Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Blew

Our seniors have made it to this game every year, if not farther. This has been a successful group and I'm certainly disappointed for them that we didn't win, because we played so hard, but I could never be disappointed in this group. They've achieved so much this year and have done so much as a group, they'll always be special.

Hu Jintao

The Sino-British relationship has now entered a new phase of sustained development, and achieved gratifying results, particularly in economic cooperation and trade,

Jalal Talabani

The stability of country would not be achieved without consensus among the major three components of the Iraqi people (Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds),

Richard Fuld

The third-quarter and nine-months revenues not only illustrate the balance Lehman Brothers has achieved among its equity, fixed income and investment banking businesses, but also show the financial and strategic potential of new businesses the firm has been building, including private equity and high-net-worth activities,

Ruly Lora

The Super Bowl is about generating impressions as much as anything else. We feel we've achieved our milestone.

Jalal Talabani

The Sunni Arab brothers should understand that their aspirations will be achieved through political action and not violence and terrorist acts,

Luis Figo

I've never experienced a situation when sporting success has been achieved by changing seven or eight players.

Suzanne Somers

I understood something way back when I was on 'Three's Company.' When I got the part, I was flat broke. I was so happy to get the part, but I kept thinking, 'Ugh - dumb blondes are so irritating; how do I make her likable?' I think that I achieved that. It took a while for people to realize I was acting.

Catherine Arnold

This is half the savings that Pfizer achieved with its recently announced program.

Sean Ross

As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends national heritage among Hispanics.

Bob Wright

As CEO and then chairman of CNBC, Pamela led the network through a most challenging era in business news reporting. The network has retained its strong profitability, and the CNBC audience continues to be among the wealthiest in all of cable television.

Jared Diamond

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

Mark Watson

The board structure among banks is still pretty poor. We're critical of boards that get too big and directors tell us that smaller boards are more effective.

John Ridley

Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.

Mark Savoia

Barberton and Wadsworth are the two strongest teams in the league. It should be a fun battle. It should also be a battle for third place among Revere, Green and Highland.

Robert Shapiro

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Thomas Harrison

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

Richard Lloyd

People recognize it, and history has placed it among the group of influential records. I'm gratified it stuck to the wall.

Kevin McCarthy

Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.

David Schardt

People who go to the Web site for more information and read that thinking they're getting an objective, balanced view are going to be misled and fooled.

Mike Stock

Our defense got a little loose and we tightened things up the last couple days at practice. It was a nice defensive effort. It was a team effort. Nice balance on offense and good defense.

Andy Reid

Offensively, I have to do a better job on my side of getting this thing a bit more balanced up with the run-pass ratio, ... I'll go back to the drawing board and work on that and see if we can't do a better job offensively.

Marsha Sharp

The more balance you can have in the Big 12 and the less they can pick on people, the better off you are.

Matt Birk

The more balance you can get, the more success you can have. And the more dangerous you can become.

Larry Lang

Competition for the delivery of mobile voice and data services is becoming increasingly fierce. By deploying Cisco's Content Billing solution, mobile operators can provide their customers with a myriad of payment options to strike the ideal balance for the billing of voice, messaging, multimedia, games, Web and other mobile services.

Earl Graves

Companies have budgets to balance as well, but unlike the federal government, we can go out of business.

Mary Osako

Companies that choose to enter the market in the future will face the same struggle to effectively balance what they believe which laws they must obey.

Fritz Elmendorf

Banking was never free because consumers were not getting a market rate on their savings and were paying a lot more for loans.

Richard Peterson

Banking has been the driving force in mergers and acquisitions this year. With over $1 trillion in all U.S. deals, about $250 billion have been in the banking sector.

Wataru Kasatani

The sale is probably the last one by a major bank, making it positive for the banking stocks overall.

Robert Siciliano

There is a serious disconnect between the issue at hand and the banking industry. I don't think they realize just how much the consumer needs to be informed.

Tyler Cowen

What the banking system needs is creditors who monitor risk and cut their exposure when that risk is too high. Unlike regulators, creditors and counterparties know the details of a deal and have their own money on the line.

Ron Mendelson

Navigating the complex legal and tax issues involved in investing and banking offshore requires the services of a professional who is specially trained in offshore investing and banking.

