Famous Quotes & Sayings

Given the jawboning we have had from the Fed about concern of inflation, I think the market is just playing it precautionary before the Fed meeting,

Given the huge decline in consumer confidence, this (gain in spending) does not seem unreasonably weak, especially with consumers' real after-tax income growth slowing too.

Given the developments of the past few days, the president has decided to take direct control of this issue.

Given the current outlook, we expect to modestly exceed the first quarter consensus estimate of $0.75 per share,

Given the current market conditions we wouldn't be doing an IPO right now.

Given the concerns internationally, I'm not so sure that's the right thing to do.

Given that we're at least a couple of months away from turnaround in the labor market, the fact that consumer confidence is not doing much worse than treading water is actually a good-news story.

J. Taylor

Given that there is very little interest rate impact -- and that is the market's concern right now -- you are not seeing a huge move yet.

Given that the expected pace of the recovery has been scaled down over recent months, sharp declines in stock prices are having a negative effect on consumer and investors confidence,

Given that producer prices have risen more than 2 percent over the past few months, we have to consider that in Japan's corporate environment inflation is already mounting. Producer price inflation is highly likely to translate into consumer price increases.

Given that contracts were issued as early as November 2000, the moratorium, if it did occur, was of a very short duration,

Given significant, secure and continued funding, ... the Open Rivers Initiative could make a much-needed contribution to our nation's overall aquatic health. We have seen the resurgence of life that followed dam removals in waters like Maine's Georges and Wisconsin's Onion Rivers, so we know that such efforts can lead to positive change. And we can't wait to see the improvement in fish populations that will follow a series of small dam removal projects in communities country-wide.

Given recent macro and consumer data have been positive, Travis is a great recovery story on a 12-month view. It remains one of our top picks for 2006.

Given low expectations heading into the quarter on concerns about the potential currency impact and volumes in key markets such as Europe and South Asia, Coke's Q4 result is a positive.

Getting those three guys back kind of makes your confidence level go way high. When they were in there, we were doing great things. Getting them back makes us feel like we can do even greater things.

Getting the right leadoff guy would be important. We'll always be looking for that. There are only five or six of those guys in the game. We're not the Lone Ranger in not having that prototype guy. We'll continue to try to look into that.

Getting the lead was very important. I wanted the kids to get some confidence.

Getting a jump-start would be amazing. It gives us confidence and takes the stress off of the defense and pitching.

Getting a global consensus, it turns out, is not that easy. We're hoping we're going to get widespread support so we can stand up and say to the U.S. government that this is a true consensus document.

Get the lead and help the customer move forward in their purchase decision. Convert the customer shopping online into a referral, the referral into a telephone conversation, the conversation into an appointment and the appointment into a sale.

Don Kelly

get out in the neighborhoods to see if there's anything we need to be concerned about.

Joseph Nye

getting people to sit in the back office and connect dots has not been their strong suit. Now they know they have to do it. The question is, Will they?

For me the hardest part was getting up the guts and confidence in my ability.

John Brown

For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need to think about designing the types of institutions we need to get things done in this rapidly accelerating world.

Steve Bernier

For me right now, it's a dream come true. So if I want to play, I have to play good. My confidence is high right now.

Rebecca MacKinnon

For years, members of Congress have heard from constituents who want them to protect the nation from crime, terrorism and intellectual property violation. They have not faced equally robust demands that online rights and freedoms be preserved.

For years, Elvis Presley Enterprises and the Presley family have envisioned a project like this. We are thrilled to be able to move this concept forward.

John Stark

Fraud today has a technological twist, but is really old wine in new bottles. The Internet is a great tool for the con artist, though also a tool for law enforcement because it provides a trail.

Frankly, we just thought it was better to come up with our own impact fees to control expenditures than to be going around with a tin can trying to get some money,

Frankly, we are quite surprised that the Senate may make time to even consider this petition, ... We can hardly think of a worse time to be doing so.

Brad Ausmus

Frankly, it's a little ridiculous that MLB would take control of that. This isn't their game.

Frankly, in New Jersey if you were to exclude everybody that had any kind of potential conflict you would be excluding a lot of people,

Frankly, I'm surprised. I thought the story would have legs and get much more attention. After all the debate in Congress over the need for the President to keep them in the loop he simply signs away one of the key provisions of the revised act.