Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Kessler

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Manmohan Singh

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Frank Ostini

Life is very good. We've been blessed. It was a one in a billion chance of this happening to us and we were lucky that it did.

William Lerach

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

Tom DeLay

Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,

Vince Sollitto

Let's realize how far this governor has come and give credit where credit's due. The governor has taken the deficit from $16 billion down to $4 billion and that's a tremendous accomplishment.

Hector Flores

Let these people get their education. Don't criminalize them. They pay taxes, and they contribute billions to the economy.

James Williams

Lower withdrawals than most estimates -- at 20 billion cubic feet -- are bearish for gas, but the concern about the Nigerian supply of crude and the reaction to the Iranian situation could result in crude giving gas some support.

Ram Kolluri

SDL is a component supplier. They supply a lot of materials to Nortel Networks and they're a nice story in the optical fiber equipment, ... ... optical fiber investments will raise from 3 billion in 1999 to approximately 15 billion in 2003. Globally the demand is going to be $40 billion for year 2003. And these are the people who are going to supply all the equipment.

Mark Dalmrymple

Many people are choosing this winter to replace their older furnace and invest in a high-efficiency furnace. Some of today's furnaces have an efficiency rating of 94.2 percent. That means, for every dollar you spend on gas, nearly 95 cents worth is heating your home. If you furnace is15 to 20 years old, the efficiency could be as low as 65 to 70 percent.

Gary Frazier

may just be a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that 90 cents a share was so much better than expected.

Jamey Clary

Now, they're making about 70 cents a pound, and most are pleased with that. They're not making a lot of money now, but they're making enough to make a comfortable living and not worry about losing the farm.

Quincy Morgan

We had a very good relationship with Bruce, ... I am sure he put his two cents in. He was the only guy who knew me, so I would imagine he said something.

Jack Scoville

I don't think we're going back to 50 cents a pound.

Joseph Wright

I would be more than willing to pay the extra 10 cents per container with my food to make up for that extra cost.

Larry Ellison

If we had made less than 12 cents in operating income, we would have had to warn. We didn't warn.

Bob Fraley

Simple. I grew up a field-worker. My dad made 50 cents a day picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley. I never thought I'd get to teach, never thought I'd get to coach, never thought I'd have an NCAA champion, never thought I'd get to see the world. This university has done more for me than I could ever pay back. But I can do this -- and I want to.

Dwight Decker

If we can get two-thirds of our product development at one-fourth the cost, we come close to cutting our overall costs in half, ... Put another way, if I have 25 cents of every dollar this company takes in to spend on product development, getting more engineers working is how we can develop faster and how we win.

Michael Panzner

Lucent this morning hints at the possibility that you may see other disappointing earnings in the sexier names. The reality is that expectations seem pretty high and the price of the market as a whole has moved higher to reflect that. It doesn't leave a lot of room for disappointment.

John Butters

Many of the energy sector earnings have been revised up recently, and that includes forecasts for the second quarter and for the full year.

Marc Shapiro

Seven of our ten units had double-digit earnings growth and an eighth had record earnings.

Patrick Casselman

Selling the drug unit is going to focus the company. The earnings were also better than expected. It is a good day for investors.

Michael Sheldon

So far the earnings season has gotten off to an underwhelming start. I think the positive news from Intel is just what the market needed and is likely to lead to a favorable opening on Wednesday.

Michael Sheldon

So far the earnings season has gotten off to an underwhelming start, ... I think the positive news from Intel is just what the market needed and is likely to lead to a favorable opening on Wednesday.

Sunil Reddy

Motorola had to spread its resources over too many areas. By moving away from the semiconductor business, it can spend more on research and development and also make its earnings stream more smooth.

Thomas Bauer

No one gave me this information. That's earnings management, that's never OK.

Joseph Abbott

Next week will be extremely heavy for earnings news ,

Gwen Moore

There are more African-American men with suspended licenses than valid licenses,

Sonya Pace

He was talking about driver's licenses and he was going to be more mature when he turned 16.

George Peterson

There are 64 million people in the U.S. who will be getting drivers' licenses in the next 10 years.

Cheech Marin

At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.

Priscilla Ahn

In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also through the TV synch licenses that I've been surviving. I don't really make money through record sales. I used to be really picky: 'No, I don't want it to be the song of a commercial,' but nowadays it's what you need to do to get the song out as much as you can.

Carl-Henric Svanberg

We're all waiting for the 3G licenses in China,

Bill Campbell

Being in the software business, I have no problem with licenses and no problem with paying for licenses. But I think that this is a real heavy-handed approach.

Hugh Johnson

What Oracle did is it demoralized the rest of the technology sector.

Socrates

The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Larry Ellison

There is no more important platform for Oracle than HP and Itanium.

Bill Vaughan

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

Marc Hebert

It is like being at Oracle in the 1990s Silicon Valley.

Marc Benioff

I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing today.

Dan Roberts

Right now, we're just in kind of high-level discussions with Oracle about the relationship that we can build.

Barry Hyman

It's not the Fed; It's all Oracle and it's taken the sector with it.

Libba Bray

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Mickey Loomis

We've had firsthand reports that it's a mess.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Mark Berman

If the reports are accurate, it will be devastating.

Pete Domenici

My constituents, and actually most Americans, think that somebody rigs these prices. That in the process, somebody's getting ripped off, and they think it's them.

Charles Spurgeon

Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

Jerry Seinfeld

I know I'm not going to understand women. I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root, and still be afraid of a spider.

Andrea White

She said, 'Should I try to do the splits?' and I said 'Yeah!' and she ripped her pants!

Common

The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world.

Aaron Rodgers

The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.

Samantha Fox

Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.

Bryan Adams

Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP

Beau Mirchoff

I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.

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.