Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

Phil Boyer

The pilots of tomorrow are the plane buyers of tomorrow.

A. Hodge

We have a lot of work to do to convince Japanese buyers to come back to us.

Robert Gerhardt

We can't hit every piece of property right on the nose. It's mass appraisal. If you had the same home with three different buyers and three different sellers, you could conceivably come up with three different prices.

Richard Sluzewski

We have the same number of buyers as last year.

Peyton Knight

Typically, 'good-faith negotiations' do not portray the buyer holding a gun to the seller's head. These negotiations have been tinged with bad-faith since April, when the City told property owners they had to be out of their homes by New Year's Eve. Mr. Green can pretend he's dealing in good faith, but he's really playing with a corked bat.

Kunihiro Hatae

Tokyo shares followed the Nasdaq today. Also, trading was supported by those buyers who came back to the market now that Y2K-related concerns seem to have cleared.

Pierre Omidyar

What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

Richard Dorn

Most of the buyers of luxury homes in Humboldt County are local.

Vivek Wadhwa

My message to students is that if you want to become an entrepreneur and save the world, definitely don't skip college. But go to a school that you can afford. You'll be freed from the chains of debt and succeed on your own ambition and merit.

Big Sean

Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are.

Jerry Swanson

We have two national restaurant chains that are interested and one local. We can't really sign letters of intent yet because we really don't know how much rent we'll charge the end users.

Herman Edwards

I thought he stepped up in the pocket and made some good throws. He moved around, he was much more animated. He can make the chains move.

John Carrico

What we found was that there were other grocery store chains who had the same need.

Brentson Buckner

He has a way of keeping the chains moving. He has good quickness. He's a complete quarterback.

Charles Dickens

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Al Yankovic

Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.

John Christopher

We're a chainsaw outfit. We go in and just cut and haul down to the roads.

Gore Vidal

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

Sigi Schmid

We need to improve on our concentration. We made a stride forward in the second half and proved that we can play good soccer. We should have been leading at halftime. We have to become mentally stronger.

Phil Everly

If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it's lackluster and no fun to watch.

Tim Wakefield

You just try to minimize the damage and you get your concentration down to one hitter at a time, in and out. I was fortunate enough to get three strikeouts there and get us out of the inning.

Joe McGrath

We have a number of customers who are enamored of our convention center. They love Pittsburgh, and they want to come here, but they won't until there is a larger concentration of hotel rooms adjacent to the convention center.

Tony Russa

I think physically he feels good and I think the pressure of the postseason has got his concentration back to where it was a great, great majority of the season.

Richie Meade

I would have liked to see us play with more focus and concentration longer into this game. We played well in the first quarter and well into the second quarter, and then we just flattened out a little bit.

Elena Likhovtseva

I guess I lost my concentration when I got hurt. I could serve okay but it was difficult to run side-to-side. But credit to Karolina, she still played well today.

Jeff Suppan

I had a tough time with my slider; it was off the plate a lot. I work on staying focused and keeping my concentration at the level it needs to be. Sometimes, it may take five pitches to get that one out.

Marie Kondo

Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.

Sung Sohn

If they keep the word, the financial markets will like that, because the Fed has put itself in a self-imposed box. If they discard the word measured, they'll be saying they're free to do what they want.

Atharva Veda

The Lord is your Staff and Support. Do not discard it; do not be led away from the path of faith by stories invented by malice and circulated by spite.

Wyclef Jean

I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to.

Ezra Taft Benson

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Ellie Goulding

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

Brooke Adams

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

Brian K. Vaughan

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

Daniel Kahneman

We think of our future as anticipated memories.

Dean Geyer

I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I don't think I want to pursue it for myself, for a solo career.

Barack Obama

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Nayvadius Cash

I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.

Giancarlo Esposito

Yoga is a big part of my life now. There's not a day that goes by where I don't do an Asana and mediation practice.

Colin Morgan

Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in popularity the more it goes on.

Dan Hendricks

The overall plan has always been to get there. Luckily, we've been improving and he's doing well. Once we get through Saturday and everything goes well, we'll start planning on from there.

David Friedman

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Victoria Osteen

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

Nayvadius Cash

Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.

Ray Charles

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

Elton Brand

That would mean a lot. All the hoopla about who's better goes out the window. It's right there on the court.

Rosamund Pike

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Carl Rogers

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

Carl Rogers

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Matt Kelmon

The 30 percent revenue growth days, I think we might have just have seen them top out. Now they have to take what they've got and see how they can leverage it.

Ronald Dollens

The acquisition of CTS, its innovative products and strong pipeline, will provide a platform for Guidant's growth in cardiac surgery.

Mike Edwards

We have also experienced steady growth in intellectual property and patent activities.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Alex Brown

I think markets will stay roughly where they are with the outlook slightly positive,

Douglas McWilliams

Those in the metals markets will have noticed the push into metals and I think we'll see more of that.

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Brian Finnerty

I don't think it's the reason the markets are down, but I think it's a big weight around the market's neck. It's like an anvil.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Loesje

Will the person who stole my bike...deliver the newspapers as well tomorrow morning?

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Tony Ridder

For those 12 newspapers that are being sold, the uncertainty is not over, and I regret that very much.

Saifur Rahman

I don't know anything about it but I am worried like you going through the newspaper reports.

Mark Dubach

I don't know that it was easy, but it's just nice to have the newspaper here and get a win, because we were 0-2.

Bertrand Russell

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

Bill Watterson

I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.

Betty Friedan

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

Delmon Young

That was smoothed over when they took the prior ownership out.

Mike Jacobs

We're in for a period of uncertainty as we wait for new ownership to emerge, I really don't feel unwanted. I think there's going to be quite a lot of interest.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Brian Berger

They have ownership of this field, it's their baby. It's going to give them a sense of pride.

Becky Zaheri

We have got to take ownership in our city. We can't wait for somebody else to do it.

Kristen Stewart

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

Byron Dorgan

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

Jeffrey Skilling

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

Jerry Lewis

The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.