Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Lanni

Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices will remain high and that supply and demand will remain tight.

Justin Hott

Kimberly did not miss, so we expect investors will gain more faith that other companies yet to announce, such as P&G, Colgate and Alberto-Culver, will also have some more optimistic news to share with the market.

Steven Hall

Know the market, know what other people are offering for your job position. Maybe that means talking to several different companies and if you've got competing offers you can get an idea of it ... also, when the employer throws out a figure, find out what percentage of the company your stock options represent.

Christine Benz

I would say it's a dueling trend that retail mutual fund companies are starting hedge fund like vehicles to retain that talent. That is a weapon in a fund company's arsenal.

Matt Ferguson

Job satisfaction levels have improved significantly compared to this time last year as employers step up employee retention efforts in the face of an increasingly competitive labor market. However, nearly three-in-ten workers still say they plan to look for new opportunities in 2006 and 41 percent plan to leave the companies by the end of 2007.

Hugh McKellar

ISYS has been an integral part of the knowledge management industry for a number of years. The company continues to demonstrate its relevance and success in enterprise search software, despite formidable competition from large, well-known companies. For these reasons, we continue to recognize ISYS as one of the 100 companies that matter.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Michael Farr

I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.

Matt Asay

Half the companies that raised venture money in 2005 won't be able to raise money in 2006.

Sarah Reed

Knowing this is critical because in that relaxed setting of a meal, the true personality of a person comes out. Employers need to know how the person handles themselves in a social situation. Do they let their hair down too much? Will they represent the company well with a client?

Anthony Davis

KeyCorp's management team has made much progress over the last three years in refocusing the company on profitable revenue growth.

Alexander Paris

I would not want to see them sell at this price, ... I would want to see them get the company turned around then look at if you want to go private.

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Scott Bilker

Keep all your records. By law, the credit-card company must investigate your dispute.

Gray Davis

Just the other day, we had to pay $1,900 for a megawatt hour, which a year ago would have cost us $30, ... And the reason this company named Reliant out of Texas gave us for charging us that much money was, they said, the state's credit isn't any good.

Simon Wolfson

I think it is a sad day for the company and we are going to miss him. But, typically of him, he has planned his own succession immaculately. We will have a dinner and a nice party for him.

Stephen Roelofse

I think in time they will probably make an offer (for Western Areas). I can't see them taking a passive stake in the company like that.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Having a full-blown company is just something that I don't have the time for now, ... I was just starting to feel really depleted, and the kids are getting older and the demands are different now.

Jack Warner

I was looking for seventh but the main objective was to get off of the bottom. And we did that and now we have several kids competing at the national level.

Denny Rinehart

Kevin is currently competing as a sprinter at this particular point.

Brian Williams

Katie is a friend of many years, and a gifted broadcaster. While I am losing her as an NBC News colleague, I am gaining an able new competitor. I want to welcome Katie to the evening shift and I look forward to competing with my friend as we all continue to cover the stories that matter, all over the world, each night, for years to come.

Hugh Nall

Joe Cope is still the starting center. I'm going to rotate J.P. in there to get as many reps as I can with the Duckworth factor keeping him out of there. But he's competing for a starting job.

Vinnie Currao

I think it is a great thing that we've got all these guys competing for starting positions. It keeps everybody on their toes and sharp. When you are rebuilding a team like we are, you need to take a good, long look at as many players as you can to find the right combinations.

Lee H. Hamilton

There are so many competing priorities. And it's awfully hard to keep people focused on something like this.

Sal Imbimbo

Having an extra round of wrestling puts more pressure on the kids. You're competing at a faster rate, and it's a longer day.

Sam Hollenbach

For me personally, you're always competing when you step out on the field. Obviously, I made a lot of mistakes last year that I have to improve upon.

Ed Hartwell

He's going to talk his trash, and he's going out there to compete. D. Hall isn't competing to lose either. He's competing to win and to dominate. I'm from Vegas, and I'm putting my money on D. Hall.

Burton Greenwald

I would think they would be less likely to have employer contributions.

Jose Gonzalez

I would say the vast majority are not in a day labor-type scenario. Contractors and employers have a need for good workers, and once they find them they keep them.

Ken Abosch

It indicates how employers have shifted their focus on how to pay their employees.

Richard Johnson

I think workers are increasingly going to be on their own as they plan for retirement. They are not going to be able to rely on their employers and on the government as they have in the past.

John Leonard

We take great pride in this recognition, since being a top employer for scientists is a strategic goal to enable Abbott to foster innovation and remain competitive.

Kamran Afshar

Records aren't what come to mind. The markets are improving, but they're not red hot. Local employers are still moving with caution.

Ron Gibson

If you have a healthier work force, obviously they're more productive. They don't get sick as often so the workplace is safer. We've also seen long-term decreases in medical claims. ... so it's obviously more productive for the employer because it saves money.

George E. Brown

In the last few years, employers have recognized the importance of branding their employment as something to be desired. It's become a way of life for them. It starts at the top and goes through the organization.

Benjamin Johnson

If the program doesn't make any sense and the expectation to the workers and the employers are so out of sync with reality, that's a failed program.

