Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Davis

As energy prices stay high, there's savings to be had by looking at your energy infrastructure. Most companies haven't.

Luigi Speranza

As growth gathers momentum, companies are regaining some of their lost pricing power. This increases the probability of greater pass-through of past oil shocks to non-energy prices.

Ibrahim Rugova

As far as privatization is concerned, we will follow the international norms, and all foreign companies have to comply with international standards.

John Nelson

As analysts, we know that there are these smoking and health issues, ... but it is always reassuring to hear from the company that irrespective of what is going on, (it is) doing well enough that (it) can raise the dividend 20 percent. Not many companies can do that.

Todd Johnson

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Mamoru Yamazaki

As companies have finished restructuring and the economy is expected to keep growing next year, you don't have to be pessimistic about a rise in the jobless rate in a single month.

Tom Browning

As companies get bigger, they are looking for efficiencies, they pare down internal resources and they get less personal with their consumers.

Colin Morton

As a shareholder you get nervous when companies say they are looking at the U.S., because historically, UK firms haven't made a good fist of it over there.

Susanna Phillips

As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you do that is by going through the ranks and singing at companies like Opera Birmingham. It's a perfect place to foster a career.

Ryan Hall

Any project under construction will continue to stay on track.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Marsha Blackburn

As far as the political landscape in our state, I think that what we continue to see is that Tennessean voters are more independent and more conservative, and they are watching issues very closely; they are watching votes very closely.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Hootie Johnson

As far as the golf course is concerned, we'll have to continue to evaluate that.

Stephen Mandel

As Edmonton continues to position itself as a major film location, it is important that the industry feels welcome and views Edmonton as a film-friendly, professional destination,

Sheridan Murphy

As Florida continues to develop rapidly, this issue will continue to come up.

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Kym McKay

As a team, our defense continued to shine and was even more exciting than it was last fall. Our new serve-receive system went very well and we are looking for it to continue to improve. We had a handful of moments that we looked extremely impressive and were firing on all cylinders. It was very exciting.

Carolayne Holley

At some fairs they do fashion shows, but we didn't feel that was really fair to the vendors. Then they're just sitting around for an hour without any customers while the brides and their guests watch the show.

David Singer

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David Parker

Profits outside of Florida were good. Inside they were pressured. We were expecting the utility to do a little better, but that's what happens when you have three-quarters of your customers out for a week or two.

Tom Barrett

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John Fitzpatrick

Our dealers were telling us, 'We can sell a luxury truck, you just have to work on your execution,' ... We went back to the customers to research it further, and it turned out the dealers were spot on.

Bill Cummings

Our customers will receive a great Starbucks experience.

Amitabh Srivastava

Our customers will have a feature-complete Windows Vista sooner in their hands than any previous Windows release.

Pat Garner

Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.

Richard Harmon

Our customer is one that wants to live the Big Event.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

Christine Wu

We are still positive on the industry as a whole, but I'm personally more conservative on UMC.

Steve Ballmer

We are still not getting in the manufacturing industry, ... We will provide the infrastructure that lets those in the manufacturing industry do their jobs.

Lloyd Doggett

What precedent are we setting in doing this for one industry and not for others?

Thomas Hoffman

Every time we have an accident, or have something particularly like Sago, we're back to people thinking we're the same old industry we were back in the '60s.

William Wood

But we?re talking about the same numbers. The oil industry is volatile. It?s very profitable some years and not so profitable others.

Ed Rendell

Because this is an industry that is young, it has tremendous potential,

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Mike Paul

She did research in the industry to find out what the top 12 tips are and those are the tips.

Kate Warne

Pullback time. All the leaders turned tail and ran.

Darrel Mitchell

That's what leaders do. They step up and make big plays.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Carl Yastrzemski

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Marc Geiger

We think that the artists' sites could be virtual ticket outlets.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Jim Parsons

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

Andrea Gaston

She's one of our top players, but she's struggled all semester.

Bill Beasley

She hadn't thrown all year, so she struggled a bit.

Jim Richards

We really struggled offensively and lacked the timely hit,

Larry Brown

I'm sure I've been 0-3 a lot, ... And most of my teams have struggled early.

Tiki Barber

It was a tough sled. We struggled a little bit.

Peter Zoppi

We struggled offensively. We didn't make enough contact. We couldn't deliver.

Brad Skene

Our tackling was off today. We struggled with that and that was the difference.

Ned Yost

We had struggled to that point. We were going down in order, boom, boom, boom.