Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Michael Workman

The pick up in house price inflation since mid-2005 has the potential to provide further positive impetus to consumer spending in the months ahead.

Heather Dougherty

The 2005 holiday season was a gadget year for consumers of all ages, and consumers continued to show their love for free shipping.

Paul Taylor

The affordability issue from rising interest rates takes some consumers out of the market. These are big-ticket items for consumers. They are going to be sensitive to interest rates.

Ken Perkins

The American consumer has been particularly resilient over the last year plus, ... They're finding ways to spend.

David Rosenberg

That will just reinforce the slowdown in consumer spending.

Howard Silverblatt

We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.

M. Wolfe

We can throw variable pricing in and we can raise prices of a hit song, but it doesn't mean consumers will buy. They have an alternative - get songs for free.

Meg Whitman

We have tremendous momentum in our flagship business. Our customers now transact well over $200 million in gross merchandise sales per month, making this the most vibrant consumer e-commerce site on the entire Internet.

Chino Moreno

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brenda Russell

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

David Carson

I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But after a few laughs and some angry e-mails, I realized it wasn't doing me much good. I think the web has become more about the final product, not what it takes to get to it.

David Bradford

That was a terrible thing he did in his early 20s and he's been very upfront that he's made some serious mistakes,

Mack Brown

That was a killer. It was early enough in the game that it shouldn't have been so big.

Jane Soepardi

We have already made a plan to hold another round early next year, maybe at the end of January or early February.

Rob Keck

We need to hook them on hunting at an early age, so they become appreciative of the hunting tradition. This will also increase hunter retention and ensure the future of conservation remains strong.

Ron Wilson

We just didn't have the energy level we needed to do the job and it was pretty obvious early on. The only thing I was hoping for was their energy level would sink because it was their third game in four nights, too.

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.

Joe Martin

The pioneers are giving way to some of the big guys who can weather all the change.

C. S. Lewis

It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

Cecelia Ahern

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

Carrie Snodgress

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

Bethany Hamilton

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

Bethany Hamilton

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Bernadette Peters

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

Ashley Tisdale

I never give up on things.

Arsene Wenger

You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.

Werner Herzog

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

Frank Quattrone

I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.

Marlon Wayans

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

Masahiro Tanaka

I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up.

Chris LeDoux

Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event.

Jarvis Cocker

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.

Scott McGehee

Juliette in particular - there is so much in her face,

Christine Benz

The predicament is not particular to (Janus) in any way.

Larry Coyer

We have to research a lot of things to see what particular scheme (they will run).

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Julie Martineau

We will screen questions for relevancy for the position.

Craig Harris

Most of the questions were about the stage of development we are in.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

We can't be talking about changes. There are questions to which I say 'next question' and this is one of them.

Mike McCurry

Those who are undecided are still seeking some of those fundamental questions answered. Who you are, what your values are, is something these voters really look to." ()

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Sonny Jackson

He was in there long enough to raise questions.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.

Marshawn Lynch

I ain't never seen no talking winning nothing. Been like that since I was little. I was raised like that.

Pamela Anderson

I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.

George Montgomery

I think this type development raises the status of the county.

Jessica Stroup

I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

Grover Norquist

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

Ron Cole

We haven't raised our rates in 11 years.

David Gregory

I will yell. If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.

Jim McFarland

I think if we raise (tuition) $2, we need to use it for specific reasons.

Mike Duke

We have to reflect on our shortcomings. We have to be self-critical and think about how do we raise the bar,

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.

Rich Repetto

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

Nancy Bray

When you work in retail long enough, you get a vibe off people. We all got that vibe off of him.

Richard Redniss

We're not going to have, post-9-11, at this location, retail uses.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Aaron Levie

Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.

Scott Nelson

Retailers haven't told us they wanted to be down there.

Leslie Preston

Retail sales look to start off the year with a bang.

Jon Burnham

I still like the tech sector very much,

Hector Garcia

I'd like to go back into another sector other than hospitality,

Peter Thiel

Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.

Markus Steinbeis

The sentiment for the whole telecoms sector has now cooled down.

Robert Brady

There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.

Harvey Weinstein

We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

William Hummer

The services sector is showing some inflationary pressure, and wages are starting to climb.

Lynn Reaser

This is another sign that the manufacturing sector is positioned for an upswing in the third quarter.

Marco Rubio

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'