Famous Quotes & Sayings

I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.

On top of declines in the US overnight, losses on UMC further weighed on the benchmark index.

A lot of selling came in around 9 o'clock because Freddie Mac priced a large 10-year note, their benchmark security. Right at the pricing of that note, the Treasury market went down and it wasn't able to recover.

This is the best conference in the nation from top to bottom without question. It is a great benchmark to have that we are not happy that we didn't sweep Arizona. That is the way we feel about ourselves. As a club, we thought we should have swept.

The US treasuries are declining in price but our comparative benchmark is not moving so the spread is declining.

Flu seasons change widely in severity. We don't know if this was a severe season or not. This (study) is really a benchmark for future seasons.

Benchmark revisions could completely recast underlying data, in which case January forecasts won't be useful.

My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.

To me, it's more significant that he's in the lower rankings of performance for large blend funds, ... It's more fair to benchmark a fund to that fund's category, not an index.

We think the benchmark can provide an easy-to-use and visible spot market index for your current contract needs.

You can look at different trends to explain it, a .355 on-base percentage being the benchmark for a successful playoff team,

Did it feel good? Absolutely. They are the defender, the benchmark and it's a great reward for our team.

John Barth

There's no question we can bring some expertise, ... I'm sure they have some as well. But we're recognized as the benchmark in the industry on the automotive side.

How realistic is it? That's what we're trying to find out. We've already gotten some information about 10 facilities that have been built over the last five or six years and how much it costs, just to give us a benchmark of what we're looking at financially. We're looking at the whole enchilada.

Scott Evans

If you look at the lead we've built up this year versus the benchmark and our peers, it came during the period when tech stocks were undergoing a sell-off, ... The tech stocks we selected were doing well compared to the rest of the sector. They held their ground.

John Brady

I never looked at this as a benchmark for our program or a benchmark for me as a coach or a benchmark for our players.

It's a great honor to be selected by my peers for such an award. Coach Harris was an icon in our sport and set a high benchmark for everyone to aspire.

It's the benchmark we go by. It's the path forward.

If you want to select a bull in the top 10 or 25 percent in the breed for a specific trait, those percentile tables will give you a benchmark number to compare bulls to in order to find out if a bull has the desirable genetics for a specific trait.

Germany will be the benchmark for the World Cup. I can say without a doubt the level of cooperation is without comparison.

George Town have been the benchmark of the competition but we're just looking to go out and play some solid football early and see what transpires from that.

Paul Foster

I don't know if you're seeing short-selling as much as money managers of growth funds getting out now that they can see growth isn't going to be more than 10 percent. St. Jude doesn't meet their benchmark standard for their funds.

Suburban is the industry benchmark when it comes to capability and the 2007 model affirms the reputation established in 1935, when the first Suburban was introduced.

Alex Rodriguez

We could win three World Series, with me it's never going to be over. My benchmark is so high, whatever I do it's never going to be enough and I understand that. Maybe when I retire is when all the critics and all that stuff is going to end.

This benchmark was designed with the input of a dozen or so partners.

Project City-Center confirms a cultural and lifestyle revival of city living, reaffirms the growing sophistication and maturity of Las Vegas and sets a benchmark for new growth and exciting new experiences as the city moves into its next 100 years.

There seems to be a new benchmark in terms of what we call a blockbuster, ... This year, by the end of the year, we'll wind up with about 17 films over $100 million. But the key to this year's success is that we have five films that have gone beyond $200 million. That's never happened before.

These are tests. Situations like this give you a benchmark with how society is doing with respect to racial harmony. If society hasn't passed this test, then we have the right to say we still have a problem with racism.

This is a good benchmark for our guys. This is only the seventh time we have met and we aren't going to throw the whole thing at them. We are looking for guys to make some strides now.

The industrial production number is the benchmark -- other surveys, while they're good, pale in comparison to the strength this indicator has.

The EFI four-stroke segment is still the benchmark of the outboard industry in terms of quality and satisfaction. From top to bottom, there are some outstanding engines being produced in this segment. However, the brands in the DI two-stroke segment have made some substantial improvements in 2005 and they are clearly producing some of the best engines in the industry. We also see a change in that carbureted four-strokes no longer outperform EFI two-stroke outboards as a result of EFI two-strokes improving and carbureted four-stroke engines declining. The gap between the two four-stroke technologies is now the widest we have seen.