Famous Quotes & Sayings

Serving small customers on a long-term basis doesn't provide enough of a margin. It might be a different equation for a company spending 10 times or more than your average retail customer.

Matthew Brown

Security and compliance requirements should boost IT spending by financial services firms, while resurgent demand for networking technologies should give the telecoms sector a shot in the arm. Unemployment has hit new lows. Two years ago, 13% of IT contractors went more than 90 days on average between contracts; now only 3% experience this level of uncertainty and difficulty in finding work.

Don Young

So far, the prices are still pretty decent. Our bean yields are down 30 percent, but our corn just seems to be up to average this year.

She was pretty productive. We expect this kind of performance out of her. Some days are better than others, but she has a pretty good scoring average right now.

What I do for people is I look at the weighted average of what their mortgage rate is.

Obviously I'm putting out information that's not very flattering. The average person today, including the average union member, doesn't have any idea how unions operate and what the realities are. Everybody knows what unions are good at, but not what they're bad at.

Jerry Herman

Obviously, the average teenager doesn't know about Broadway or doesn't get a chance to see a Broadway show, so we're bringing Broadway to them.

Larry Wachtel

Obviously, companies split when the stock price has gotten beyond the pocketbook of the average investor.

Right now inventories are below the normal average level for this time of year.

People will keep using (Palm OS Garnet). For the average user, who doesn't use more than 20 percent of their device, they don't know the difference.

Sherrod Brown

People want a change because they want to see their government on the side of average Americans. Whether it's small business or gas prices, people think the government has betrayed their values.

James Bowen

Personally, I think the odds are more like 1 in 33,000 for the average golfer.

I breast-fed all three of my children, because the milk is free. And I breast-fed them an average of two years.

I am ready and Craig is ready. I have been CEO for 11 years. Intel has been around 30 years. I'm the third CEO, so I've had more than my average share of tenure. Craig has been developing his capabilities and his scope and reach ever since the beginning of this decade.

I am ready and Craig is ready, ... I have been CEO for 11 years. Intel has been around 30 years. I'm the third CEO, so I've had more than my average share of tenure. Craig has been developing his capabilities and his scope and reach ever since the beginning of this decade.

But even more important for the dollar was the average hourly earnings reading, which is quite hawkish and is something the Fed has said it's concerned about.

Mickey Mantle

But god-damn, to think you're a .300 hitter and end up at .237 in your last season, then find yourself looking at a lifetime .298 average - it made me want to cry.

Based on these trends, it is not too difficult to conclude that the average consumer is probably a bit overextended from a credit standpoint,

Basically, we average the last three months of what we paid for our fuel, and we gradually implement it into the bill. It's not one month we sock it to the customer.

Basically, you're looking at an average kind of team.

Kenny Rogers

Basically, steroids can jump you a level or two. The average player can become a star, and the star player can become a superstar, and the superstar? Forget it. He can do things we've never seen before. You take a guy who already has great hand-eye coordination and make him stronger, and without a doubt he'll be better.

Because of the caution that I see right now, I would emphasize some of the more defensive stocks that are the bigger, stronger leaders in their areas; essential products and services; these tend to experience less than average volatility.

Basically, as an average person, I would have to prove some scientist at Merck or some CEO somewhere had made a determination to hurt me.

Because we're inland, and it takes a while for storms to get here, our average snowfall isn't that impressive. But when it snows, it's usually low density and low water content, making for great skiing. There's been really good energy around town because there's been great skiing.

Because she takes so many high percentage shots, she could average 30 points. She takes 20 shots a game. She's finished well this week.

Jane Pauley

Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids.

Al Groh

Chris has really had a pretty positive day every day out there. I guess you could say he's had a real good average on a lot more at-bats than before.

One thing that I think it helps to keep in mind if you're just the average consumer is that the worst nightmare for a hotel manager is to have an empty room because it generates no revenue.

Austin Kearns

My average was by no means where I want it to be.

My average customer used to be in their late 40s or 50s. Now most of them are in their mid-20s. They're definitely better educated. They're more careful, they are tasting and choosing rather than just buying wine blindly.

More than 50 percent on average of all these indexes is in oil and refined products. It's having a massive impact on the markets.

More than 1,200 (nearly 50 percent) players have made it to the Major Leagues. I don't think there is another league that can make that claim. In one average game, there are 30-plus Major League prospects.

Royce Clayton

Next year is going to be an entirely different case. The average salary for a major-league shortstop is not $1.35 million. Why should I play for that?