Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Ozzello

Primarily what you're trying to do when you build a compensation package is not that different in some ways from the recruiting process - you want to come up with as attractive an offer as possible to be as competitive as possible.

Jim Marks

People retreat to the sidelines, licking their wounds. The whole process is not as attractive anymore.

Takahide Kiuchi

People's sentiment is changing. They don't mind spending more for attractive goods.

Robert Ray

Offering a BIG Dow contract with a $25 multiplier is very attractive to a broad spectrum of market participants.

James Awad

North Fork Bancorp stock is selling at about 20. We think its fair value would be about 30. But meanwhile, you're getting a 3 percent dividend yield and it's selling at 10 times earnings. Demographically, it's a very attractive area. So, your risk in buying North Fork is that you're a little bit early and the market doesn't care about value stocks for a while. And of course, in a period of rising rates, financial stocks don't do particularly well. But, ... if you buy it and put it away, you'll end up making 50 percent from current levels over a 12 to 18 month period.

Markus Steinbeis

Oil and gas shares are shining at the moment: Rising oil prices are lifting the shares which are also undervalued and offer attractive dividend yields.

Dawn Keezer

Once we enacted statewide tax credit legislation, that has made (Pennsylvania) a lot more attractive destination. We're on the radar now.

Mark Sutton

Despite the expectation for continued if not increased market volatility, we also expect to see returns more in line with historical levels, or approximately seven to ten percent annually, which still makes the markets very attractive for investors.

E. Hurley

A prepaid tuition plan is attractive to a family that just wants to make sure they've paid for the future tuition at a public university and they don't want to worry about which direction the markets are going.

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).

Don Brash

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

John Roth

Nortel Networks had another quarter of outstanding growth, which reflected our continued market leadership in key growth segments, ... In particular, our optical Internet, wireless Internet, and high-speed local Internet solutions revenue grew at rates of more than 150 percent, 18 percent, and 80 percent, respectively, over the second quarter of 1999.

Michael Hughes

The momentum of the first quarter has continued into the second as signs of economic growth become more prevalent.

Todd Lewis

During the last 20 minutes of negotiation, he started responding. He had had the firearm to his head or in his mouth the whole time, but he moved it to his lap. We continued to speak with him, trying to coax him out. He finally complied without incident.

Gunter Thielen

During the first half of the year, Bertelsmann established the foundations for continued future growth, ... I am very pleased at our improved return on sales.

John Davidson

Despite the decline, the ISM report was very positive, and what you can take away from it is that the economy is continuing to expand. The question for 2004 is whether that continued expansion has already been reflected in the 25 percent returns you saw in stocks last year.

Jonathan Miller

Despite some lingering trepidation due to mixed local, national and international economic conditions, the Manhattan housing market continued to improve.

Frederick W. Smith

Despite uncertainty related to Katrina and other economic conditions, we remain optimistic about global trade and expect continued economic expansion in the U.S. and in the international markets.

Joe Humasti

Radford had a really good run. He skied really well despite the conditions.

Kenny Tang

Profit-taking dragged the index lower. But funds are still in Hong Kong and are helping support the index despite the pressure on stocks to trade lower after the weak showing of overseas markets.

Al Goldman

Our economy is doing well despite what is going on in Asia, and with any signs of improvement from there, it could be up, up and away for us.

Kent Early

Offensively I was more pleased with her than her pitching. She led off and went 2 for 3. She competed, despite all this (bad weather) that's going on. I'm proud of her. She's a competitor.

Gurinder Kalra

Despite the stock's strong performance in recent months, we are reiterating our outperform rating and are raising our price target from 660,000 won ($ 673.43) to 770,000 won.

David Townsend

Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole.

Kenny Tang

Despite the rise, there was consolidation and profit-taking after an eight-day surge.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the rise in oil prices through mid-August, inflation and inflation expectations have eased in recent months,

Alberto Ramos

Despite the recent pickup, total investment spending in the economy is still lower than the level of 2001 and, as a share of GDP...below the 1997-2000 average.

Brian Tracy

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.

Brian Tracy

You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!

C. S. Lewis

True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.

M. Thompson

What we probably needed to do was not put that expectation on that he's going to kick four goals every game,

Baltasar Gracian

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

Delta Goodrem

I don't have any expectations.

Dennis Prager

Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).

Barbara Bush

My worst expectations never happened.

Bruce Lee

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

Colm Feore

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Marissa Moss

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

Antony Beevor

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

Sandra Sanchez

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

Stephen Jay Gould

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

Joe Garcia

What can you say? It's been a historical winter that wasn't.

Andrew Sullivan

Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

Billy Donovan

The thing that's so shocking of his 37, he only took 14 shots. He got to the free-throw line tonight. That was the difference.

Masayuki Ito

Sony's results look pretty much in line with market expectations, in that they didn't disappoint. The problem is that you can't see any pillar of growth.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Klaus Rinnen

The Samsung announcement is still in line with our estimate.

Larry Bailey

It would take $30,000 to $40,000 to make repairs to get this residence in line with codes.

John Samuelsen

These women put their necks on the line every night.

Sergei Kiriyenko

These deliveries are made in line with the main principles of the nuclear suppliers' group.

Greg Rubin

I set the line and he just took off about 150 yards straight out to the middle of the lake.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Tai Hui

Quality property at the top-end of the market is still pretty scarce,

Mark Goodstein

These are all different approaches, but the market really has to validate them. ... If it's hydrogen, great. How many sales are you going to get?

O. J. Simpson

The stock market is very jittery because of the hurricane. Any positive news in regards to the storm will push the market up.

Michael Polk

Is it a big market today? Maybe not. Could it be? Perhaps over time.

Tomi Taterka

Things are still very complicated and the market remains nervous and should stay that way for some time.

Desmond Soon

The worry is the shortage of dollars. The market is watching their reserves position.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Dr. Seuss

And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed).

Kristine Fauerbach

And when I have sales I promote them at 50 percent off that price.

Bob Johannessen

We could provide prescriptions, but at 100 percent state expense.

John Scales

We could only get to about 40 percent of the city, ... The remainder is still under water.

Tom Moody

We do not want to risk Chaminda (Vaas) unless he is 100 percent fit.

Brad Schneider

I'm 100 percent in support of women's rights, the right of a woman to make her own choice.

David Ishii

Really? I don't remember. Seventeen under? That's pretty good.

Kim Devlin

Well that's seven more votes than we expected.

Richelle Nice

We were in there for seven months. We wanted to see it through to the end.

S. Truett Cathy

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

Tom Evans

Get transported back to the seventies !

Shaun White

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

Michael Ian Black

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

Miguel de Cervantes

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

Teri Garr

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women

Aaron Spelling

Ten years of any show is amazing, but one about a minister? Wow.

Andre Agassi

Ten weeks ago, I didn't know where things were going to go,

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

John Avlon

Politics is history in the present tense.

Dee Brown

We didn't play as well as we wanted defensively and offensively. We're not doing the things we want but we'll take the win. The Big Ten is a grind-it-out conference.

Clive James

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Donald Young

I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do.

Andre Agassi

My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.