Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean McAlinden

As Ford gets smaller, Michigan will get smaller. One hundred thousand people left the state in the last two years, and this will accelerate in the wake of Monday's announcement.

Peter Galvin

The Bush administration's lax new gas mileage standards are unfortunately going to keep America addicted to oil for a long time to come and accelerate impacts from global climate change. The fuel efficiency increases are miniscule compared to what is possible with existing technology and the major reforms urgently needed to cut air pollution, combat global climate change and save money at the gas pump. The Bush administration is figuratively and literally fiddling while the earth burns. The U.S. can and must do better if we are going to leave a habitable and tolerable planet for our children and grandchildren.

Toshihiko Matsuno

A softer New York market also helped accelerate the move.

Michael Polk

Our aim is to accelerate growth in the U.S. this year and look to better last year's 3.2 percent growth.

John Rizzuto

After several years of talking about building a strategy to enter new businesses and accelerate license growth and earnings, BEA seems to be executing.

Hal Brown

During the first quarter, we achieved a number of important milestones including the full operational and systems integration of Northwest Business Bank, enabling Pacific Continental to recognize cost savings and efficiencies earlier than was first expected. With the successful integration behind us, we were then able to accelerate our planned expansion into the Vancouver, Washington market by announcing a downtown office location scheduled to open later this spring.

Jerald Fishman

Demand continued to accelerate during the second quarter, driven by the widespread adoption of our ... core technology,

Jeff Miller

Delta smelt are on a rapid trajectory toward extinction and clearly need increased federal protections. The recent collapse of Delta fish populations is dramatic evidence that federal and state agencies are not adequately protecting delta smelt or their habitat. Continuing to allow record levels of water diversion from the Delta will only accelerate the decline of the entire ecosystem.

Jim Sargent

Delivering a fully-aligned, fee-based services organization that is designed for partner development, as well as end-user quality and satisfaction, is the next evolution in meeting channel expectations. Security technologies are complex, and there is a growing services market that partners can target to accelerate revenues and profits. McAfee is committed to driving more revenue opportunities to its partners, and a complementary services strategy is a key component in ensuring their growth and profitability.

Jess Blackburn

As far as their marketing goes, that's marketing. We continue to have a very solid relationship with Intel and nothing has changed in that respect. We probably are their largest customer; we shipped 10 million systems in the fourth quarter. I don't think any supplier is going to ignore a customer that is building that many systems and using that many of their parts in them.

Robert Moeller

The building was put up for sale, ... and I had a thought that maybe we ought to consider trying to buy it. And then a couple of other people expressed the same thought to me.

Dick Hoyt

The buildings were shaking, I think, when we came down that street. The crowds just picked us up and carried us.

Anik Fournier

The buildings of the Third Reich had a very strong neo-classic design. They were supposed to last for a long time.

Jill Williams

The buildings of the museum are Spanish-Colonial revival style.

Andrew Fox

The building is heated hydronically, entirely by hydro-air, ... We built the heating system around 11 primary water-to-air heat exchangers that range in capacity from 3,500 to 18,500 cfm per unit.

Michael Yormark

The building is fine with the exception of the little puncture on the end of the building.

Jim Marchiony

The building is designed to be very flexible. We'll be able to make changes as time goes along.

Kelly Anderson

The building is cool now, but in four to six hours, it can heat up.

Steve Bennett

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

Jane Johnson

Our customers down there are seeing their businesses expand and our opportunities are growing in the region.

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.

Avi Arad

The movies are there to support the core businesses of toys, licensing, video games and publishing. Each of these titles is meant to be a franchise.

Mayor Amabile

The most important thing is small businesses find their niche.

Howard Davidowitz

SARS has not stopped factories from rolling out products in China, ... The only effect it's had on U.S. businesses is that it has led to fewer visits from buyers to the region. So there have been less face-to-face meetings between buyers and suppliers, but companies have gotten around that by teleconferencing.

Barry Hyman

These companies' businesses haven't collapsed like tech companies' did. But they've withered and they're losing their reputations and their investor bases.

Travis Engen

These charges are driven by the impact of significant external cost increases and competitive pressures on some of our businesses in 2005.

Christine Quinn

These businesses puff up their profits by not offering benefits, ... And at lunch, they give their workers an extra half hour to register on a public health insurance program.

Suresh Raina

At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my mum shoos me out on the terrace where I have my cooking utensils. I'm told categorically that whatever non-veg or egg, etc., that I have to cook, I should do upstairs and not enter her kitchen at all.

Bono

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Kim Fields

There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.

Ma Huateng

On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.

Timothy Noah

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

Britney Spears

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.

Robin Wright

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

Jeannie Fraise

Even though this is a kid space, it had to be somewhat sophisticated. It's the first room you see when you enter the house, so it had to look good.

Joel C. Rosenberg

Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.

Ken Young

Right now we're in Phase One. Phase Two will give us more room to accommodate a growth in students.

John Sicher

Quaker Oats' grain-based snacks could show real growth within the Frito-Lay marketing and distribution system,

Dave Pieknik

I've seen an exponential growth since the two years I've been coaching.

Charles DiSanza

(These businesses) are a unified part of their ongoing high growth business, and...should stay as part of that business.

Kenny Guinn

is important to all of us in terms of water, and open land and growth.

Jared Bernstein

I've been pretty happy to see the pace of job growth in professional services.

William Baldwin

It wouldn't surprise me if Pier 1's ongoing situation leads to some management shuffle unless things improve, ... Pier 1 has called itself a growth company, not a value company. For that it needs to grow its top line and profits.

Kevin Rottinghaus

The wireless handset market is getting better so there is opportunity for Intel to see some growth,

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Vera Gibbons

Every time you make a return they swipe your license and if you make too many returns that return is denied. They are very secretive about how many returns you can make before they say no, no, no.

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

Peter Hitchens

The whole of the U.S. system seems to be creaking at the moment,

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Jay Bilas

Even though it seems like a short timeframe, there's a lot that can happen.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Tony Robbins

It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story.

Michael Cohen

In many ways, this is a bet-the-company strategy for AMD.

Greg McBride

It's really a wise strategy to do that -- to throw whatever you can at the balance.

Fred Wilson

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Dana Perino

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.