Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Riedl

President Bush's pledge to halve the budget deficit by 2009 distracts policymakers from the real issue of unsustainable trends in long-term entitlement spending. The president's proposal to slow Medicare's 9% annual growth rate is a good fiscal step, but the budget does not propose enough immediate and bold reforms to the quickly growing entitlement programs that threaten to overwhelm the budget.

Dominic Jones

PDF annual reports are principally useful only for printing, and sometimes for offline reference for experienced users. But they are not usable for online browsing, which is how most individual investors want to view online annual report information. Firms that post their reports only in PDF ignore the needs and preferences of most of their report users and put people off reading the report.

Eric Hyman

Our objective is to try to do this on an annual basis. We want to reconnect with our past. Our past is very important to us.

Rick Grice

(Statewide), the annual average wage and salary employment grew more than 46,000 jobs to a level nearly equal to the 2001 all-time high.

Melinda Schwartz

That cookbook quickly sold out and we've had requests for another. We thought it would be great to honor the 10th annual relay with a new cookbook.

Steven Benner

Our plan is to shoot for the goal of reaching $1 billion in total operating revenue and delivering 25 percent top- and bottom-line annual growth from now until 2010.

Peter Robertson

Our strong earnings and cash flows are enabling us to return cash to our stockholders and at the same time, fund a robust capital program, which in 2006 will be the highest annual spending in our history.

Ron Osborne

Our workshop is the only venue of its kind in the state that provides an annual forum for face-to-face training and information sharing on a wide range of emergency management topics.

David Montanye

Our budget on an annual basis this past year is $660,000. We currently have expended $400,000 over that budget.

Rebecca Kirszner

Republicans can point to the past, but they can't justify the present. It is a simple fact -- lobbying is booming under Bush. Since George Bush came to town, the number of lobbyists has doubled in Washington.

Alan Nicholl

He definitely has the hot hand right now. He's booming with confidence. He's so determined to not lose; he's willing himself to make these saves.

Jack Kingston

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

Yi Xianrong

China's booming foreign reserves can help boost economic stability with ample capital for foreign debt payment.

Jonas Prising

We may have moved away from the boom-and-bust tendencies of the past where either it's all gloom and things go down very rapidly or it's all we're booming and things are moving up very fast.

David Healy

We're off to a booming start and everybody's going to be raising their sales forecasts for the year.

Martin Yokosawa

Today's data confirmed that big industry is still booming and, of course, that lends support to the big names in that sector.

Ken Wattret

The data tells us that recovery is on its way, but it's not booming growth.

Daryl Patton

We've got three guys back there and we've got to catch the ball. In warm-ups, Pine Bluff's punter was booming them and we probably gave him too much distance. He was laying them in shorter and getting good rolls. We've got to do a better job of handling punts.

Jim Henderson

Recent economic news around the world is causing us to reassess our near-term business prospects in key international markets,

Keith Morris

(Receiving the grants) started pointing us in the right direction of the whole change process, ... If that didn't occur, I'm pretty sure we would be doing business as usual.

Rich Gadomski

Price competition and the availability of quality scanning technology have encouraged and enabled the counterfeit tape market. We are aggressively exposing this business as it may put our customers at risk and negatively impact the perception of our quality and value of our brand. It's important that companies realize that they may be contributing to the problem by selling their used tape - or by buying from un-authorized resellers and distributors.

Deane Dotson

Our rental business stays very busy. And we don't require a Visa or MasterCard.

Ken Stein

Our partnership with ADP is a true reflection of successful collaboration, resulting in increased efficiencies. ADP has turned a typical business arrangement into a successful partnership between two dedicated parties with a common goal -- to lower costs and improve service levels.

Jill Lajdziak

Our owners don't want us to lose the honesty of our brand, how we do business without haggling. But they do want a different more dramatic look and feel.

Porter Erisman

Our overall position is that it is the responsibility of every business to follow the local laws of the countries in which they operate.

Sathya Baba

Our relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love, not a business of money or materials.

Stan Marshall

Our regulated utility business, non-regulated generation business and Fortis Properties all delivered increased earnings in the third quarter,

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Kurt Kutay

Our market is national. All of us (in the industry) want to live here. We love the outdoors, and what greater place is there to live than the Pacific Northwest?

Richard Dodd

Some of the species, like the pipistrelles, are increasing, and the rarer species, which include the greater horseshoe bat, are actually stable, so we are trying to find ways to increase their populations.

Steve Phillips

Our BI system provides information that helps us seek out greater efficiency.

French Proverbs

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

Robert Teeter

We need an umbrella under which we can put all of the President's programs and end up with the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

Kevin McCarthy

I think the sooner we get it done the better off we are, the greater trust the public will have,

Steven Anderson

Larry King has been in the paper for a very long time. But we want the news to be trendier, newsier and to have greater impact than it has now.

Wesley Moultrie

It is having a much greater impact, I think, then what had been anticipated.

Debbie Ford

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Harry Reid

Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body,

Chris Taylor

The project includes signs of every possible type.

Skip Rutherford

The recipes are good, but the stories are also good, ... It includes all ranges of Clinton's life.

Chuck Hagel

Why in the world they're doing that, I don't know. You've got 90 senators out of 100 and that includes many Republicans opposed to it,

Chuck Logsdon

We have been negotiating for a process that includes some parameters that should keep us on that timeline.

Elliott Abrams

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Vicky Rideout

While many parents have used the ratings or the V-Chip, too many still don't know what the ratings mean or even that their TV includes a V-Chip.

Ali Larijani

I want to say that the process of enrichment is the sovereign right of any country. You should not take away this right from nations which have a peaceful nuclear program, which consequently, includes also enrichment.

