Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernie Schaeffer

The so-called risky assets are continuing to outperform.

Robert Stovall

The tech sector is where the money seems to want to flow. You can just look at last week's action, when all the averages were up, the money flows into technology, primarily in telecommunications. And even though the valuations have been high all of these quarters and still are, I guess if you want to do well in the market you've got to have some of your assets in technology, definitely.

John Whitehead

The teams bring diverse assets to the table. Some bring expertise in retail and residential developments; some offer experience in the design of large public infrastructure projects; others are best known for designing museums and cultural institutions.

John Whitehead

The teams bring diverse assets to the table,

William Kovacs

This is the first time going back to 1890 in which the key assets of the company to be broken up consist of human beings and ideas. Who can predict what these people will do, and how effective the entities will be?

Richard Ross

This is simply a part of our process of liquidating all assets of the corporation. As we head toward the end of this process, we saw this as an orderly way to maximize these assets.

Gordon Kwan

This deal is positive. China needs to import oil, after all, but we have to know the valuation of the assets before we can say if it is at the right price.

Sammy Teel

We have so many different players who can be assets in so many different positions for us. It's just a matter of getting the right players in there at the right time.

Tom Baker

Current's BPL solution is critical to our mission to dramatically improve the way we deliver electricity. BPL will enable us to respond more quickly and efficiently to outages of all magnitudes, manage our distribution network more proactively, and further safeguard our dispersed critical assets in today's heightened security environment.

Kim Gordon

I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue.

Ian Taylor

We're at a critical stage for investment and return in UK space,

Cindy Crowe

We are at a critical juncture in Westerville. We are within two years of state control.

John Herrmann

The other critical thing is that the 25-basis-point rate hike in January that's been priced in is being called into question.

Ken Hitchcock

We were overwhelmed in the first ten minutes, that's my responsibility. We made critical errors on the first, second, and third goals. They fed off the energy and that lies on me.

Mike Schroepfer

Luckily we do not have any known use of this exploit, but it is fairly critical if there were to be (an attack), so this is a recommended download.

Manmohan Singh

So far we have reports of 50 dead and 15 critically injured.

Jill Janssen

But the critical thing is to walk in the door, spend some time in the facility, talk to the residents, talk to the staff, eat a meal and just look around.

Hoshiyar Zebari

Because of the sensitivity of the timing and the critical stage we are going through, it is very important for this force to remain committed, ... Any premature withdrawal will send the wrong message.

Christian Camargo

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

John Varley

We have delivered what we said we would deliver, ... We have got very strong profit growth in a number of our businesses.

M. Thompson

We had a strong finish to 2005, a year of major transition for Fairchild, by delivering solid fourth-quarter sales and gross margin growth.

Ben Wagner

We are very excited to be a part of this project. Our team delivered a site that was designed under tight parameters and deadlines. It's always great to be involved in a project that will excite and embrace users.

Ryan Robbins

What's great about having a sci-fi/fantasy show start on the web: that's a gigantic part of your demographic right there. It targets a significant part of your demographic when you deliver online.

Swami Vivekananda

Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance.

Jim Brown

I was a rural mail carrier for 30 years. I stopped at everyone's house to deliver the mail, so I knew them by name.

Og Mandino

Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Keith Rockwell

It has been a wonderful election. It means we are able to deliver when we need to deliver.

Philippe Gijsels

Lower prices are hurting utilities and energy companies. Electricity prices are an enormous risk for utilities so we shouldn't be surprised by the response.

Greg Walden

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.

Judith Yaphe

I think for most Iraqis it's not a big issue. The big issues are water, electricity and security.

Ian Shepherdson

The headline reflects a 3.2 percent rise in gasoline prices. Natural gas and electricity prices were also much stronger than the PPI suggested. The good news is the 0.1 percent core, which supports the Fed's view that transitory factors have boosted inflation in recent months.

James Woods

You could see all this fire and smoke and electricity flying everywhere. You could see arcs of electricity. It was just crazy.

Dorothy Thompson

The house was a dump. There was no plumbing, no electricity, no bathrooms,

Renaldo Wynn

It's a new era. Guys have that taste in their mouths. Guys are starting to believe. It's an electricity, from top to bottom.

Lou Reed

Electricity comes from other planets.

