Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grant Hassell

The strong returns over the quarter added to the good performance of the diversified funds for the previous nine months.

R. Robinson

Salesforce.com saw a demand so it added more applications, more customization, more data capacity, so organizations can run all their applications on demand. It builds out capacity so it is not CRM with additions, but a platform with a choice of applications.

Jeffrey Loria

You talk about last year, but in the end, last year wasn't all that good for us. We decided two years ago we had to take a good look at this team after the World Series. We added a little bit to it. But there was a strong feeling in the organization that we might have to rebuild this team. We finally bit the bullet and doing it is part of the whole process.

Philip Kirschner

You never know until you see a lot of meat added to the bones of what was talked about during the campaign. But, I think what has energized business people here in New Jersey for the first time in I think 60 or 70 years is you have a governor who has a business background.

Don Crawford

The profile of the people we serve are families that are having trouble making ends meet. There are also senior citizens who are living on fixed incomes who come in and some have the added stress of caring for young grandchildren.

David Roberts

When I got to McAfee, the channel was narrow, but with 2,000 new partners added in the past year, what will be critical in 2006 will be setting up the right care and feeding strategy for them.

Hans Kunnen

Earnings growth is still in the pipeline for next year and commodities forecasts are being revised up, so no one is willing to pull the plug on resources stocks just yet. Some of them are in play, so there's added incentive to buy gold stocks.

Giovanni Bisignani

Each dollar added to the price of a barrel of oil adds $1 billion in costs to the industry.

Gary Barber

Due to the large number of new oil and gas wells in Smith County for 2005, all the tax information was not available when the tax roll was certified. The Smith County Appraisal District has supplemented the new mineral accounts. This value has been added and tax statements have been mailed and payments are now being received.

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Michael Terpstra

Oh I am gonna buy an island I am gonna buy an airplane. In reality, gee, not a fan of flying, and I do not really like water.

Andre Dreicon

The mood is negative. It could fall further, but whoever comes in now is buying cheap.

Tokio Furuta

Despite the weak yen, technology issues suffered because of the lack of their main buyers -- foreign investors -- due to the Christmas holiday season.

Jim Kliesch

Any category that you're interested in, you can buy green.

Michael Birch

Any company that goes through an integration, buying a new business, there are always risks. So as soon as we see that bedded down, a lot more comfortable we'll be. We still think that mining services, companies related to resources, will do really well next year.

Kurt Barnard

Are consumers buying more? I don't know. I think what Wal-Mart said about people spending less of the rebate money this year in stores is significant. It shows people prefer to save any extra money than spend it.

Diana Yates

The strong are getting stronger. There are more opportunities to buy at a cheaper price.

Terry Mackin

Advertisers can't buy enough video in today's market.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Jim Volk

Right now the perception is we are not going to get the earnings recovery we thought we were going to get.

Walter Winnitzki

These stocks are pretty much earnings driven. If the earnings come through, I think the stocks are going to move higher and, on balance, I think we are in a healthy environment, which bodes well for stocks in this whole group.

Donald Selkin

The stocks that are benefiting most from better earnings are the small and mid-cap ones.

Andrew Walker

This earnings increase is the highest we have seen since 1999. It has been growing much faster than inflation.

Juergen Lukasser

What we need right now is earnings growth, and some sort of weakness in the retail sector is a threat to that.

Katsunori Hirai

Earnings growth seems to be intact, and with U.S. risk receding, it should help stocks to trade higher from here.

Michael Sheldon

Earnings for the fourth quarter have generally met or exceeded expectations. We've seen solid reports from a number of different industries, with strength not just in energy, as in previous quarters in 2005.

Alex Scott

At the start of the year, forecasts generally were for a more subdued year than we'd seen in 2004 so 16 percent is a pretty good year.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

Lauryn Hill

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

Laura Miller

Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.

Martin Short

An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.

Marissa Young

Getting here was our goal, but now that we are here, being here isn't enough. I want to take home a ball, preferably a gold one (for a state championship). We want to be a team that is remembered.

Jay Hakkinen

If it does become big, that would just be a gold mine.

Victor Flores

If the stocks are really factoring the move in the gold prices, stocks would be a least 10 percent higher than they are right now.

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Sidney Poitier

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

Peter Graves

I wish this season were two weeks longer, as these men and women are getting better by the week. What's really pleasing is that, to a person on this squad, the technique improvements and the growth in speed and tempo are really on the upswing.

Stuart Rossmiller

If they're going to get a venture-capital rate of return on what has traditionally been a slow growth business, they will have to revolutionize the educational publishing market.

Kent Newcomb

Sixteen percent growth is outstanding. There's no other way to put it.

Tony Boyle

This is a pretty tight league and if we can win our three remaining matches this would see us shoot up the table, so the incentive is there for us to perform today.

Rod Lache

I don't see this as resulting in anything dramatically negative. Over time, you'll see incentives rising everywhere. But it's not anything scary yet.

H. Hunt

If (the legislation) was an incentive to get more people to do the recycling, sure, everyone is looking to save a little money.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Jennifer Dunn

We are actually still working with Chico's, and there are incentives involved because it's very important for us to keep this kind of headquarters in this community, and we feel like Chico's has a lot to offer to the community.

David Limbaugh

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

Dave Van Ronk

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

John McKinley

Ultimately, you get to a point where you want to take the next hill. I really wanted to get back to a role in a technology organization.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Jan Egeland

In the pipeline we have 10,000 tents and 100,000 blankets but it takes time to go to these areas.

Greg Ryan

We ship it in 240-gallon totes that can plug right into their processing lines,

Richard Roby

A win is a win. When you can scratch and claw and pull out a win like that in an ugly game, it's a plus.

Carl Weathers

When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.

Stubby Clapp

There's nothing like pulling the red and white over your head.

Brad Taylor

The tires just went sideways and pulled me into the ditch.

Jamon Gordon

We thought we were going to pull it out. That?s how the season has been this year.

Corey Claitt

I didn't want to get frustrated, but I'm not used to losing. We just had to trust one another. We pulled together as a team.

Shatha Atiya

He has a lot of confidence, but I never thought he would be able to pull this together.

Doug Thomas

In this arena, we're doing phenomenal. We're going on the road now, and we've got to be able to pull off some road wins.

Jim Shaw

I pulled myself out. The timing was too tight.

William Green

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.

Brent Nelson

We're trying to make sure that the residents that are out there have the supplies and resources that they need, and that they are safe.

Michael Holland

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

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jamie Dimon

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

Ben Goldacre

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.

Catherine Opie

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.