Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gianni Agnelli

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

Virginia Postrel

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

The only reason we are talking about this (wheel tax) is to get a vote (for the EMS budget), and I have a real problem with that. The feeling I'm getting here tonight is that I'm buying (Williams') vote so that he'll get the Capital Improvement Plan in gear for 2005.

Phil Boyer

The pilots of tomorrow are the plane buyers of tomorrow.

The PC is much more of a mature product than it's ever been before, so it's much subject to the vagaries of the overall economy, ... When the economy slows and people retrench, they don't buy durable goods, and the PC is a big durable now.

Nikki Reed

I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.

That was his big thing. He did that several times. He was extremely generous. He was always buying things, just doing whatever he could. He used his own money. He liked helping the kids because he didn't have any kids of his own. He was very good to the girls.

That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.

We have a negative outlook on the telecom-services sector, preferring smaller, rural providers and one in Canada that, in our view, have stable margins and are paying out dividends and buying back stock.

We have a lot of work to do to convince Japanese buyers to come back to us.

We can't keep them in stock. People are buying them by the handful. They are so cute and cheap.

We can't hit every piece of property right on the nose. It's mass appraisal. If you had the same home with three different buyers and three different sellers, you could conceivably come up with three different prices.

Leonard Peltier

We can see who was granted clemency and why, ... The big donors to the President's campaign were able to buy justice, something we just couldn't afford.

Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then you get to buy new ones.

Robert Reich

As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.

Raymond Burr

I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she would look great in, a gown or gloves or a ring, I always knew what color she liked most. I knew her size, what material she appreciated most, and I spent the whole time buying gifts for her. And I loved her very much.

Richie Sambora

At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.

We have those indicators that kids are buying into the magnet school concept and that parents are supporting the magnet school concept.

We have the same number of buyers as last year.

We have the lowest cost of distribution. We don't have to buy a network.

We were going to buy a house here,

Typically, 'good-faith negotiations' do not portray the buyer holding a gun to the seller's head. These negotiations have been tinged with bad-faith since April, when the City told property owners they had to be out of their homes by New Year's Eve. Mr. Green can pretend he's dealing in good faith, but he's really playing with a corked bat.

Today there are two points where a car manufacturer has interaction with you as an owner of a car. One, you buy the car. Two, you go to the car shop to repair the car.

Tokyo - still - offers the most tightly integrated infrastructure, where smooth, technology-driven experiences take place when engaging in everyday actions, such as verifying personal identity, paying for goods, and buying tickets.

Tokyo shares followed the Nasdaq today. Also, trading was supported by those buyers who came back to the market now that Y2K-related concerns seem to have cleared.

We have a lot of guys who didn't come into the season with much playing experience. It's taken a long time to get them to buy into our philosophy, but once they started accomplishing some goals things, started going our way.

Michael W. Smith

You are, in effect, selling the first fund and buying the second fund. And when you sell that fund, you have a taxable transaction.

Steve Coleman

We wanted to make sure we could tell parents where their children will go to school before they buy lots and start building.

We've got so many guests who buy tickets who are disabled and are in real need of a close parking spot, and we need to do everything we can to make sure they get one.

We have been witnessing how the currency move is boosting exporters' profits. Buying momentum is quite strong, stimulated by robust earnings.

We have to make sure that content is easier to buy rather than to pirate.

We have more people who want to buy them than we will have Brownstones to sell.

We have more of a short-term buy on this, which is something we look at to own for about six months. You'll probably see some nice gains.