Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Cook

As an investor, I'm concerned with the later phase. There's a higher level of commitment from the venture capital firm by then.

Dan Levitan

As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.

Li Zhi

Raising profit thresholds are in line with the regulator's pledge to help good-quality companies raise capital and upgrade market fundamentals. Investors will be glad to see the market shutting its doors to poor performers.

Ariel Sharon

(People) should vote for me because I will preserve Jerusalem, united and undivided as the capital of the Jewish people, the capital of Israel, forever.

Tom Doyle

People are starting to take a longer-term view on capital projects now.

Maryann Courson

Once we get the ranking, we can go forward and develop a capital improvement plan to get the projects done.

Marvin Prince

Defensively, I feel we've come a long way. But we need to capitalize on their mistakes.

James Wittenbach

Deloitte's National Tax Office monitors tax proposals and tax legislation on a daily basis. They work very closely with policy makers on Capital Hill, ... The hope is that following Dan and Katie's presentation, the tax policy professionals at Deloitte will carry the proposal to Capital Hill where members of the Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee will get a chance to consider it.

Steve East

Once you've cut employees as much as you can, the only thing left to do when you don't have pricing power is to become more productive, and you do that through capital spending.

Bud Lachel

Competition is a good thing to have, but you have to keep everybody happy.

Kevin Roe

Competition continues to be intense in wireless. This is yet another example of that.

John Rowland

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

Dan Glickman

Despite increasing competition for consumers' time and entertainment dollars, theater-going remains a satisfying constant in people's lives.

Rick Meckler

The story you'll start to see people talk about as rates go up around the world is, what type of competition will there be for stocks.

Mark Cooper

The simple fact of the matter is that competition is good for consumers.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Adam Scott

The teams are named, and we're ready to go. It's going to be some good competition. I'd like to get my hands on the trophy and look forward to the Sunday night celebration. We did a pretty good job celebrating last time, and we didn't even win the thing.

Polly Schulze

The team is very excited to get on the road and test themselves in a competitive atmosphere. This is our first competition of the season and in light of the fact that we have the most experienced and most talented team to date, we are pretty fired up!

Reid Scott

As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York.

David Harcharik

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

Malcolm Speed

Australia, Bermuda, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UAE and the West Indies have indicated their intention to be considered as hosts for an inaugural Twenty20 event while England, Hong Kong, Nepal and Scotland have also expressed an interest in hosting future events.

Ken Williams

I've always thought it's kind of disrespectful to the guys that have gotten you in the position to consider a move, ... So if you come out and say I need X, Y or Z ... they deserve better than that.

R. Robinson

So often space is wasted, or dead, in a house which the owners consider too small. First, you need to take away the name of the room, and then the space is liberated for a variety of new uses.

Bill Cherpak

I've never seen Nate play a better game - ever. I told him before the game: 'If you want to be considered a big-time player, this is where you do it. I saw Nate take control of that huddle in the last drive. He took over.

Petro Poroshenko

I understand that my presence in the position ... could be considered possible pressure on the investigation (into the corruption allegations).

Dave Gould

They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car,

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

David Harcharik

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

Malcolm Speed

Australia, Bermuda, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UAE and the West Indies have indicated their intention to be considered as hosts for an inaugural Twenty20 event while England, Hong Kong, Nepal and Scotland have also expressed an interest in hosting future events.

Bill Cherpak

I've never seen Nate play a better game - ever. I told him before the game: 'If you want to be considered a big-time player, this is where you do it. I saw Nate take control of that huddle in the last drive. He took over.

Petro Poroshenko

I understand that my presence in the position ... could be considered possible pressure on the investigation (into the corruption allegations).

Dave Gould

They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car,

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Scott Carney

This is probably the first time I have considered it.

Dan Fisher

This game meant so much more than a playoff game. We considered it the state championship for northern Michigan.

Len Klepack

This course is considered the Yankee Stadium of our sport. It will be a great experience.

Matt Willis

The weakness in the currency is probably the story of the day and the currency sensitive stocks are doing very well.

George Bicher

First Union doesn't have much of a currency to get into a bidding contest.

John Kyriakopoulos

As such, currency moves are being exaggerated as small lumpy flows meet low liquidity.

