Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Scott

Or if you have one store manager that makes a bad decision, is that indicative that that is somehow what your company represents? No.

Wilson Greatbatch

Our nuclear fission reactors operate like a slow A bomb, splitting heavy plutonium or uranium atoms into smaller elements and giving off power.

Kevin Rollins

Our mindset always says it's not how big the market is but how profitable it can be as the key determiner of whether or not we want to be in it.

Art Rooney

Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I.

Jim Barksdale

Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important.

Phil Knight

Our business practices are no different than those of our competitors, but we are bigger, and thus more visible, so we get more flack.

Saddam Hussein

Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon.

Jim Barksdale

We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.

Jim Barksdale

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

Chris Parker

Reform is needed, especially in the U.S., to curb the excessive litigation costs .

Ike Skelton

Our military's unmet needs are at record levels. We are seeing the costs and strains of sustaining a military at war.

Cal Jillson

People know we're running huge deficits and they know the costs have just rocketed upward. Many Americans are now looking at the Iraq situation in that context.

D. James

Steel costs are expected to increase another 20 percent this month alone.

Colleen Kelley

Staggering increases in the price of gas are having serious ripple effects throughout the economy and forcing employees to dip into their own packets to cover the costs of fuel. This is an untenable situation for these workers.

John Caudwell

Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.

Michael Gray

Some funds might not start up because they perceive these costs as being too high.

Pat Stewart

Our productivity is way up and costs have gone way down.

Kazuo Okamoto

Our goal is to reduce the costs of gasoline-hybrids, get a lot of people driving them, and then think about diesel-hybrids.

Warde Manuel

Reggie didn't come in with the same credentials. But more than me and more than Turner, Reggie has earned his accolades.

Michael Metz

Regardless of what the Fed does today, I think that maximum monetary stimulation throughout the world is over. We are seeing the low point of interest rates throughout the world. The next move will be upward. Moreover, I think the earnings momentum for the markets is eroding as well.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Ralph Acampora

Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate price.

Doug Bruno

Our players have earned the right to have the stage here in Chicago.

Josef Ackermann

Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-digit earnings per share growth.

Robert Campbell

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Mike Holland

People have been worried for the last several quarters that earnings were going to slow down. If in fact they don't slow down and if it looks as if there's no resumption of inflation ... it'll be interesting to see how people respond to that.

Erik Kimrey

Steven's a guy who has worked hard and has earned more playing time. That was a key play in the game, no question.

Scott Ostler

Play it straight, come out with the simple truth: He was abducted by space aliens, taken aboard their flying saucer and subjected to various probes.

Kyle Williams

We need something normal. Helicopters flying over the stadium is not normal.

Samantha Perez

I was able to fly in a plane for the first time and see a snow flurry.

Robbie Grinestaff

I was just trying to hit it hard somewhere. I know they wanted a fly ball, but once I got two strikes on me I just wanted to put it in play.

Ken Hamlin

I was just pumped up. Guys were making plays. You could tell guys were flying around and really trying to get it done.

Scott Brison

I think there's too much testosterone flying around that caucus,

Kenji Johjima

That was the one situation we didn't want to see. I went to the mound because Jarrod was flying open and his pitches were sailing.

Wayne Gandy

Like I tell everybody, ... if you have to get on a plane and fly anywhere, you're not at home.

David Howell

It doesn't worry me that I fly under the radar over here,

Kirby Behre

Koenig would be right in the thick of all public statements made to the investing public.

Debra Smith

I think it is terrific to see people investing in our youth.

John Canavan

If yields are rising over there, they provide a better investing opportunity.

Francisco Blanch

There are better ways of investing in commodities than the indexes.

Jake Brace

We are judiciously taking money and investing it in the high-value customer, and at the same time we are not spending any more than we have to on the low-value customer.

Dan Miller

Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

Brad Hintz

When you are investing in J. P. Morgan,

Ken Stern

We need to do a lot more saving and investing on our own,

Steve Ridder

We think we are way better shooters than that. So we've been investing a lot more time on that in practice.

