Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Fox

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

Joshua Shapiro

The big question now is how much companies will be able to raise prices for finished products to offset the hit to profits from higher unit labor costs.

Bill Maris

Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.

Peter Cardillo

As long as the economy doesn't go into a recession, I think these (smaller) companies will continue to outperform large-cap stocks,

Ted Arrington

As long as people are raising private money in big numbers to finance expensive campaigns, you're going to have big contributors who have special interests controlling the outcome, whether it's video poker or the hog farmers or tobacco companies or the trial lawyers.

David Moskowitz

As potential patients, we would want these companies to make incremental improvements. Without it, we would end up only with first-in-class products that are not as good as they could be.

Mike Ross

As people move in, companies follow them. We're fortunate that we're in the right place at the right time,

Bradley Belt

As long as companies remain in operation with ongoing pension plans, they have a legal obligation to meet their funding requirements.

Patrick Brogan

As long as investors keep bidding up the price of the long distance companies on speculation that there might be an acquisition, it actually makes an acquisition harder to complete,

Pat Garner

Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.

Leigh Sparks

Department stores are not really out of fashion, but they will struggle if they don't provide what customers want.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Darrell Jensen

I use subtle flavors that if you are looking for it, you'll find it. I do things in the back that the customers may or may not notice. They just know it tastes good.

George Gero

They actually ran a very good, under CFTC oversight and under exchange oversight, futures business, where all customers were always properly margined.

Stephen Brady

This is a pass-through. What we pay for it is what our customers pay for it.

Terry Golesworthy

The Web site is now the front door for most companies; online customers are looking for an interactive relationship, something new for many companies,

George Whalin

The upper end of the economy has done very well and the stock market is at a 3-1/2 year high. This bodes well for the high-end merchants. Discounters would have had a hard time because their customers were impacted by higher gas prices and uncertainty about jobs.

Charles Schumer

Any talk of dismantling it would be inappropriate given its unique expertise and resources.

Rick Jones

Perhaps we could tap them for their thoughts and their expertise in the (environmental) area.

Carl Jacoby

But it won't be with my merchandise, my expertise or my wife's.

Eduardo Ermita

He can be removed and, as a CESO, he can be moved to another place where his expertise can be utilized,

Tom Sykora

It's something we didn't have the expertise to do.

Malcolm Gladwell

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

Kathleen Booher

They're stepping out of their expertise when they're doing that.

Tom Starling

We get their expertise and their connections in the community, and they get to help.

Steve Willsey

We led them in. They had the rescue expertise but we had the knowledge of the cave.

Richard Flanagan

The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.

E. B. White

I've seen a guy reeling in a giant tarpon on a Stella. The reel literally glows.

Jim Calhoun

These are two giant tests. I told our guys at a team meeting that we're 22-1 and 9-1, but we still have more tests. We've got to keep proving it and proving it.

Margaret Spellings

This is a temporary situation (and) it's going to be narrowly focused, ... This is not the time to promote a giant national voucher program.

Patrick Craven

Each year on this day we remember and pay tribute to this much loved working-class hero and giant of the national liberation.

John Bunting

As I said to the team, that's one giant M.O. -missed opportunity,

Ed Rendell

Twenty to 25 years ago, Pennsylvania was the industrial giant of this country.

Josh Franco

Today, Mike Giant is no secret to anyone.

Susan Rosenberg

There's something very special about Doris. She is very soft-spoken, but she's a giant of a person.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Austin Mahone

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

Buck Showalter

The big thing was Curt Schilling, he was obviously on top of his game. We ran into a great pitcher today. It's disappointing.

David Lewis

The big question is: Is it too little, too late? I think in great part, yes.

George Savile

A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use

O. J. Simpson

Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Josh Page

Avon had a lot to do with our shooting stats. They played great defense. They took away our inside game.

Heinz Jungwirth

Austria has great relations with the IOC. We don't want to put anything under the table.

James Coleman

A truly great hug comes when you squeeze just hard enough to share a heartbeat.

Michael Johnson

Somebody's planting a lot of marijuana out there, and it's not local people just growing it for personal use, ... These people are growing to make a profit. A big profit.

Robert Warren

So that makes it even all the more important that we find these kids who again, are sometimes misdiagnosed as having growing pains or tendonitis,

George Vecsey

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

Keith Morris

Realistically, the population is only growing in Avondale,

Nina Norman

I've seen a lot of growing pains. They could have really contributed to the team.

Joe Given

It was a nice growing perk for her. I told her location is everything. In that situation, she didn't miss one pitch.

Mike Olson

It was about what I expected. We have some growing to do, but it was a nice start.

Qiu Xiaohua

The service sector was hard hit, growing just 0.8 percent.

Jose Gonzalez

I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.

Greg Ryan

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

Timm Bechter

There could be a lot less spending. Most of the network build-out for larger telecom players is already done,

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Joe Klein

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Dave Scott

It's a larger fumigation, but it wasn't the most challenging we've done.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Adam McKay

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

Andy Reid

We limited his reps, but the reps he was in there, he did a nice job. He worked it today (Thursday) and we've got to see if the swelling stays out.

Paul LePage

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.

Mark Perry

We have a very substantial and loyal limited partner group.

Margaret Gillett

Now we have space to move around in. We were pretty limited before.

Gary Becker

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

Jeff Chambers

MSU is on a limited budget. We don't have enough money to tape every athlete.

Joseph Volpe

Maybe with 'Parsifal,' because it's only three performances and a limited rehearsal time, we'll be able to get someone really good.

Robert Hurwitz

It allows for Tony winners and other people with limited availability to take part,

Andres Durbak

We're always looking for new ways of using limited resources.

Ken Dunham

There are plenty of ways to get around all of those things.

Buck Showalter

We had plenty of opportunities to score 10 or 11 runs.

Jim Allchin

there's plenty in there that doesn't require new hardware.

Alexander McCall Smith

There is plenty of work for love to do.

David Fitzgerald

Give yourself plenty of time and take it easy.

James Smith

Well, it's kind of uncomfortable. You got to put on sweatshirts or wrap up in plenty of covers. I think it could be warmer.

Craig Bellamy

I have seen plenty of level-headed kids, but I don't think I have seen any with his sort of talent.

Marcia Clark

We've got plenty of time to get emotional.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Daniel Goleman

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Daniel Goleman

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

Artur Davis

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Brittany Daniel

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

Brian Van Holt

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.