Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Kovacs

This is the first time going back to 1890 in which the key assets of the company to be broken up consist of human beings and ideas. Who can predict what these people will do, and how effective the entities will be?

George Goncalves

Let's take it one step at a time. Let's take the 30-year and see how that goes. We haven't had such long- duration assets in five years, so let's not go from one extreme to the other.

Eric Nelson

There is no risk-free way to keep your assets away from creditors or else everyone would do it, ... Everything is a tradeoff.

Walter Rodgers

This is a terribly closely contested election in a very tough campaign.

Karl Rove

What is important is that members of Congress have the time to get fully briefed on this. We intend to work closely with them in order to give them a comfort level on this.

Brian Spears

The printout doesn't lie, ... The printout shows how many times the weapon was discharged. And the last discharge of the Taser corresponds very closely with the time he stopped breathing.

Jeffrey Kaye

Many times workers work very closely to each other in the 'cube' environment, and that is very stressful because it's noisy, there's little or no privacy, and there is a forced conviviality.

Masamichi Koike

The market is closely watching if there are any other comments on the US economy or interest rate hikes as the Fed meeting (on January 31) is getting closer.

Jamie Sandison

The performance of European equities corresponds closely to the strength of the dollar.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Phil Redman

The search companies have found that developing robust services for mobile devices is not as easy as rolling out another different Web service. There are a lot more inherent limitations and other parties, including the carriers, to consider.

E. B. White

These events that we are seeing in Asia, the depreciations are inherently deflationary and many of the larger U.S. companies are the ones that do have exposure within their earnings mix to Asia. Those earnings are going to be tough to grow probably over the course of the next 12 months.

P. James

The seed companies have been really responsive. That's a new thing at a farm show -- having the equipment demonstration right next to the dealers' booths. That's one of the fantastic things about the Tipton County Fairgrounds.

Clark Yingst

The stocks I would watch would be the wireless companies like Qualcomm and Motorola.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Bob Dinneen

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Kate Warne

What an ugly day. A day you didn't want to be around to watch. It was just a market that was nervous and unhappy about the news of the day.

Mark Skousen

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Robert Stephens

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

Henry Ford

Minicars produce miniprofits.

Bobby Hitt

The new Z4s are not in the market yet. It will be sometime this spring.

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Rosa DeLauro

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

Steve Chabot

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Thomas Friedman

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

Michael Klare

The global supply of oil is going to decline because we've used up a good deal of the easy-to-get oil. We're going to reach a point in the not-too-distant future when it is impossible to keep increasing the daily supply.

Herbert Hoover

I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a limit to oil supplies and that the time will come when they and the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now. There are no half measures in conservation of oil.

George Packer

Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

George Osborne

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

George Orwell

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Chris Corrigan

I don't think any progress has been made on that front.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Larry Rothschild

Then we'll see if we can get him into some sort of games. It's time for him to progress a little bit.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Michael Goodman

It's sort of like you're seeing Yahoo spread its wings and be more of a portal that ties into the TV in your home.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.