Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Walsh

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.

William Poole

I think the inflation risks around the point estimate are skewed to the high side ... I would put a higher probability on an upside surprise,

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Paul Ballew

We've exceeded the sales estimate for the month. We turned the production at a very healthy pace.

Simon Hauger

We've estimated that there's probably between $80,000 and $100,000 worth of parts in the car.

John Snow

I think it's probably on the high side. I've seen other estimates more in line with a half-percent hurt to GDP growth in the third quarter and fourth quarter -- but with a pick-up of roughly that order for '06,

Nobuyuki Oneda

Our operating profit surpassed our previous estimate because the one-time profit from returning pension funds to government was larger than expected.

Les Wright

In the near future we estimate that we will have 2 to 3 million fewer page views per day. But the farther you go out, the greater the likelihood we will recapture that and then some.

Steven Katz

In the 20th century, the estimate is that 100 million people were killed by government.

James Bennett

I think we ought to make it a first-class facility. If it takes more than $50-million, we will have to make sure we find the funds to make it right. It's pretty important to get it right.

Jim Leach

I think we have the funds now for all of it.

Angus MacMillan

There are no signs that funds have lost appetite. As long as you have a list of problems, funds will keep piling in.

Christopher Sullivan

I didn't give a legal opinion on any of the funds in question,

George Gero

Recently, funds who were selling oil also were selling the metals, but then everything seemed to change. Investors see that there are whiffs of inflation out there.

Kunal Kapoor

In the past, these were growth funds in name only.

Lachlan McIntosh

In some ways, that's a good thing. It means they can spend the spring raising funds and doing thing they ought to be doing.

Christopher Sullivan

I remember telling him if you're going to move funds around you better see if it was done in the past to see if (former treasurer Ron Graves) had done it, ... But it's just not something I would do for Ron or Bill, to authorize the use of funds.

Jack Reed

Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Rick Blount

I thought for sure the government at some level would have solved my problems for me, but since that doesn't look like it's going to happen, we have to go this route.

Buzz Aldrin

I think you have to talk to your congressman to try to get the government to want to work with the private sector.

George William Norris

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

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.

Reba McEntire

Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

Marvin Roffman

The larger companies, they're so broadly diversified, it's a hiccup, ... That's the whole purpose of having numerous properties. If you're a small operator, then it can become meaningful.

Craig Walker

It's part of a larger system that's yet to be launched. That system will be a for-pay service, and that will subsidize what we're doing for the homeless.

Susan Bennett

It's part of a larger plan for the Center.

Terry Lundgren

That's substantially larger than Marshall Field's is in total.

David Shore

It's somewhat disappointing. With some of the newer products that they have, they're working on larger transactions and larger transactions, by definition, take longer.

Sarah Davis

There was a problem with a refinery that wasn't operating fully.

Jay Rosen

Not only is the Times not operating properly, it's unable to say to readers: here's why we're not.

Mike Jacobs

It's in the realm of operating systems that the most troublesome problems exist,

Michael Cherry

It just uses so much of the operating system so well. They didn't try to overbuild.

Rob Navias

It may have ceased operating very shortly after its deployment.

Milton Friedman

There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.

Lisa Spicer

At the operating level, I think it's very possible.

Patrick Collins

At this point, we're in the red $20,000 and that's going to have to come out of our operating budget.

Linda Todd

At this time of year, we're usually operating at 90 percent.

John Jenkins

I'm just worried about pension and medical, ... when I do get ready to retire, it is set up for me.

Shia LaBeouf

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

John Lee Hooker

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

Judy Aydelott

Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep pensions secure, as well as Social Security.

Anne McLellan

Quite truthfully, I have no idea (how much the pension is worth) because I have never contemplated retiring.

Roger Toussaint

What they'd be saving on pensions is a pittance.

Gregg Shotwell

What struck me the most was he said he's going to try to keep Delphi pensions solvent. And I was struck that he would think that any of us would trust that.

Philip Baggaley

I would expect, eventually, they will have to terminate the pension plan.

Camryn Manheim

The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

George Papandreou

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

Yikyung Park

In general, most previous studies have been inconsistent.

Jeffrey Benjamin

The end result is a compilation of many previous contributions.

Norman McLaren

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Sanjaasuren Oyun

It was stupid to oust the previous government. It's illogical.

Ansyaad Mbai

The modus operandi is very similar to the previous bombings.

Ali Kerimli

even all the previous falsifications were not enough for them to win.

George Foster

We'll have to go back and resample all the previous sampled locations.

Rick Hind

I think the industry's trap is they're in a quarter-to-quarter profit cycle.

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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

Zong Qinghou

The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isnt so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.

Yvon Chouinard

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Mahatma Gandhi

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

James Cook

Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit.

James Cook

Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Pat Davis

They just got us with the big play. Right now, we're down to zero returning starters, so we're just trying to get better every week.

Tracy Kidder

Returning to Northampton, I thought: here's a town that seems to be working pretty well, and I wonder why.