Famous Quotes & Sayings

Takuji Aida

The slowdown in recurring profits reflects rising material costs in manufacturing and higher personnel costs in non-manufacturing.

Tom Schatz

The structure slams the door on any competition. The ULA locks up all contracts, ensuring high costs for taxpayers and stifling innovation.

Nick Sloane

The shares have done a lot in a very short time. Share gains of 30 percent in two months, plus raw materials costs still rising, could mean some investors will look to take profit in the near- term.

Ellen Smith

I've been getting this medication for 10 years without any problems, and it costs a few dollars a month.

J. M. Roberts

You're reducing the skilled people in the trade and you're creating long-term costs for the general public in a lot of ways.

Charles Bradford

You would think that with their costs going up and prices going up, you wouldn't make much more money or would do a little worse, ... But in reality, there has been a very, very strong correlation: The higher the scrap goes, the more money they make. It just means the market is better overall.

Brian Spears

You spend money to save money. People want to reduce their living costs overall and feel better about the environment.

James Malone

You're in an environment where initially those costs are not as they were before.

Gary Akright

You need to factor in the (interest-rate) differential, as well as the costs of refinancing.

Kazunori Jinnai

The Nasdaq gains gave a gentle nudge higher to a market that was ready for a rebound after last week's losing spell.

Jere Adcock

The most impressive thing to me about him now is how many yards he gains after contact. He doesn't give you a big target to hit, and he's exceptionally strong.

Japan Times

Puffy Gains Real-Life Foothold on 'anime' -crazy U.S. Market

Sarah Bolton

The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.

Juvenal

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Richard G. Scott

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

Democritus

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

Michael Sheldon

The tone in the market is a little better. We saw strong gains in Japan as they move toward an end to quantitative easing.

Jim Corridore

The time to get into these stocks is when things are still poor .We've already seen that. More gains might be tough to come by.

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Brett Gallagher

After a big up day like you had yesterday, you have to have some digestion. Once things run up by a big amount, then investors have to step back.

Yasuo Yabe

Right now the market is rather quiet, but it will be a problem when investors return after the New Year and trade volume increases.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Mo Ibrahim

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Diane Garcia

You never know what can happen. Just because it's a park now doesn't mean it will always be protected.

Eric Dubin

You mean my whole opening statement is over?

Joe Torre

You mean how much money he's made me? How could you not? But I don't think in terms of who's in waiting because he's been here and he's been the same the whole time.

Lewis Maltby

You may not know it, but it doesn't mean it's not happening.

Brett Ratner

I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.

Brett Ratner

'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.

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.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

Dave Hamilton

If it all leaks, then you're right back where you started, plus you've wasted all that money.

Pierre Charron

The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

Russ Miller

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

Tim Biggam

Today's sell-off is simply profit taking and valuation realignment,

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.

Noam Chomsky

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

Deutsche Bank

Excluding this, pretax profit should be up 9 percent.

Pliny the Elder

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Maxim Gorky

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

Steve Gunderson

Reclaimed water is not raw sewage, but it's still unauthorized.

Fred Goss

We're not trying to be blue. But we're pretty frank, we're pretty raw and we're pretty real.

Ryan Stiles

That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy.

Tyler Oakley

You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Dr. House

How does someone just start drooling? Chase? Were you wearing your short shorts?

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.