Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Williams

I'm still kind of baffled as to why we haven't been at the top of the league.

James Gleick

I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.

P. J. O'Rourke

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

Benito Mussolini

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Tim Kirby

We were all kind of baffled by the 200 number.

Ross Baker

He obviously has to offer some words of reassuring to people on Medicare who've been baffled by the prescription drug program and encourage them to hang in.

Benoit Mandelbrot

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

James Hudson

We're still baffled as to where it came from,

Paul Brooks

They baffled us. We try to simulate the zone in practice, but I guess we can't do it as well as they can.

Michael Osterholm

Recent clinical, epidemiological and laboratory evidence suggests that the impact of a pandemic caused by the current H5N1 strain would be similar to that of the 1918-19 pandemic,

Phil Dow

Rebuilding in the Gulf Coast will be a major focus following the destruction caused by hurricanes in the region. This is yet another demonstration of how resilient the economy has been since Sept. 11, 2001.

Pankaj Mishra

Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.

Larry Craig

Our letter has caused movement, but I'm not sure where that movement will lead.

Doug McCrary

Our pressure got to them. Our press caused them some trouble." ()

Dean Rahas

Our pressure forced them to make some mistakes. We were able to jump to a 10-0 start with our pressure. We also caused them to take a lot of contested shots.

David Trimble

Our view is that the review should be tightly focused on something -- that is, focused on the key issues that have caused the difficulties, primarily on decommissioning and also on the question of devolution,

Alan Williamson

rise in inflationary pressures caused by higher energy prices.

George Miller

Republican leaders are shamelessly exploiting the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the disruption it caused to our energy supplies to promote their long-sought radical energy policy ... (and) devastate vast amounts of America's most prized environmental possessions,

Charles Pradilla

I think the market is struggling from the Enron affair.

Charlie Munger

Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using accounting for fraud and folly is a disgrace. In a democracy, it often takes a scandal to trigger reform. Enron was the most obvious example of a business culture gone wrong in a long, long time.

Alex Gibney

I remember when I did my Enron film, my executive producers at the time felt very strongly that I should mock the Enron executives more viciously because everybody wanted that moment.

Sherron Watkins

In the beginning, Enron looked good on paper,

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.

John Sweeney

I've been hearing more workers -- including former Enron workers -- say they now wish they'd had a union.

David Hawkins

Telecom is where people thought the next Enron was going to be, and they weren't disappointed.

Joan Johnson

As of today, it's as if Enron had never happened.

Jay Inslee

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Jeff Cheah

Stabilizing ... that is the key word that investors are reacting to.

Grant Wilson

Japanese investors are still looking to put some money to work overseas. We're still seeing those flows.

Lara Rhame

That's the nightmare that keeps a lot of investors up at night -- but I just don't think that scenario is realistic.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

Craig Callahan

Most people want stocks to go up all the time. We're back to normal and people don't like it, ... Investors that don't have the patience to ride through trading ranges won't be able to participate in the surge.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.