Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Thorn

The outlook for the remaining quarters of the year is quite clear and the momentum will be continued. Generating such cash flows will help the company in its plans to make its refinery the world's largest.

Richard Bernstein

The 1-year T-Note rate is now rising at an extremely fast pace relative to dividend yields. Historically, this has been a reliable signal that cash might outperform stocks.

Dan Packer

We have an immediate need for cash because our goal is to continue the restoration effort.

Red Herring

Today?s (venture capital) money chases older, more-established companies with real cash flows, rather than pie in the sky projections. Silicon Valley has evolved.

Jim Grossman

We've more than $5 million in cash and in-kind contributions. What has been done in such a short period of time is reflective of our community as a whole.

Robert Kiyosaki

Making more money will not solve your problems if cash flow management is your problem.

Peter Jackson

We're very pleased with our fundraising so far in this campaign. We have eight times the cash on hand as our opponent, and even though he spent $2 million in his primary, we're tied in the latest Mason-Dixon poll,

Philip Baggaley

Usually, one would see a ratio of less than 50 percent for industrial and transportation companies; however, that's the peak and from there, it should decline as they use free cash flow to pay down debt.

Vijay Jayant

While the company's overall cash flow and revenue numbers were in line with our expectations, the subscriber numbers were a little disappointing.

Imelda May

'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

Walt Mossberg

Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.

Virginia Postrel

Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.

Elizabeth Warren

I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.

Patrick Holden

The pioneering companies that developed the market -- the successful ones -- are now making a lot of money. We are now seeing the second tier of companies that are currently marketing conventional foods realizing that they've got to get involved.

Stephen Levy

The overall trend is that companies can do very well, without it spilling over into job growth. I think 'modest' is the correct word.

Hal Stratton

The penalty process is just one piece of the process by which we keep families safe, ... The idea is not just to penalize, but to publicize those penalties to serve as a deterrent to those companies that might not meet safety standards or constitute substantial product hazards.

Roger McNamee

The PC industry is having a terrific year, particularly if you are one of the big four producers. Those companies are growing twice as fast as everyone else in the industry and gaining very rapidly.

Justin Welby

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

Richard Branson

We have always felt that a company with music at its core rather than technology could do so much better for music fans. It is so user friendly that even I could use it.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money.

Jake Brace

We'll open trading on an exchange and that will determine what the value of the company will be. That's when you'll be able to determine what the true recovery will be.

Barbara Williams

We have the luxury of just watching a little bit. Every company must make a decision about where they want to be on the curve. There's always the risk that if you lead, you bleed.

Robert Hartwig

Typically, they want to know how many people are residents in your household. That creates a different liability situation, and you need to inform your insurance company about that.

Brent Bracelin

Typically a company will look at acquisition strategies when their growth starts to slow but there's no slowing down at Dell.

Robert Kirby

Today, things look much rosier for American Home. The degree of uncertainty at the company is much less today than it was four or five months ago.

Kozo Hiramatsu

We will rebuild our company and keep it going for the future. But this time we promise we'll grow our company with integrity, enhanced corporate governance, and compliance.

A. Bush

We've got some people working here because of the ingenuity of the plant managers, ... . . . This company has provided housing for the folks who work here.

Barack Obama

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Patrick McGurn

The '90s was the slippery slope from managing expectations to managing earnings to outright fraud.

Bill Winters

We could hit that ROE in 2006, but we don't expect to, We can generate earnings at that run rate through 2007.

Edward Keon

We've gotten more optimistic on earnings on U.S. stocks recently.

Stephan Droxner

VW had very strong earnings in the fourth quarter, but it was not only the numbers that were good -- overall, the tone is more optimistic now than after the third quarter.

Brendan Barnicle

Most of the news in terms of earnings is out there. If they were to lower guidance dramatically or take a much more negative tone, that would be different, but I think in light of all they've got going on with PeopleSoft they're unlikely to do that.

Brendan Barnicle

Most of the news in terms of earnings is out there, ... If they were to lower guidance dramatically or take a much more negative tone, that would be different, but I think in light of all they've got going on with PeopleSoft they're unlikely to do that.

Tim Anderson

Merck tells an interesting story, yet the five-year revenue and earnings growth guidance seems far-fetched.

Robert Long

Microsoft tomorrow is the most significant earnings report this week. Everyone knows management's usually fairly cautious, so if they say something really good, that could help things a lot.

Kate Warne

The overall tenor of the market has been very positive because the economic numbers are relaxing fears of a rate hike (by the U.S. Federal Reserve).

Jim Gallagher

The overall intention is to try to have mares reside longer in the state. That's where the greatest economic development is derived.

F. Sionil Jose

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

Roger Altman

The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.

Arthur Levitt

The American economy is the eighth wonder of the world. The ninth is the economic ignorance of the American people.

Bill Grant

That would be great. The more economic development you have, the better it is for the region.

Rainer Guntermann

We have a more mixed picture (and) that would have made some people rethink economic prospects maybe towards the end of the year.

Paul Hubbert

We could have another economic downturn. We need to maintain a reserve.

Mike Schussler

We know that with a lot of the strikes, if they last only a day or three, we can make up that lost production. If it lasts a week or longer we make up only some of that production. That's when it starts having economic consequences.

Bill Brandt

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

Vince Young

That would be special, knowing how long we've been together, how many different things he has taught me to become the man that I am, and how to better myself on the football field and understanding the leadership of a quarterback, and different roles you have to do as a quarterback.

Buddy Bell

That was very instinctive. I don't know if there are many guys on the field who could have done that.

Andy Taylor

That way we'll be on a level playing field and remedy the harm to the party has put on us so far.

Mack Brown

We could not stop them. We couldn't get them off the field.

Tommy Aldridge

We had opportunities, but we were 2-for-10 from the field in the first quarter and we missed our first 12 three-point attempts. We shot 45 percent in the second and third, but that's when we had 15 of our 22 turnovers.

Gary Smith

We were specializing in track and field alone.

Hines Ward

We have a guy that when it's time to play around, he's joking with the players. But when it's time for business, to get on that field and get better, he's all about business. We respect that. It makes you want to go out and fight even harder for the guy.

Bob Kitchens

We have a full field in every race, and a quality field, too.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Jose Diaz

The police are not very nice in Mexico. And you learn that growing up.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Brooke Smith

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

C. S. Lewis

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

C. S. Lewis

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

Jerry Berman

We have tools out there which are 100 percent available.

Ronnie Arnold

We're within 2 percent of the 65 percent now.

David Baltimore

Were we to go with 60 percent at NIH reviews, many of us scientists would be very uncomfortable with the quality.

Joel Fox

We re-use 85 to 90 percent of it.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

Bob Kelly

You can get 170 percent more Terminal Services users on a single server with Windows 2003 Server x64 than you can with 32-bit Windows.

Andrew Cuomo

You just want to win by one. To win by over 50 percent is especially gratifying.

Beth Young

I'm still waiting on that one. We shoot about 30 percent and that would take about 300 shots. I think we try to take that many shots sometimes.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.