Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Shaw

As a result, fears over a significant near-term increase in personal or corporate taxation have virtually disappeared. Most expectations, including our own are for a broadly neutral stance.

Rob Feckner

As a major shareholder, our overall goal is to improve corporate governance and shareholder value.

Frank Gannon

As investors this year, we have to focus on the durability of corporate profit growth. Within that you can find a lot of opportunities in the stock market.

Wayne Ayers

Productivity always slows as the economy slows. If labor and wage costs are still on the rise and productivity slows, either corporate profits decline or prices increase.

Gary Ruskin

People should know when they are talking to a corporate shill.

Adi Godrej

People should be encouraged by things like awards given for corporate governance practices.

Michael Uhl

Demand by corporations for Las Vegas group and meeting hotel space is huge, even incredible, because of the diversity of the city's product. As we search for availability in Las Vegas for corporate groups, we do so smarter, not necessarily harder these days.

Sarah Andrus

DECA is an outstanding organization that has been preparing high school students for the workplace for more than 50 years. We are honored to be a corporate sponsor because our goals parallel those of this fine student group.

Renault Kam

Any negative news on the corporate front will be taken as an excuse for investors to take their gains.

Michael Wynne

That, perhaps, is an explanation, but it's not an excuse?and it's not a license to lie.

Ira Glass

Any journalist who doesn't stick to the day's news is sort of part journalist, part anthropologist. Once the excuse for the story stops being - it happened today - then you're square right in the other territory of journalism, which is just straight up documenting of how we live, and what we think of each other.

Brian Schiavo

a poor excuse of a priest, I'll tell you that.

Alexander Pope

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

Jonathan Spira

After 15 years, there is simply no excuse to not having this kind of technology available.

Aaron Nieckula

Submariner like that, you don't see those kinds of guys too often. But that's really no excuse.

Jonathan Epstein

Now it's an excuse so that people can be late. I think it's become a crutch.

Scott Hartnell

Now I have an excuse to grow a beard.

Eddy Curry

Sometimes they will look away from me. When I do get the ball, I try to make something happen so they don't have an excuse not to throw me the ball.

John Wilson

As guarded, not necessarily secretive, but as private about his personal life as he used to be, for him to suddenly propose in front of reporters on the Eiffel Tower and jump up and down like the monkey in 'Curious George' on Oprah Winfrey 's couch, there truly is some problem there.

Matthew Szulik

As CEO, I had to get out in front and lead my people. I put the onus back on the CEO.

Matthew Szulik

As CEO, I had to get out in front and lead my people,

Dick LeBeau

As a defense, we didn't play very well in (the AFC Championship game) and that's going to be in the front of our minds, for sure.

Rodney Lloyd

The Bulldogs are very big up front defensively and offensively, and it's their great size that worries me the most.

Eli Broad

People think it's strange how briskly I move through museums. Sure, I could stand in front of each piece and stare at it for a good long time. But that's not me.

Joe Stellmacher

During the game I don't really think about it. We've got enough to worry about in the back end. But now that I think about it: Justin out, Coop out, Kurt out. Just to see those young guys grow up in front of your face. They're doing a heck of a job. I can't say enough about them.

Kelvin Sampson

The strength of the team is up front now. But we don't have a guy who you know can give you points when the going gets tough.

Don McKinnon

The smoke (was) so (thick) ... you (couldn't) see in front of you.

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.

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.

Abdul Kalam

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

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.

Barry Mann

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Gigi Hadid

There were a lot of times where I didn't get any shows and even until recently got a lot of kind of negative commentary from social media about my runway walk.

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

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund's goal is to produce a broad range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers, with a focus on working with the many experienced reporters and writers impacted by the economic contraction. The pieces will range from long-form investigations to short breaking news stories and will be presented in a variety of media - including text, audio, and video.

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.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Auguste Rodin

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Augusten Burroughs

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Ayn Rand

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.