Famous Quotes & Sayings

At US$5 billion in current sales, WPC is less than 20% of the way there.

As of last week, foreign investors had sold over NT$40 billion net of Taiwan equities this month. I see little reason for putting the brakes on the selling spree over the remainder of the month given the lack of catalysts for the bulls.

As of 2004, the New York State wine industry brings in about $3.3 billion in New York State. It'd be nice to get a piece of that in Jefferson County.

Realizing these goals will result in $2.5 billion in overall profit improvement.

reach outside your boundaries. We want to keep a large percentage of the $2 billion in business from the Gulf Coast in this state.

Projects still require years to develop, cost billions of dollars to bring on stream and operate for decades.

Private industry spends billions of dollars on this targeting. The companies think it works. Why wouldn't it work for politicians?

Jan Egeland

probably be many billions of dollars. However, we cannot fathom the cost of these poor societies and the nameless fishermen and fishing villages that have just been wiped out.

Wendy Kopp

Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.

Our cuts are deep and painful; they hurt. But at the end of the day, the over $2.5 billion in cuts are not enough to close a $4.5 billion deficit.

People paying electric bills have been paying a fee into a DOE fund and there's been somewhere between $18 and $20 billion collected by the federal government for the purpose of shipping and storing fuel.

Of this projected deficit, 21 billion rand originates from the poor performance of the trade account.

Off the top of my head, $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money. I think it will be a billion dollar drug but it will take some time.

Michele Bachmann

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.

The money that Napster offered they should be offering in individual discussions with individual companies. There isn't an industry license that can be granted and there won't be an industry response to a billion dollar offer.

Dell recently established a separate storage business... Dell has only been selling external storage for about two years, and it is already the number six player in the market, with roughly a $1 billion run rate.

Sheila Lee

Delays in rebuilding international good will are costing Americans lives in Iraq, and billions of dollars to the American taxpayers.

Companies around the world have purchased more than US$40 billion worth of enterprise applications, including ERP, CRM and HR, during the past few years.

Companies around the world have purchased more than US $40 billion worth of enterprise applications, including ERP, CRM and HR, during the past few years. This has generated significant volumes of data in support of the operational processes they automate. By investing in BI, companies can further leverage their enterprise application investments and turn the torrent of data into meaningful insight to better measure performance, respond more quickly to market changes and opportunities and comply with an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

Companies around the world have purchased more than $40 billion worth of enterprise applications, including ERP, CRM and HR, during the past few years. This has generated significant volumes of data in support of the operational processes they automate. By investing in BI, companies can further leverage their enterprise application investments and turn the torrent of data into meaningful insight to better measure performance, respond more quickly to market changes and opportunities and comply with an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

Despite spending more than $6.5 billion since 2001, these grants have not been able to demonstrate an impact on crime.

Bruce Golding

Despite some US$4 billion in foreign investments in recent years, there has been less than 5 per cent growth in the last eight years.

Peter Diamandis

And that's what we need to do in the space world to get to that point. It's the cost of operations that makes the space shuttle cost three-quarters of a billion dollars per launch. Fuel is one percent of the cost. It's the operations that we have to work on.

Any suggestion that one supports the objectives and the targets but not the approximately $5 billion allocated to these targets is of great concern to us because we won't be able to meet the targets without money.

The Taiwan question concerns the core interests of China and relates to the national feeling of the 1.3 billion Chinese people, as well as the political foundation of Sino-Japanese relations.

The Taiwan issue concerns China's core interest and the national feelings of 1.3 billion Chinese.

The sweet spot in the market during 2005 was systems priced between USD 50,000 and USD 149,999. This segment, which serves the needs of a broad range of data centers and applications, grew to over USD 1 billion in the fourth quarter.

The sweet spot in the market during 2005 was systems priced between $50,000 and $149,999. This segment, which serves the needs of a broad range of data centers and applications, grew to over $1 billion in the fourth quarter.

The survey came back and told us we didn't have an image. In the 1993 time frame we were generating about $8 billion in software and still no one thought of IBM as a software company.

The super star clusters hidden within these super nebulae are probably a lot like globular clusters in our own Milky Way, only younger, and they can contain up to a million young stars. The mystery is why our own Milky Way no longer forms globular star clusters and hasn't for 10 billion years. These galaxies still can. We want to know why. This is star formation on steroids.

Merv Griffin

The success of those two shows, ratings-wise and monetarily, are mind-boggling. I mean, each show has got to have brought in over a couple of billion dollars each in revenues.

Dick Rutan

The space domain for manned spaceflight is no longer the domain of a huge bureaucracy spending billions of dollars. We can do it privately.

The tens of billions of shillings stolen from this country would make a dramatic difference to the humanitarian situation facing Kenya today.