Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Davidowitz

Kmart went into bankruptcy a cadaver and it'll come out of it a cadaver,

Wayne Abernathy

Katrina will be a significant test of how flexible our bankruptcy rules are. Banks have a lot of experience dealing with debtors in difficulty because of natural disasters. The first focus will be on making sure people can meet their immediate financial needs.

Alice White

Going into Chapter 11 is expensive. The feeling is once they get out of the bankruptcy and get some of the costs of the bankruptcy paid, they'll be able to build up their portfolio and make real money.

Joel Denney

It certainly is signaling there is financial stress on Northwest. It's telling everyone they may now be looking at bankruptcy as a strong option.

Severin Borenstein

I think that's a big issue that a bankruptcy court is going to have to confront. What's the ongoing responsibility of the company and what's the legal liability in the contracts.

Charles Schalliol

The purveyors of state bankruptcy are at it again. This isn't a plan. This is a joke.

Bill Dreher

I really would be surprised if they filed. The part of the equation that is missing in a typical bankruptcy situation is that vendors are not clamping down on them. Vendors are not limiting the distribution of merchandise.

Alan Martin

The cost will be borne by the bankruptcy estate. It is not completely clear how broad the scope will be. All of these administrative expenses must be paid at the time the repayment plan is implemented. That is a big deal.

Ken Lewis

The impact of the change in bankruptcy laws and changes in our practices for overdraft charge-offs and over-limit credit card fees reduced pretax results by about $320 million. In addition, we had a weak trading quarter that was well under our performance in recent quarters. The bankruptcy issue will not recur and should actually benefit us going forward as we expect a reduced level of bankruptcy filings under the new law.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

John Capel

Just to let them know that I haven't given up yet. They thought I was just going to let them have the title, but not yet.

Robert McKinley

Just pay attention. Make sure you're not given a product you don't want.

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Steve Rives

He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

Joe Raymond

There is a perverse incentive to overspend some, in order to get more.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Refiners had every incentive to get back up because there was a lot of money to be made.

H. Hunt

If (the legislation) was an incentive to get more people to do the recycling, sure, everyone is looking to save a little money.

George H. W. Bush

tax relief and other incentives for job-creating investment.

Marion Nestle

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

John F. Kennedy

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Tony Boyle

This is a pretty tight league and if we can win our three remaining matches this would see us shoot up the table, so the incentive is there for us to perform today.

Mike Jackson

This is a stronger strategy. Clearly, selling the incentive was not working.

Bob Kinniebrew

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Saul Bellow

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Vladimir Putin

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Charles Dean

I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.

Frank Galati

I'm sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because she's enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.

Chris Cornell

I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than anything I've done.

Jack Roush

He said, 'I don't want to negotiate with you for 2007,' ... I said, 'OK,' and he said, 'I want to be released for 2006.' I said 'not OK.'

Robin Cook

It is politically and diplomatically possible to negotiate withdrawal

Victor Lazarovici

I think they'll negotiate with antitrust authorities and will come up with a solution.

Lee Miller

People who understand how to negotiate are always going to do better.

Tom Davies

If there are problems here, we need to look at the contracting officers. They're the ones who negotiate the deal.

Keith Rothfus

I'm a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

Robert Kiyosaki

It's tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

Billy Hunter

It doesn't work very well when you try to negotiate during a season.

Saeb Erekat

If he thinks that we will go back to negotiate with him over (the U.S.) package, he's mistaken.