Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Donahue

It balances the overall impact, ... Quite frankly, you've got to satisfy the people who are paying the bill.

Wendy Hall

The key issue here is self-disclosure and self-reporting. It was Halliburton's own internal, rigorous system of checks and balances that identified the irregularity. ... When the irregularity was discovered, KBR removed the company in question from consideration for any future work as a subcontractor.

Alexander Hamilton

The founders established a government of checks and balances so nobody could take advantage. As for Hamilton, he set up our banking system.

Mark Farley

The best thing about Eric is he balances up our offense. He throws it to everyone. He runs the offense the way it should be run.

John Dunn

Congress has got to hold the administration accountable. The founders set up the checks and balances for that purpose.

Scott Price

It's a mandate. Those decisions are made at the local level involving a local school board. Many districts made decisions based on making sure certain balances are kept within the district.

Randy Hayes

It's always an issue at election time and an interesting one that balances rights versus aesthetics. The courts see campaign signs as being political speech and do not look favorably on restrictions.

John Gower

The launch of this new magazine offers PC World's customers an engaging new branding experience. It finely balances inspiration with practical knowledge and buying advice, designed to deepen the customer's relationship with the PC World brand. The scope and effectiveness of editorial combined with the sheer scale of circulation will combine to have a significant impact in this dynamic market.

Jim Zito

This department's system of checks and balances has corrected this ongoing mistake and prevented its perpetuation.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Chen Yonglin

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

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Roger Warren

Joe has developed an exceptional track record in creating and marketing a wide variety of programs and services for PGA members and the golf industry, ... Most importantly, he has a dynamic vision for the future of the PGA and our leadership position in the game and business of golf.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

Ariel Sharon

has no business here, he has never had any, and I don't think he ever will have.

Mark Potter

James Cardinal Gibbons was the most influential Catholic in the U.S. around the turn of the 20th century. This is the most historic crypt, from a Roman Catholic standpoint, in the United States.

David Kaslow

Grocery store point-of-sale terminals (POS) and debit card technology is largely Concord EFS.

Patricia Hogan

Her shoe-button eyes and little smile with just a few lines - those are very simple strokes that convey many things to many people. Her little heart, originally a cardboard heart embedded in her chest and later printed on her clothing, is such a sweet touch.

Phil Garner

I thought the Cardinals were going to be hard-pressed to duplicate what they did last year and they did duplicate it. We are a different club and we are probably not offensively as potent as we were last year. ... We are probably a little stronger in the pitching department and probably a little weaker in the offense department. I don't know how that's going to work out.

Richard Long

It happened several times ... the company is called Reliable and if we don't show up then we can't have that. The day he was fired we went down to his house and grabbed our van and the credit card and thought that was that.

Lisa Cullen

ID cards are always free. We don't want anything to stand in the way of families being able to get them.

Riordan Roett

He doesn't have any money to offer, so the president doesn't really have any cards to play.

Chris Gibson

Pittsburgh just gets a rough card here because people tend to be prejudiced about what Pittsburgh is.

Joe Baldarotta

In the mini-game format everyone understands what their up against. I told the guys to get a lot of rest tonight because you're going to be playing a lot of hockey tomorrow if we play our cards right.

Lisa Cullen

ID cards are always free. We don't want anything to stand in the way of families being able to get them.

Riordan Roett

He doesn't have any money to offer, so the president doesn't really have any cards to play.

Joe Baldarotta

In the mini-game format everyone understands what their up against. I told the guys to get a lot of rest tonight because you're going to be playing a lot of hockey tomorrow if we play our cards right.

Dema Kovalenko

If you deserve a red card, there is no question and you walk away. But some of the cards we're getting, it's disappointing. We just have to deal with it, get stronger and be smarter.

Robert Tull

It helps him understand that credit cards are great, but they need to be paid each month,

Mark O'Malley

It's really picked up in the last week. I've got four sets of cards ordered, two signs, so we've really started to pick up on that.

Richard Falkenrath

Social Security cards right now are a problem. They're a very significant breeder-card for other types of identification. It's very easy to get a Social Security card. Many are issued over and over. There are many more Social Security cards in circulation today than there are people in the United States.

Van Horn

Six years ago I gave $100 Home Depot gift certificates to clients who closed on a loan, ... They didn't have gift cards back then.

Kelli White

At the end she uses gift cards purchased with the stolen credit cards the day before.

Gary Hirshberg

The force of commerce got us in this mess and its the only force that will get us out,

Salar Kamangar

Nothing that we are doing is at all focused on commerce or classifieds, ... We don't know what to expect. It may very well be data types that we didn't anticipate.

Wang Yi

The long-awaited rules are likely to be issued in a month, when the Ministry of Commerce has made some slight amendments.

Tom Courtney

This is actually a really big deal because in Amazon's earnings, about $24 million in gross profit comes from the commerce network,

Jon Oltsik

This is the year that Linux gains critical mass. It'll be very important in big Internet commerce sites.

Patricia Clark

We have seen a move on the part of the (Illinois Commerce Commission) and the state and the utilities to try to introduce competition into these industries, and for various reasons it hasn't really worked for any of them.

Mark Jarvis

We're really at the start of the Internet commerce curve. It's a market we think we will dominate as we go forward. As more people use the Web, more people will be driven to our database.

Henri Pirenne

The Western Mediterranean, having become a Musulman lake, was no longer the thoroughfare of commerce and of thought which it had always been.

Theodore Olson

This court has said that competition between the states on commerce lies at the heart of a free society. What the respondents would do is national state tax systems.

John Chambers

I would say this for Montserrat ? one of its credit weaknesses is that it's in a zone that depends greatly on external savings.

Josh Towers

I think I threw more strikes than I got credit for. I was around the zone a lot. I definitely got my work in.

Danny Ardoin

He didn't get enough credit. Winning 14 games as a rookie is not bad.

David Meltzer

He deserves a ton of credit for making the sport what it has become. He's the Vince McMahon of his generation.

Kenneth Turan

He credits a watching of 'King Kong' on TV when he was a kid with making him a film director,

Bruce Heppler

He just plays. I know that he wants to win a tournament, and he works at it and is competitive as anybody. I think now he just has to get out of his own way. He's more than good enough to win. The great thing about Roberto is before the tournament is over, he's going to finish around the top 10 or higher, and that's a real credit to his competitiveness. That's a sign of a really good player who just plays well every single time.

Bob Hamley

He's a leader and a true professional that does a lot for me and the team on and off the floor. It's a credit to my team that I'm even going, so it's fitting that they are there as well.

George Campbell

He's credited with quite a spectacular job of revitalizing the (arts) school,

Karl Gawell

We've got to have a longer term policy. These tax credits need to be extended.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Shane Robison

With managed services, we have a lot of products we can pull through.

Julie Vallese

We take the company's word for it at the onset, but through our investigation we'll have to look or prove whether this product is better.

Richard Segal

We think cross-selling is important, but we're not obsessing about whether one of those products is sports betting.

Werner Herzog

I am a product of my failures,

Bill Harris

Our Quicken product had the most profitable season in its 15-year history,

Michael Wittner

If there is a bearish theme, it's about U.S. product demand.

Bert Hochfeld

Informix has strong products in a strong market.

James Inhofe

I am a product of the draft.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

Yvon Chouinard

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Mahatma Gandhi

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

James Cook

Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Noam Chomsky

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

Deutsche Bank

Excluding this, pretax profit should be up 9 percent.

Pliny the Elder

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Jeff Wright

It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.

Bill Vaughan

We strongly think it's a problem. It contributes to the revolving door.