Greg Gibbs

This number is quite a shock. This is a short-term negative for the currency and I'm surprised it hasn't fallen further.

Toni Sacconaghi

We expect that currency headwind, which will negatively impact Q1 growth ... and rising memory prices, will force Dell to keep expectations low.

George Lopez

He was the one person who filled my house with his voice and made me not feel lonely, and made me feel my life could be worth something and that my pain could be currency for laughs.

Dennis Gartman

The October panic is hitting more than the world's equity markets; it is hitting the currency markets, too.

Kikuko Takeda

(Traders) realize that markets may have oversold the currency and pushed U.S. Treasury yields too low on worries that the Katrina impact could hold the Fed back from lifting rates.

Mitul Kotecha

The data is positive for the euro, being one of the only data releases that the currency reacts to.

Heath Schroyer

The most important thing was for us to be as efficient as possible. And I thought that's what we were.

Mark Schroeder

Some folks wind up subsidizing other folks. Some people are very efficient users and wind up paying more than if they are individually charged. Those who are egregious users might end up paying less.

Jerry Sterner

This is so much more efficient for us.

Omar Bongo

The United States, with its efficient technologies for gathering and broadcasting information, has shown that it is vulnerable to fanatical groups.

Janet Woodcock

You would expect with all the new science, we'd become more efficient and more productive.

Peter Arnell

At retail, this will provide a more efficient model ... so they'll have more presence and power in the stores.

Dai Junliang

Digitizing a place name is one of the most efficient public services a government can provide.

Doug Bruno

We weren't where we needed to be defensively in the second half. They are the most efficient team I've seen.

Jesse Schell

We all know the place you're in has a big impact on how you feel. How you feel has an impact on the quality of work. Why wouldn't we put a lot of effort into making the place we work as efficient and productive and pleasant as possible?

Tim Ruskell

As a scout you have to look at the hands so the guy doesn't come off the field when it's a passing situation.

Mike Reilly

As a competitor, you want to be on the field when the game is on the line. So no, it wasn't fun from that standpoint. We were all just pulling for our defense. We were all just trying to get out of this thing alive.

Richie Zisk

A veteran can provide leadership not only on the field but in the clubhouse. They're really invaluable.

J. Horton

A year ago he was just trying to play and not make mistakes. This year you've seen not just his improvement on the football field but in the other intangible things also.

Steve Spurrier

As long as his play on the field is good he doesn't have to be a vocal guy.

Eric Trudo

That play got us going. We marched right down the field and scored.

Marc Williams

That's where the fields come in - to be able to host a tournament and get in the revenue and help out with the little things,

Nasser Hussain

Rachael has a good head on her shoulders and has played a huge role off the field in helping Freddie become such an outstanding performer. Long may it continue.

Doug Young

Anything that we didn't water didn't do well. Field tomatoes were way off, cucumbers were way off.

David Davies

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Linda Sherry

Be prepared for some runaround when trying to find out the fees for foreign transactions. A lot of representatives don't have a clue, so you have to be persistent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.

Madeline Albright

to talk foreign policy in the plainest possible language with the American people, so that each and every one can understand the stake he or she has in our American foreign policy process.

Valerie Smith

We want to give the money where it will have the greatest impact so the foreign governments can see how their funds are being used.

James Lindsay

With real-life foreign policy taking front and center, Gore gets pushed off the front page,

Ben Campbell

We are captives of the foreign oil cartels,

Alan Tonelson

We think in one sense (China trade policy) has consisted of the indiscriminate opening of U.S. markets but has done little to open foreign markets to U.S. goods.

William Sullivan

There was a big reservoir of foreign interest -- 65.4 percent went to indirect bidders. That is overwhelming and underscores the pressure worldwide for pension managers to better match their unfunded liabilities.

Sam Reed

As a consequence, Americans are more comfortable in India because of human freedom and democracy.

Yasser Arafat

a victory for our people, for all the free and proud people and for every freedom movement in the world.

Juergen Peters

That people don't want to give this away of their own free will goes without saying.

Kurt Opsahl

That was a big win for free speech.

Shaukat Aziz

Progress on Kashmir would pave the way for free trade between the two countries,

Henry Ward Beecher

On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans; on that, children; on this side, captives; on that, free men.

Kate Ford

Do you miss it? What are you doing with your free time?

