Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Ramsey

I think we're going to have a case that's largely about accounting allegations...where the government is going to refuse to call either David Duncan, who was the chief engagement partner for Arthur Andersen, or Rick Causey.

Michael Gross

Investors looked to KPMG for tax advice. They looked to us as an investment adviser to execute a variety of stock and option transactions, We got out of the business of working with large accounting firms more than five years ago.

Bill Brunson

If you want to be an expert in accounting and tax law, then the Internal Revenue Service is the place for you. In fact the IRS is one of the largest single employers of professional accountants.

Dan Delano

You won't know the discount, if there is a discount, until after all the accounting is done.

Rick Boyer

All we're doing is pushing the due date up. (Taxpayers) are not paying for four months extra. It's more of an accounting question than a monetary figure.

Efraim Levy

This is more of a final nail in the coffin of the company's past accounting practices. Investors are looking at the company going forward rather than past. They have been doing a lot of things right lately.

Issa Hayatou

Do not lock yourself into an egotistical and a purely (financial) accounting approach to football.

Paul Sweeney

A modern computer is an electronic wonder that performs complex mathematical calculations and intricate accounting tabulations in one ten-thousandth of a second -- and then mails out statements ten days late.

Franklin Raines

Although to my knowledge the company has always made good faith efforts to get its accounting right, the SEC has determined that mistakes were made. By my early retirement, I have held myself accountable.

Steve Bonney

The attorneys will have to battle that out.

Jason Morris

We find attorneys who aren't attorneys and nurses who aren't nurses. People just aren't truthful on their resumes.

Bob Ney

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

Henry Eng

We aren't making any public comments because of pending litigation and are waiting to hear from our attorneys about what we can and can't do.

Jose Montilla

We will defend the legality of the measures we have taken. We think they are in line with European law. Our government attorneys will reply to the European Union's request in that vein.

Gerald Shargel

The jurors are crying, our clients are crying and the lawyers are trying to keep from crying.

Arthur Conan

And now, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.

Bill Singer

The next time one of my clients gets named in a regulatory complaint, the resolution should be that the penny-stock company should spend millions on furniture and liquor for the company, and we'll settle the case,

Frank Murphy

This is the reporter's interpretation of what happened as opposed to what my client is saying.

Charlie Munger

Choose clients as you would friends.

Martin Nissenbaum

When we have clients come with us, we say 'Don't say anything'.

Laurie Peterson

We explain to our clients we are working with a laser not a magic wand. There is work to be done on their part, but their cravings will be suppressed.

Ron Palefsky

You never want to go back to a client and say 'I'm sorry I can't solve this'.

Dennis Szerszen

Yesterday's definition of an endpoint was a desktop or laptop PC, but today an endpoint can also be a thin client device or a smart phone. Whatever tomorrow brings, Sanctuary will be there to enable enterprises to securely embrace these new technologies.

Dean Stanley

Having seen all the data for May, our sense is the Fed won't be raising rates in two weeks but that doesn't mean they won't be tightening rates later this summer,

Robert Glaser

We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.

Hiroaki Kuramochi

Investors probably want to see what the U.S. job data will be like.

Lincoln Anderson

In the meantime, the data on the US economy (especially employment and industrial production) will look very weak in the next few months,

Bob Metcalfe

In seven to 10 years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

David Glocke

The Fed is in data-dependent mode, and we've gotten a string of data that shows a lot of strength.

Ken Tower

The Fed is going to have a hard time stopping their increases if the economy seems to be gaining strength. I think the Fed will have a very hard time talking down the inflation hawks if the data comes in stronger than expected.

Brian Gendreau

The Fed has said they're going to be data dependent. A lot is going to depend on what the world looks like at their June meeting. And June is a long ways off, so I think that's a little premature.

Simon Derrick

The Fed has been explicit that any more moves will be driven by data. I would be surprised if the data wasn't healthy, and the dollar could firm on the back of stronger numbers.

Craig Fugate

The intent of the program was not to provide you a generator for free. We don't want fraud and waste in our programs.

Eric Carlson

There was just very little fraud going on. I just don't think it was nearly as much of a problem as they suspected.

Adam Ereli

There were major irregularities and fraud that are of serious concern.

Tony Dixon

Unless there is negligence or fraud there must be some sort of limitation of liabilities, such as a multiple of fees earned.

Jeffrey Lichtman

a fraud through and through, a real snake-oil salesman.

Safwat Rashid

No wide, premeditated and systematic fraud was noticed.

Benjamin Cardozo

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Howard Beales

The results of our survey indicate that fraud in the U.S. is a serious problem.

David Boies

I would be very, very surprised if we uncovered a large fraud at this stage. The work we have done would have been enough to uncover a very large fraud at this stage.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Mitsushige Akino

Higher oil prices and a strengthening yen accelerated selling.

Ben Shapiro

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

Albert J. Nock

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Jiang Baoguo

The restaurant name means soaring higher and higher.

Steve Andrews

This is a very mainstream issue that should be raised to a higher profile.

Richard Franulovich

It's not a big surprise. A lot of the things we were looking at such as lower oil prices and higher Boeing deliveries have all conspired to make it a better number.

Chris Mennis

It's probably going to go higher from here.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

J. J. Johnson

There's lawsuits threatened on everything we do. You got to vote what you think is right for the kids. If somebody wants to sue you, let them sue.

Hunter Tylo

I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Mark McCormack

We thought the lawsuit was pretty frivolous." ()

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Chuck Palahniuk

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Ali Babacan

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

John Parsons

The (property tax) rate stays the same, but the taxes go up all the time.

Glenn Thomas

We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.

Bill Cowher

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. He saw something in me I'm not sure I saw in myself.

Denny Green

He didn't get in. I thought he was in until I saw the replay.

Shun Long

I tipped it. I just saw it and I took it.

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Will Ferrell

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Robertson Davies

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Walter Johnson

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Andretti Green

I kind of saw it (the accident) coming,

Bob Harlan

I have no idea. I just saw it on TV myself. Whatever he's decided, he hasn't told us.