Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Gerard Kleisterlee

There is a lack of value creation, particularly around consumer electronics,

Carl Gipson

It gets tough when you try to tailor-make a plan for every single person, but at the same time we are paying for things we never use. Right now, it is kind of a one-size-fits-all approach, and from a consumer standpoint, someone who purchases health insurance, that doesn't go a long way in curtailing health-care costs.

David Rosenberg

I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot. I think you're looking at a first quarter that's going to easily top 10 percent (in retail sales increase) on an annualized basis.

David Rosenberg

I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot, ... I think you're looking at a first quarter that's going to easily top 10 percent (in retail sales increase) on an annualized basis.

Tim Burns

Under Michigan law, unless something was intentionally misrepresented or defective, there's no mandatory right for a consumer to make a return. But if a store posts a return policy, they must follow the terms of the policy.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Had the outcome been better, it would have increased speculation of higher consumer prices immediately ahead, so it seems that investors are taking a weaker reading as a positive.

Bill Thompson

Harrah's is a good corporate citizen, but they have priorities,

Andy Schultheiss

Representative Cuellar has voted repeatedly to let corporate polluters off the hook.

Shukla Bose

I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table.

Craig Barrett

I know we've seen relatively strong announcements of GDP growth in the U.S., but as far as I can tell, that hasn't translated into corporate profitability or corporate IT investment growth, ... I wish I had something better to tell you.

Sung Sohn

The corporate tax cuts may not have an economic impact until months later.

Junichi Makino

The impact on the economy isn't really that big. The main impact is that of the higher costs on corporate profits.

Winson Fong

The economy is picking up and corporate profitability has recovered.

Barry Hyman

The fourth quarter is going to be volatile and trying, ... I don't think the market has fully discounted all the negatives in front of it, including the hurricanes' impact on the economy, higher energy prices on corporate profits, and higher inflation.

Gary Roberts

Everyone knows New Orleans was a marginal major league market. More and more, the NFL has come to rely on corporate dollars and New Orleans doesn't have a very large corporate base.

Dennis Moore

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Chris Fitz

I think it's a good idea to diversify the economy and keep more of the grapes here.

Zig Ziglar

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.

Vladimir Putin

We are currently gradually stabilizing our economy.

O. Singh

India's economy is growing at seven to eight percent over the last 15 years,

Peter Giles

I hung in there longer than I had planned. But it seemed the economy was getting better, and I figured now is the time when I can go on to some other dreams.

Adam Brown

The language will give you an insight into whether there has been a shift in their feelings on the economy and on rates, or whether they feel they are getting to a reasonable level and they want to give themselves more flexibility.

William Sullivan

The fear here is the economy is overheating. And this points to a Federal Reserve with a much tighter monetary policy.

Paul Donovan

The U.K economy is in a stronger position than many European economies, and perhaps now is the time to pause for a bit,

Lee Humphrey

He was big for us tonight. He's been around for five years; he knows how to prepare for games. He knows the right mindset to have, and he stays focused. Tonight he gave us great energy off the bench.

Siobhan Davies

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

Ross Gittell

Historically, spikes in energy prices are followed by a recession. The possibility (of a recession) is there; the probability is less than 50 percent, but it's there.

Chelsea Levine

There is energy and it's exciting performing on stage with other people.

Willie Wilson

I thought our guys really did a good job down the stretch. I thought we really played with a lot more energy and a lot more focus and played at a higher level that we need to play with to win in this kind of environment.

Brian Brohm

I think we were up pretty handily and some guys got a little complacent. We didn't have as much energy and didn't execute like we needed to, and that contributed to Kentucky getting back into the game.

Chuck D.

I think we are going to see the push for renewable energy gain a steadily higher profile.

Amber Bacon

I think us losing to JSU was a big wake-up call. ... I honestly don't think that will happen again. I don't think we will lose energy anymore, because that was a big loss and it hurt us really, really bad.

Dan Kammen

It is not a massive savings, not like putting in 10 percent energy and getting out 100 percent. We find it is somewhat better than gasoline, but it's not a home run.

