Pare Quotations

In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with your strategy in mind. The worst mistake is to cut across the board. Instead, reconnect and recommit to a clear strategy that will distinguish yourself from others.

Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it's five sentences - that's me. I like to pare away words because I don't want to waste anyone's time.

The potential for additional gains for stocks is limited given that we've had such a good run-up. We've been telling people to pare back a bit and reduce equity holdings.

What he did today was to make a very prudent business decision, ... With the tax base decimated for the next six to seven months ...(the city) has lost its basic revenue streams and customer base. You've got to pare down to a basic core and rebuild incrementally.

So I think we'll see the coalition forces being able to pare down,

Positioning is against the euro. As we get into the weekend, the markets may start to pare back some of that pessimism. The market is a bit short of euros. There could be some short covering, which could benefit the single currency.

We had a team that had a high payroll and we were able to pare it down,

As conditions on the ground there permit and require, obviously the commanders on the ground will recommend that coalition forces and US forces pare down as responsibility is transferred to Iraqis,

As companies get bigger, they are looking for efficiencies, they pare down internal resources and they get less personal with their consumers.

Australian consumers will have to tighten their budgets, spend less at the shopping mall and attempt to pare back existing debt.

It's a question of how long you've owned it. If you've owned it from 1997 levels, maybe you own from $30 a share post splits. And if that's the case, you want to take a look at how much money did I have invested in Microsoft two, three, or four years ago, how much money do I have invested in Microsoft now, and maybe pare it back a little due to the uncertainty.

It's always difficult to pare down so many books. There's only room for five on the raft. So there was give and take. There has to be compromise, but it was very amicable. We had a fair degree of consensus. And we're happy with the choices. We think these five books represent the best of Canadian fiction this year.

It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp.

No knock against them. When you have such fine players, it was a difficult job to pare down. We're pleased to have them on the provisional roster, in case something happens and we need to replace guys.

I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien.

In order to have a better chance for success on this referendum, we needed to pare it back to just critical needs.

Clearly there are signs that we are going to see a much less rosy picture in capital investment, and we're certainly in a bear market in technology. I would expect many investors still have not been able to pare back their exposure to technology to the degree that many would like to.

This has caused some traders to pare down their positions and re-evaluate their exposure. However there seems to be little lack of new buying on significant dips in the market.

The company, taken in its entirety, is a very large, unfocused conglomerate and they've been trying to pare things down over the last few years. They are going to have to prove to the market that they are focusing on core brands that are going to grow.