Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Murray

As far as the consumer is concerned, they think it's a stand-by ticket where you have to sit in the back by the toilet,

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.

Anne Sweeney

The strategic utilization of new technologies to meet consumer needs is of paramount importance to the growth of the Disney Media Networks Group.

Eric Wold

A few years ago the big question was could IMAX get Hollywood content on their screens and theaters to sign up. But studios now see the value of putting movies on IMAX screens since consumers have much better home theaters.

Erik Gordon

The shopping trip starts at a consumer electronics retailer now, not the mall.

Lara Rhame

I see the trade gap stabilizing, but it's hard to see it narrowing unless you get the U.S. consumer shutting down.

Patrick Newport

The way it hurts is when housing prices peak and then we no longer have this wealth effect that has been driving consumer spending. And so far, housing prices are growing at double-digit rates. But it's going to happen sometime, and we think it's going to happen probably starting in the second quarter.

Michael Oxley

These are strong new protections for consumer privacy.

Michael Otto

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Ken McBride

We ran a first market test in 2004, and we estimated that a third of the total images -- a third of the total sheets we printed -- were in fact corporate logos.

Chuck Carlson

There's going to be a realization that corporate profits will be improving.

William Sullivan

What that suggests is that the recovery in corporate profits may not be as strong as expected.

Philip Shaw

We will see nervous trading ahead, as we have seen from Cisco that the worst is not yet over for corporate earnings.

Trent Duffy

The president has said repeatedly that corporate office holders have a responsibility to their shareholders to play by the rules and people who don't maintain that public trust need to be held to account.

Tim Newman

We anticipated strong corporate participation, but we have been pleasantly surprised at the response. And we think there is room to grow.

Ron Gettelfinger

Unfortunately, this is not the first time that the UAW has had to deal with a court-ordered corporate restructuring, and we will vigorously use our experience, expertise, and resources to represent the interests of UAW workers.

Ron White

I don't do any corporate work.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Kamal Sharma

The statement was slightly more hawkish than we were expecting but there was one vote of dissent.

Michelle Smurl

We expecting a wolf expert to visit us at the end of the month.

Gil Dufour

We tried to experiment with new things like always. This season we tried to make them understated and not showy, much more discrete, and what the people are expecting these days.

Chris Lorditch

We weren't expecting to do that at all. It was unexpected, but we knew we had the kids to do it, and two of the guys were freshmen. We have five or six guys who can go in there.

Mike Evans

We weren't expecting to come in here and run away from them. They played well. They had a good game plan. They used their height and we didn't shoot well.

Ed Eskandarian

We weren't expecting to be fired. Clearly, we are disappointed.

Bruce Brownlee

We weren't expecting that to happen so quickly. We were very happy with the decision.

Leslie Pixley

We weren't expecting anything that bad. Otherwise I probably would've packed a little differently.

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Jeffrey Kagan

This could be a growth opportunity for AT&T with a quicker payoff.

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

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Ho Chen

The outlook for 2006 is quite robust as we are looking for the growth momentum to be maintained. The main reason for the higher fourth-quarter numbers was the manufacturing sector.

Ben Horowitz

There are no silver bullets...

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..

Bernie Sanders

In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Anne Donovan

The way of the WNBA playoffs, it does not put the higher seed at an advantage, ... You have to go in there and make the most of it.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Ashwin Sanghi

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

C. S. Lewis

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Jane Austen

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

Craig MacDonald

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

Bruce Davison

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Shaw Wu

A transition to Intel is technically possible but from a marketing standpoint it could be more challenging, ... Why ruin something that's doing well?

Michael Howard

did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Brett Gallagher

After a big up day like you had yesterday, you have to have some digestion. Once things run up by a big amount, then investors have to step back.

Yasuo Yabe

Right now the market is rather quiet, but it will be a problem when investors return after the New Year and trade volume increases.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

Jeff Cheah

Stabilizing ... that is the key word that investors are reacting to.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Brene Brown

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

Donald Trump

One of the very first things I will do is to order a thorough review of our cyber defenses and weaknesses.

Cullen Jenkins

Our strengths are not many. Our weaknesses are a lot.

Ross Kemp

If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.

Russell Simmons

A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.

Sun Myung Moon

If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.

Michael Scott

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.

Neil Gershenfeld

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

Marge Piercy

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

Brandon Sanderson

In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

Ashwin Sanghi

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

Bertrand Russell

Worry is a form of fear.

Busy Philipps

The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting!

Charles R. Swindoll

Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.

Derrick Rose

I couldn't worry about anyone else but myself and my health.

Bruce Lee

Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.

Deepak Chopra

The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich.

Dr. Seuss

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!