Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've had real good corn sales this past month and export inspections are averaging what we need to reach the USDA goal of 1.85 billion bushel estimate for the year.

We've had our first test and we've failed miserably. We have spent billions of dollars in revenues to try to make our country safe and we have not made nearly enough progress.

Steven Adler

Everyone's relying on the modelers because there's no firm data. The largest catastrophe to date was 1992's Hurricane Andrew, which cost $20 billion to $23 billion. This is highly likely to be bigger, but how much bigger? No one knows.

Steven Adler

Everyone's relying on the modelers because there's no firm data, ... The largest catastrophe to date was 1992's Hurricane Andrew, which cost $20 billion to $23 billion. This is highly likely to be bigger, but how much bigger? No one knows.

As the residential market shows signs of softening, the nonresidential market is in excellent position to pick up the slack in construction activity. Nonresidential construction not only represents billions of dollars in economic activity, but also generates a lot of related spending in furnishings and interior decor.

A trend yield near 150 bushels, then, would produce a 2006 crop of 10.92 billion bushels.

At that time we have to mail out 6.8 billion dollars to the various shareholders.

At $7 billion annually, video games are larger than the film industry. Technologies like simulations used by the military are a booming area.

At the top line, we are forecasting revenues in the range of $32.2 to $32.6 billion for the full year.

Jeff Goodell

Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners.

Richard Lamm

We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America's kids have the worst dental health in the developed world.

Edward Kennedy

This new finding means an extra $49 billion in profits for drug companies, but the legislation still does nothing to reduce the exorbitant prices that drug companies charge.

We think that the eventual savings from the deal will only be in the $7 billion pretax range, compared with GM's estimate of $12 billion.

There have been one or two of these storms a century. If we were to get another one there could be $100 billion of damage, the same level as Katrina.

We are waiting for project clearance for 100 billion rupees for an integrated township near Delhi. It is from a state government.

We are very happy to be reporting that our pro-forma earnings passed the $1 billion mark for the first time.

We had sales of over NZ$1 billion for the last quarter -- the result of developing new businesses, markets, products & services. Our exports continue to grow with New Zealand export sales for the first half up over 19 percent on the same period last year

Giovanni Bisignani

We fully understand the principles of supply and demand. But it is difficult to see this as anything other than a $14 billion cash grab by the oil industry that is pouring salt into the wounds of a global crisis.

We have a 140 billion gallon gasoline market.

We want to enable the billions of media consumers to become producers, ... And clearly, Yahoo is poised as a company to make significant changes in the world of social media.

Bill Delahunt

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

Michael Dell

Twenty percent is significantly faster than we expected for the overall market, and 20 percent growth for a $32 billion company is relatively unprecedented.

Twenty-five years ago, your trains broke down all the time, they were covered in graffiti and you had no incentive to use transit. Billions of dollars later, your trains are reliable and you get discounts the more you use the system. The lesson of all this is, if you invest in transit, the riders will come.

You may be able to collect, read and digest billions of reference about aliens and UFOs. Then you will find that most of them were claimed as hoax, others vice versa. Eventually, there is only one thing you want to do about it...the close encounter.

You can imagine the extraordinary force that a billion gallons of water has coming over these levees, ... It happened on a seven-mile stretch simultaneously.

John Todd

When you plan for $3 billion in sales and you do $2.4 billion, you have a cost problem,

When you open up the borders, pump in billions from outside and lift international sanctions, it's going to generate growth.

Warren Farrell

Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.

We will be ready to pay to shareholders no less than $1 billion -- and probably $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion -- in dividends if we don't buy new deposits.

Jan Eliasson

This water I can drink right now is a luxury for 1.2 billion people in the world. Three-hundred million people south of Sahara don't have this,

This was, without a doubt, a blowout quarter. The demand picture was better than we had been expecting. Order rates remained strong in the last month of the quarter, and we generated nearly a billion dollars of cash.

This was a very competitive group of entries. The judging was tremendously difficult. Each of the entries explored the power of Revenue Optimization techniques to generate significant cash flow and improved earnings under diverse circumstances. However, the winning entry demonstrated a very real and immediate potential to revolutionize the $200 billion fashion industry.

John Spratt

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.