Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

Charlie Munger

To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.

Calista Flockhart

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

Richard Bove

This event highlights, once again, the difficulty in determining earnings for derivative transactions.

Herbie Hancock

It might have been somewhat derivative otherwise, and I'm not the kind of person who's satisfied with being derivative.

David Spear

So much of what contractors use is petroleum derivative stuff.

Tori Amos

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

Dan Harmon

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

Tom Selleck

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else

Taylor Hanson

About eight months in, we realized there was going to be more difficulty than we thought.

David Krell

It's not easy starting an exchange. We've had to explain the difficulties to a lot of people, including some in Washington.

Rob Enderle

This looks a lot like 15 years ago, when IBM was dominant and similar surveys showed a high tendency to switch from IBM to another vendor. The difficulty is that we're still waiting for the right kind of vendor to stand up and come forward.

Kathleen Gurney

often have the most difficulty because they put everything into their businesses. These people often find themselves misplaced a bit.

Bill Jones

The more organized you are, the better you are with keeping your items together and so forth it tends to take some of that difficulty out of the tax process.

Patricia Murray

The students are sent to use because they're having difficulty in public school.

Ross Millman

I understand the difficulty of that, with the talent here in the state. And it's only going to get harder. But nobody puts more pressure on me than I do myself. Each day in practice, I just try to focus on being a better golfer.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Kevin Smith

This is really the last resort because of the expense and difficulty.

Gordon Nixon

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Jim Roche

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

Steve Previs

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

Chuck Hill

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

Frank Gannon

Until we start seeing some better earnings news, I think the market's going to be in this bottoming phase.

Brad Pleimann

Until we see earnings impacted by oil, I don't think the market is going to be responsive.

Scotty George

What we're looking at generally is whether the market can get past these levels. We think there's enough strong sentiment and stimulus in the pipeline for that to happen and that the earnings will ultimately lead the market, but it's a process, and it's going to take time.

Russ Koesterich

We're just winding down the year, ending the year with these sort of small, middling gains, which to me makes sense because you've had opposing factors this year. On the one hand you've had good earnings and a robust economy, but on the other hand, you've been fighting the Fed. The two canceled each other out.

Peter Oppenheimer

Year-over-year revenue growth of 34 percent and earnings growth of 41 percent were the second highest in any given quarter in Apple's history.

Mike Aresco

We are pleased to present the excitement of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships live to our viewers. We look forward to a great event and the opportunity to highlight the outstanding achievements of the track and field student-athletes.

Roger Wilkins

We are looking forward, and already planning for an even greater event for 2006.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

We still need to strengthen ourselves in the sprints. We're pushing hard in those events this week in practice.

Todd Rogers

We're in a great place to win. Everyone is gunning for us. We played really well in the last two events and for the most part, when one of us wasn't hot, the other did well. When we put it together, we really handled the teams.

Roland Swenson

We started out planning the event hoping we'd get 150 people, so we were happy.

Steve Jocz

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Cheryl James

Change is not an event, its a process.

Chris Lehane

There is no question that this was about 2008 and not about any particular event in January 2006.

David Perry

There is no other event out there that combines snowboarding and skiing in an open registration format on this scale. This event is receiving incredible hype and response in its inaugural year and promises to set the standard for open competitions.