Richard Jerram

Some people are thinking that is a little bit too small to get the banking system back on its feet.

Ping Chew

Most banking systems in the Asia-Pacific region have improved their credit profiles, thanks to stable economic conditions and continuing structural improvements. This is in spite of rising oil prices and interest rates threatening the broader economic recovery.

Rolf Breuer

We're also talking about job cuts in our private banking business,

Matt Johnson

As brothers go, I'd say that if we weren't twins, then we were pretty much damn near close.

Denis McDonough

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

Jeffrey Thomas

I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a coworker of mine came to my house and introduced my two brothers and me to a single game of 'Dungeons & Dragons.'

J. M. Roberts

I've always thought it would be so fun to have brothers and sisters to fight with,

Abu Sabaya

The Muslims are our brothers . . . I am not saying we have no contact with them.

Drew Goddard

The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

Brown Johnson

I used to run around singing my life to myself. I'd be singing 'I'm going to fall down,' singing about what I was having for lunch, about how mean my brothers were.

Tom Maurer

I used to work in Gary Indiana. I was a life guard, the brothers and the sister would all come down to the pool but the grease from hair goes everywhere and they can't swim.

Kate Bronfenbrenner

This is sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, which is not a subversive group.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Ernie Goss

As in much of the region, weather played an important role in pushing the state's index higher. Businesses in South Dakota reported undertaking and completing construction projects for the month that would ordinarily have been sidelined until spring.

Jane Johnson

Our customers down there are seeing their businesses expand and our opportunities are growing in the region.

Mindy Lubber

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

Avi Arad

The movies are there to support the core businesses of toys, licensing, video games and publishing. Each of these titles is meant to be a franchise.

Mayor Amabile

The most important thing is small businesses find their niche.

Richard Fuld

Sandy's unsurpassed experience working with governments, industries, and businesses worldwide clearly makes him an ideal choice to help us further expand the Lehman Brothers' footprint in the global marketplace,

Howard Davidowitz

SARS has not stopped factories from rolling out products in China, ... The only effect it's had on U.S. businesses is that it has led to fewer visits from buyers to the region. So there have been less face-to-face meetings between buyers and suppliers, but companies have gotten around that by teleconferencing.

Frank Skaggs

SBA can help these small businesses overcome their economic injuries by offering these working capital loans, but the help cannot start until they apply.

Membathisi Mdladlana

Once there's equity in the workplace, the law will become redundant.

Terence Winter

I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.

Barbara Steinmetz

That was a thing we were getting away from when the equity markets were on a tear. Everybody thought you were a fool to get into anything else.

John Schwartz

We can use the fund equity to get us through the next year. It's stable so we're able to do that.

Hans Johnson

I thought what we would find was that it was only people who had equity or very high incomes who were getting into the market. But that's simply not true.

Tom Roseen

People are saying, 'Okay, I'm ready to go play in the equity markets again.

Sandy Baum

The question for parents is: Is it better to take out a PLUS loan or is it better to take out a home equity loan? They need to look at all their options.

Warren Buffett

Today's equity prices presage only modest returns for investors,

David Montgomery

press freedom does not mean the freedom of financial jugglers to gamble with the future of newspapers.

Jeff Conine

The whole state of the team is sad. The whole stadium situation, the financial reality of what they had to do, it is sad.

Herb Perone

This is a time of tremendous consolidation within the financial services industry.

Michael Yackira

This is the first time we've had an income in the first quarter since 2000. This was another piece of our financial recovery story that we needed to get to.

Alisa Gravitz

The whole idea of socially responsible investing is skyrocketing. When you're putting a lot of money into something, you want to get a good financial return, but you also want your money to do good things.

Scott Taylor

The upgrade reflects the company's reduction of parent level leverage and resulting improved parent-level financial metrics.

Dennis Husch

This grant application, if approved, formalizes the feasibility study. You have to do that before you can get financial help.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

This country, of course, needs fundamental reform of our financial regulatory system, as I, and many other financial institution executives, have publicly advocated for a considerable period.

Matt Lewis

You're safer online than offline. And the safest place for you to be online is through your financial institution.

