Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Tallent

Our operating efficiency ratio of 58.80% for the quarter is within our long-term efficiency goal of 58% to 60%, reflecting the success of our recent expansion efforts and the continued strength of our existing franchise.

James Lardner

Suddenly the already wealthy were reaping all the benefits. While other stories held our attention, that trend continued for 30 years.

David Cutcliffe

Steven has had a really good spring. From Day 1, even when we were out there in shorts, his demeanor was what you want in a football player. He has worked extremely hard and has continued to improve every week and every practice.

Greg Stuart

Our prognosis for a continued and steady recovery is being realized and the outlook remains bright.

Steven Bangert

Our placement on the list reflects the continued strength of our earnings over the past decade, and we have every intention of earning a spot on the Honor Roll for many years to come.

Hunter Harrison

Our performance reflected continued productivity improvements ... and a relentless focus on cost control that produced a record first-quarter operating ratio of 66.2 per cent.

Tom Ryan

Our results were driven by a combination of strong top-line growth, continued expense control and improved gross margin performance that reflects the smallest decline we have seen in nearly three years,

Steven Rogel

Our results reflect the strong U.S. housing market and continued unsettled world markets for pulp, paper and packaging products.

John Reed

Our results in the quarter were good in the face of continued pressure on our margins and pricing, and an increasingly competitive environment in virtually all markets,

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.

Ibrahim Jaafari

Regarding the sort of federalism and its details, he thinks that federalism is not obligated to anything other than being general.

James Frederick

Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.

Bill Dudley

Past transitions at the Fed have often been accompanied by volatile financial markets.

George Grace

Some people are mad that I 'let' the federal government set up this operation in the town, ... I didn't really have a choice.

Brian Garvey

That could lead the Fed to soften their statement tomorrow.

Zach Lund

Our federation has been through hell these last few weeks. We need to get past all this and start to think only about the Olympics for a little while.

David Strow

Our company, and really the gaming industry as a whole, complies with federal law on hiring.

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

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.

Paul Carvel

Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion.

James Cornish

People look at it in a negative way. It shows things were worse than we thought they were.

Nick Kinsella

People who say 'I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist' are actually just negative people who think they are always right.

Barry Mann

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Ed White

I think the signs, so far, are not negative any longer.

Grace Fey

I think the worry is they are going to say something negative about the third quarter.

Jim Bryson

That story should be negative for the rand.

Hemant Shah

That's a very big negative overhang on the drug sector.

Patrick Newport

It isn't very much but it's the first negative in 10 years. That's the big difference.

John Romano

One will get more than what they originally bargained for, I guess.

Cheech Marin

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Julie Regan

We were originally scheduled to present it, but we need more time. We're still writing it.

Andy Weir

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Donald Rupe

It was originally more like a concert. We've turned it into a theatrical production.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

John Prendergast

Sudan policy has run off the road into a ditch.

Lindsey Tippins

I think administration has said, 'Well, we got to do that because that's what the policy says.' I don't think that's what the policy says.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Andrew Smith

Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here.

Colin Lee

Jody is very, very disappointed with his reaction

Kate Warne

I think in Toronto we're seeing reaction to the Lucent pre-announcement with Nortel, which is down,

Keith Mitchell

His reaction is a little different. That's one of the reasons he's trying to go after some of those balls. Sometimes you have to know where your infield is.

Rob Blake

He's been great. He's a reaction goalie and he's been on since Day 1 through the whole season. He's a reason their team is up so high.

Martin Wright

He was just standing there -- there was no reaction from him,

Larry Ellison

My first reaction is not if I live to a thousand years. But who knows?

Don Carty

My first reaction is it could have been a lot worse than it was.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, my reaction to that is it's sad.

Bryant H. McGill

Once you realize what you really are, you cannot be stopped.

Brian Lumley

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

Baruch Spinoza

Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.

Bjorn Lomborg

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context.

Billy Graham

Psychaiatrist realize that there are curative powers in confession.

Amelia Earhart

In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful break was apt to lurk just around the corner.

Claire Danes

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.