Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Gray

We have a spectacular brand in Dunhill, and a very fast-growing brand in Pall Mall, and that balances our portfolio so that we can take real price increases.

Jim Zito

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

John Nersesian

It's the emotional vs. the rational or logical. In many instances, people view these balances as found money, but there are few instances when cashing out makes sense.

Rief Gilg

That was a big turning point. With turnovers, that kind of tips the balances a little bit.

Michael Busch

People hate paying taxes, and the 10 percent penalty has been a huge incentive for many to not disturb the balances in their tax-deferred accounts.

Mike Briggs

The running balances us out a little more. We wanted to come in and throw the ball with Andrew, and having a freshman running back on the varsity that can produce.

Henry Hyde

the series of checks and balances that exemplify the genius of our founding fathers.

David Frost

The steady fall in the critical confidence balances this year, for both manufacturing and services, is extremely worrying and requires an urgent policy response.

Nick Holt

They already have film of us from last year. They know what we do, and we didn't know what they did until (Monday). So it probably balances out.

Alan Bennett

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Al Ries

It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

Akio Morita

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

Akio Morita

The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

Akio Morita

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

George Foster

We want the players to have a framework to evaluate business opportunities put in front of them. The sporting theme (inspires) much more passion for a lot of people, but a lot of sporting ideas go bankrupt, so passion is not enough. You've got to have revenues come through the door and you've got to contain your cost.

Richard Williams

We want them to have a real-world experience, which means working with people from other schools and cultures, which gives them an experience of diversity. Some students never would have considered a career in international business and exportation without this kind of exposure.

Mike Clasper

We want to streamline the management and admin staff of the business and get our managers closer to the business to deliver that better leadership and get the right people in the right jobs.

Ido Hartuv

We want to see who in the group supports his (Robertson's) statements. Those who support the statements cannot do business with us. Those that publicly support Ariel Sharon's recovery ... are welcome to do business with us.

Hiltrud Breyer

We want to show the red card to forced prostitution. It has nothing to do with fair play, it's a crime.

Eddie Izzard

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

Steve Loucks

The other thing we're doing is making sure the customers pay with credit cards so they can get their money back more easily if the tickets can't be used.

Judy McDonald

We usually just play cards - there's always a card game going on. Or we sit around. Sit around and talk.

Sandy Prince

We are a full service florist with fresh-cut flowers, silk arrangements, balloons, table decorations, cake-a-grams, plush, greeting cards and candy.

Ken Hammond

We are looking for the owners of the cards to find out how they last used them,

Luke Mitchell

I do weights and work out different body parts on different days. I don't do cardio - I did too much in my tennis-playing days!

Dan Casey

When you think of the person who goes to Disneyland and spends $500 and puts it on the credit card and their interest rate is 15 percent (debt) ... the person that puts it in the credit union is getting 4 percent (gain). The difference is close to 20 percent.

Chad Coleman

Whenever you have the creator pulling your card and saying they want you to be a part of it, you're in a pretty good position.

Eddie Izzard

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

Steve Loucks

The other thing we're doing is making sure the customers pay with credit cards so they can get their money back more easily if the tickets can't be used.

Judy McDonald

We usually just play cards - there's always a card game going on. Or we sit around. Sit around and talk.

Sandy Prince

We are a full service florist with fresh-cut flowers, silk arrangements, balloons, table decorations, cake-a-grams, plush, greeting cards and candy.

Ken Hammond

We are looking for the owners of the cards to find out how they last used them,

Mike Conway

We're still keeping our cards close. It's an extremely important position in the city, one that you can't just rush out and find an applicant.

Bill Gates

Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Gail Fosler

Very few of the responses will have a post-attack impact, ... In the last two weeks people have ... been very distracted. Filling out response cards to consumer confidence surveys has not really been their number one priority.

Britt Beemer

About 30% of people who got gift cards plan to use them this week. Many retailers are going to be putting out spring merchandise to get people excited about it.

John Savage

When you think about all these people looking to live here and the commerce and housing that entails, you've really got to do some planning.

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.

Michael Leunig

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.

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.

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,

John Hall

It really depends on the region you're in, what the commerce is in your area,

Jon Oltsik

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

Michael Rowe

As far as Winchester is concerned, it creates a focal point for commerce and other activities.

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.

Tim Ebner

The one thing you saw today was a flow, it was up-and-down. When you play that way at that speed and that tempo, things are going to happen. They got the game-winner off one of our guys' skates but that's a credit to them because they got the puck to that point. Some days the bounces go your way and some days they don't.

Karen Hill

The people who have the weakest credit histories are in great danger of falling into a predatory environment.

Dick Wilcox

We struggled for rhythm the whole game. That's to their credit. We didn't play great but again, credit their defense. We had that one spurt, but they shut us down and we couldn't quite get over the hump.

Jay Wright

We struggled, and a lot of that credit goes to Marquette. But we finished it off, and that's a sign of a really good team.

James McCormack

When you've got credit growth that already exceeds (gross domestic product growth), that's a lot of new credit." ()

Bob Ward

We're not going to make excuses. First of all, you have to give a lot of credit to Holmdel, because they outplayed us. Every season has distractions, pressure and injuries. You just have to deal with it.

Mark Cuban

Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.

Chris Valdez

We have to give the kids credit. They made it their mission to follow the game plan.

Kristy Curry

We have to give (Missouri State) a lot of credit, but once we got going, I think that we were fine.

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

Barry Diller

We're ready to compete. We're very serious about this. Search evolves. We have a product that I think is part of that.

Shelly Lombard

It's just the wrong product at the wrong time.

Robert Porter

It's a solid result in terms of our production figures.

Tim Ghriskey

A lot of the higher-margin products are doing well.

Rich Lechner

It's not only being used for development purposes, but also being used in production environments very heavily.

Jose Ferreira

It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale revenues within a 5-10 year time frame? Is the timing right? YouTube wouldn't have worked pre-broadband.

Randy Hall

It's a tightly twisted product that wears well.

Dave Barry

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Frederic Bastiat

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Alan Ladd

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Michael Kilpatrick

We're making a profit every year, but the thing is, we keep putting that profit back into the business.

Jeff Wright

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

Christian Maher

It's a savage profit warning for the UK.

Denny Grimes

They need to get realistic and quit getting greedy, and realize a profit is a win. There's no sin in making a profit.

Dhirubhai Ambani

You do not require an invitation to make profits.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

E. B. White

Profit sharing, we put in place as soon as I arrived. That was important to me.

Jeff Wright

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

Prakash Karat

Disinvestment of shares in profitable public sector units is not the proper way to raise resources.

Mark Constant

Merrill Lynch is still quite profitable in a very tough year.

Clive Beddoe

We'll be profitable in the third quarter. There's no question about that.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Nancy Bell

It's important to have documentation that it is going to be a profitable business,

Kevin Cox

They can test this marketplace, ... They don't have to sign a long-term lease. If they would take such a chance, they'd find it to be quite profitable and beneficial, as would the traveling public.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Bill Vaughan

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