Audrey Singer

Paying for it now is going to pay off later.

Ryan Holmes

Payfirma has revolutionized the payment process, consolidating mobile, e-commerce and in-store payments under a single solution, much like HootSuite did for social media.

Michael Griffin

pay as you go and what you can afford.

Juergen Peters

Pay talks have now become a pay-related workers' movement.

Reuben Brewer

People need to be careful. See what you're paying for the perk.

Phil Angelides

People making under $100,000 are going to be paying more,

Bob Cummins

Our products are not cheap. But people are willing to pay for our products because they know they're getting quality.

Danny Dotson

Overall, I thought the report was positive. I did think there were some misconceptions. Hispanics do pay taxes. If they are paying rent, they are paying property taxes indirectly.

Rafael Benitez

We never wanted to pay more for a player than his value,

Tony Rose

Our philosophy was to not let her get the ball, and we did. If she got the ball, we didn't want to let her get it off, and we did. We had no one who could stop her.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

B. F. Skinner

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom.

Bhagat Singh

...as I reject the old time beliefs, it is not a matter of countering belief with belief, rather I can challenge the efficacy of old beliefs with sound arguments. We believe in nature and that human progress depends on the domination of man over nature. There is no conscious power behind it. This is our philosophy.

C. S. Lewis

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

C. S. Lewis

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

C. S. Lewis

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

C. S. Lewis

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Olli Jokinen

We need points right now, and we can't keep throwing them away.

Scott Ashley

I want to win. If I have to score 50 points to win, I'll do that.

Ed Wade

I think there were probably points in time where a vote of confidence, if it was coming, would have come and didn't, ... I'm not naive. To say the least, I'm disappointed.

Vince Carter

I think turnovers were key, on top of them getting points off our turnovers. That was the big thing.

Valentino Castellani

For years we have been working on this ceremony, it will be one of the most important turning points of the Games.

Joe Filoteo

I would tell here to spot us 10 points before I play her. They're tough.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Mark Stone

For us to start the day with 18 points is a pretty big deal.

Scott Dalton

He scored 28 points for us at the state meet.

Raymond House

River property is at a premium right now. But now, with a new judge's ruling, we don't know where we stand.

Brad Haley

We want to be about premium quality and premium prices.

Roustam Tariko

When you have premium brands, you have to have the right balance of communicating all of your values.

Patrick Whitesell

We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.

Ross Levinsohn

Yahoo! is committed to building the richest set of premium and personalized content experiences for our users.

Stevie Wonder

In a time where racism was at a premium high,

Andy Engel

This year is the first time since 1983-84 that small stocks have traded at a premium to big stocks.

Gary Player

They've got to do it -- there's not even a debate, ... There must be a premium on driving.

Christine Whitman

by putting a premium on his beliefs, not a price on his bedroom.

Bill Harris

Our Quicken product had the most profitable season in its 15-year history,

John Shanahan

I think there's a lot of product swapping going on now.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Chris Bosh

That's what I'm trying to see, we're trying to wait for the smoke to clear, and see the product from all of this.

Henry Scott

I think this could be a $1 billion-a-year-drug and is the kind of product Pfizer needs.

Al Rauch

I think most of the biotech products are going to be safe for the rest of the decade.

Rebecca Lindland

It doesn't seem to me that now is the time to play around with product names.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Myles Munroe

Trust is a product of test over time.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Amy Gabriel

We have to be able to provide these services.

Andrew Krepinevich

If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.

Gary Bartlett

If they provide some information, they may not have to come.

Andy Brandt

If we can go out and provide a spark for our team, then we feel like we're doing on our job.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Bill Spencer

There's just not enough of us. There's just not a whole lot of revenue to be made off of taxes, in my view.

Bill Simon

If we wait for conditions to go from good to perfect, we'll just be waiting, waiting, waiting.

Carrie Fisher

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Carrie Fisher

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

Carrie Fisher

Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.

Carrie Underwood

I'm always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I've been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan.

Carl Sagan

How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

Carl Sagan

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

Carl Sagan

We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.

Carl Sagan

It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not. ...