Famous Quotes & Sayings

The fact there is excess capacity tells you there is going to be a consistent weight on the price of manufactured goods. There is a continuous need to discount because of this supply glut. There's no great acceleration in the wings.

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.

Martin Scorsese

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.

Matt Gonzalez

There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary.

Brian Tracy

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

What the minister has signaled is increased capacity and paying royalty from incremental production.

What we're doing right now is going over the long-range capital plan. It would be a little early to speculate whether the $12 million (for Nantucket) will be included or not.

David Johnson

What we hope to do here is capitalize on LOOPs development and operation.

Mike Campbell

There is a reason he's the captain of this team. He does everything max out for us, he is a great leader for us.

The only way they are capturing them is by profiling. That's exactly what has to be happening in Hudson and New Ipswich, it's not the situation that they happen to arbitrarily find them.

I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states.

George Akerlof

Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.

Geoff Downes

Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds.

Gary Sheffield

We're playing like we are capable of playing. If we can continue to play like this we'll be fine.

Sean Jones

After losing in the quarterfinals for six years straight, this feels good. We didn't play with any passion in the second period, but our captains got things squared away between periods. Spaulding's too good to play a man down. We told them it was still within reach, go show some heart.

Carlos Tevez

After every match we are getting closer to the title. We need to keep playing well and capturing the victories.

Samuel Dalembert

After Michael Bradley got hurt and had his surgery, I was like, ?Man, I wish I could be there,? ... But we still have guys that are gonna step up and do what they?re capable of doing and helping us out winning. The coaches and everybody said, ?Take your time. We need you by Nov. 1.? So I?m trying to get in a week before November, kind of get a little shape back and get myself into it.

After Indy it was like 'engrave the trophy and give it to him,' ... We just wanted to keep working real hard. It's very seldom that a driver gets good luck all year long and we still had the capability to come back.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.

The most important consideration in this matter was that Cmdr. Waddle was the captain of the ship, that the rest of the submarine force is watching him, his peers are watching him, guys who may be in his shoes in the future are watching him, and it was the right thing to do for those reasons.

A critical element of the first-half result will be an update on the status of the capital expenditure program.

Stranger things have happened in this game. But obviously we have to win a number of our remaining games and obviously we need some help. San Diego has to lose some games in a row and we have to capitalize on that.

Somebody said the other day, at the end of the movie, you feel like Capote committed a crime, and that's exactly right. That's why the film works so well. You really have this sense that he's the one who committed the crime, and I think deep down inside, that's how he felt, too. That's something he could never come to terms with.

Southwest Florida will capture its fair share of boomers. But we'll have to deal with transportation issues, work-force housing issues, water-supply issues, and health-care and retirement care will get reshaped.

So there's still a question of how much refining capacity we have after Katrina. The issue right now is how much damage was sustained.

Special teams really hurt us, but we didn't play like we're capable of playing and they played very well. They're a good football team, and they did a great job.

Edmund Stoiber

so that we are capable of taking over the government, even if it is not possible at the present time.

Marc Savard

We had our rally caps on. It worked, so you will probably see more of that.

We had our own carpenters and electricians; we have a very capable staff.

We had our opportunities (against Buffalo). The thing now is to go and capitalize on them. The thing with Pittsburgh coming into town, whenever they give you an opportunity you have to capitalize, because they are a team that's big on turnover ratio. The thing for us is to go in and win that.

We have every year in the last 20 years seen a new disease identified. There will be new threats of this kind, there will be new diseases coming. Therefore the capacity to identify and react, to respond quickly, is so important.

Olympia Snowe

We like to think that was the Maine influence rubbing off. Or better yet, that of his wonderful, exceptional wife, because to know Cap was to know Jane. They were truly one soul.

David Miliband

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.