Steven Adler

Everyone's relying on the modelers because there's no firm data,

Peter Fenton

We actually tried to invest in Twitter in April 2007, right when it launched. At the time, the company was wary of having a classic, tier-one traditional venture firm involved.

Avery Johnson

We just wanted to make sure we were on the same page. We're still firm that they're not going to come back until they're ready. And they're not ready. We probably won't have them back in the next game or two.

Andrew Heyward

Leslie has not set a firm timetable. But we're making good progress.

Liz Phair

No firm plans, ... But we're all talking about it.

Joe McGrath

From a strategic perspective, it's one of the important disciplines that the firm wants to have in its fixed-income offering.

Nick Price

If we get firm conditions, it's going to open the tournament up to a lot more guys.

Jim Collins

I feel sorry for Microsoft. If you want to hire a firm that is going to do a job better than any law firm in the country, you go to Keker & Van Nest.

Hillary Clinton

We know that Russian intelligence services, which is part of the Russian government which is under the firm control of Vladimir Putin, hacked into the DNC. And we know that he arranged for a lot of those emails to be released.

Sathya Baba

Pray to God and recite His Name or meditate on His Glory for some fixed period of time everyday; you will find it amply rewarding.

Gary Hamilton

The sad part about it is, they haven't fixed it right yet. It's still rough. And if it rains again, it's going to happen again.

Deane Beebe

This is going to be a devastating loss for seniors on fixed incomes.

Henry Renteria

There are some things that are wrong that need to be fixed in California.

Bob Elliston

There are fixed costs, so the more horses we get, the better the situation is for us. We can handle about 900 horses; we had applications for 1,100.

Tom Rossley

There's no question that's the No. 1 thing we've got to get fixed between now and the Vikings game. We have to get our run game going.

Justin McCareins

We'll get it fixed up for when it really counts. We'll save it for later.

Lars Richters

Unfortunately we're in the habit of being a second-half team and we've got to get that fixed or we're going to learn the hard way.

Guru Nanak

Let him gently pour out the remainder of the water near the cakes, and, with fixed attention, smell those cakes, in the order in which they were placed on the ground .

Rachel Corrie

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

Dionne Warwick

Drugs of every sort, including aspirin, are not anything I even think about.

LeBron James

Brenda was a special person to everyone, including myself. I will truly miss her being around. My prayers go out to her family, especially my little brother, Brandon.

Alex Clare

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.

Alfredo Alonso

When the population is over 40 million, people take notice, including advertisers and broadcasters.

Michael Schumacher

Everyone is replaceable, including me.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Mark Trakh

They are going to be scary for a long time. And I'm including this year when I say that.

Rui Farias

Our success has always been on defense, including the forwards.

Sundar Pichai

Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.

Joel Slemrod

Things that some people have come to view as income and are used to being taxed on would not be taxable anymore.

Albert Einstein

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

T. Harv Eker

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

Ronald Reagan

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

Ron Paul

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

Plautus

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Stephen Baldwin

All the toys are gone. Everything's gone, and I'm making 25 percent of my usual income. And my wife-couldn't be happier.

Karl Marx

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Kenneth Roth

Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks

Stavros Dimas

The time for Romania to start planning and implementing this investment program is now.

John W. Snow

Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Gordon Haff

Obviously, they have to sell lots of systems of this size to pay back what has to be a considerably larger R&D investment than they have even with Galaxy.

Cody Acree

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss

Kit Spring

Return on investment in PPM is increasingly uncertain.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Bill Carr

And we'll be sensitive to that as we look at the potential changes.

Cody Wright

If we have a week of temperatures in the 50s when it's rainy and overcast that turns right around and it's 75 and sunny for a week - that's a situation when the potential can be pretty great.

James Armstrong

I feel we were proactive to prevent any potential problems, ... In 10 years, I've never seen anything like this.

Keith Hennig

Jess has the potential to be something really special.

David Cronenberg

I wrote a script that I thought had a lot of potential,

Jerry Jones

It has the potential to have that kind of impact.

Hines Ward

It's tough to go undefeated, but they have the potential.

Craig Fugate

This storm has some potential to it. The time to go is now.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Frank Melton

I think if it's a private investment, it's a private investment,

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Wil S. Hylton

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

John Twelve Hawks

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.