Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Peterson

We are pleased to report that all outstanding issues involving the SEC's financial review, as well as the accounting issues related to DFG, have now been resolved, ... Today's earnings release brings this matter to a close and we now look forward to proceeding with the Tyson transaction.

Steven Milunovich

We believe that the accounting seems to proper and the company reports that it has been reviewed and approved by its auditors.

Mitch Daniels

We stand to gain up to several thousand more jobs at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service center, ... and the commission listened to our recommendations for Crane and saved half of the jobs that were recommended for transfer elsewhere.

David Schertler

We're seeing cases of accounting improprieties that are being prosecuted criminally today that would not have been prosecuted that way 10 years ago.

Phil Ruffat

We're seeing basically complete distrust in financial accounting in the Western Hemisphere. People are going to pack it up and go.

John Roberts

We can contend that we have already done what the statute envisions, ... The president has demanded an accounting from the Soviets, and has done so repeatedly.

John Tyson

Unfortunately, it will be impossible to complete the cash tender offer by the 28th. IBP continues to work with the SEC to resolve their accounting issues. After that work is complete, we will determine what effect these matters will have on our deal.

Sam Buell

WorldCom could occur in any era, it's more traditional book cooking. It's hard to think of another one of these cases really is like Enron in the sense that it raises fundamental questions of accounting and financial reporting.

Sean Clark

We feel that the traditional accounting measures designed to capture physical assets are deficient in capturing the full value of a firm.

Michael Goodling

We want to take a little bit of this frustration and turn it into some positive momentum.

Audrey Hepburn

I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for,

Andrew Booth

We accomplished everything we wanted to and got a little bit of confidence. Everything turned out as well as I could've wanted.

Michael Steele

My style is a little bit different than most conventional Republican Party chairmen. My style is more grass roots-oriented. I'm much more of a street guy. I love hanging out in boardrooms, but I prefer to be in neighborhoods and communities.

Jim Calhoun

The only difference between Providence and maybe somebody a little bit higher in the standings is the young kids. Providence is talented but they're young. Young teams make mistakes.

Paul Woods

The potential is there and with a bit of luck we could finish in the top four. There are two or three programs that are traditionally strong and the final one or two spots are usually up for grabs.

Pat Sullivan

The people who were here tonight now have an idea of the talent you see at the NAIA National Tournament. This team is every bit as talented as what you see at the nationals. In fact, if this had been 20 years ago when the NAIA had 600 teams, this team could have won it.

Winifred Creamer

The people who built the first of these structures had no model to go by, no precedent to use in building a monument. It's a bit like deciding to build a functioning spaceship in your back yard, and succeeding.

Mike Hathaway

We've always been a little bit wide open anyway, but with Chris out, it kind of forced us to throw more.

Al Ries

The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.

Ed Begley, Jr.

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

David Brooks

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

Louis Navellier

Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.

Jim Delgado

The point is to demonstrate what a day without us would be like. Without us buying clothes, without us purchasing gasoline, without us buying food. . . . We have taken many steps forward, now is not the time to take steps back.

Charles White

We've all been conditioned to say, 'lower interest rates, higher stock prices, better buying opportunity,'

Firas Askari

We are seeing a little retraction. Some people took profits by selling the Canadian dollar and buying euros.

Nick Raich

Where people make a mistake is that they think high-quality companies will translate into high quality stocks, and that often is not the case. With a popular company, you get high expectations and that can push things up so that the stock is not worth buying for awhile.

Liya Kebede

I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.

Robert Gleitz

We are seeing an incredible growth in demand for wind turbines as more countries seek to expand their renewable energy production to help reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and improve their energy security.

Jeremy Hobbs

We are potentially in the final throes of this round of talks at the World Trade Organization, which was meant to help poor countries but has gone way off track. What is needed from Europe now is not self-interest and intransigence but genuine concessions that will put trade at the service of development.

Chris Rudge

There are countries that want only gold. We may move to that at some point.

Donald Rumsfeld

There are countries like Paraguay and others, their neighboring countries, they're all interested in being able to grow and function in a manner that's free of external influence and to do things in ways that fit their history and their circumstance,

Paul Nelson

There are countries I've never heard of that have like 20 people playing,

Yang Jiechi

We stand ready to hold exchanges with other countries on the question of the exchange rate.

Peter Fricker

We're still leading the way but the margins are narrowing and rival countries have learnt from us. I'm in it to win it and we're here to win and the gloves are off.

Oliver Houston

We've got members in over 85 countries around the world, this is not just about people who are going week-in, week-out,

Jomo Gbomo

We are also considering the release of the Thai, Egyptian and Filipino hostages as well. Their countries do not have interests in the Nigerian oil industry.

Charles Caleb Colton

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

Tom Ferguson

We're making the currency safer, smarter and more secure,

Masaki Fukui

Worse-than-expected trade-deficit figures could be fertile ground for dollar selling. Amid the already dollar-bearish sentiment, the U.S. currency has a downside risk.

Bob Sinche

The yen is the currency we really like right now.

Alex Beuzelin

This morning, the currency markets were just as nervous as the rest of the financial markets. As the stock market stabilized, so did the U.S. currency.

John Chambers

It partly depends on the currency regimes in place in the country.

Masafumi Yamamoto

Depending on the economic indicators, the currency market will be more volatile than before.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Right now there are few market participants.... Investors don't know what may happen with the currency during the holidays.

Masahiro Kawai

Perhaps a single currency may come after that.

Pawel Janas

There are definitely going to be a ton of Polish fans there to root us on.

Matt Hasselbeck

There are definitely enough resources of people that have been there. Even guys on our team that have been there and played in this game, and I guess you just have to listen and try to learn what you can from those types of people.

