Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Harris

The people who can afford to move here in their 50s are affluent baby boomers. I think that trend will continue to drive our economy.

Sandy Baum

Where the average debt levels are really increasing are for children of more-affluent families. Children of affluent families are now almost as likely to borrow as children of less-affluent families.

Ray Waddell

The most affluent fans are driving the business in many ways.

Jamie Johnson

There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.

Lawrence Summers

An SAT score means one thing if the student comes from an affluent school, where there are SAT prep courses, and a very different thing if the student comes from a disadvantaged background where there was no SAT classes of any kind.

Dean Chase

Back in 1991, I suggested doing this because our school district is not affluent by any means. We had kids going to college and struggling and some of them were the first people in their family to do so. I had read some articles about foundations and knew that maybe we could do this.

Michael Harrington

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.

David Thompson

Affluent consumers, a highly risk averse group, are showing signs of confidence in the economy as they move their money back into the stock market. This continued momentum is an excellent opportunity for financial planners to expand and diversify their customers' portfolios.

David Thompson

Affluent baby boomers have unique challenges when it comes to retirement planning and represent one of the largest opportunities for financial services firms. Mass marketing to this group of high net worth individuals simply doesn't work and requires a more thorough understanding of the affluent lifestyle, attitudes and behaviors. It's obvious from our research that there's lots of low hanging fruit yet to be picked.

Al Neuharth

Only cream and SOBs rise to the top.

Gary Phillips

We've always been famous for our homemade cream pies and hams.

Kathleen Rhodes

We were trendsetters, ... But people would joke 'Here comes the ice cream truck.' Now it's not unusual to see white limos at a funeral home.

Justin Smirk

We're being bounced around as robust crude supplies take the cream off a market driven up by geo-political concerns.

Mikel Olaciregui

It's been the cream of the crop this year.

Clark Kellogg

It's just a matter of personal preference. Some people like strawberry ice cream and some people like vanilla. If you put a gun to my head, I'd be hard pressed to pick one over the other.

Leonard Hamilton

Then they're going to find out that the cream will rise to the top. I think you will see that we're going to represent very well.

Bruce Wisan

It's the very righteous, the cream of the crop.

Claiborne Pell

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Michelle Williams

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.

Alan Rickman

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom...

Alan Greenspan

At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

Alan Chambers

I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.

Al Roker

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Al Jardine

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Akio Morita

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

Akio Morita

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

Akio Morita

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Peg Stipetich

Our slowest time through the day was from 2-4 p.m., but we were still busy. It really was steady throughout the day.

Perry Davis

She was just steady all through the game.

Scott Cross

He's just been really steady for us inside.

Scott Benedict

That's what he does. He's been steady all year.

Wayne Primeau

He was just a steady guy. Never flashy, but he was a big part of their championship teams.

Randy Thompson

Oh, my gosh, it's been pretty steady all year.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Carolyn Clark

As you can see, you get really dirty. But you know you worked if you get dirty.

Gene Fraise

It's the same as it is at home. We've always worked together.

Shanna Zolman

There's a lot of things that need to be worked on before we get to where we need to be.

Stewart Butterfield

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

David Crystal

It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.

Douglas Booth

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Sophie Turner

I used to fancy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I didn't tell him that when we worked together on 'Another Me.'