Famous Quotes & Sayings

Townsend Harris

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Kevin Rollins

We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.

Jim Rogers

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, high prices led companies to overproduce, leading to substantial excess supply and stockpiling.

Jim Rogers

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

Jim Barksdale

No longer do we have to go looking for information - we can find it on the Internet, our intranet, or our extranet with the click of a mouse.

James Atlas

A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation.

Rick Wagoner

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

Ramman Kenoun

A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero.

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Yubaraj Ghimire

This emergency debate is based on political rivalry. They're playing power politics with the emergency.

Natasha Josefowitz

You may not be well read, you may not know how to count, you may write poorly, but as soon as you open your mouth people get an impression of you based both on the content of your message and on the way you deliver it.

Mary Karr

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

Ignacio Bunye

This is based on our civil service rules,

James Nichols

This is based on emotion. Those jurors had a lot of pressure on them ... and public pressure changes people's minds.

Thomas Reese

This is based on Catholic social teaching, the concern for the poor, that we should be hospitable to visitors and immigrants. This is not based on partisan politics.

Gale Kaufman

This is based on a presumption that they actually know what was going on in the Capitol, and they don't.

James E. Faust

Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Zhang Xin

It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

John Beckman

This is where we showcase cultural holidays such as Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year and the Winter Solstice.

M. Wolfe

There's every reason to think this will be a successful mission. The Chinese are good at rocketry.

Howard Rubel

There's an order coming from the Chinese and I think more people are realizing that Boeing has done a nice job of managing its business.

Yao Bin

It was on Jan. 28, the Chinese New Year, the first time he landed. Since then he has landed about 20. Every day he just tries one or two.

Joss Whedon

It was really fun, ... Though I did discover that the Chinese language can say a lot with very few syllables, which was a nightmare for me as I had to keep writing longer and longer curses so my actors would say something which didn't sound like 'Nah.'

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Phil Redman

The search companies have found that developing robust services for mobile devices is not as easy as rolling out another different Web service. There are a lot more inherent limitations and other parties, including the carriers, to consider.

E. B. White

These events that we are seeing in Asia, the depreciations are inherently deflationary and many of the larger U.S. companies are the ones that do have exposure within their earnings mix to Asia. Those earnings are going to be tough to grow probably over the course of the next 12 months.

P. James

The seed companies have been really responsive. That's a new thing at a farm show -- having the equipment demonstration right next to the dealers' booths. That's one of the fantastic things about the Tipton County Fairgrounds.

Clark Yingst

The stocks I would watch would be the wireless companies like Qualcomm and Motorola.

Chris Smith

You have to have that consistent effort ... to win the game, period.

Bill Bavasi

This was a pretty high priority for us in the off-season. The signing for us is terrific because there's so few real quality left or switch-hitters that can operate in the middle of the lineup and be as consistent as Raul. We wanted to lock him up.

Chris Petersen

We talked last year about him taking the next step there, and that didn't happen for whatever reason where we wanted him to. Did he get better? He did. He got better on occasion, but he wasn't the consistent guy that we needed.

J. J. Johnson

I think just having a good, consistent product and being locally owned has helped.

Peter Simonson

It's been pretty traumatic for her. Hanging over her head from Day One has been the consistent possibility that she could lose her job.

Scott Parker

Derek is getting and converting a lot of good shots. We need to find another consistent scorer.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Jim Tressel

Antonio showed a lot of burst. I thought this was a good step for him.

Bob Combs

A number of sites have been mentioned inside the PGA Tour, and Harding would be on that list. Harding has proven itself to be a good venue for unique, significant events.

Robert Sellar

Any M&A on this scale is good news for the market. Consolidation is needed in the telecoms industry and premiums increase investor sentiment.

Kate Warne

Any little signal like this can lead people to sell first and to think about it later ... and it's partially a response to nervousness over whether the good times can continue,

Proverb Proverbs

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Barbara Bush

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Brian May

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Joe Zwilling

What it is we may have overlooked, and why we might want to reconsider. We'll listen to what they have to say.

Amy Sedaris

If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.

Rick Owens

I almost cried the other day listening to ‘Vogue’ by Madonna.

Robert Anton Wilson

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Chris Corrigan

I don't think any progress has been made on that front.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Larry Rothschild

Then we'll see if we can get him into some sort of games. It's time for him to progress a little bit.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.