Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lori Lucas

Our findings show that too many workers are not looking at their 401(k) savings as long-term in nature but are instead using termination of employment as an opportunity to spend this money,

David Sax

Restaurant industry sales in 2011 are estimated to have reached a record high of $604 billion, up 3.6 percent from 2010. Restaurant employment grew 1.9 percent in 2011, with some 230,000 jobs added, the strongest gain in five years.

John Silvia

Manufacturing output is up, yet employment in the manufacturing sector is down. This result suggests that the firms are producing more in the U.S., but doing it with fewer workers.

Eugene Volokh

I t is a normal part of the employment process to evaluate one's subordinates.

Ichiro Ozawa

Lifetime employment and seniority systems are indeed the safety net of Japanese society.

Stephen Roberts

It does take a lot of pressure off the Reserve Bank. It's hard to get persistent inflation without wages pressure, and hard to get wages pressure with employment easing.

Linda Howard

I have found employment documentation that was totally falsified -- that includes pay stubs and W2s,

Alan Meltzer

Greenspan showed that you can have long periods of full employment without inflation.

John Mitchell

Growth would be higher, inflation would be lower (and) employment would be higher, if we didn't have these energy prices. But it hasn't been a deal-breaker.

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.

Ron Vos

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Mark Waggoner

Supplies really aren't a problem. Consumption over the holidays is usually a little higher than normal but production has been keeping up.

Alan Greenspan

Such an increase in market value is too often viewed by market participants as structural and permanent, ... To some extent, those higher values may be reflecting the increased flexibility and resilience of our economy.

Justin Lane

Some of the higher peaks I would imagine could see 2 1/2 feet.

Satish Kumar

Some of our standards are higher than the U.S.

Karen Johnson

Our prices are 18 percent higher that they were this time last year.

Rhonda Rompola

Our RPI has to get higher for any tournament play.

Bill Cooke

Our attrition rate is not higher than last year but it is higher than we would like.

William Ross

Right there, there is not that much inventory for that kind of property. Because of a lack of availability, what you get is higher prices.

John Prescott

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.

Jay Speer

People who live in higher-cost housing markets are really hurting.

E. Hicks

We never (talked about) housing because we thought it was too much of a hurdle.

Carl Brown

I think the spike in permits, in retrospect, should have been somewhat predictable. But the strength of the housing market throughout the year was surprising.

Ariel Sharon

It is an old project launched by Ariel Sharon when he was housing minister nearly 15 years ago,

Jeff Neal

It is my understanding that the housing in Middletown is privately owned and managed. It is not owned or managed by the state of Rhode Island.

S. Hughes

I think it will be considerably more. The way housing is, it doesn't matter who you market it to.

Anthony Chan

I would say that momentum (in the housing market) probably will not continue, since you don't see the same strength in permits that you do in construction,

Jeff Jones

Basically, what it means is we have a jobs to housing imbalance in the area,

Peter Johnson

Price increases there are at a more modest level which looks much more sustainable,

Adams Oshiomhole

Our traditional method of striking has not resolved the problem of price increases and other socio-political problems in Nigeria.

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Kim Beazley

It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.

Robert Toll

Since Katrina, instead of going up $5,000 or $10,000 every week or two, we have been limited to no price increases or very limited price increases,

Anthony Burke

We're seeing tremendous increases each year in the number of taxpayers e-filing their returns from home.

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Chris Neal

We don't like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.

David Martin

Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia -- where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief -- it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

Stephen Gallagher

Reduced liquidity in the markets is likely to result in a wider swap spread.

Mark Collins

I think this particular time, it's more likely we'll be successful.

Ben Halliburton

I think we are likely to remain in a trading range for some time.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Sen. Nass

It is likely to not be successful when we come back in January. This is a promise that may not be kept.

Scott Provancher

It is likely that we will not get all the way to our end of the season.

Gennaro Castaldo

I think come the weekend it is quite likely that retailers will be sold out and will be waiting for the next allocation.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.

Mike Ross

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

Shari Brill

Moderate successes are good, because if they do better than the shows they replaced, it's still a success for the networks.

Marc Johnson

Moderate strategies in the past had moderate results.

Gijs de Vries

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

Barton Gellman

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

Hanna Rosin

Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

Steven Wood

Any slowing in sales will reveal moderate overbuilding.

Lucy Jones

Northridge was a moderate earthquake, and it wasn't an urban hit; it was a suburban hit.

Carl Tobias

Specter is the key, and then it comes down to moderate Republicans and where we were in May.

David Dreman

Stay in the stock market, in the oil sector.

Carl Pope

We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Carl Pope

We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

Carl Pope

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Michael Foster

I think more people need to be doing it. There's a lot of oil that's going to waste pretty much.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Ben Holmes

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Scott Davis

I wish there were just a big pool of oil all around the world, and we could just tap into it. It doesn't work that way.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Juergen Michels

That will probably keep the ECB waiting until September, rather than going for a rate rise, as a done deal, every quarter.

Roni Java

That's a very respectable rate for a rural county. We know they're trying to reach 50.

Jill Dougherty

I think one of the misconceptions is that it is fatal. If it's detected early, the five-year survival rate is 95%.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Astro Teller

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Nicholas Burns

We're just going to reserve any kind of commendation for the Belgrade government.

Elizabeth Warren

If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.

Michael Callahan

We always reserve the right to get better.

Pete Domenici

Would we say the (oil) reserves in Texas are irrelevant? ... I don't think so.

Bob Gainey

We'll have to look to our reserves for help.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Karen Rafalowitz

There are a lot of thoughts right now on what we can do. There's just not as much manpower.

Milan Mandaric

My thoughts are now and always will be with George,

Don Cooper

My thoughts are here, and I want to be here, ... I want to win this now, here. That's my only focus.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Charles Godfrey Leland

Thought is the measure of life.

Grant Wistrom

We all have a lot of thoughts about it. We'll keep it to ourselves. We'll wait until we play Phoenix.