Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Gerard Kleisterlee

There is a lack of value creation, particularly around consumer electronics,

Carl Gipson

It gets tough when you try to tailor-make a plan for every single person, but at the same time we are paying for things we never use. Right now, it is kind of a one-size-fits-all approach, and from a consumer standpoint, someone who purchases health insurance, that doesn't go a long way in curtailing health-care costs.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Had the outcome been better, it would have increased speculation of higher consumer prices immediately ahead, so it seems that investors are taking a weaker reading as a positive.

Edward Fox

Restocking fees are more prevalent in consumer electronics because the merchandise tends to become obsolete very quickly.

Attorney McKenna

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

Bill Evans

Ordinarily it would have been surprising that consumer sentiment did not increase for a fourth consecutive month, given the range of encouraging economic news.

Russ Granik

I think the league has never been on a more firm foundation.

Ivo Sanader

It is not true and I firmly reject it,

Kara Swisher

I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.

Kathleen Blanco

I'm just as pleased as I can be that we were able to expedite the process of getting a Louisiana firm on site, working as quickly as possible and actually, I think, a little head of schedule,

Christopher Bellew

The downtrend that started immediately after hurricane Katrina remains firmly in place in spite of Wilma and industrial problems at Total in France,

Yashwant Sinha

The veil is off. India is now firmly in the US camp.

Patrick Collins

The law firm . . . was the staging ground of this stunt.

Nelson Warfield

It was a moment on the national stage for Pataki. And he can say that when an out-of-control, liberal union tried to shut down New York, he took a firm line.

Kazunori Jinnai

These days, just about every major tech firm is raising its profit forecasts, generating rather strong demand.

Javier Solana

Just yesterday there were very significant and important demonstrations in Belgrade that are growing and growing in numbers because the very violence of Milosevic's police ... is making more and more people go to the demonstrations,

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Mike King

I think it should get big. It's growing pretty rapidly.

Chris Drury

I think the important thing is we've just got to grow as a team. You can't just learn and grow together with wins, you also have to do it with losses.

Akio Yoshino

There is a growing view that insurers have had their run for the short term, ... Money is shifting to the laggards of the markets now, such as the technology companies.

Stuart Freeman

We've been thinking that the Nasdaq, as an index, would likely outperform a lot of the other indexes this year. It's a lot about secular growth. We're seeing growth in technology. And for the most part, it's been a tech year.

Paul Polzin

We've got to go back to the 1970s to get three strong years of 4 percent growth.

Preston Beckman

I think we're relieved and a little shocked that it's showing such growth this year. For us, having maintained the ratings we had last year would have been a plus.

Joe Lieberman

I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,

Howard Rubin

I'm not talking about lowering hiring standards; I'm talking about rethinking those standards.

Andrew Tyndall

Why would (CBS) spend all that money hiring her away if they weren't hiring her because she's a superstar.

Mary Landrieu

We don't need to be laying off people. We need to be hiring people.

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.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Phil Garner

He just likes going out and pitching, doing his job and saying, 'Thank you very much,' and going home.

Randy Foye

He's a big part of what we do. If he's out for the year, we just have to come together as a team. We still have a job to do.

Brian Sears

He's a superior horse, and Brett does a wonderful job with him. I knew he'd have him in peak form. He knows how to top them off.

Claude Brown

I thought we were more disciplined than that. We made too many mistakes and had too many penalties and Steubenville did a nice job of capitalizing on them.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Jack Baker

I think it's very positive that the market was down more than 100 points and has come back, but this is essentially a vacation week,

Mark Pervan

It had a pretty strong run, so the market is taking profits.

William LeFevre

I think this market is going to go a lot higher.

Mark Batterson

The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.

Derian Hatcher

That's how he does it. That's the outlook of the team, and it starts with him.

Marilyn Manson

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life

Juan Felipe Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Steve Stirling

He is not flashy; he does all the things a smart player does. If I had to pick one player, I'd say it was him (that was most impressive).

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up. He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up, ... He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Wally Szczerbiak

Pick your poison. Try to stop K.G. or me . . . They wanted to play a small lineup, and we made them pay.

Andy Reid

You could pick out anything and we probably didn't do it well.

Steve Terry

You couldn't have picked a better day for spring break.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Theodore Dreiser

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

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!'

Jim Rohn

Profits are better than wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

Tim Powers

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

Jim Hightower

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.