Vance Belew

I thought we were in good shape, having them in about a fourth down and 25 situation.

Robert Toomey

We're only in the third or fourth inning, there's still a long way to go.

Sidney Crosby

In the third, it wasn't even close. Once they got that fourth one, it was pretty much over.

Mike Doherty

If there were a fourth time we could play them, we'd take the opportunity. It's nothing psychological. We just tip our hats to Don Bosco. They are the better team this season.

Layne Higgs

Calkins was a perfect 6-for-6 from the line in the fourth quarter.

Richard Maloney

If the union wanted to go on strike, they could have gone on strike on the Fourth of July. But they know, by scheduling for this time of year, that it's going to hurt the people most.

Jimmy Johnson

I know in the back of my mind that we can be leading or in fourth or in sixth and it bounces around,

Dwyane Wade

I had to pick my spots, more than anything, to get my teammates involved. Then, like Shaq and I always say, the fourth quarter is my time.

Jamie Braun

I knew that there was a lot of time left still in the fourth quarter when everyone was kind of relaxing. So, when there was a minute left and we started to make our free throws, I knew that we could do this.

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Stuart Freeman

We've been thinking that the Nasdaq, as an index, would likely outperform a lot of the other indexes this year. It's a lot about secular growth. We're seeing growth in technology. And for the most part, it's been a tech year.

Paul Polzin

We've got to go back to the 1970s to get three strong years of 4 percent growth.

Preston Beckman

I think we're relieved and a little shocked that it's showing such growth this year. For us, having maintained the ratings we had last year would have been a plus.

Joe Lieberman

I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,

Eric Schmidt

I don't know where (Chinese) revenue growth will be, but it will obviously be large.

Benn Steil

He made some mistakes on the growth side.

Ruben Studdard

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

Samuel Smiles

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Art Hogan

I think we'll start getting investors into the marketplace later in the first quarter,

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Lee Hak

Investor sentiment is recovering on lower oil prices.

Alan Ackerman

Investors are likely to say, 'Aha! Merrill tried to pull the wool over our eyes,' ... It will make them even more suspicious and cautious.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

Barry Goldsmith

It won't wipe out stock fraud, but it will give investors a much better tool,

Hugh Johnson

They come to me because they want special treatment, ... There is nothing that irritates substantial investors more than paying taxes.

Rich Yamarone

It's more important what investors believe, because those people are willing to put their money on the line like that.

Kenneth Lay

Investors don't like uncertainty.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Mike Hultz

He was unbelievable. It was probably the second best, not points-wise, but overall performance I have seen live.

Pat Murphy

I'm disappointed overall in the play of the weekend.

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Greg Aiello

We're very pleased with the overall state of our officiating.

Amy Bloom

I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

J. M. Roberts

There have been some outages but so far, we've had no serious problems other than that the prices are sky-high.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Yvon Chouinard

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Mahatma Gandhi

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

James Cook

Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Noam Chomsky

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

Deutsche Bank

Excluding this, pretax profit should be up 9 percent.

Pliny the Elder

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Lei Jun

We make our profits through content and services.

Deborah Kerr

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Bette Midler

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

Hugo Ch

This is real imperialist penetration, ... They are taking sensitive and strategic information.

John O. Brennan

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

Masiela Lusha

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

J. B. Priestley

The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

Ben Howland

We were really sensitive to him shooting threes.

Brad Richards

I can just tell, personally, that we're just not as sharp as we were in the past,

Brett Tomko

This is as sharp as I've been all year, ... made my slider better, my splitter better, made everything better.

Riley Wallace

It disappoints me that we're not as sharp as we should be at this stage. But it's a win.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

Phil Garner

We just went over signs again. Just a refresher course.

Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Bob Newman

We had all the signs out for 'Save the Armory,' but that's all set away now. It's really very encouraging and it hasn't always been that way.

Olivier Gasnier

There are really no encouraging signs in this survey.

Bill Engvall

I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, 'I'm stupid.'

Jon Alterman

There hasn't been a 'peace process' for some time, and I don't see any signs there's going to be one resuming.