Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Chipchase

Many retail stores have consumer trackers that study how long your eyes linger on one product, whether you follow it through by touch, and things that you buy. You can redesign things on a shelf, all by tracking such information.

H. Hart

Many consumers have made a significant investment in DVD libraries.

Joe Ridout

Many consumers have discovered that customer service can be a misnomer. The first person you encounter on the phone maze may not be the most helpful.

Van Baker

Many consumers are uncomfortable trying to figure out how to print envelopes on their printers. And the alternative of printing the postage on the letter itself requires a window envelope, which most consumers are not using.

Matthew Adams

Many consumers are moving away from three core meals because they are skipping meals out of necessity. Some consumers are instead eating only when hungry, and eating more frequent meals of smaller portion size.

Dan Levitan

Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

Duncan Davie

Senator Seward thinks it's particularly wrong for consumers to be paying so much tax on gas when they're already paying record profits to the big oil companies.

Emme Kozloff

September sales were surprisingly resilient in the face of significantly higher gasoline prices. While this is reassuring, the question remains: 'How long can the consumer maintain the current spending rate given expectations for continued pressure from energy prices?

David Carey

Semiconductor manufacturers have to predict the market. They have to think like their customers and take their own read on consumer interest.

Frank Armstrong

Lower costs will give you higher net returns. I think cost is critically important.

Koji Endo

Mazda is gaining on new models that are selling really well, lower production costs from platforms shared with Ford, and the weaker yen,

Tina Lange

Medical costs are rising significantly, so the fact that we offered a zero percent increase was substantial.

Sen. Bray

My impression from what has happened in other states is that student-loan costs have definitely gone up.

Robert Steidl

Nestlings probably suffered the highest energetic costs from disturbances because of their dependence on adults for food.

Pat Burns

One incentive is that energy costs are pretty low up here.

Scott Matthews

No one knows what the environmental costs of messing up the existing infrastructure will be.

Tim Jackson

Now the overhead for running dealerships has grown so much, it costs a lot more to operate all those franchises. If you're lucky, you're making a 1.5 percent to 3 percent profit.

John Conway

We had a very solid first quarter and are pleased with our performance. This is particularly true given the rapid increase in raw material prices and costs that we experienced.

David Packard

Lew was such a straightforward and honest guy. The employees loved him.

Michael W. Smith

No one is trying to terminate employees for expressing public opinion.

Dustin Moskovitz

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

Paul Tobias

Future employees at the moment of hire don't negotiate, don't hire a lawyer, don't tamper with those clauses, don't even read them. They're interested only in the money. They'll sign anything.

Tom Reilly

When you'd come by there were more offices and people didn't know where to go. Employees can look out the window and see what's going on. Now we stop someone from standing around for 10 minutes, wondering what's going on.

Svein Riibe

Since we only had a few employees then, it was a cost-effective option for us rather than getting our own e-mail server solution.

Curtis Gray

I didn't mind talking about it. It showed there needs to be better security at convenience stores, and to the employees working the third shift an idea that it might happen to them.

Stephen Jones

I don't know which employees he's been talking to - I suspect the senior managers on generous severance packages. This is the wrong plan for Telstra and the wrong plan for Australia.

Ian Morrison

I don't know of any president of any corporation in the western world that has locked out his employees five times in the last five years.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Craig Venter

Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.

Renee Ellmers

Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.

Susan Ferguson

More rural states tend to have higher fatalities.

Marie Wilson

More women should be running for higher office. This is just a straw poll, but it makes people think about putting a woman in the White House.

Alderman Mokros

Now we are looking at a higher price.

Ed Slott

Now the IRS fees are higher than mine.

Doug Davis

We might be in for a pause after the recent gains. We're waiting to see when rising interest rates have an impact. Higher rates in the U.S. are the key -- if the U.S. falters, the rest of the world will falter, too.

Tony Fadell

Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead.

Duncan King

There are so many more mergers going on now.

Angela Braly

We get talent and scale from mergers.

Edward Menashy

It has been another storming day with plenty of mergers and acquisitions activity.

Patrice Solaro

The time of big mergers is over, for the moment, but we can see more strategic alliances of the Renault and Nissan kind.

Guy Moszkowski

Mergers and acquisitions have been very strong and produced a lot of ancillary financing.

Jim Valentine

These mergers are messy. They take a long time to do. That's why you don't want to own that name during a deal.

Earl Comstock

These mergers are a big step toward recreating the old AT&T monopoly that the Reagan administration courageously dismantled.

Carly Fiorina

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

Bubba Tyer

Luckily, there were no problems with his shoulder at all.

Jeff Berman

I feel sorry for George. He's a troubled person. He seemed to have some psychological problems.

Johnny Smith

For years, we have had problems with the water down here. But nothing has ever been done about it.

Peter Ashkenaz

From everything we've seen, those problems are in the past.

Alyce Wiedner

We've never had an argument. We've never had any problems.

Peter Beutel

One of the big problems is that it seems there's no supply to see us through the end of the year.

Jim Mora

I wouldn't say we let down our fans, but we wanted to go 9-7 and get rid of that 40-year problems we've had. We didn't get that done.

Robert Hartman

I would have some real problems with going back and recovering the money.

M. Thompson

She understands the problems we have up here. I know she doesn't have the solutions, but she's willing to look for them. I'm a supporter - 100 percent. One thousand percent.

Alexandra Adornetto

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.

Jim Fuller

Megan was also another one that kind of got run to death.

Scott Bakula

My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

Steve Prefontaine

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Brian Calhoun

Obviously, I'm a running back and I wanted to play running back and they had different plans, which is fine. It was just time to split ways.

Marcel Shipp

When you're a running back on this team, you have to take that personal.

Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

Ludwig von Mises

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

Jerome Groover

We had been working with them all summer. Mostly, we wanted to work on their speed. They know what they need to run. They have to run a 14.5 if they think they are going to state.

J. M. Roberts

Yeah. That's the right way to spell it.

Tom Dougherty

We'll have a little warm spell for the weekend. And it should be dry.

Alexandra Robbins

If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail,

Winnie Pooh

Piglet: "Pooh, how do you spell love?" Pooh: "You don't spell it, you feel it.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Somehow, a scrubbed house spells a fresh start.

Jeff Blauser

We're just going through a spell right now where things aren't going our way.

Anthony Marra

I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

Michael Gambon

There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.

Mark Twain

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

Alexandra Adornetto

Don't worry, Beth; there's nothing I love more than a challenge.

Randy Edsall

We won't have to worry about that this week.

Stan Heath

We won?t have to worry about presses any more.

Dennis Prager

You're 'wealthy' if you don't worry

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

Eleanor Clift

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

Edward Abbey

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

Deepak Chopra

The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich.

Dominic Cooper

You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.