Sabrina Davis

There are definitely enough people out getting the petition circulating to get enough signatures.

Michael Showalter

There are comedians that I like. I think a lot of it, you just figure out on your own. It's definitely one of those things that you get good at by doing it a lot. But I like Jim Gaffigan. Patton Oswalt. Janeane Garofalo.

Bob Gates

There are some excellent golfers in the area, no doubt. But I definitely think Tyson had a lot to do with our all-around team success this year, not to mention with the growth of some of our younger players. He's going to be a tough player to replace next season.

Ron James

We're in a three-game stretch right now that definitely will shape our season. This is the first step in that direction. It's a division game. It's a game that can get us to .500.

Ricky Stuart

We're in a really tough period, we've got some good teams to play over the next month but it's how we handle the tough period that will determine the result at the back end of the season. We will definitely stick solid as a team.

Catherine Young

We started off a little slow. The heat was definitely a factor. Once we got going, we had 3-4 nice combinations and we got our heads in the game.

Robert Lamm

When you've been playing for 35 years, there aren't too many 'firsts' left. But this is definitely the first time we've ever played a record company's lobby.

Michael Specter

Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind.

Alex Williams

We're in a do-it-yourself mega-trend where people can do it themselves. It's so much easier to write to the Web, talk to the Web and put images on the Web.

Louis C. K.

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

Mark Recchi

We have to get better at it. That's one are where we really, really have to get better. Not enough desperation. Once we get that we'll make it a lot easier on ourselves.

Brian Durocher

We want opponents to know we are going to put up a fight. Unfortunately, we made it a little easier for Maine. We should have extra motivation the next time out.

Greg Ellis

We would've hated going into the bye at 4-4, ... It's a big swing for us, even though it's only one game. We had some good things out there, but there are still things that need to be fixed. It's easier to go back and fix them on a positive note, going into the bye with a win.

Fabio Lara

With this grouping, the market thinks it will be easier for shares to go up. But it is really only psychological.

Greg Lee

We're still going to throw the ball. Being able to run is going to make it a lot easier for us to throw.

Mike DeRoche

Were hoping they can take over the whole operation. It will make it easier on us.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Jerry Lewis

This is a national security issue; this is a national security bill. It's important to protect our ports from this kind of foreign involvement.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Norihiro Fujito

It is understandable that foreigners want to take profits for now.

Porter Goss

foreign policy team was all on the same page.

Colin Lundgren

Foreign investors will still get a lot of yield comparatively in the U.S., so we could see them buying.

Edgar Jimenez

Foreign investors started looking for other options in non-emerging markets.

Masayoshi Okamoto

Foreign investors probably have a full stomach after they swallowed a whole range of Japanese stocks.

Koichi Seki

Foreign investors are stepping up purchases of Japanese stocks and that is the main reason the market has held up so strongly in recent weeks.

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.

Martin Angel

A lot of investors are still unsure which way the market will go and so are reluctant to jump in.

Robert Hazlett

For investors in Pfizer, this is a meaningful event. This risk has been a significant overhang for some time.

Robert LaFleur

It's the uncertainty. Investors are pretty tuned into it and want to know what's going on.

Linda Killian

It was a very middle-of-the- road market, but the returns were decent. Investors are still very picky.

Steve Tuen

Any ray of sunshine that investors can find is a big plus for the IPO market.

Sukhbir Khanijoh

Prices quoted vary but most analysts set a target between THB50 and THB55 for Shin, so investors should keep vigilant if its price rises too high.

Richard Bernstein

Private investors are usually late to the party.

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

David Brooks

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.They have some issue. They have some interest.It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

Barry Diller

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

Barney Frank

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

Barney Frank

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Max Frisch

There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Jeffrey Skilling

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

Jerry Lewis

The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

Delmon Young

That was smoothed over when they took the prior ownership out.

Byron Dorgan

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

Kristen Stewart

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

Brian Berger

They have ownership of this field, it's their baby. It's going to give them a sense of pride.

Michael Spears

It's a lot like a church, ... Everyone really takes ownership for the children's education.

Lewis Wade

They're not going to tell. They'd rather retaliate.

Dryden Mitchell

It was so unorganized. ... It just got silly. We would have rather sat on that record for a year and let Geffen put it out.

Nick Cave

Aw, look, I don't know. I think I'd rather him do that than me.

James Griffin

As long as it is like it is and they tell me not to go back I'm here. I'd rather be up here anyway.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Bill White

Rather than risk confrontation with (police), we are going to stay at the Capitol.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

A.J. Burnett

Sooner rather than later, we're going to see a new team on top there.

Kevin Pietersen

Rather him than me in one of those things,

Elizabeth Jennings

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Kathryn Prescott

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Marney Cox

On the one hand, it sounds like we may be a little weaker going into 2006.

Kevin Taylor

He sounds like a particularly mischievous 14 year old to me. Not too big to be put over his dad's knee, I wager.

Jill Scott

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Tom Sizemore

I think I may be in - potentially - three classics. That sounds like I'm bragging.

Rick Wakeman

I avoid preset sounds wherever possible, and all the sounds I use I have edited.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Lisa Roberts

They're just a big target if they go,

Eileen Claussen

Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.

Patrick Stump

Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

Jim Schneider

We give you the target that we think we can actually hit. We're not trying to lowball this. We tell you what we're going to do and do it.

Andy Gray

If you don't hit the target, you're never gonna score

Angela Kinsey

I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.

Alfred Hitchcock

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Richard E. Grant

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Robert Greene

Never be put off by your target's anger; it is a sure sign of enslavement.