossman

I think most people understood that estimates for the year were way too high. When the estimates come down to reasonable levels, that's when investors look to get back in.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Drake Johnstone

If they exceed estimates for this quarter, which I think they will, and raise guidance for the upcoming quarter, investors would be more favorably inclined to Microsoft.

Gretchen Dykstra

Until you go out into the real world, the estimates are just that.

Mike Rann

World Health Organisation estimates suggest we prepare for a situation where one quarter of our population is infected,

Joe Haworth

We did lose possibly as much as two million gallons onto the beaches. We're still doing the estimates on that. We don't know how much could possibly have made it to the ocean. We know some did.

Margaret Gatz

Our finding confirms the higher estimates that have been suggested previously.

Mark Bryant

I think a payrolls number that varies widely from estimates will shake up stocks, ... But as long as we're roughly in line with forecasts, there probably won't be much stock reaction.

Bob Turcotte

We have more than exceeded my expectations. I thought perhaps going 14-5 would be reasonable.

Don Meyer

We invited 1,000 of our volunteers, and expected from 200 to 300 to be able to attend. As always, their response has exceeded our expectations.

Michael Casserly

Wherever the powers that be set these bars, we're going to meet and exceed them.

Harold Brown

We forget that most students, if not all, can exceed the minimum.

Dan Fellman

I was very pleased with the opening. It exceeded our expectations.

Donald Brownlee

It exceeded all of our grandest expectations. We should have more than 1 million particles larger than 1 micron in diameter.

Dr. Roberts

I think Randy is a fantastic success story. He exceeded my personal expectations for recovery.

Chuck D.

We exceeded the predictions, but we lived up to our own internal expectations.

Howard Staunton

The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.

David Heupel

The 2007 and 2008 guidance is in line with expectations. And the stock is back down after a pretty big move.

Gary Frazier

I thought his guidance was quite crisp. He always shared his assumptions and way of thinking.

Kim Clijsters

I would have loved to have played another year under his guidance,

Chris Lozier

I'm a little surprised they didn't raise guidance after this kind of a quarter, but I think that's probably just conservatism right now.

Laura Paro

I have a very experienced defense. I'll be looking for strong senior leadership and guidance back there.

Cindy Shaw

I think investors will be happy with that guidance.

Dennis Hastert

I also think there has to be real guidance, ... So they can rule and tell people and give them guidance before they take a trip about what's right and what's acceptable.

Eric Ross

Guidance was disappointing. Inventories and chipset shortages are still issues.

Robert Litan

He will be one influential judge--no question about it. I think the justices will look to him for guidance because he had that job.

Jacques Rogge

Whoever wins, it's going to be a prestigious city. I'm often questioned who might be the winner and I'm always inclined to say the winner is the IOC.

Jessica Biel

I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.

Jim Talent

I don't know why there weren't plans, ... If there had been and they were inadequate, I'd be inclined to say nobody's perfect - but it just seemed like they weren't doing anything.

Leon Redbone

I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.

John Fiske

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

Sivamani

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.

Mike Leavitt

People are not inclined to produce products for which there is no market,

John Thune

I think a lot of the co-sponsors of it probably are less inclined because of the commission's actions.

Hugh Johnson

That's the situation today, ... Since that's the case, I'd be more inclined to think this will be a negative year than a positive year.

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Justin Pascoe

Most investors will view the Link REIT as largely a yield play, with some potential upside through rental increases.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Kevin Rose

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

Mark Mahaney

Yahoo! and Microsoft have reminded investors that search is not a monopoly,

Aaron Patzer

I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

Joe Osha

We'd love to tell investors that we anticipated Intel's problems, but we did not.

Marshawn Lynch

I ain't never seen no talking winning nothing. Been like that since I was little. I was raised like that.

Pamela Anderson

I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.

George Montgomery

I think this type development raises the status of the county.

Jessica Stroup

I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

Grover Norquist

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

Ron Cole

We haven't raised our rates in 11 years.

David Gregory

I will yell. If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.

Jim McFarland

I think if we raise (tuition) $2, we need to use it for specific reasons.

Mike Duke

We have to reflect on our shortcomings. We have to be self-critical and think about how do we raise the bar,