James Wood

There was electricity just going and going like a wave. It just kept on going wave after wave.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

Donald Powell

This will enable people to get on with their lives.

Harold Evans

Once we get further into the irrigation season and start using more water, we'll get all of it flushed out.

Asafa Powell

Actually, I wanted to get it over with. Further on in the season, I'll try, for the record.

Richard Ford

A promise was made by the Iraqi side to provide us with further information that we have requested.

Simon Clarke

Perhaps it will work in Dublin, but in the further out places it will be near impossible.

Sven Friebe

Rates are going to rise, and we see potential for further upside in the euro.

Michael Fitzpatrick

The storm may lead to further evacuations. If the storm moves into the Gulf it will lead to a suspension of repairs and there may even be a contraction in production. We're taking no chances.

Eddie Montgomery

This grand jury is done. They referred it over to the next grand jury for some further investigation. Potentially, we may hear from some more witnesses,

Sam Stovall

We might have a little further to go on the downside,

Edward Murphy

We won't go any further with the VA until this process comes to some sort of conclusion.

James Kim

The second quarter should see a marginal improvement.

David Johnson

School is grade-motivated: You're looking for the A. This is personally motivated: How you can improve yourself.

Jeff Malloy

I've seen a lot of improvement. This year she has a better mastery of her pitches.

John Conyers

This is not a new and improved Patriot Act.

Kofi Annan

This is not unique within Mexico ... The important thing is not only to say we have made some progress but we should consolidate the progress we have made and move on to try to improve things even further.

Scott Murray

This going to be a tough weekend but the players are striving to improve all the time and a win is possible. It just shows that the players want to keep on growing.

Dale Short

We've seen a big improvement at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles, and we've seen a big improvement at No. 4, 5, 6 singles.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Shirley Pogue

We have improved the quality of life for so many people.

David Packard

Management by Walking Around

Larry Gagosian

You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

Debbie Breen

He thinks he's the manager of the toy department.

H. Hunt

Most people have enough money. It's that they don't know how to manage what they have.

O. Singh

Just had to manage your game, be very smart and be patient.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Lawrence Miller

Management offered a strategic update with no real surprises.

Michael Bell

We've talked to a lot of students and property managers about this, and we're trying to sort out the pros and cons, ... A staunch position, yea or nay, can't be reached at this point.

Fatos Nano

The Socialist Party has a mission of peace,

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Geoff Hoon

to do so would risk the operational security of the mission and potentially the safety of our forces.

Philippe Perrin

This mission was the project of a decade's work.

Don Kelly

We are going to be here until the mission is complete,

Jeffrey Hammond

We're going to be in the outer cordon-type mission of controlling traffic, posturing ourselves in a position where if we have to respond, we can react immediately,

Paul Theroux

I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel stupid. I feel as if I'm wasting my time.

Pat Scales

There's not a public school out there that doesn't have a mission statement that says it serves all students,

Stephen Covey

We don't invent our missions, we detect them.

E. B. White

The most vulnerable part of the network are the undersea pipelines.

Richard Fox

you must have a network in order to make this a continuous, profitable scheme.

Stacey Koerner

Every network has something that it can talk about.

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Marc Berman

Each network has at least one new show that's doing well. That's a real positive. There's not a single network where everything bombed.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Mitch Metcalf

It's the loneliest night of the week for network television and television in general.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Mike Holmgren

This is a new team, a different team, and they are responding differently. It's been that type of year for us.

Erika Yowell

We did respond saying yes, we would be interested.

Troy Erickson

We try to teach them how to respond to situations.

Doug Russell

The credibility of the university is tied with how we respond on this.

Howard Schultz

There's tension here, and I'm just trying to respond in a responsible way,

David Aus

It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all year.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

They make money. The market's going to respond heavily to this.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Colin Powell

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Thomas Brooks

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Rand Beers

The precondition to freedom is security.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Jay Leno

Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

Fadel Gheit

And there is no near-term solution for any of these things.

Craig Brown

This is not the right solution to the problem.

Michael Vickers

Essentially what we have is a two-country solution to a 60-country problem.

James Wolfensohn

HIPC is not a solution to poverty. HIPC is one step.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Claude LeBas

We need to work out a solution here.