Sarah Olson

Definitely, our free throw shooting sealed the win for us tonight. The girls really stepped up in a lot of pressure.

Chris Holt

Device-makers use free logistics as a way to compete. The down side is that doctors, because they are not paying, have no incentive to manage inventory tightly.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Richard Fisher

So this leaves a third option: better calibrating government spending programs,

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Zach Hall

Scientists. What will not stop this from happening is government oversight.

Rigoberto Medina

Protests have halted while government officials meet with local leaders to look for a solution.

Jack Straw

putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

Edil Baisalov

Quite a lot of high placed government officials wish to limit and restrict NGOs funded from abroad.

George Speight

There will never ever be a government led by an Indian, ever in Fiji.

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.

Miles Shipside

Properties are selling more quickly and stock levels declining.

Marc Chandler

Once we got through an important technical level that triggered a lot of stops. We went through the level that the technicians thought was a bottom.

John Gallagher

Do you want performance level one or performance level two,

Dwayne Slay

The talent level is rising around here. It's going to be a surprise next year.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Landon Donovan

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. We have an obligation to do that and most people take that seriously.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Jake Goebbert

(The state tournament) is a different level of basketball. We need to come out a little harder.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Source Unknown

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Lyle Gramley

Mortgage rates haven't been significantly lower than the rates we have today since the 1960s.

Mark Begich

If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.

John Beasley

It doesn't take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Michael Evans

They're paying a lot lower and they can make their services for a lot lower.

Dudley North

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Jose Canseco

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Douglas Alexander

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

Mats Sundin

I've told Tomas already if you see me coming, move over.

Darius Hargrove

It was tough. But we've got to move on.

Jamie Friedman

The stock moved up pretty quickly, so we changed.

Maurice Cheeks

I've been over there before. We have to move on. You can't always live in the past of what we did or what we were. The Blazers moved on and I moved on.

Stuart Bailey

Things are set up here to move really fast.

Frank Cook

Things often don't seem strange until after you move in.

Ronald Walters

This is a wise move on her part. This race was framed from the beginning.

Doug Flynn

We had back-to-back negative years in the market, and this mimics the market. It's very discouraging for people.

Patrick Stump

We wanted out of it. It was the most negative thing in the world.

Donnie Yen

Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.

Montgomery Clift

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Abdul Kalam

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Peter McWilliams

Positive thoughts have positive results. Negative thoughts produce negative results.

Erwin Schrodinger

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

Farrah Fawcett

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

James Cornish

People look at it in a negative way. It shows things were worse than we thought they were.

Tammy Cox

You say you are not going to watch the news but you do. You want to know what is going on there.

Jane Fonda

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

Arianna Huffington

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Brit Hume

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

Ben Harper

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Vijayraj Bhatt

Controversies can make news but can't produce results.

Art Hogan

Arguably, Nokia's news isn't good, ... If we were rallying on Nokia, it was a little questionable on its reasoning.

Patricia Edwards

There?s not a lot out there that?s new.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

Brad Williams

Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.

Russell Dynes

We really haven't had a situation like this.

B. R. Hayden

We'll have to take a look at it and see what the situation is and find out what's going on.

Bill Belichick

Every situation is independent. It takes two parties, or three to a point, to make a deal, and when that happens, we have one, and if it doesn't, we don't.

Commissioner Steele

This sounds like a win-win situation to me.

Sha Zukang

This situation is very undemocratic, unfair and unreasonable,

Adam Ereli

We are watching the situation in Togo closely.

David Greenlaw

You have a much, much different situation today.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Vincent Cassel

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Nelson Mandela

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Deion Sanders

The thrill is gone. It's time for me to step away.

Mahmoud Abbas

The most important step after the withdrawal will be how we protect, rebuild.

Mickael Pietrus

It was tough for us tonight and we're really going to try to step up on Wednesday and try to get a W before the break. It's very important to get a win on Wednesday.

Bill Worsham

This is a really significant and unexpected step in our development.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Janet Napolitano

This is a step in the right direction, but we really need more resources.

Richard Hasen

This could be an important first step toward undermining (the 2003 ruling) without overruling it.

Tom Blake

That's where your upperclassmen and tri-captains step up. That's what they're supposed to do.