Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Simons

We are pleased to report another quarter of strong financial and operational results, as well as the completion of several activities that position us well for 2006. During the fourth quarter of 2005 we opened one new development project, entered into a land development joint venture, acquired interests in two regional malls, sold twelve non-core retail real estate assets, issued $1.1 billion of unsecured notes at attractive coupons, and expanded and extended our corporate credit facility on more favorable terms. In addition, our development program continues to proceed with six projects under construction. We are also pleased to announce today an 8.6 % increase in our common stock dividend.

Robert Ecker

We are pleased to have acquired basic cable rights to this significant and important documentary that sheds considerable light upon the often neglected achievements of African-Americans in motor sports.

George Bodenheimer

We've acquired wide-ranging rights to fuel all of the multimedia business of ESPN that today number over a dozen and will continue to grow.

Sean Payton

We've acquired some players because it was an area we felt like we needed to improve and whether or not it's finished there, it's probably too early to say. Some of these guys we've been able to sign we're getting a good look at now and some have more experience than others.

Carolyn Porco

We acquired this spectacular, one-of-a-kind set of images immediately after getting into orbit for the express purpose of seeing fine details in the rings that we had not seen previously.

Shaun Connolly

We acquired the rights to the technology and some key folks.

David Wood

We acquired nine properties in the neighborhood, demolished eight of them and built three new buildings in their place.

Bible Bible

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Felipe Alou

We have no control on what's going to happen. He could be acquired by another team or he could just walk away from us. That would be a setback for us, because we know he is capable of pitching well, and he could end up doing it for someone else.

Jerry Garcia

Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, One man gathers what another man spills

Guenael Rodier

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

Carlos Mencia

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

Charlize Theron

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Jeffrey Joerres

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Donald Johanson

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

Mohammad Afzal

We are not confirming it until laboratory tests come out.

Joyce Banda

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, without the True Name, all this paraphernalia shall disappear.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, you shall be saved, contemplating the True Name.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Garfield Ewings

We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.

Kofi Annan

We shall see, ... They want to end this.

L.A. Reid

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

William Kidd

If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

Al Pacino

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino

Vanity: my favorite sin.

William Shakespeare

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

William Shakespeare

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Edith Wharton

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

Edith Wharton

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

David Korten

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Edith Wharton

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

David Ricardo

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

Denis Waitley

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends.

Charles M. Schwab

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

Bob Brown

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

Anthony Trollope

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.