Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Sternberg

capitalize on their strengths, but also to correct and compensate for their weaknesses.

Capital is tight at the end of the year.

But we should go about opening our capital markets in a sound and cautious way, to protect our own industries and the stability of China's economic growth,

The pain threshold is around $40. They can't go a lot over $40 without the capital markets seeing that negatively. There is a point where a price would not justify the transaction.

Julia Roberts

There is an urgent need now, with this gene discovery, to redouble the efforts of researchers and capitalize on their important and steadfast work,

There is an underlying mistrust of venture capital and private equity that when they come to invest that they are looking for too much.

We may very well be in the early stages of a profits recovery that will eventually pave the way for healthier capital spending growth,

It hurts my heart that you are paying capital gains tax every year. I recommend that you consider contributions to a traditional IRA to reduce or eliminate that tax.

I think the kids are ready for this. I think they're ready to take on that next challenge. We've been talking about Taos, Espanola and Capital all season, and we're ready to finally play.

Mark Gordon

I think the public has always been fascinated by crime. Crime in American fiction dates from the 20s, 30s and 40s in potboiler novels and film noir, not to mention tabloid journalism. In the past few years, TV just figured out a way to capitalize on that in a different manner.

George Packer

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

Thomas Piketty

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

Susumu Tonegawa

I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan.

Kentucky Fried Chicken is the one big trend that's going on in the world today. We're the chicken capital of the USA.

Shia LaBeouf

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

Sarah Martin

Kids today have so many sedentary pursuits. We really need to capitalize on any opportunities for physical activity, and this is one of those opportunities.

The fact that the weak institutions are falling by the wayside is actually good news because it creates room for the strong and healthy institutions to expand their market share. That's what we're witnessing right now. Capitalism is coming to Japan and the strong will get stronger.

Liam Hemsworth

The people that live in these districts, they don't want to watch it. They don't want to see their children die or killing other people. The only people that it is entertainment to are the people in the capital that have been brainwashed and are misguided and living in a completely unrealistic kind of world.

That was big tonight, coming out focused and not letting them get a lead. Capital picked up the tempo and got into an up-and-down game.

Rick Carlisle

That's a tough one. It was a tough way to get a lead then lose it. They kept playing. They kept coming. I thought we tried. We just didn't capitalize on our opportunities.

If the investment climate has not improved sufficiently to maintain capital inflows by the time BI cuts its rates in the second half of 2006, then capital outflow will be the likely result.

Cesare Beccaria

If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant.

We are the only major capital city in the world that doesn't have a jazz festival. It's a shame to me. This is the nation's capital. Jazz was invented in this country.

We played them really well, actually. We gave them a good run. We just didn't capitalize on some of our chances that we had.

We played very well, but we didn't capitalize on some big opportunities we had.

We had lots of chances. But we never pulled the trigger. That's been the story of the last four or five games. We haven't been able to capitalize on our chances.

Geoff Jenkins

We had him on the ropes. We needed to capitalize on that, get at least one run.

Ryan Smyth

We had ample opportunity to capitalize and we never did,

We had a lot of opportunities, and opportunities you need to capitalize on, ... You don't capitalize on opportunities, what's the point of having them?

We had twice as many chances as they did, we just didn't capitalize when we needed to.

Kyrsten Sinema

I remember when I was a young social worker, the first time I went to the state capital in Arizona, where I eventually served for seven years, I was so nervous to go and lobby my state legislators. Because I only had a master's degree at the time in social work.

Robert Reich

Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.

Michael Foster

Maintenance is for the unexpected repair, while capital reserve is for future projects. There is a limit done by formula. The problem for districts is having the money to put in those reserves.