Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Bennett

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

Mindy Lubber

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

James Joyce

We did do very well in the transactions over $100 million that we chose to pursue, signing 11 and losing only one competitively, ... But the consistent deferral of mega-deals resulting from customers caution about their own businesses in this economic environment has had a significant impact on the growth of our outsourcing revenue.

John Lee

Diversified businesses are growing at a faster rate than we thought.

Craig Lesser

Different businesses have different needs. But most are concerned with finding a location close to their customer base.

John Mack

We certainly see a lot of people coming to us with Internet businesses to sell, ... But the deals are not getting done because these companies have no revenue and no tangible assets.

Richard McLeod

We think it dramatically changes the industry, dramatically changes the marketplace, dramatically changes the way businesses communicate and impacts on customer satisfaction, their revenues and profitability.

Robbie Freeman

We're very keen on what they're doing and feel our businesses will complement each other.

Rob Palombi

There's still a lot of consumer demand out there, and as businesses try to restock their inventory levels they will increase demand, which will lead to stronger growth. That could be problematic for the Fed.

John Varley

We have delivered what we said we would deliver, ... We have got very strong profit growth in a number of our businesses.

Ben Wagner

We are very excited to be a part of this project. Our team delivered a site that was designed under tight parameters and deadlines. It's always great to be involved in a project that will excite and embrace users.

Phil English

Clearly, NAFTA has never delivered on its promises, ... We need to redesign NAFTA so it's not a race to the bottom.

David Seibert

A lot of our supplies went to the police department because a lot of those officers lost everything they had. We delivered a lot of uniforms to those officers.

Tim Ghriskey

Its valuation means it's priced for perfection and perfection was not delivered this quarter.

Bob Williams

With software as a service and entertainment software delivered via the Internet, we're seeing interesting new Internet technologies and delivery platforms that enable these types of applications.

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.

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.

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.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Carlos Ghosn

Russia is an important part of our global growth strategy.

Lorenzo Codogno

Protectionism remains the major threat to global growth.

Richard Grasso

to make them more competitive in the global arena.

Tommy Franks

We're taking part in a global war on terrorism,

Raghuram Rajan

We see a shifting of global growth away from the United States to other countries. Whether it's enough is still for the jury to decide. The jury is still out.

Markos Kyprianou

We have not yet reached the level of preparedness that we should have. This is a global threat and there is need for international action.

Richard Stallman

Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.

Patty Stonesifer

Rick has provided outstanding leadership for the global health program during a time of tremendous growth.

Charlie Miller

But at the same time, global warming is such an overwhelming problem that we need to keep nuclear power on the table as an option.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Anne Donovan

The way of the WNBA playoffs, it does not put the higher seed at an advantage, ... You have to go in there and make the most of it.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

James Kim

The second quarter should see a marginal improvement.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Tom Daschle

We're disappointed this couldn't be better, ... this is a substantial improvement over what we started with.

George Carlin

When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

Ferdinand Porsche

Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult

Bruce Campbell

I can't think of any organization where there isn't room for improvement.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Simon Crisford

I think we will be recommending to Sheikh Mohammed that she stays in trainer next year because there is potential for more improvement from her.

James Anthony Froude

Human improvement is from within outward.

Joel Slemrod

Things that some people have come to view as income and are used to being taxed on would not be taxable anymore.

Albert Einstein

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

T. Harv Eker

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

Ronald Reagan

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

Ron Paul

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Stephen Baldwin

All the toys are gone. Everything's gone, and I'm making 25 percent of my usual income. And my wife-couldn't be happier.

Ludwig von Mises

Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich. Capital levies and high income taxes on the larger incomes are extraordinarily popular with the masses, who do not have to pay them.

David Mamet

We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation.

Igor Shpilband

People try to be new. Sometimes they push it a little too far, I agree. I like innovation instead of repeating something that has been done.

Craig Mundie

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

Anna Eshoo

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Robert Metcalfe

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Scott Adams

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

Ray Mabus

A more diverse force is a stronger force. A more diverse mindset makes you a stronger force. If you have the same outlook, if you have the same mindset, you don't get much innovation.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Steve Case

For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.

Thomas Jefferson

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Brian Brohm

We got that momentum going, got in a rhythm, and you saw (that) once we get into it, we can do pretty much anything we want to, ... We've got to get into that rhythm every game.

Dick Powell

When it starts to move it will make a lot of noise and it will move and have a lot of momentum and take anything in its way out.

Hannah Arendt

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Sebastian Coe

The international people tell us that we are taken seriously and that there is a momentum.

Daniel Sullivan

It's our way to keep the momentum in our favor. We're going to have ups-and-downs with our offense and defense, but the special teams can keep that momentum.

Lucious Jordan

That's something we talked about all week. It's a big win for us and a big accomplishment, but now we need to move on to our next big goal. We needed this win to get our momentum going into the tournament.

Bobby Gonzalez

That's one of the things about our style of play, we try to run it up-tempo. So if we get momentum, we get steals, we get a positive play or a run-out, we can score in a hurry. We can score quickly in bunches.

Arthur Keith

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Holly Hatton

It was a poor performance by the varsity boat.

Lee Scott

It was a solid performance, but we can do better,

Rick Carlisle

It was a terrible performance. It's as simple as that.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Lu Shanzhen

Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Craig Thompson

The state of your psyche is reflected in your body.

Ann Macbeth

Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

Duke Ellington

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Stanley Hauerwas

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Sebastian Faulks

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

John Podhoretz

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Nicolas Cage

I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.

P. Herbert

I don't smoke, and I'm trying to get home. Everything I do is going to reflect that.

Herbert Marcuse

This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood.

John Wooden

Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results.

Antoine Lavoisier

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Glen Taylor

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Horace Greeley

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

Robert Toth

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Pat Barker

The result was I went nowhere.

Molly Ivins

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Lee Scott

Our results were not up to Wal-Mart standards,

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.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Clint Chamberlin

The JV got after it and had a solid outing.

J. J. Johnson

We are solid up front. It has just taken some time to feel comfortable in our system.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

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

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Jane Byrne

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

Jan Schakowsky

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

James Theodore Bent

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

James Weldon Johnson

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.