Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Marshal Cohen

Until they're able to prove that consumers are going to respond to the changes, the Street is very nervous. It's a very big undertaking to convince the country that a national Macy's is better than regional department stores.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

Janet Jenkins

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

Leo Hindery

would be one of the greatest displacements of high-quality (cable) programming -- one of the rudest things I can ever, ever imagine for consumers in this country.

Kurt Barnard

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Charles Dickens

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Charles Dickens

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

Charles Caleb Colton

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Alan Rickman

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Chloe Grace Moretz

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Henry Samueli

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Rick Adelman

We're not going to sit back and let this continue. We're not happy about what's going on, and I know Mr. Geoff Petrie (the general manager) is not happy either. We have too much talent for this.

Ron Gettelfinger

We've got a pretty unique situation involving General Motors . That's why I'm optimistic.

Marcel Proust

The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.

Phil Garner

We're going to leave that to our general manager. Sure, I'd like to have Clemens back.

Richard Armitage

Yes, and it's generally on. And I won't tell you what it's on,

Charles Dickens

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Charles Caleb Colton

The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

Charles Dickens

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

Charles Dickens

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

David Walliams

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.

Beatrix Potter

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

William Shakespeare

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

M. Wolfe

There is no person who is happier for me, ... He's been nothing but supportive and we have such a mutual respect for each other.

Lee Radziwill

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

Guy Garvey

As much as I love being at home, I was there long enough to where I was getting a little antsy. I've never been happier to get on a bus.

Jeff Zucker

This is an announcement that I couldn't be happier to be making.

Joe Battista

It ranks in the top ten victories in my 19 years at Penn State. I couldn't be happier for the players.

Mia Wasikowska

I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.

Jack Hoffman

I've never been happier in my life. I've got my wife back.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.

Gavin Henson

Bollocks! They keep saying we're going to split. I've never been happier in my life, ever. No chance.

Mitt Romney

We're going to need to find, in many cases, permanent housing for these individuals. Jobs, housing, transportation and the like,

Bonnie Adams

We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs.

Carl Guardino

It's fascinating that housing was No. 1 in all three of those categories.

Nina Holland

They (organophosphates) can be tracked from outside in because some of these people in our study live in housing just next to the fields.

Gray Swoope

It ranges from housing interest to retail development interest to warehouse and manufacturing interest.

Nariman Behravesh

Of that 8.9 percent, maybe a third of it was weather-related. The rest of it is underlying trend of weakness in the housing market. You are seeing pervasive signs of weakness.

David Fields

a full-range of housing for all incomes and all people who wish to live in the neighborhood.

Steve Allen

Public housing units in New Orleans were huge,

Judy Burkett

The statistics show that 30 percent of the housing inventory is spoken for, but that's not accurate. There's not that much inventory.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Henry McVey

We still like the equities market and think the S&P 500 could potentially go through 1300 this week.

Bernard Ebbers

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Celso Senise

There is no money in the market and the pressure to sell is very great.

Bob Sinche

And the second quarter is supposed to be the weakest quarter, with a pickup in the third quarter.

Mohammed Jassim

Soldiers with Kalashnikovs and pickup trucks is not an army,

Will Kitchen

If he starts making a couple, they all start going in. It's the same way when we play after-school pickup games. He's the sparkplug for us a lot of times.

Mark Gottfried

I think the carryover is that the pickup games, when we're not present, are better, ... They're talking about principles defensively.

Karen Cole

We had to make two trips in the pickup

Charles Spurgeon

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

Alan Mulally

We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.

China Mieville

While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

Arthur Scargill

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Arne Duncan

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

Antonis Samaras

Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.

Rich Repetto

We're seeing a significant retail component. This isn't an IPO, but that's the way it's acting.

John Longworth

As retailers had feared, the spending surge was short-lived.

Todd Jones

The teen retailers and some of the specialty retailers were the clear-cut winners.

Sherry Cooper

This is still a very strong retail sales report,

Craig Cole

Those are the type of retail tenants we work with.

Jim Hopkins

We are doing retail and have done retail, already. It's very, very important and emerging.

Shahrukh Khan

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.

Peter Drucker

Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.

Fred Delk

When this is finished, it will be a beautiful, pedestrian-friendly retail environment. It will have been worth it.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Shawn Roop

At first, all I wanted the Web site to do was $50 in sales a day, then $100 -- now I look for $350 a day.

Bob Bertini

There is still some sales impact, particularly on the West Coast.

Matt Groening

Sales man: You got time for lunch?Homer: Yeah..but I usually have 2 or 3.Salesman: You like thai?Homer: Yeah, ya like shirt?

Joel Rassman

The stock sales have nothing to do with the state of the market. It has everything to do with diversification.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Robert Klein

Fear is the greatest salesman.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

J. J. Johnson

We're seeing a very substantial shift going on in the market.

Timothy Ghriskey

We're seeing a pullback really just from yesterday.

Chris Shipley

We're seeing a lot more activity, a lot more energy, a lot more companies.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Franz Muentefering

They are starting to panic. They're seeing that the voters are turning away from Merkel.

Eartha Kitt

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Bob Marley

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

Adam Pine

We've always had it in us. The men's team will keep getting stronger and stronger.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

No matter how many times you have slipped or fallen, rise up... You are stronger than you realize.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

Edmund Waller

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

Ai Weiwei

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

Edith Wharton

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

David Ricardo

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

Denis Waitley

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends.

Charles M. Schwab

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

Bob Brown

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Calvin Coolidge

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,

Bill Gross

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.