Famous Quotes & Sayings

Firms are substituting capital -- particularly high-tech capital -- for labor. They're putting smart machines on the factory floor and in the service industry. That may explain why high-tech orders for capital goods have been going up, despite the fact that manufacturers don't seem to be hiring a lot of people.

Fifty-nine points is too high for us. We need to do a better job of controlling the tempo. ..Bottom line is we have to capitalize on their mistakes and minimize ours -- and it doesn't matter if we're playing Henderson or someone from another part of the country.

Ken Fletcher

Fifteen students demonstrated their mettle and captured 18 medals.

First and foremost it's the size, the market cap of these Chinese companies. The magic number here in Singapore is $300 million (US$185 million). If the market cap is lower than that, most funds will usually stay away.

Larry Hughes

Expectations were high because of his size and speed. A lot of people wanted him to do things he's not capable of. There are a lot of tall guys that can't play basketball.

Exports are struggling to get traction. The monthly report highlights the capacity constraints in Australia. We need a lot more capital investment to alleviate the bottlenecks. Exports will continue to take away from GDP in the third quarter.

There are a lot of people who have the capability to take over and do it just as good.

There are many laws that have been important to our customers in recent years, including the increase in retirement contribution limits and the reduction in taxes on capital gains and dividends.

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

Alanis Morissette

I've just always felt it's an incredibly empowering thing, particularly for young women, to capitalize on their coordination and their strength. It's a very empowering thing to feel strong in your body.

Dino De Laurentiis

These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.

Isabel Allende

I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.

Barry Ritholtz

Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

We only expect a meaningful rebound in capital spending following a period of industry rationalization and an improved economic environment. Given the uncertainty as to the extent and timing of these events we are not providing specific financial guidance for the next quarter of full year 2001.

We offered them a cap on insurance (costs for employees), and they wanted more and more and more.

John Fletcher

While second-quarter sales were disappointing, the group remains on track to deliver full-year earnings of $769 million, or $800 million before capital management.

While residents in Maryland's capital city have a vote in Congress, I am leading the fight for residents in the nation's capital to get full voting representation in Congress. The fight continues.

Gordon Brown

With a focus on supply and production targets, a focus on proper information from markets and a focus on investing in new productive capacity and refining capacity, we can get oil prices down,

With a cap of four percent, how do you accommodate big numbers like that?

But our capture systems for leach water have not been perfect. We're spending a lot of money to correct that.

But life did not work quite as he designed it in the next year. He picked the wrong major item, Social Security. And then the war got worse and he had the hurricane. So now it's not only the sand that has run out of the hourglass but also the political capital has run out of the bank.

Peter Eisenman

The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.

Muhammad Yunus

The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.

Brian Tracy

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.

Aziz Ansari

Myself, Eric Wareheim, and Jason Woliner decided to start a Food Club where the three of us go to restaurants with a couple of other people. The three of us are the captains of the Food Club, so we have to wear the captains' hats.

We've been practicing the play and it was nice to see them capitalize on it.

We've been on the road for the last seven weeks and were a little road weary. This team is very capable of putting up big offensive numbers. If we hit like we did tonight, I think we are unbeatable.

We see that all the hydrogen gas in this region of the Galaxy is disturbed, with many smaller outflows closer to the plane of the Galaxy and then a giant plume of gas that forms a sort of cap on the whole thing.

We see ourselves moving away from large-scale construction... and into capacity developing.

We seem to be the marijuana growing capitol of Arizona,

Lute Olson

We're the defending champs and I think we're capable of defending that championship, but there are some very good teams we're going to have to beat.

We're talking about a very captive audience. And this is one way to grab a guy's undivided attention.