Famous Quotes & Sayings

I am pleased to report another record quarter of sales and earnings. Each of our divisions achieved profits in excess of their own aggressive plans while continuing to grow sales and market share.

Harold Brown

I am pleased to have been chosen to speak on this important panel. It is crucial that our future education leaders understand the issues facing students in today's society in order to help them achieve success.

I am pleased to achieve our original objective of obtaining board representation, and I look forward to working constructively with the board and Sovereign's management team to build share value for the future.

I am not going to get too carried away, ... But it is a good three points and we have made a pleasing start to the season. We have a lot of cracking young players who can only go on to achieve bigger and better things.

George H. W. Bush

I am proud of the results we have achieved in education in Texas. As president, I will achieve the same results, ensuring that no child is left behind.

Edward Zander

I am proud of all that we have achieved at Sun. This is a decision I have considered carefully over the past year. As we are marching down the path back to profitability, and have, for the most part completed our massive product and customer engagement transitions, I believe I have accomplished what I set out to do.

Jalal Talabani

I am optimistic that we will achieve solutions that will be agreed upon by all, ... We still have a week ahead, and when you multiply the number of hours in this week, you will see we have enough time.

Fernando Alonso

I am not old but I have achieved a lot. This things can only help me in my career.

I feel less pain than expected. It's pretty good and I want to recover as quickly as possible to achieve my goal of playing in the World Cup finals.

Barbara Boxer

I don't think they would attack a man this way, ... They're demeaning what she has achieved in her life. It's an over-the-top attack that I don't believe you'd see on a man or a married woman.

He's No. 1 in the state, but everyone in the state tournament is tough, so there's not that much of a difference. I'm going to have to wrestle him some time if I want to achieve my goal. He wrestled at 171 pounds last year, so I'm going to assume he's strong, but the way I'm looking at it, he's beatable. I'm just going to wrestle my match.

B. F. Skinner

However, attracting more customers to McDonald's remains our greatest opportunity for long-term profitable growth. Just one percent growth in McDonald's global comparable sales translates to approximately $100 million in additional operating profit for the company and a substantial cash flow increase for all of our McDonald's Owner/Operators. We believe that now is the time to further sharpen our focus on Brand McDonald's and build on the momentum and alignment we've achieved under McDonald's Plan to Win.

Li Jinhua

How to save resources and achieve the best possible results for the least cost and least use of resources is the important task facing us.

Mike Scioscia

I couldn't be in a better environment for us to achieve our goals, ... From everything from what Arte has committed to this organization, from the top down to the Minors couldn't be better. Nobody has a crystal ball, but I don't know if there is a better managerial job out there in baseball.

LaVar Arrington

I could have handled things a little bit better in certain instances, but that's neither here nor there. We're where we're at. We've just got to keep building toward something. And me, if this is the challenge in front of me, that I've got to try and work my way back through the ranks, then rather than trying to be a prima donna and say 'I am who I am, you should give me an opportunity,' I'd rather just work my tail off to try and achieve that.

Jim Morris

I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.

Zalmay Khalilzad

I congratulate the Iraqi people on having arrived at this historic moment. The U.S. is proud of the role we have played in helping Iraqis achieve this success.

Janet Murguia

I commend Wal-Mart for taking this important step of establishing an Employment Practices Advisory Panel and for selecting such highly distinguished leaders to participate in this effort. Dennis Archer and Vilma Martinez are two of the most well respected civil rights and employment opportunity experts in the nation. They both have a lifetime of service and commitment to promoting social justice, equality and diversity. With this Panel, Wal-Mart is moving in the right direction to achieve a broader positive impact for their workforce.

Bertrand Russell

I cannot be content with a brief moment of riotous living followed by destitution, and however clever the scientists may be, there are some things that they cannot be expected to achieve

Kenenisa Bekele

I cannot achieve anything new. I'm leaning towards not competing at the world cross country anymore.

Annika Sorenstam

I don't look at them and say, 'Hey, I got to practice, I got to do this and that,' ... I know what I want to achieve in my career, I'm pretty much a self-motivator.

Shaun Alexander

I don't live my life trying to prove anything. I set high goals for myself. I set high goals for my team, and as a group, we just try to achieve them. Contracts are contracts. They're just part of the business that's after football, but it has nothing to do with what we do on the field.

Ian Wilmut

I do believe that Hwang's laboratory achieved what they described, but then were careless.

I do not believe that a lasting peace is achieved by armed force, but I pay tribute to their courage and thank those who played a part in my rescue.

Colors have to flow for visual harmony. Part of the deal to achieve harmony is to use it more than once in a room.

Pat Quinn

I believed in our group this past season, as well. While we did not achieve what we needed to, this group worked to deal with various obstacles, and I am proud of their efforts - especially their work in recent weeks (finished on 9-1-2 run) when they overcame significant odds to almost attain a playoff berth after we dug a huge hole for ourselves.

Tony Blair

I believe agreement can and should be reached at the December council (of EU leaders) and I will make every effort personally to achieve it by then,

Joan Smalls

I became obsessed watching fashion TV shows when I was a teenager and recognized that I had the height and body frame. I especially became hooked when I saw on 'E! True Hollywood Story' how much a model can make and how I can achieve a better living for my family and me.

Mark Shields

I am more optimistic than most we can achieve change. True. I have not been here to see 30 years of deterioration - but I know there are proven police mechanisms, and that when put in place, things will get better.

People are desperate to achieve some incremental revenues from resources not used efficiently. One way is to sell dead legs.

Ron Dennis

Pedro's problem finished his run prematurely, but this will not hamper our programme for the weekend, ... Other than that, it was a successful Friday practice where we ran through our programme and achieved the results, in terms of speed and consistency, that we had expected going into this weekend.

Our kids, Melissa and Aimee, deserve the credit. They're the ones who worked so hard to achieve this. It's just a good thing for St. Joseph's High School for it to happen.

Our guys get tired of hearing they always finish second, ... We've achieved a lot, and we've got really nice back-to-back classes right now. We think we have a shot to make two legitimate runs at state, but again, we need to earn it.