Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Reich

Patagonia, a large apparel manufacturer based in Ventura, California, has organized itself as a 'B-corporation.' That's a for-profit company whose articles of incorporation require it to take into account the interests of workers, the community, and the environment, as well as shareholders.

Obviously, there are shots that she doesn't account for. What I believe just personally is that she did mean to drive up in an awful storm and kill herself. As for what happened once she was in that bedroom -- I'd hope the film makes a compelling case for what happens in the heat of the moment.

Obviously the final accounting is yet to come, (but) we do think we're actually going to see profits decline year over year.

Stephen Harper

Obviously I've tried my best within a small cabinet to try to represent all these different balances while at the same time obviously taking into account the skills and experience of individuals.

Obviously, 15-year-olds seeking learner permits account for a large number of the people who come to the (driver's license) stations each day. If we can develop an effective way to test many at once, it will greatly impact the number of people in line overall. At this time, this is just a pilot project, but results of the initial round of testing are encouraging.

Norman Cousins

Pessimism operates in a narrowed field of vision that fails to take into account the possibilities at the outer edges of experience.

Henry Bessemer

Nevertheless, several of my friends have from time to time tried to induce me to write a concise account of my steel invention in my own quiet way.

One of the major implications is that it shows us how these two processes, both preference for elaborate mates and preference for genetically complementary mates, can both occur in a population. It highlights the importance of taking into account the environment in which the animals are behaving.

I believe the U.S. can play an important part in solving the problem if we take into account not only American influence worldwide, but also the strong relationship between America and Israel

I believe the current account adjustment will be fairly slow and orderly, and that it may not begin for quite some time,

I bought Inter for reasons of passion and I have handled all these years with the desire to sell the club after winning a lot of trophies. Unfortunately the team has faded in the face of the big challenges. I need to take that into account and have the duty to do so.

I am very disappointed that the commission failed to take into account the amount of information that we provided them and the quality, experience and expertise of the Air National Guard personnel who have served our country in Ohio and in many combat operations. They have flown thousands of C-130 combat hours for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and have received hundreds of Air Medals. They are truly American heroes, and the commission made the wrong decision.

Certainly, banks make mistakes as do customers and that's why it's important for consumers to make sure no unauthorized charges have been made and all deposits are credited. Consumers should review their account balances as soon as they get the statement and contact the bank as soon as they discover any errors or discrepancies,

Janet Yellen

Certainly, analyses do indicate that house prices are abnormally high --- that there is a 'bubble' element, even accounting for factors that would support high house prices, such as low mortgage interest rates. So a reversal is certainly a possibility.

CDW is undertaking an extensive sales force realignment to position its account managers along geographic territories. While we agree with the logic behind this initiative, transitioning accounts in a relationship-intensive business is likely to be disruptive to sales momentum.

But there was good news coming out of last year. Retail sales of Mattel products at our top U.S accounts were up 12 percent, and yearend retail inventories were down 30 percent, positioning us well for 1999.

But there could be other areas we simply don't know about yet. In fact, we're already beginning to receive feedback from additional witnesses of milky seas. Some of these accounts occurred in regions we had not thought to look before, and we're currently working to find matches with the satellite data.

David Platt

But accounts are a nightmare because you are not parting with the cash out of your wallet and therefore you don't miss it immediately. The amounts being talked about are hellish ones but then players earn a hellish amount of money. But before we all start to condemn the players, we must also take account of the time frame involved as well.

Business owners overstate the constraints. People don't understand that they are not going to lose clients over a stringent accounts receivable policy.

Business is risky enough without the additional uncertainty created when a nation's unit of account -- in plain language, its money -- is undermined,

But French legislators aren't just looking at Apple. They're looking ahead to a time when most entertainment is online, a shift with profound consequences for consumers and culture in general. French lawmakers want to protect the consumer from one or two companies holding the keys to all of its culture, just as Microsoft holds the keys to today's desktop computers... Apple may not qualify as a literal monopoly -- there are lots of ways to get music and buying online accounts for only a small fraction of total music sales. But the sliver it does control it controls almost completely, and it's not out of the question to suggest that this sliver will ultimately become the only way people will buy music in the future.

Based on the behavior of these deer, we cannot account for the distribution of CWD on the landscape,

Wen Jiabao

China will expand the enrollment of secondary vocational education to the same size as that of the regular high school education in the next five years, ... By the end of 2010, the enrollment of higher vocational education should account for at least half of the entire enrollment of institutions of higher learning.

China will be held to account if it attempts to dump excess capacity on overseas markets.

China's current account surplus is now a major component of global imbalances, and its continuation risks undermining support for the open trade policies which have contributed so much to China's development. China is now simply too large to rely on export-led growth to pick up the slack when other sources of growth falter.

China is still too costly for manufacturing complex, low-volume products such as semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Executives have proven again and again to be shortsighted, seeking out the lowest wages and not taking into account all other factors.

China is accounting for ever larger proportions of research and development financing, but Vietnam is still not in that game yet.

Martin Seligman

I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

I make a personal commitment to the direction and success of all the programs in which I invest. I make all major philanthropic decisions myself after taking account of a range of expert opinion.

Only a very, very small number of our two million accounts were impacted, but we took the precaution of canceling additional card accounts to be safe.

Marco Rubio

One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical bills.

One-time-use camera category has grown to be 218 million units annually and we expect it to account for 38 percent of total film volume in the U.S. in 2005. A simple and affordable one-time-use digital camcorder could spur growth in the digital video market in a similar way,

Online high-yield savings accounts make an awful lot of sense for those that want to keep their savings accounts growing. It doesn't make sense to clip coupons and save a few cents at the grocery story but not take advantage of a higher yield that you don't have to do anything for.