Famous Quotes & Sayings

John DiFucci

This is a financial acquisition primarily. Oracle is buying PeopleSoft for its maintenance stream.

Phil Noblitt

This has been happening, this sort of erosion of our buying power, if you will, for decades.

Steve Anderson

It's usually driven by who's buying whom, personalities and their influence with the board.

Janet Reno

Forcing PC manufacturers to take one Microsoft product as a condition of buying a monopoly product like Windows 95 is not only a violation of the court order but it's plain wrong,

Joel Naroff

Forget the decline from the June pace. What is important is the level of activity, and that is extraordinarily high, ... This market is showing no sign of weakness. With mortgage rates so low, it is no wonder that people are still out there buying homes. And with demand strong, construction is not going to fail.

James Norton

For a long time I had a vintage stall, where I sold men's vintage clothing, and my girlfriend was convinced it was just to do with a problem I had where I just couldn't stop buying senseless clothes, even if they didn't fit me.

John Pickett

There was tremendous buying momentum at the close, especially in the last 20 minutes. The shorts jumped in, the institutions ... It was a technical buyback. But it still was a very encouraging day as far as I am concerned. People are feeling more confident about this market now.

Bill Cheney

It reflects that people mostly still have their jobs, still have their money and people are still buying houses.

Kate Warne

This is the time to be buying integrated oils.

Mark Roman

Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.

Irina Slutskaya

That's life and you can't change anything, you know. We can't decide. If this is the rules, we can't do something. She's pretty young. I think the next Olympics will be for her.

William Cox

You're probably going to have to wait six months before you see a change as far as growing hair.

Richard Long

You wouldn't change the song yet, because all of the regulatory outcomes are yet to come.

Ty Eustice

You still can't forget about losing. That's got to be more in the front of my head, it's got to drive me more than getting third. Something's gotta change on bottom. I don't know what it is, but it's not for lack of effort because I was dead tired after that match.

Tracey Gold

Your life can change on a flip of a coin. The choices you make are crucial. We feel somehow we're safe. But things can change in a flash.

Rod Barnes

You're always concerned and I'm concerned about our kids. But you know, let's win. And not win to change anybody's perception of what my job situation is. I've just always been a guy that, when I set goals, stays focused on accomplishing it. I still see that winning season out there. All the other things, whether I'm going to be back, all that, you just learn that all that counts is Saturday.

Bill Rogers

You need to have assimilated the information. To make a minute change can feel like a mile of change. It's a new feeling, a new sensation.

David Workman

You never think of things like this happening in your back yard. I'm still going to stay in the neighborhood. But I may change some habits.

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again.

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Nathan Myhrvold

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

Elyn Saks

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Farid Ayyar

The number of voters in Iraq's 18 provinces reached 9,784,954 from the total of 15,568,702 registered, for a turnout rate of 63.78 percent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.