Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Tapscott

Kids are very savvy about the technology. But I'm not sure they totally understand the implications of a billion people being able to see them doing whatever is posted.

Tony Buzan

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.

Muhammad Yunus

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

Nandan Nilekani

Going forward, we expect revenues to cross the two billion dollars mark at 2.14 billion dollars by March 2006.

Gene Munster

Hitting the 1 billion mark means that the business of selling music online is real. Over the next 10 years, the retail music industry will be turned upside down and 25 percent of worldwide industry sales will be made online.

James Wolfensohn

I think the immediate needs of HIPC, subject to the passage by the U.S. Congress of the U.S. contribution, are probably met, ... I think the $2.6 billion to $2.8 billion target is achievable, and then we will need to consider funding the rest of it.

Chris Lynch

We expect total expenditure to increase to around $6 billion (in 2006). This will include around $4 billion spent on growth projects and $550 million on exploration.

Dennis Hastert

Whatever we do, before putting in billions of dollars, let's make sure lives are not put in jeopardy,

Pramod Mahajan

I think whenever you are communicating to one billion people, you should bring more and more clarity on what you think.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Michael Sheldon

I think the last few weeks have probably been frustrating for investors. Earnings have been very positive, but the focus has been on interest rates. Over the next few sessions, it looks like the fear of higher interest rates will probably outweigh the earnings.

Barry Hyman

I think the picture is optimistic and earnings in general have been better than expected.

Peter Mancuso

I think you're looking out two quarters, maybe even three quarters before you start to see a substantive increase in earnings for some of these companies. That, to me, is in a nutshell what's going on in the markets.

Jon Burnham

I think the earnings are going to be better than expected, but I don't know whether the market's going to rise on that.

John Davidson

I think that overall we are in for a pretty good earnings quarter, and that may be a positive for stocks.

Laura Conigliaro

HP's fundamental earnings power highlights that this is more than just a restructuring story.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Jay Brown

He wants the place to feel like a family environment.

James Sarni

What will keep swap spreads from widening dramatically is that we are still in (a relatively) low yield environment.

Deb Patterson

I thought about the fans and how incredible it was for us to have competed in that environment. I thought about our players and just how proud I was of how tough-minded they had become as competitors and how happy I was for them. I thought about our staff and how hard they've worked.

Mary Walker

It gives our workforce a great opportunity to expand their knowledge within the normal working environment.

Daniel Nepstad

There is a notion that the presence of people can be harmful to the environment. But this is not always true.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Viola Spolin

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Wangari Maathai

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

Walt Whitman

Where the earth is, we are.

Gareth Jones

I'd like to see it go gold (U.S. shipments in excess of 500,000 copies) and I think it will.

Woody Harrelson

Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Richard Le Gallienne

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Vladimir Lenin

Crime is a product of social excess.

Samuel Johnson

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Philip Coyle

If Portsmouth were to be closed, the U.S. would be left with only 8 percent excess capacity,

Suzi Quatro

I have record approximately 10 studio albums. I had 16 top ten singles and sold in excess of 45 million records all over the world.

Sir Donaldson

In a normal winter flu year... flu actually kills in excess of 12,000 people,

Sadako Ogata

The excessive use of violence in Kosovo has to be contained,

Mathieu Schneider

I just try to get a shot on net as quickly as possible, and tonight I got lucky.

Mark Recchi

I really like what we're doing. We're just not putting the puck in the net right now.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Marc Berman

Each network has at least one new show that's doing well. That's a real positive. There's not a single network where everything bombed.

Bruce Kasrel

The network shouldn't have to make much difference. It's going to happen.

Steven Ballard

The net result of the competitive tender was that the ESA got two satellites for the price of one.

Joe Wilcox

It is the most visually oriented social networking application I have seen thus far.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Mitch Metcalf

It's the loneliest night of the week for network television and television in general.

Buck Showalter

I would say there were some unknowns about him. I've been pleased with the progress he's made.

John Ferguson

He's here and we're pleased to have him.

Richard Carpenter

We're pretty pleased with the services that were rendered.

Paul Armstrong

It is one of the things that I am most pleased about,

Gayle King

It is just really exciting. I have always been pleased (with the care), but now it will be even easier.

Tyrone Willingham

I have been very, very pleased with the play that we have received from Isaiah,

Jean Prahm

I never thought I would be so pleased with a sixth-place finish.

Derek Wright

I'm very pleased with our effort--with our attitude. I think we've turned the corner.

Dave Barry

I'm very pleased that we made the top four. But I feel that we could have had a stronger showing.

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

LenDale White

It's not about how the first or second quarter ends,

Rob Haines

It's disappointing that they are restating earnings. We don't want another quarter of surprises.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Richard Williams

This is traditionally a weak quarter but software right now has just flat-lined. Expectations are pretty low.

Sean Durkin

The third quarter killed us. In the end, it was a little too much for us to overcome.

Aryeh Bourkoff

This is going to be the weakest quarter of the year for the company.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Chris Collins

I think actually the scouting report was to kind of shoot it low, so I don't know what I was doing.

Jack Rio

I don't have anything to report other than he was awake, alert, still conscious.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Mack Brown

It's unprofessional for someone to be reporting something that's not factual.

Charles Parker

They called 911 and reported it to the police,

Bob Bennett

The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.

Mike Moran

The report should be viewed as a solid one.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Jeff Barker

This is a competitive business, like any other retail business. It's very important to stay on point.

Peter Cardillo

The retail sales are a real blow-out number.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Fred Delk

When this is finished, it will be a beautiful, pedestrian-friendly retail environment. It will have been worth it.

Eric Larson

This really spearheads them into the conventional retail side of the business, in a big way.

Claudio Piron

There is a bloodbath in retailing in terms of competition.

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.