Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Hong

Many core MBA accounting courses more vigorously attack issues of ethical dilemmas and awareness in accounting. And many courses help users of financial information unearth inconsistencies and potential accounting red flags.

Anne Edwards

Mr. Crafts' report was nothing but an accounting exercise. It doesn't show anything about proportionality or uniformity of the property tax system in New Hampshire,

Elizabeth Selvin

Men who reported being physically active were much less likely to have ED compared to men who reported no daily physical activity. Similarly, men who reported being sedentary - measured by hours of daily television viewing and video and computer use - were much more likely to have ED, even after accounting for other risk factors.

Kevin Downey

No credible analysis of an accounting failure would suggest that the appropriate role of the chief executive officer was to substitute his own accounting judgments for those of the professionals.

John Mackey

My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.

Thomas McInerney

Obviously the final accounting is yet to come, (but) we do think we're actually going to see profits decline year over year.

Rosa Parks

When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.

Michael Hecht

Given the company's prior accounting and regulatory issues, this is likely to have a meaningful negative impact on the stock today.

Stephen Cutler

For Xerox, the accounting function was just another revenue source and profit opportunity, ... As a result, investors were misled and betrayed.

Robert Scoble

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

Tony Woodley

Make no mistake, we will be looking, as a matter of the utmost urgency, to explore with the company as well as with ministers ways to have this devastating decision reversed.

Robert Reid

Make no mistake, INTL has been missing estimates recently as the company has missed the last four quarters,

Michael Cohen

Lucent will never be the company it once was.

Henry Schacht

Lucent got off track because we tried to grow our company faster than, in hindsight, we were able to,

Terry Williamson

Major Moves. I support it as long as this private company lets us in on the work.

Bill Ford

Lots of stuff that made this company great started off as something that wasn't in the budget.

Konrad Becker

Last year they had a big contribution from selling company stakes. Next year they won't have that.

J. Hoover

Learn what's important to your boss, understand what your company is looking for and help the fool meet those expectations.

Kathy Osborne

Last year was our first year. We went in just to have some fun and ended up winning.

Jodie Bernstein

Many retailers ended up looking more like Scrooge than Santa.

Andy Irvine

Scotland ended last season on a high and the team were playing with a smile on their faces,

Chuck Green

Meg ended up settling down. She mixed speeds and kept a good hitting team off balance.

Jawan Carter

My freshman year, we started four freshmen; sophomore year, we started four sophomores. I'm so happy we ended up with a state championship.

Judd Apatow

My first thought when 'Wedding Crashers' ended was, 'Oh, my God. We are so much dirtier than they are,'

Gary Davis

One of the things we look at is a sense of complacency where you take things for granted. He'd probably made that maneuver many, many times, and this time it ended in tragedy.

Tom Stoppard

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.

John Steinbeck

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

Uday Kotak

Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.

Mike Lenhoff

Fundamentals remain positive for equity markets so our view is: stick with the trend, it's not the end, it's still your friend.

Daniel Morgan

I would characterize March as a relatively good performance in the equity markets.

Ken Miller

Because of the cooperative's financial soundness, tonight we are returning over $ 1.8 million of your equity back to you.

Brett Ellis

Should you need to sell the home within a year or two there is not a lot of equity there.

Sandy Baum

The question for parents is: Is it better to take out a PLUS loan or is it better to take out a home equity loan? They need to look at all their options.

Gerry Schwartz

Private equity does pay very well, and my counterparts, guys that I grew up with who are still working at a number of firms, all make a lot of money.

Guy Moszkowski

Trends look very strong for fixed income, with investment grade issuance up strongly and high yield issuance levels performing well. Equity underwriting has been more mixed in the first quarter, but remains very strong, especially in the U.S., and backlogs have been building.

Warren Buffett

Today's equity prices presage only modest returns for investors,

Richard Schickel

Leone provided that, primarily through stylistic devices. One of the things I like about Leone's Westerns is that he'll spend a very long time on the preliminaries to a gunfight. But then, once they exchange shots, it's very quick, much quicker than the typical walk-down in an American Western. All of that preparation is fabulous. It's kind of funny, and it's very suspenseful.

Richard Schickel

Leone provided that, primarily through stylistic devices, ... One of the things I like about Leone's Westerns is that he'll spend a very long time on the preliminaries to a gunfight. But then, once they exchange shots, it's very quick, much quicker than the typical walk-down in an American Western. All of that preparation is fabulous. It's kind of funny, and it's very suspenseful.

Jack Straw

We had a very thorough exchange of the different positions of the EU-3 and the new government of Iran,

Gary Weiss

I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.

Michel Alaby

One of the proposals is to link the sites. Another is to exchange information about investment, trade, tourism and business.

Chris Koch

I wouldn't be surprised to see the Shanghai Shipping Exchange spread throughout China, if they want it too.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

Since there are issues that are oriented to the future, we welcome the opportunity for a frank exchange of opinions,

Doug Clark

I don't expect foreign exchange students to get a diploma, but I think they should at least get some recognition.

Louie Gohmert

I was an exchange student for a summer, and most of that summer was in Ukraine. I used to say 'the Ukraine' until I was there, and one of the Ukrainian college students I got to be good friends with, he said, 'Do you say I'm going back to the Texas,' and I said, 'No.' He said, 'We don't say we're going back to the Ukraine, either.'

