Famous Quotes & Sayings

Over the past 50 years, the average gain in the stock market has been roughly 16 percent a year. That, considering where we closed at the end of 1995, would put us just under 6,000. Those are big numbers, but on a percentage basis they're within the scope of a bull market.

Our per-screen average was great (in the U.S.).

Chris Clemons

Our scouting report told us what they were going to do. They average something like 43 passes per game, so the job was pretty clear.

Joe Gibbs

Our goal is to try to hold it on offense in that situation, and don't give it back, ... Run time off the clock and protect the lead. We need to average more than that when we're rushing the football.

Our girls never quit and showed a lot of desire; it's too bad somebody had to lose this game. Any average team would have quit today.

Overall, companies are topping estimates by about two percent, which is below the long term average of 3.2 percent and the average of the last 8 quarters, which is 5 percent.

Over a lifetime, a college graduate earns about $1 million more on average than someone with only a high school diploma.

Our trading multiple has come up but it's still below the average of our peers and is particularly low on a forward basis. We are slowly building confidence - one quarter at a time - and we think it is eventually going to be noticed by the market.

Out top five average was 18:18 which was 42 seconds faster than last week. That's a nice improvement and I'm pretty happy with that. Our top five split was 50 seconds and our top seven was 59 seconds. Team-wise we were third in our division, but it was third overall. I thought we ran pretty well. We just got beat by a couple of good teams.

Our average season-pass holder paid $14.64 per day to ski or snowboard Big Mountain. That is an incredible value.

Our average occupancy for February was 88 percent.

Our average DNA case is a minimum of a month or more.

Our boys averaged 193. It was one of the top averages. We didn't make it.

People have gotten tired of this company making excuses, ... It's been a marginal investment for us so far. We've owned it about a year; we're frustrated, too. Our average cost is $10.50 a share. That's not why we buy a stock -- to make 50 cents.

Supply chain has to be important all the way up to the chief operating officer and chief financial officer level, because the way a company brings a product to market is on average as important as the product that they bring.

William Esrey

Sprint PCS continues to lead the wireless industry with record subscriber growth for three consecutive quarters. This quarter, Sprint PCS increased average revenue per customer while it reduced acquisition and operating costs-per-customer compared to the previous quarter.

Wendy Wilson

Some of them are quite luxurious, since they are seized from the types of people who have a lot to spend on renovating and upkeep. But sometimes it's just your average home.

Some of them are doing a better job than others at preventing infections. They all need to improve. Any hospital doing average or the same as everyone else, that's not good enough.

Someone had to be the first to offer dollar-cost averaging for free. Since no one else wanted to be first, it was us. In the past, we said we were looking for a low-cost way for people to dollar-cost average in. But this is not low cost, it's no cost.

My start is never real good and it was average today, and the rest of the race felt great.

My only claim to fame was being all-conference and that came from leading the league in fouls. I averaged 4 a game. Thank God Joe doesn't foul much.

Dennis Johnson

My reputation is as a defender, ... But I tell people there were times that I averaged 19 points, 18.5 points. If you watched me play, or watched the guys I played with, nobody ever did one thing. That's what made us successful.

Alan Moore

I think the vocabulary of the average Sun reader is something like 10,000 words.

I think there are too many average teams in the playoffs to begin with. But if we can't go .500 in league, we don't deserve to go to the playoffs.

I think stock selection is going to be key. It's just like last year, where if you picked a stock at random, you probably lost money even though the averages were up. And stock selection's going to be key again. You have to pick stocks that are going to have earnings that exceed the consensus. It sounds very simple but it's not the easiest thing in the world to do.

Jason is not an average player in this league, he's turned himself into a great player. He does everything well.

Jarvis is doing really well. He is doing a lot more offensively. Last year we were very well-balanced and nobody averaged more than 14 points per game, but now we are young and need him to step up.

I think were doing good; its a good, solid sale, ... There are a lot of good horses, so if you have less than average of what the stallion is throwing, its a tough market for those people, but if you have average or above, its a strong market.

I think we played an average game. It wasn't great and it wasn't horrible, but we definitely didn't play to the level that we are capable of playing.

Scott Skiles

I thought overall we played better tonight. We have a lot of energy. We did a better than average job of following the game plan. We could have had the game in regulation. We just weren't able to get it.

I thought our whole defense was average at best at every position. There were some guys I thought played really well, but I'm not going to name any names.

I think we saw a taste of what could happen in July, when a brief and moderate correction caused this fund to lose nearly 7 percent, about twice the loss suffered from the average conservatively managed large-cap fund.

I think what's driving it is Helena is still recognized as a value in the western Montana markets. When you compare Helena to Kalispell or Missoula or Bozeman or any other nice place to live in Montana, it's relatively speaking still a good buy, which says the average could continue to go up for the next three or four years.