Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Bennett

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

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.

James Joyce

We did do very well in the transactions over $100 million that we chose to pursue, signing 11 and losing only one competitively, ... But the consistent deferral of mega-deals resulting from customers caution about their own businesses in this economic environment has had a significant impact on the growth of our outsourcing revenue.

John Lee

Diversified businesses are growing at a faster rate than we thought.

Craig Lesser

Different businesses have different needs. But most are concerned with finding a location close to their customer base.

John Mack

We certainly see a lot of people coming to us with Internet businesses to sell, ... But the deals are not getting done because these companies have no revenue and no tangible assets.

Robbie Freeman

We're very keen on what they're doing and feel our businesses will complement each other.

Rob Palombi

There's still a lot of consumer demand out there, and as businesses try to restock their inventory levels they will increase demand, which will lead to stronger growth. That could be problematic for the Fed.

Stephen Moret

There's so many businesses that are vulnerable right now.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Steven Wood

This will offer some partial restraint to consumer spending.

Gary Miller

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

Peter Dixon

We've seen higher inflation in the course of this year than perhaps was anticipated last year when wage deals were negotiated, ... Consequently that's eroded household purchasing power, and we've actually seen very sluggish consumer demand - which has been a big surprise.

Bruce Rohde

We've seen customers in our industry aggressively reducing inventory balances, so shipment, sales and profits were lower than would be suggested by improved consumer purchases of our products.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

John Silvia

Employment and wages are stronger and therefore, consumer spending is stronger. Housing is slowing, but not as much as we would have expected, and the price of oil is so far not having that big an impact on the consumer.

Mirko Mikelic

People are very surprised that there is strong demand out there. There's still a strong housing market.

Eivind Reiten

Demand for energy will double in the next decade. Energy supply is fundamental to societal value.

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Wendy Seltzer

Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

John Pomfret

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Sushil Koirala

This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance.

John Coffee

This is not a populist demand for reduced compensation. This is a demand for more accountable compensation that in effect allows investors to relate pay to performance.

Ken Starr

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Lou Mazzucchelli

This was a strong report. Product demand is strong, the management is good. I'm very pleased with this report.

Tetsu Emori

The oil market is now down because most people are taking profits after seeing a sharp increase last week.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Todd Tiahrt

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

Liang Guanglie

China-US military relations, an important part of overall relations, have seen an increase in exchanges.

George Goncalves

Mortgages were super, super rich in February. It made sense for them not to increase their portfolio using mortgages, but they did increase it, and it was mostly floating-rate type products, mortgage-related securities and those kind of asset-backed products.

Sherry Sylvester

Neither man ever met a tax increase they didn't like.

Chris Mennis

If we get another increase in refinery runs like we got in last week's numbers we may get a sell-off.

Peter Rosenfeld

I don't recall a perfect storm like this. We've never seen the kind of increase in raw materials that we've witnessed in the past year or so.

Kevin Norrish

One question would be whether it would be necessary for an increase in production in order to make up for Nigeria. I have a feeling, they probably view that as a bonus.

Dave Barry

The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Michael McCord

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this." ()

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Daniel H. Pink

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Daniel Radcliffe

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Alfred Korzybski

The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.

Albert Einstein

A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.

Alexander Lowen

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

Anna Lee

Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.

David Chipperfield

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Edgar Allan Poe

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

George H. W. Bush

even better and stronger than before the storm.

Adolf Hitler

For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right a thousand times over, to be defeated by a stronger opponent or a stronger coalition.

Albert Camus

what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

Thomas S. Monson

We learn and grow and become stronger as we face and survive the trials through which we must pass.