Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Ries

The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.

Ed Begley, Jr.

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

David Brooks

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

Louis Navellier

Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.

Jim Delgado

The point is to demonstrate what a day without us would be like. Without us buying clothes, without us purchasing gasoline, without us buying food. . . . We have taken many steps forward, now is not the time to take steps back.

Charles White

We've all been conditioned to say, 'lower interest rates, higher stock prices, better buying opportunity,'

Firas Askari

We are seeing a little retraction. Some people took profits by selling the Canadian dollar and buying euros.

Nick Raich

Where people make a mistake is that they think high-quality companies will translate into high quality stocks, and that often is not the case. With a popular company, you get high expectations and that can push things up so that the stock is not worth buying for awhile.

Liya Kebede

I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.

Michael Gallelli

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

Jim Sexton

We're making a b-to-b play out of a very popular consumer brand.

Bill Gates

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

Todd Holmdahl

With three contract manufacturers on board, we're poised to have the flexibility and efficiencies we need to keep up with the consumer demand.

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.

Ian Scott

We're still seeing some rotation into more cyclical stocks ... such as consumer products makers, and industrials, ... We quite like oil stocks as well.

Kurt Barnard

We're seeing the consumer back at the discretionary counters and that is good news for the entire industry.

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.

Jonas Persson

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Lou D'Ermilio

We acknowledge it's a valuable graphic enhancement. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, we've been forced to tighten our belt, and it's an expensive enhancement.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

Phil Pantano

We want everyone to understand what we've done and what we plan to do. We're talking about jobs, investment and economic opportunity.

Bill Maher

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called 'trickle down.' That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole theory goes was this: 'We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it.'

Khalid Malik

There is no question that more can be done to mend the gap that so often triggers social unrest when economic growth on a national scale leaves the poor and disadvantaged behind.

Tom Scott

While January numbers were good and encouraging, I don't think we want to read too much into them in terms of the rest of the year. There is still a lot of negative economic news out there. I think that's reflected in the retailers' forecast for sales growth in 2006.

Edward Lazear

We would see lower levels of investment, lower economic growth, and as a result, lower wage gains.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Martin Angel

A lot of investors are still unsure which way the market will go and so are reluctant to jump in.

Robert Hazlett

For investors in Pfizer, this is a meaningful event. This risk has been a significant overhang for some time.

Robert LaFleur

It's the uncertainty. Investors are pretty tuned into it and want to know what's going on.

David Menlow

There's been a wholesale shift in investor mentality.

Linda Killian

It was a very middle-of-the- road market, but the returns were decent. Investors are still very picky.

Steve Tuen

Any ray of sunshine that investors can find is a big plus for the IPO market.

Sukhbir Khanijoh

Prices quoted vary but most analysts set a target between THB50 and THB55 for Shin, so investors should keep vigilant if its price rises too high.

Richard Bernstein

Private investors are usually late to the party.

Democritus

Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

Chris Kozak

We've had a mild winter and we've got a higher-than-normal storage inventory.

Jerry Conway

Because of the mild weather we've been having there's no ice, and the seals now have to find an alternative place to pup.

Karen Goodman

She's very mild in her speech, but she's hard-working.

Phil Klay

I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.

Hitoshi Oshitani

If there are many mild or asymptomatic cases, we may have missed many cases.

Darrell Smith

After the groundhog, they predicted a more mild winter. The storm took me by surprise.

Patricia Hewitt

There is no question of the NHS being privatised.

Jim MacDonald

There is no question it has to happen.

Joel Hollander

We're going to take a hit, no question about it.

Tom Jr.

With the wind blowing, (and) shooting 2 under here, you've got to be happy, there's no question about that.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Bill Uttley

The more questions that are being answered, the more get asked.

Bob Garcia

It's a severe bite. Certainly, it's up there with the worst we've seen. There's no question about it.

Derrick Brooks

A lot of questions have to be answered,

Rich Gadomski

They may be worn out, over-used, mishandled, abused. It is a question of how reliable is the source you got it from. Unfortunately, that is not always a very safe bet.