Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patty Gorman

At the conclusion of the drill, all aspects of the drill were reviewed and a plan was developed to correct any deficiencies that we might have at this time. The chapter will be looking at recruiting additional disaster volunteers and acquiring some material resources.

Larry Kellner

Continental is in solid financial shape. We're acquiring the right planes at the right price at the lowest interest rates in years.

Jon Fredrikson

Constellation continues to be so far ahead of everybody else in terms of keen financial expertise in acquiring entities after all of these years. It's such a contrast to the other big success, Gallo, which never purchased anything until the last five years, and its acquisitions have been relatively small, building organically.

Sergei Bogdanchikov

We will be ready to inform you about our interest in acquiring 2-3 additional assets in Kazakhstan by the second half of this year.

Richard Ryan

We intend on acquiring at least the majority of the shares of Enron, selling off all divisions of the business except for the energy-related companies and putting this company back on its feet,

Jonathon Hamilton

We're very interested in acquiring Guidant's vascular business. If this acquisition of Guidant's vascular business were to go through, it would significantly enhance our vascular business.

Greg Maffei

There's no question that prices are higher for these companies, but we are sometimes best served acquiring technologies no matter what the price. Unfortunately, we can't know if we've overpaid until later.

Juergen Hambrecht

We are committed to our goal of acquiring Engelhard, Engelhard did not provide any information that would prompt us to improve the terms of our current offer.

Doug Leland

We know that cash flow is a top concern for small businesses and that they look for practical tools to help keep money flowing smoothly. Whether small businesses simply need to update their PCs or plan to invest in their first server or a new custom business application, the fixed-rate loans from Microsoft Financing enable customers to shift their focus to acquiring what they need to move their business forward, instead of how they will pay for it.

Liz Darger

Our effort was good, we wanted to come out and be aggressive in the beginning of the game and I fell like we did that.

Rashad Bobino

Some plays you couldn't be as aggressive as you needed to, because if you did, you would mess up the whole defense, something wrong would happen.

Richard Geiger

Some people think we're driving a Pinto in a Mercedes world, but that really isn't the case. We're going to be out there in the market place and we're going to be very aggressive in marketing the center.

Scott Raduka

So we have one of these for wrestling and hockey - the two most aggressive sports. Those are things that go unnoticed, and our people work hard at it. Our public needs to see that our kids are doing a great job.

Gail Patricelli

So the most appealing, successful males are the ones who give really high intensity, aggressive displays without threatening the female. They observe female behaviors and they increase their intensity as the female signals that she's comfortable, without being intense too soon.

Katrina Szish

Sources close to Heather say that Denise was the aggressive one. She called him, pursued him, in no way did he reach out to her.

James Annable

Once we read the speech we knew it would be a gradual increase, ... The Fed doesn't want to be aggressive without the smoking gun of inflation.

Earl Johnson

Now I can be more aggressive in my job search and home search, ... This place is as good as any other.

John Snow

Thanks to the changes we've made in currency design, thanks to aggressive law enforcement led by the U.S. Secret Service and thanks to an informed public, we've been able to stay ahead of the counterfeiters,

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Mark Baldwin

As Britain's only large-scale touring contemporary dance company, Rambert performs on some of the largest stages this country has

Scott Harris

Our customers no longer design in isolation. They need to create, manage, and share information throughout and outside their company in order to realize their ideas.

Walter Price

People felt that this is a very tightly controlled company with a lot of levers they can pull.

Lovie Smith

Once you get into company with Walter Payton, that's saying quite a bit.

Foreign Ministry

The Russian embassy in Tehran gave to the Iranian side an official note saying that the previous Russian proposal of the creation of a joint Russian-Iranian company to enrich uranium remains in force.

Scott Rothbort

This is a work in progress and a company that's transitioning. Don't expect instant gratification here.

Bill Doyle

This is a significant investment that will have an immediate positive impact on our company and, more importantly, will provide significant growth potential for us over the long term.

Matt Collins

This is definitely much more than a one-time event. We still think there's a lot of room for the company to grow.

Ann McInerney

They are a good team watching them on film but it's even better in person. They have all the components you need to be a championship team.

Sen. Hanabusa

This is not an impact study. This is a baseline environmental study that has 17 components that have to be addressed to satisfy the law.

Hiroshi Arano

The recent loss in Tokyo was triggered by factors like the reshuffle of the Nikkei components and tumbles in U.S. shares. It has nothing to do with economic fundamentals in Japan, which have not worsened at all.

Nikolaos Scarmeas

We tried to single out which of the components of the diet are driving its effect, but none of them is prominently responsible. But, when we put them together, the effect was there.

Claire Babrowski

One of the key components of sustainability is having enough of the right products to sell. That starts with making room in our stores for products and customers.

Annalee Newitz

Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

Alex Scott

At the start of the year, forecasts generally were for a more subdued year than we'd seen in 2004 so 16 percent is a pretty good year.

Steve Fortuna

IDC saw worldwide unit growth in 3Q of roughly 18.3 percent, while Dataquest saw worldwide unit growth around 15.2 percent. Averaging the two together puts it in the mid-to-high 16 percent range, which is roughly in line with our forecast 17 percent for 3Q.

Stephen Briggs

In all, we forecast that world lead production will grow by 5.5%-6.0% in 2006 and 4%-4.5% in 2007.

Viswanathan Vasudevan

The forecast for the full year and the first quarter has been disappointing. We will have to look into the details.

Bee Wilson

In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.

Alan Greenspan

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

Larry Ceisler

We have offered $2 million to start out with, and then every year going forward, a percentage of our gross with a minimum of $500,000.

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Anna Kendrick

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

Phil McNichol

It was an eyelash. Bode would have won and should have won by a margin that would have shocked people.

David O'Brien

We want to be satisfied the plant's safety margin is not compromised,

Ai Miyazato

I'm a little surprised and very satisfied about (the margin of victory).

Danny Nee

Nothing worked. That's inexperience. You need someone to step up and make a play. We have no margin of error. We have to be at 85-90 percent effectiveness. It might be 95 percent to win a game.

James Harrison

We made a statement. We won, that was the statement we wanted. Margin of victory, stuff like that, is nice. But winning and going to the playoffs is our goal. That's what we want.

Bill O'Reilly

In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Steve Stifano

Essentially, if you go with a friend, you'll each be paying $9.75 for a ticket.

Dale Friedman

We simply have got to start paying for people to do that kind of work,

Scott Hartnell

We were paying the price but the puck wasn't going in for us. (Auld) played well.

Kelley Cradduck

We understand some don't do it intentionally, they're just not paying attention. But in the end, they end up getting stuck in the intersection.

Doug Martin

We want this thing killed. This is a joke, and the sad thing is, we're paying for it.

Chris Sheridan

So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,

Guy Pearce

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Andy Bryant

We are still somewhat constrained in the chipset product line. We think microprocessors were OK,

Andy Bryant

We are still somewhat constrained in the chipset product line, ... We think microprocessors were OK.

Dennis Anderson

The uniqueness of this product provides insulation from competition.

Todd Holmdahl

We will wind up cost-reducing the product every year.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Mark Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

John Jackson

If they didn't want the product or they didn't have the money, than they should just say (so).

Guy Kawasaki

Provide good content and you’ll earn the right to promote your product.

John Shanley

There is probably, if anything, a shortage of availability of styles.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

Austin Mahone

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.

Delta Goodrem

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

Brian Cox

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

Billy Corgan

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.