Donna Proctor

Kim did a very nice job on the mound today. This is a very big win for us.

Greg Jackson

Kids who come here, I see them grow. My philosophy is not winning and losing. When I see a kid like Tracey, it puts this job in perspective.

Kevin Wilson

Kids that were on the stuff when we started are working in jobs now.

Justin Hartwig

I wouldn't say it makes our job that much more difficult,

Larry Beinfest

I would say it's his job to lose. He needs to go out and do what he did in September and what he did in the Minor Leagues throughout the year. It's his job to lose.

Chuck D.

Keeping that promise this year made our job much more difficult, ... I don't see how you're going to be able to have that rule of thumb three years from now.

Travis Moyer

Jordan did a very nice job out there. He pitched excellent. He only made one mistake.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn't working for me at all.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Doyle Davidson

I talked with him maybe three times, I don't remember what about.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Tom Woods

He was a decent, law-abiding man. Maybe he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Dayton Moore

He can play first, and maybe a little outfield. But he's really a third baseman. I don't think you want to move him around.

Sam Hunt

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

James McCartney

I always feel honored to meet people who ever met my mum. It means a lot to me.

Andrew Strauss

He is very laid-back person, but there is a steely side to him and that means he has the respect of the players

Dani Shapiro

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Larry Mize

He's a stud. But really, it means a lot to me that he'd do that.

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Richelle Mead

Screw you," I told him in a low voice. "Are you offering?” "From what I've heard, there isn't much to screw," I shot back.

Tyler Florence

Today's food trucks are far from cheap eats on wheels, there are some seriously gourmet offerings on four wheels.

Robert Duvall

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

Warren Buffett

The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

Wallace Shawn

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

Wayne Dyer

It's probably more fulfilling for me to be offering what I offer than it is for the people who receive it.

Walter Lippmann

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

incorrect, wrong, shameful. ... I am now offering my sincere apologies.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

Martin Appel

The intangibles she offers us are amazing. She allows us to do many different things. And we have a lot more weapons than just her.

Don King

After that, we have offers from just about every place in the world.

Bill Ward

It offers sensible, practical advice, in an easy-to-read format.

Pope Francis

God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.

Jason Lewis

It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.

Charley Casserly

We're going to get offers for this pick. We've already had discussions with teams. I think there's value in our pick.

Laura Puchowicz

We already have offers on some of the units.

Orrin Hatch

It is important that I keep working on all options to protect our state,

Matt Rogers

Right now my options are pretty open. Just trying to get out there and play well these first three games.

Gary Schatsky

If you have options all you have is the promise of money. It's like the lottery.

Helen Pitts

I'm not sure what we'll do next. We also have a lot of options here for him, too.

Brian Brohm

I have three options there. We were trying to get someone in the back of the end zone. I tried to run it myself when that did not work. I didn't get in.

Matt Worsham

There's three options off the play for a three-pointer. But luckily, I got the ball.

Mike Hargrove

It's too soon to say A, B, C and D are going to happen. We have different options and different ways to go.

Pat Gleason

I want these options to go to the community.

Tom Taulli

They want to give themselves as many options as possible for liquidity.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Colleen Reitan

What is the total percentage of premium we spent in administrative expense? And we are under 10 percent of the premiums we spend on administrative expense.

Craig Shniderman

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

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

John Hogan

If I had to predict, I would say that this year, 2005 to 2006, was probably the worst of it, in terms of the percentage increase. Things seem to have stabilized a little bit.

Jay Speer

There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Hilary Clinton

he could have made that statement several weeks earlier, in time for the holidays.

Brian Archer

It could be several weeks before we know the damage,

Kevin Jenkins

We take 'em from anywhere. But there are several institutions similar to us that play basketball.

Tom Daschle

I think that it is important for us to have an independent commission, as I've said now on several occasions, but it truly should be independent,

Matthew Lillard

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Mayor Hassig

There are several threads here of futures you can choose.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

Noam Chomsky

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Jon Oringer

It turned out it was really easy to create commercial stock footage.

Deidre Hall

They are our stock and trade and it has been our collateral.

Spiros Segalas

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

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Michael Friedman

The stock trades at about 9 times its 2003 earnings,

Ian McCulloch

I was like 'This is Mac' - I didn't even know who I was talking to." ()

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Bob Lachky

I think you're talking about a two-year play at least.

Stephen Smith

It is frustrating because we're not getting 10 to 12 inches. You're talking about 2 to 4 inches. We live in Wisconsin. It is not like this is unusual.

Bill Callahan

What do you mean? What are you talking about?

Denise Holmes

It is significant. We're going from talking to doing.

Nancy Currie

I think some of the difficulties are in the tight tolerances that we are talking about,

Chris Lofton

He was just talking about how he wished it would have worked out for me up here.

Graham Murray

He was open-mouthed when Tallis walked up to him and started talking to him.

Carroll Ballard

It throws me in the toilet. I'm going to have a lot of trouble getting another picture.

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Dan Hawkins

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

Ashley Lewie

When Ari throws a pitch, I know where it is going to go.