Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Benson

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

William Williams

The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.

David Healy

The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Roland Martin

Radio has always been a niche business. Cable television has always been a niche business. Magazines have always been a niche business.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Douglas Kmiec

Primarily, the case is about the United States wanting to be treated no better, but certainly no worse, than the way that every law firm and business firm and potential employer for law students is treated when they come to campus.

Gus Melonas

Projected business volumes (on the line) do not support operating costs. This was a business decision.

John Peters

Prof. Van Cromphout was a man who reminds us all why we are in the business of education, ... Over nearly four decades of service to NIU, he demonstrated a profound commitment to higher education.

Fauzi Ichsan

Premature rate cuts could trigger inflationary expectations that could reduce, if not reverse, the capital inflows.

Kenny Tang

The risk of a further slump of Hong Kong stocks is not great, as there is no evidence there are capital outflows in the region. Strong support remains at the mid-February low of 15,241.

John McWhorter

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?

Roger Altman

We live in an era where the global capital markets are the super power in the world, and when they move against you as they've moved against Russia, as we've all seen in the ruble, there's nothing that can stop that.

Jim Mills

Currency trading has been one of the fastest-growing segments of the electronic trading universe in recent years. As a pioneer in this market, Gain Capital has helped drive the growth of the market and has become a highly profitable company.

Bill Gurley

I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.

Jim Henkel

At one time, 60 percent (of the income tax) went into the general fund, and 40 percent for capital improvements. Now, about 95 percent has to go into the general fund and 5 percent for capital improvements.

Jozef Straus

At present, order levels clearly reflect lower carrier capital spending and the resulting desire of our customers to reduce inventories sharply.

John Burns

Conquering himself, he has learned that he can conquer the world of capital whose generals have been the most ruthless of his oppressors.

Gail Evans

The more credit you give, the better it reflects on you.

Cate Williams

A credit score is a snapshot of an exact moment.

Steve Ricchiuto

Sales ex-autos were decidedly stronger than people had given credit for. This is an important piece of information on where the economy was prior to Katrina.

Jim Rogers

The whole world works on credit and the state Legislature can't, ... We need to get in the credit business.

Mike Kidwell

Don't keep borrowing, freeze the credit cards, if you haven't already. Don't get a second mortgage on the house.

Jim Davis

Currently, you have to get a sponsor and intern for two years. Or you can go to a school, and the state gives you one year of credit toward the internship.

Donald Black

Cut up your credit cards, get rid of your checkbook, don't shop by yourself.

Peter Freeman

Customers value home credit because it suits their needs very well but the fact is that they are paying too much for it, because of the lack of competitive pressure in the market.

Joann Johnson

Credit union officials have done an outstanding job in working to ensure their operations are regaining full strength,

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,

Barry Hyman

The moves in media stocks are never earnings based.

Jim Volk

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

Takashi Ushio

Right now, the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results. But investors are also in something of a wait-and-see mood, as we have earnings from industrial electronics firms tomorrow.

Brian Gendreau

Practically in every quarter lately, we've had this feeling that we're at the peak, this is it, no more growth. That's why you see a lot of volatility but, ultimately, the Dow or the other indexes end up not having moved much. But one day we may see earnings growth decelerate, and it could be this year.

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.

Tony Dolphin

They are also reasonable value, and earnings momentum is holding up better than expected.

James Mulva

As an industry we feel it is not a good precedent to fund a government program.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Tim Kaine

Often, money is taken out of that fund for other projects. I'll make sure that stops.

Dale Mitchell

The state does not provide any funding at all,

Joe Jones

The Second Injury Fund seems to be advantageous to a very small number of people.

Richard Mann

Scholarship funding doesn't come from the state, it doesn't come from university coffers.

James Sarni

It wouldn't surprise me if we get to 4 3/4 percent, but it would surprise me to see the funds rate go higher than that.

David Rose

You're going to see a lot more mutual funds owning international securities.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Benjamin Disraeli

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

Jane Austen

She was stronger alone…

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Edgar Allan Poe

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

George H. W. Bush

even better and stronger than before the storm.

Kent Evans

It wouldn't surprise me if there are more in the future,

Vance Taylor

It wouldn't surprise me if one were Target.

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

Irv DeGraw

This is the big surprise of the day, but it's unclear why it's happening.

Brett Favre

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

Carnie Wilson

I can be a lady - surprise!

Dan Garton

Do they like what we're doing? No. Are they surprised by it? No.

Steve Smith

We weren't surprised by any of them. We were just surprised by so many of them. In my recollection, that's the most anomalies that's ever come up.