Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Shaw

As a result, fears over a significant near-term increase in personal or corporate taxation have virtually disappeared. Most expectations, including our own are for a broadly neutral stance.

Rob Feckner

As a major shareholder, our overall goal is to improve corporate governance and shareholder value.

Frank Gannon

As investors this year, we have to focus on the durability of corporate profit growth. Within that you can find a lot of opportunities in the stock market.

Wayne Ayers

Productivity always slows as the economy slows. If labor and wage costs are still on the rise and productivity slows, either corporate profits decline or prices increase.

Gary Ruskin

People should know when they are talking to a corporate shill.

Adi Godrej

People should be encouraged by things like awards given for corporate governance practices.

Michael Uhl

Demand by corporations for Las Vegas group and meeting hotel space is huge, even incredible, because of the diversity of the city's product. As we search for availability in Las Vegas for corporate groups, we do so smarter, not necessarily harder these days.

Sarah Andrus

DECA is an outstanding organization that has been preparing high school students for the workplace for more than 50 years. We are honored to be a corporate sponsor because our goals parallel those of this fine student group.

Renault Kam

Any negative news on the corporate front will be taken as an excuse for investors to take their gains.

Chester Nimitz

A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder

Susanna Kearsley

As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.

Jonathan Anderson

The big question is what will happen over the next few years, ... Wages and costs are going up in China. The economy is already past its peak. This is no longer the easy money you had in 2002 and 2003.

David Marshall

Barge shipping costs have exploded. Right now, barge freight has traded at a record high, from the Ohio (River) to New Orleans.

Thomas Jefferson

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Don Pether

Profitability was negatively impacted by significantly higher costs for purchased slabs, raw materials and energy and a significant drop in market pricing.

Edwin Slaghekke

Production costs have now become the most important factor for oil companies. They will drag down the shares.

Anne Mulcahy

Our earnings performance in the fourth quarter met expectations with increased gross margins, lower costs and operational improvements. We delivered another quarter - and another year - of earnings growth.

Ron Dennis

Norbert's frustration is if it costs us the constructors' championship it is not particularly nice,

Charles Dickens

Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.

David Buik

Profit takers are expected to move in to the ring, not surprisingly influenced by New York's decline during the end of the day.

Henry Willmore

Profits will probably still decline in the second quarter, but at a slower rate than in the first quarter.

Carlos Hokama

Our decline was all in function of what was happening outside Brazil. But we were also with an accumulated rise of 14 percent and we needed a reason to take profits.

Brian Williamson

People are starting to wonder if this late-summer decline is for real.

James Cayne

Operating profits were up, despite a decline in net revenues, largely due to the fact that expense reductions from our margin improvement program have now been realized and incorporated into our earnings,

Jose Vistan

Normally the decline should have been much more, but the market seems to be holding. The main difference between then and now is the fact that market fundamentals today are way, way better than before.

Philip Dodge

Despite the decline in North American natural gas prices during the quarter, people generally are more positive about the medium-term outlook.

James Schneider

Despite this decline in prices, we maintained flat gross margins.

Allan Meltzer

The name that's on the economy is Greenspan. If you want to step back and say Gore's responsible, it's hard to make that connection.

Mark Knold

After operating in the mid-3 percent employment growth range for the first half of 2005, the Utah economy unexpectedly jumped upward during last year's third quarter.

Maureen Allyn

Realistically, they've done a lot already. The economy may be sleepy, but you don't need to hit it with everything you've got.

Michael Boss

Things are still looking pretty good, and the economy seems to be slowing down, right into the Fed's hands.

Joshua Shapiro

Things are pretty healthy. The economy is growing at a nice clip, exports are rising and inventories are being accumulated.

Patrick McGowan

Things are good, but they're not great. We still have a lot of work to do in an economy that is in great transition.

Bill Dudley

Things are going to look a little better. Your going to see an economy that's soft, but not collapsing.

Roberto Sanchez

Things are changing. It's a local economy. In other places people don't know their neighbors. They don't know their names. People don't say 'hello' to each other. Not here.

Lawrence Lindsey

The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. economy,

Gene Luen Yang

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.

Carl Erskine

Sometimes it seems the more you know, the less sure you are of yourself, ... I can just sit back and watch and not have to sweat it out for either side. What I know is, anything can happen in a short series.

Yoweri Museveni

Some people say accident. It may be an accident, it may be something else, ... very well equipped . . . the one I am flying all the time. I am not ruling anything out. Either the pilot panicked, or there was some side wind, or the instruments failed, or there was an external factor.

Marsha Blackburn

Seldom does a member of either party have to be called down for inappropriate behavior on the House floor.

Thomas Campion

Rose-cheeked Laura, come; / Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's / Silent music, either other/ Sweetly gracing.

Roger Monson

Russia could go down 50 percent or up 150 percent. Either they do it or they don't.

Jonathan Coleman

Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all.

Steve Erickson

Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.

Mark Richt

Quentin is thinking it all through before making a decision. I don't think either one is 100 percent sure about what he's going to do yet.

Horace

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.

Drew Matus

There's no sign of inflation, and the labor market is still weak. There's still plenty of room from the Fed's point of view.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Labor humanizes, exalts.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Tim Heekin

I don't think we're going to be able to see anything much until we at least get past Labor Day,

Thomas Graham

If it wasn't for union workers and labor unions, there would be no 40-hour work weeks, eight-hour work days, pensions or vacations,

Paul Gurgol

I have labor pains right now -- I'm pregnant with all this stuff.

Bill Scott

We have some of the weakest labor laws in the industrialized world.

Horace

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Tim Powers

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

Jim Rohn

Profits are better than wages.