Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Zandi

Reintroducing a little uncertainty in the bond market would be desirable. Long-term rates are too low,

Jameer Nelson

Our record doesn't reflect the kind of team that we have right now. We're playing really well, we're bonding and we're sharing the ball.

John Roberts

Part of the reason we're holding on is that so many guys are overexposed to the corporate bond market, any cash they have they're putting to work in governments.

Mike Scioscia

Paul stayed in Chicago for very important reasons, and I respect that. He felt a huge connection with that organization. He blossomed into a star there, and his bond with the city and fans was very strong. He would have been an incredible fit for us, but I respect the reasons he stayed in Chicago.

Steven Wright

Our modelling suggest bond yields should rise in line with the US by at least 1 per cent. The X factor remains any flow-on effect from petrol prices.

Don Long

People haven't heard that (reassessment) mentioned as a consideration in this bond referendum.

Doug Flynn

Stay away from short-term or long-term bond funds. These will do poorly in a rising interest-rate environment.

Peggy Furusaka

Spreads on Sanyo's bonds will probably stay high. Our uncertainty has heightened substantially towards Sanyo's management, corporate governance, financial accountability and the possibility of another major downward revision.

Yasunari Ueno

Some investors bought back Japanese government bonds in a knee-jerk reaction to the comments from Fukui.

Kevin Magee

Our radio shows are scattered on satellite, and we decided to consolidate them under the Fox brand. XM was extremely interested and wanted to do it before the Christmas buying season.

Amy Cutts

Part of the purchasing decision for buying a house is an expectation of what housing prices are going to do in the future. It's true that houses are getting more and more expensive, but people are increasing their wealth in ways we haven't seen in a while.

Sandy McCullough

People have spent 10 years buying food here. We can spend one night giving it back.

Paul Parker

People like to feel they are buying of their own good judgment as a result of the information the salesman has given them

Floyd Keith

People of color need to start shopping and buying at institutions that value, promote and reflect inclusion and diversity. Student-athletes of color need to start making decisions to play where it is most likely they will have a fair and equitable opportunity to coach.

Jan Leroy

Steel stocks are cheaply valued, they're cyclical, they're very well known for their capital destruction during downturns. Now instead of increasing capacity, they're buying capacity or buying competitors.

Hiroichi Nishi

Steelmakers may see more buying on the back of higher reported profits.

Sam Stovall

Some of the restaurant companies are doing exceptionally well and I think demographics, longer term, are going to indicate that more people are going to be buying their food outside the home, rather than preparing it inside the home,

George Pipas

Some of the feedback we got was there was less traffic, but people who were there were people there buying cars and trucks.

Christina Guerland

Rebecca stepped into a really difficult situation, and she did a phenomenal job. They really struggled with her.

Marlon Defillo

Our police officers are working under some very trying times. So it's a difficult time, but it doesn't excuse what our jobs are supposed to be.

Patrick Norman

Our music is something you have to hear. It's always difficult to describe. It's with our own slant, but it's rock 'n' roll nonetheless.

Lawrence Yun

People have been saying that for 20 years. But in San Francisco, it's very difficult to build, so there's a supply constraint. Seattle is also encountering a supply-constraint situation.

Lee Hunter

People later sent me hours of video and newspaper clippings of it, but I haven't look at them since. It was such a difficult weekend.

Lewis Altfest

People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult time saving because they have the most overhead expenses.

Pavan Duggal

Such rules have proved to be ineffective and enjoy little support on the ground. It is also very difficult to implement them.

Mike Halpert

Spring is oftentimes very difficult to forecast. Tomorrow it might snow and a weekend ago, it was 85.

Valentino Rossi

Starting from the third row will make life difficult tomorrow as it will be hard to overtake,

Michael Thomas

Recent events overseas have probably elevated the global economy to the top of the RBA's risk list,

Jason Schultz

Really, ... what we're talking about here is the U.S. struggling to find its place in an economy where the labor markets are just so vastly different.

Andrew Rudnick

Our relatively strong economy is showing itself in the real estate market.

James Fiorillo

Part of the problem to the ailing economy of Japan is the sloppy hiring practices in the 1980s.

Don Brunell

Our members (are) unified around the fact that without workers who are presently here, our economy is in trouble.

Doug Myers

People here are selling stocks. The GDP report might have been sort of a catalyst. Some people think the economy is either not slowing down enough or slowing down too much. In my time, I don't recall any soft landing.

Doug Myers

People here are selling stocks, ... The GDP report might have been sort of a catalyst. Some people think the economy is either not slowing down enough or slowing down too much. In my time, I don't recall any soft landing.

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Ron Lehman

Sustained job growth speaks well for Texas employers and the Texas economy.

Marshall Strickland

I think the key at this point of the season is to keep improving. Keep expanding your game.

Rahm Emanuel

Here in Illinois it's known as Kid Care, and I talked about expanding it to family care. So if you work full- time, you get health care.

Richard Preston

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

Chris Byrne

If it's a way of expanding toys into a year-long business, then electronics and furnishings make sense,

Patricia Sun

I always say that it's much more powerful to be good than to be right. Why? Because good guides us in moving towards that which is good. Being right makes a deadlock, an enemy, and it sucks us down from expanding our perception. It also frightens the other person and makes the position more stubborn.

Ned Yost

He had very good stuff. He had an outstanding (split-finger fastball). He's working one expanding (his strike zone) a little bit.

Atul Chand

There is a huge big thing happening so we are obviously looking at expanding our retail presence.

Paula Otto

Media General has been very successful in expanding its reach through strategic purchases.

Nedra Turney

So far, we're opening no new shelters. We're just expanding where we are.

Shinzo Abe

Regarding the abduction issue, the Japanese side said what they needed to say in a considerably firm manner,

Timothy Flynn

KPMG is a better and stronger firm today, having learned much from the experience.

Ivo Sanader

It is not true and I firmly reject it,

Ma Jun

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

Kara Swisher

I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.

Michael Arrington

I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments.

J. Taylor

happened to occupy the same law firm office as former Vice President Nixon.

Kevin Blemkin

There are still refinery issues. The market is going to remain firm in the medium-term until we see that the stockpiles are there.

Jim Collins

I feel sorry for Microsoft. If you want to hire a firm that is going to do a job better than any law firm in the country, you go to Keker & Van Nest.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Dodge

Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Mark Batey

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Ken McCarthy

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Bill Crawford

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

C. S. Lewis

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

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,

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Mickey Loomis

We've had firsthand reports that it's a mess.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Bob Bennett

The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Sukarno

I am very unhappy about reports that I was seeking asylum in Manila.