Bernard Golden

Photo sharing, by its nature, is a high-bandwidth offering -- just the sort of Internet service that could be impacted by a lack of net neutrality.

Bill Tancer

I think there's a lot of romantics out there who use the Internet to get inspiration. People are at a loss for words.

Michael Mahoney

I think there is going to be more Internet consolidation.

Lauren Gelman

Just because we are talking about the Internet does not mean we should lose the right to speak anonymously.

James Awad

I would urge people not to speculate in the Internet sector.

Rod Lache

I think it's a smart move because it's less deceptive. People who are going on the Internet can get the right news up front.

Rob Enderle

He was an instrumental part of making the Internet happen. When your on the Web and doing shopping, say a little prayer for Scott because he's part of what got you there.

Bill Clinton

We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

Al Gore

As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet

Curt Schilling

I'd love to sit here and justify why I should throw more (on Friday). But I can't do that.

B. R. Hayden

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

Aaron Swartz

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

Harold Vogel

The question is, will there be enough new advertisers to justify the cost.

Frank Tashlin

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Blake Shelton

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

Yoshiharu Izumi

This seems to justify the Westinghouse acquisition from a strategic perspective.

John Casesa

which is a tough number to justify without tangible results.

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Bob Snyder

I'm thinking that $6000 to $10,000 is a lofty goal, but an obtainable goal.

Henry Willmore

Previously the market had taken out any risk of a second-quarter tightening by the Fed. With this statement, we see that's not a risk to be discounted.

Mark Hoffman

Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.

Oleksiy Ivchenko

Our relationship is shifting completely to a market basis.

Evan Siegel

Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.

Ethan McAfee

Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.

Ante Kostelic

Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting cabbage.

Marina Amoroso

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.

Five Live

Some of the merchandise isn't right and the market is very tough,

Leendert Staal

Our priority now, our aim, is to get 25% market share.

Judah Friedlander

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

Georgy Yartsev

People might say we didn't need this victory. I think we very much needed it. The Russian soccer needed it. Look at how many rookies we had.

Rick Halprin

People might not think it's much, but it's better than nothing.

Ed Feigenbaum

People might just have wanted to wait until they get their service back up.

Tom Parsons

People might have to stand by for one or two flights, but inconvenience to passengers should be minimal.

Victor Shum

State-owned enterprises have perhaps more options than international oil companies. Without shareholders, they can go places that might not be politically acceptable.

Felicia Brown

Some of (the children's) educational needs might not be met. You can't spend all the time that they'll need.

John Clayton

Someone might say, 'You didn't vote for him. Why should I?'

Josephine Crawford

Somehow, I'll spend it. ... I might go to Vegas.

Al Gore

Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

Douglas Rushkoff

Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

Andre Agassi

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

Bob Ross

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

Jeremy Rifkin

In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

E. B. White

It's always very rewarding to be recognized by our peers in the industry.

George Soros

The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

Garry Wills

As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer.

Frank Herbert

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Neil Baldwin

Our revenues are down about 20 percent from prior years.

E. Hicks

Over 90 percent of phones really do not really have vulnerability.

John Bradley

Over 60 percent of runners are from Utah,

Robert Straus

Right now, tech stocks are about 20 percent undervalued. While I wouldn't be surprised if some profit-taking took place, we still see a lot of upside.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

James Thrash

That's what it was, 75 percent of the offense?

Roger Clemens

I was pitching 100 percent at this time of year regardless.

Giulio Andreotti

I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.

Earl Nightingale

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

Edgar Allan Poe

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

Donald Berwick

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

Harsha Bhogle

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

Kenny Brown

We'll probably have to ration it all out to him.

Robert Friedman

You know what is going to happen. There won't be a shortage, we'll have our clinics, then we'll have a shortage. Then we'll start rationing the vaccine, and we'll end up wasting some of it at the end of the season.

Dave Stidham

We have more staff than we need. Our administration has said that. Our teacher-to-student ratio is down to about 13½ to 1.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Ben Bernanke

Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.

Debbie DeCarlo

I find myself searching faces, but they all look the same.

Matt Rosoff

MSN may want to sell search to AOL.

Nicholas Sparks

So I put out a search for him,

Daunte Culpepper

We don't have to search for a different personality. We just have to do what we do.

Corey Thacker

We've done a lot of soul searching throughout the year. We had to find out who we really were as a team.

Victoria de los Angeles

To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

Chris Grinde

To go zone was just kind of searching to see. We were searching for something to be a little better.

Arkady Volozh

We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

Made Pastika

We want to search things that may be overlooked. We need to search and re-search again.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Jim Cramer

I got a subpoena because I said that a stock was going lower.

Richard Jaffe

If we don't see Pressler departing, the stock treads water.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,

Brunello Cucinelli

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

Joseph Lisanti

We like it even though the stock has been weak recently.

Robert D. Hare

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

Bill Hamilton

Our viewpoint is that this (opinion) is a total side-step of the will of the people.

Kevin Buckler

R.J. is better this year than ever. He's the total package.

Kevin Krewell

The 1-GHz was a total win for AMD.

Mark Chapman

I was under total compulsion, ... Dateline NBC.

Colleen Schreier

I was throbbing. (My hand) was totally swollen.

John Ashton

I am amazed. This is totally different from where we usually go.

David Bryan

He is partially right and partially wrong, but mainly, he is totally wrong.

Murray Walker

I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Julius Baer

(It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.

Jamelah Leddy

I think there's a lot of value there.

Kathryn Reith

That was only some coolers, so the value was pretty minimal. That has to be done over again.

Sean Bersell

It has always been about value and convenience.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Heather Brooke

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Roy Blunt

This report's only of value if we use it in a positive, forward-looking way, and not try to get into meaningless blaming, who could have done what when; now that it doesn't matter, ... American Morning.