Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Stevenson

The first thing we do is to help people broaden their view of job options. We preface that with an understanding of their needs as far as income, career satisfaction, and career development go.

Robert Redford

Sundance is about storytelling. Storytellers can broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Jonathan Bloomer

Our strategy to grow internationally, broaden our distribution reach and diversify our product range has been a key factor in this achievement,

Richard Callahan

Our goal is not to be a really large company. We have expanded drastically the past couple of years, but it's not out of a desire to be really large but to broaden our market.

Yang Yuanqing

The decline in profit margin reflects an increase of market competition, and shows that we haven't optimized our cost and expense structure. We need to broaden our product portfolio and increase our market coverage.

Jacob Christfort

We think the time has come to broaden out to medium to large enterprises. To do that we've created a very predictable, easy-to-start-with option.

Mike Leavitt

We have been discussing ways in which we could shorten the time frames and broaden our production capabilities

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Steven Wood

This will offer some partial restraint to consumer spending.

Gary Miller

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

Peter Dixon

We've seen higher inflation in the course of this year than perhaps was anticipated last year when wage deals were negotiated, ... Consequently that's eroded household purchasing power, and we've actually seen very sluggish consumer demand - which has been a big surprise.

Bruce Rohde

We've seen customers in our industry aggressively reducing inventory balances, so shipment, sales and profits were lower than would be suggested by improved consumer purchases of our products.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

John Silvia

Employment and wages are stronger and therefore, consumer spending is stronger. Housing is slowing, but not as much as we would have expected, and the price of oil is so far not having that big an impact on the consumer.

Dave Robinson

A worse drought than we have seen recently may loom in our future.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

David Williams

Once you understand your inventory, then you can start integrating at a greater level.

Proverbs

There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.

Rick Costa

The process is oftentimes too mysterious, and the public has a right to know. We're hoping that there will be a greater understanding of the process.

Jacques Diouf

As the world takes prudent measures to prepare for a major human pandemic, greater measures must be taken to stop this disease, in its tracks, at its source, in animals. This is very possible. It can be done,

Joe Wojtkiewicz

Those two have been really good. John as a senior is taking on greater responsibility and Isaac is taking on that role as only as sophomore.

Tim Cranton

This was a pretty astonishing number for us. We knew that it would be a high volume, but this was an even greater volume of spam than we had anticipated passing through one computer.

Richard Holbrooke

the U.N. is being tested in Kosovo as it has never been tested before, with responsibilities greater than ever before.

Brian Sabean

What that means in the greater scheme of things, I'll know more (today),

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Joe Klein

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Dave Scott

It's a larger fumigation, but it wasn't the most challenging we've done.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Hideyuki Suzuki

A rally in US shares (overnight) led the market here.

Alan Stern

This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Mark Turgeon

We didn't play together. We didn't play the way that led us to the (Missouri Valley regular-season) championship or the Sweet 16.

Jill Williams

We had sophomores step up and play a role and they led very well.

John C. Calhoun

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

Ahmet Ertegun

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

Jeff Clarke

We led when we needed to, I guess.

Clay Richards

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

Dr. Armstrong

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

Georg Hackl

I have the strength of a 10-year-old. If the track was 500 meters longer I might have a chance.

Harry Harnish

The turkey vulture has a V-shaped wingspan and a white head. Unlike eagles, vultures tend to glide for longer periods of time.

Peter Frampton

The Longer You Love,The Longer You Live,The Stronger You Feel,The More You Can Give.

Jim Barnett

This man is proven to be an ineffective extremist. We're no longer talking about one out of 435. We're talking about a very powerful position, as one of 100 in the United States Senate.

Anita Roddick

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Christopher Shays

We will come and make a longer trip soon,

Sheryl Lehr

We like it here, we want to live here for a longer time. We don't want our town to die.

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Angela Lansbury

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

David Hare

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

Annie Dillard

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

Stephen King

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Garth Nix

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

Isabel Allende

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.

Freeman Dyson

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

J. J. Abrams

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Shaffi Mather

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering,

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Yvon Chouinard

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Deutsche Bank

Excluding this, pretax profit should be up 9 percent.

Lei Jun

We make our profits through content and services.

John Maynard Keynes

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

Alan Ladd

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled

Brian Ferneyhough

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Andre Leon Talley

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

Alicia Silverstone

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Alfred Adler

Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.

Angela Merkel

...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.

Anthony Bourdain

Good food and good eating are about risk.

Richie Ashburn

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.