Rick Perlstein

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

Jeffrey Mount

Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human suffering and property loss that might come with these events.

Jim Sturgess

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Lou Marcoccio

Many organizations have failures sitting in their systems, but they won't show up until they run the transactions.

Eli Khamarov

One failure is worth seven and a half successes

Jay Hood

None of these five incidents was a result of a failure to follow standard operating procedures in place at the time the incident occurred,

Randy Thompson

Obviously, they have the most to gain (and) the most to lose in terms of the market's success or failure.

Greg Biffle

I can't say what happened because we didn't have a failure all year.

Warren Miller

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing.

Scott Kahan

So look at the funds you own or ones you're considering buying. All that information can only make you a smarter investor.

Uwe Boll

My funds have grown every year and this is because my movies got the investors most of their money back, more than all the other funds.

Rajiv Malik

One is not sure how much of the allocated funds will land up reaching the targeted segments.

Jeremy East

Money goes to performance, so as the funds performed well, more investors put money into those funds.

Wes Anderson

Now we will have the funds to install it.

Phil Reed

NWA owes us between $53 and $54 million for the service in September. In bankruptcy, it's purely speculative what percentage of funds you will retain.

Darren Heathcote

Obviously, the funds will be looking to speculate and make some money out of this. But I am still of the opinion that the spike might be somewhat short-lived.

Terry J. Lundgren

When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer had the funds to pay for college. If I wanted to continue, I would have to do it on my own.

Eric Schwartz

Given the magnitude of the contributions, it is inevitable that some of the funds are not going to be spent as efficiently as possible.

Steve Case

lead the convergence of the media, entertainment, communications and Internet industries.

Doug Lewis

One of the unfortunate things about the Internet is it has made everyone gratification-happy instantaneously. But we are not going to be able to get this done in Internet time.

Rick Kaufman

One of our students received a warning ... through the Internet last night at their house.

Jenny Emanuel

We want to make sure the Internet is secure.

Kofi Annan

only normal that governments now want to be involved in Internet governance.

Andrew Vachss

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

Mitchell Baker

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

Tanya Harris

Unless you have Internet access, a lot of people are left completely out of the loop. We want to let them know what their options are. We just want people to vote.

Najib Razak

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Hugh Johnson

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

Alan Ackerman

Traders and investors feel more comfortable with the value sector of the market, ... What we're seeing is a two-tiered market.

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Daymond John

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

Aaron Patzer

I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

Joe Osha

We'd love to tell investors that we anticipated Intel's problems, but we did not.

Robert Scoble

Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.

Takenori Kanzaki

If we do not proceed in the reform, Japan has no future.

Shu Qi

I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.

Pam Gregory

She got to see some of the Japanese skaters doing quad jumps and triple Axels, and it got her motivated.

Makoto Watanabe

She has shown that at 36, it is not too late for a Japanese woman to get married and have a family,

Liu Jinping

Since then there's been no boycotts of Japanese products at all.

Tadashi Yanai

Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.

Eric Darwell

This says that things in Japan are on pretty solid ground.

Masahiro Tanaka

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

A. R. Rahman

My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I'm doing which is somewhere I've wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.

Jim Towey

I would be shook up if I were part of a shake-up.

William Hamilton

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.

Evan Savoie

He walked to me and he shook my hand.

Paul Chryst

All I did, I shook his hand, just said, 'Hello' and that was about it.

Richard Jaffe

If we don't see Pressler departing, the stock treads water.

Brunello Cucinelli

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

Monica Seles

What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,

Peter Greene

My suspicion is the stock is not doing much now, it's not earth-shattering.

Jim Cramer

I got a subpoena because I said that a stock was going lower.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Frank Berry

We're just trying to keep the streak going. We're just trying to keep getting better until we get to Nationals.

Scott Linebrink

Hopefully, this year's the same thing. Get the first one out of the way. But it's not like you're trying to keep a streak going.

Ben Gordon

We were 5-10 before this game, and that's just unacceptable at home. We have to turn that around and try to get a streak going.

Pat Bowlin

I didn't talk about the streak all week. I didn't want to use it as motivation.

Jalen Rose

You're a win streak away from striking distance.

Keith Tkachuk

It's unbelievable; it's frustrating. You don't want to use excuses, but (the injuries) are a big part of it. But nobody's quitting. We're just in a tough streak right now and we have to find our way out of it.

Avery Johnson

You think a streak is never going to come to an end. When it does, it doesn't feel good.

Kevin Towers

There've been times when I said, 'Who are we?'  ... But right when I started to wonder who we really were, we'd put together a streak that was not too bad.

Drew Brees

I don't look at it that we're 2-2. We won two in a row. We've just got to keep that streak going,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Riley Wallace

We've got a lot of new systems going.

Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

John Dunn

There's a lot of systems on (boats). They're complicated.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Bobby Petrino

No, no, we don't like having the bye week right after the opener,

Mike Holmgren

I was going to come out and wing it around. It had nothing to do with the week before.

Tom Chambers

I wish we could have been there a week before,

S. Walker

If we play like that every week we will win a lot of games.

Scott Collie

She will be out for at least a week ? anything after that is just speculation at this point.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Charlie Batch

I don't know. You just have to take it week by week, day by day at this point. All I can do is just be ready.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.