Famous Quotes & Sayings

Townsend Harris

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Kevin Rollins

We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.

Jim Rogers

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, high prices led companies to overproduce, leading to substantial excess supply and stockpiling.

Jim Rogers

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

Jim Barksdale

No longer do we have to go looking for information - we can find it on the Internet, our intranet, or our extranet with the click of a mouse.

James Atlas

A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation.

Rick Wagoner

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

Ramman Kenoun

A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero.

Delbert Teille

When I was 13 I was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. I spent 13 weeks in the hospital getting treatment, and my parents had to mortgage the house to pay for it. I spent Christmas in the hospital. When I got out my father had bought me my first Lionel train set, a model Union Pacific line.

Lisa Delbridge

Bought a truck full of stuff for next year and they will be out here next year.

Tim Taylor

We talked about getting better in practice from day one. They bought into it and we never looked past anyone.

Nick DiDomenico

We just had a good group of kids who bought into what we've been teaching for years. In the past you might have a few kids who were really serious, but we had a group that did everything it had to do to be a special team.

Neil Wilson

No. I bought her something at Christmas time, but I didn't give it to her.

Doc Sadler

That crowd was terrific. I don't know if we could have won the game without them. And I know there were people who couldn't come, sitting home by their radios, and they helped us, too. SMU is one of the top four teams in the conference and I'm glad we've got them out of the way. Our defense was key. Our defense is something we work hard on and something the kids have bought into. We also held them (the Mustangs) to only seven offensive rebounds. Doing that to a team like that is big.

Greg Peterson

My parents bought four plots right away when they went up for sale about 30 years ago. They wanted to insure that the plots would be available. It meant a lot to my mother.

Thomas Friedman

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

Masatoshi Sato

Many had bought high-techs on the back of a weaker yen. But a scenario of the yen's free fall doesn't seem realistic.

Andre Dreicon

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

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.

Kevin Norrish

This is definitely not about buying up oil resources in order to ship the oil into China.

Tony Dwyer

We could pull back a bit, but it will be limited to about a 5 percent decline and it will be quick. This market rally has not been about buying interest, but about the total lack of selling interest.

Ed Eastin

We wanted to come out and be as physical as we can. The kids are really buying into it.

David Cole

If you've got a customer in a car dealership, you don't want them to walk out without buying something.

Joe Wilcox

In the U.S., only about 60 percent of consumers have Microsoft Office on their computers. That's a lot of opportunity for sales there. They have a pricing advantage. It offers comparable, or better functionality for less. For the consumer and small businesses, value and price will be major factors influencing buying decisions.

Michael Porter

In the future, ... buying a single country fund will be akin to buying an Iowa fund or a Massachusetts fund.

Mitsushige Akino

In the current market, high techs are not exactly the target of investors' buying interest. Under these circumstances, it wouldn't help at all to post disappointing earnings.

Nick Price

If we get firm conditions, it's going to open the tournament up to a lot more guys.

Bina Ramani

We are the only witnesses who stood firm in the case, but we did not hear anything (about the look-out notices) from the police.

Ma Jun

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

John Hanley

I can't, and don't even know that. I do know there are no firm plans yet.

Ivo Sanader

It is not true and I firmly reject it,

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Tamsin Greig

I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Levi Stukes

We need to come together even more now since we're in a downfall.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.