Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Handy

When we started off with Linux six years ago, we promised to invest $1 billion, and now we are getting that investment back on a quarterly basis going forward.

M. Wolfe

People who are on this campus on a day-to-day basis know the campus better than a consultant. It's very important for their input.

Ted Sarandos

More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.

Marc Ganis

Fox just had to overpay on a rights fee basis for the Celtics games in order to keep the lights on the Boston market, ... So they're saving a lot of money owning the Dodgers. If the Dodgers' broadcast rights were up for public bid right now, they could go to an astronomical sum, and that would mean either a loss of programming for Fox or far greater costs.

Dana Johnson

I don't think one 50 basis point move (by the Fed) is likely to be enough. It's going to be very hard for the stock market to move ahead. Profit margins are not going to be expanding. There's going to be nothing to offset the higher interest rates.

Jeff Justice

If that's the only evidence you've got, it's a sad day in the justice system to prosecute people for murder on the basis of that.

Bob Hopkins

J&J has a basis for wanting a discount to the original terms and clearly seems headed down that path, but we think J&J is taking a big risk with its strategy and that (Guidant) has more leverage than most believe.

Jamie Jackson

People make too much out of whether we're inverted or not. It's as if when we're positive by a couple of basis points, everything is OK, but if we're negative by a basis point, somehow the laws of nature have been violated. The reality of it is the curve is just flat.

Salvatore Satta

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Kenneth Fisher

If some stock categories get too hot-and-pricey, mass supply is created via stock offerings to tap that cheap money - and, when overdone, drives it all down.

Gary Shapiro

The consumer electronics industry continues to enjoy healthy growth and consumers are faring even better thanks to competitive pricing and overall price deflation, ... While price declines and competition place pressure on profit margins, these factors also help drive total unit sales as consumers flock to join the digital era. With this in mind, we have upwardly revised sales projections for several product categories in our updated 2005 forecast report.

Tom Vierhile

It's the granddaddy of health claims. To even get in the game with certain food categories like dairy products you have to have a low-fat offering.

Richard Friend

And that won't be easy on this tight driving track.

Richard Grasso

A day doesn't go by when the market isn't on the most skittish and volatile path that I've seen in my 35 years at the Big Board. What's driving that is the simple insecurity, or if you will uncertainty of outcome.

Laila Robins

I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.

Debra Wilson

My driving force is spirituality.

Rafer Alston

We always knew he could shoot. Now he's driving to the basket, taking guys off the dribble.

Bob Hadfield

There is no solution to meet every need. What we all want is some kind of improvement to make driving better.

John Church

We're going into the summer and that is a driving season.

Shawn Randel

There was a lot of groundwork before I ever got them. The parents also had been driving their kids to play in the fifth or sixth grade.

Andy Bryant

There's no question that as PC prices go down, we want to have our server products driving our margins.

Chris Byrne

If it's a way of expanding toys into a year-long business, then electronics and furnishings make sense,

Zac Wright

In its first six months, it has already grown from five schools to 11. The program was started six months ago with the intention of expanding it, and that's already been happening.

Richard Rippe

It means manufacturing is expanding sluggishly and that's probably about what we want.

James Blankenship

We had to start expanding our offense. We had been too simple for too long, and we had to open ourselves up. We felt like this was a very important game for us.

Gwin Price

You give up a lot. I gave up my job, my family, the life I had. But I gained so much, too.

Jill Koenitzer

I think in some ways there are more things gained through this type of day versus a traditional first day.

B. F. Skinner

When he was in school and worked in the store, I think the interaction between people is really what gained his interest.

Eddy Cue

We've gained a lot of credibility in the industry in the past 2 1/2 years with what we did with songs. And that's what we're trying to mirror in the video space.

Bronco Mendenhall

He was poised and gained confidence. I'm proud to be his coach.

Action Bronson

I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Jack London

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

Richard Jerram

I think the real question is whether growth in 2001 is positive or negative. And the way things are going, it's looking increasingly likely there's going to be a negative number.

Richard Rosen

Just don't switch from value stocks to growth stocks.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Kathy Burlison

The key message here is sometimes you have to look not just at your own tax return, but that of your whole household for tax saving opportunities.

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Bill Fisher

If industry can't find an answer, then there isn't one.

Andy Ross

I don't know if the industry ever learns,

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Rob Sanderson

They're referred to in the industry as patent trolls.

Joseph P. Kennedy

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

Luke Popovich

We're the most heavily environmentally regulated mining industry in the world today.

Michael Harrison

The radio industry has sent out directives to all of the talent, putting them on notice that if they do anything that could be interpreted as obscene, they're fired. There's zero tolerance.

Brian Brohm

We got that momentum going, got in a rhythm, and you saw (that) once we get into it, we can do pretty much anything we want to, ... We've got to get into that rhythm every game.

Sebastian Coe

The international people tell us that we are taken seriously and that there is a momentum.

Lucious Jordan

That's something we talked about all week. It's a big win for us and a big accomplishment, but now we need to move on to our next big goal. We needed this win to get our momentum going into the tournament.

Arthur Keith

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Sid Cash

We needed that momentum to make them come after us.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Eckhart Tolle

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Scott Kahan

Don't look at the past six months. Look at the past five, 10 or 20 years of returns.

Avi Dichter

We have done it in the past and can do so in the present.

D. H. Lawrence

Every race which has become self-conscious and idea-bound in the past has perished.

Ernst Toller

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Jeff Linenfelser

We put a lot of time in to get him ready. He was 100 percent ready for the fight. What are you going to do?

Pat Griffin

I'd say I spend 90 percent of my time in the Terrain Park.

John Smedley

I'd say we're about 70 percent of the way there.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Dave Thomas

In my class, there were about 50 percent students there.

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,