Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Thill

Regardless of the outcome, we still believe Oracle's current financial health remains intact. We do not believe there are hidden accounting issues.

Greg McBride

Pay your bills on time, and pay your debt down over time. Together, those factors account for 65 percent of your credit score.

Susan Thomson

Part of the idea was to help our financial consultants focus on their bigger accounts, the ones that are more labor intensive, ... This also gives smaller accounts the service they need. They can call three or four times a week and have all their needs met and not have to split their attention and time with financial consultants who have $5 million accounts.

Shirley Norton

Our new city administrator has been great, because I had no experience as a finance director. I am an accounting person, which is a bean counter and finance is a little different than being an accountant. Accountants are more exact and finance people have more vision. He's got the vision. He's been a good compliment to me and has helped me a lot and I really appreciate that. He's a little more involved... For the most part everybody has been great and I have enjoyed every minute of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

David Markowitz

People often use Internet trading accounts to try to conceal their trading activity. People don't realize with that there are different types of evidentiary trails being left behind.

Ken Worthington

Such fees help to get rid of non-profitable accounts or turn them into profitable ones.

Michael Harrison

Stern as a property is far more expendable to Clear Channel than to (Viacom), taking into account the money involved and the politics of dealing with the FCC.

Gary Ambrose

Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If I hadn't stepped in, the wife would have been stuck with capital gains that she had no clue about.

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves. They need the market.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves, ... They need the market.

William Warlick

Relative to the bankrupt carriers, this is a fairly strong liquidity position, but obviously they face cash flow pressures.

Pat Lewis

Relationships with our customers have never been better. We made the investment into their emotional bank accounts, and they are paying the dividends with their increased frequency and ticket averages. It truly is a win-win relationship.

Stephen Walters

Parts of the economy are still doing well, with mining booming and that's generating jobs. I do think that employment growth will slow this year and that will be enough to keep the central bank on the sidelines.

Dana Hurst

Our loan officers were seeing women coming into the bank struggling to be successful in business. We realized we weren't seeing a lot of men coming in with struggles.

Karen Rugen

Our lead banks support the plan and we believe the plan is in the best interest of our other lenders, so we expect to get all the approvals we need.

Paul Foster

Option market makers and hedgers are pricing in the possibility of (Delphi) filing for bankruptcy before October 17.

Keith Leggett

People need to choose the risk and savings instruments that are right for them. If a person is very risk averse, then bank deposits are very attractive.

Jim Calhoun

Regardless of our successes, failures, whatever it may be, it seems like Providence always plays us close. I think it's 3-3 over the last six games. Our national championship team (2004), they showed up at 12 o'clock at the (Hartford) Civic Center and beat us pretty good.

Jack Garrison

(Reese) came out here and beat all the good kids. What a tournament both of them had.

Scott Taylor

Rebounding. That's one word to sum up tonight. The first half they beat us down the court and they beat the heck out of us on the boards. We hustled, but they hustled hard to every rebound.

Alexander Savenkov

Regrettably, beating has become a typical method of dealing with subordinates in the military.

Rick Carlisle

Our point guard position was really tremendous, especially in the second half. That's the kind of production we need at all our positions. Let's face it, we're the kind of team right now where we're playing eight guys (Friday). We need six out of eight (players) playing at a high level to beat a team like Sacramento.

Alfred Bea

Our players know that somebody, figuratively speaking, is going to beat those odds. It could be any one of them.

Ron Gardenhire

Our outfield's been beaten up pretty bad, and Jacque's the one guy that needs to step up. And he's been doing that.

Justin Wilson

Paul Tracy is a great driver and a tough competitor. You know when you have beat him in a race, you have beaten one of the best drivers in the world.

Chris Simon

Our number-one focus is winning one game. We know they're a good team and they beat us last time. They've improved a lot and are a good team with a lot of speed.

Barry Ritholtz

Regardless of whether this upcoming release shows inflation today, given the supply shock to oil, we're expected to see inflation move higher in the next few months. It would certainly put a fork in the concept that the Fed has the opportunity to pause.

Tomohiko Taniguchi

Regarding these issues, certainly what is most important is to preserve and enhance the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.

Dave Vining

Record wise, I knew we would have a winning record coming into this season, but I figured maybe we'd finish around 14-8. We had good kids, seven with experience, but we did much better than I thought we would. We did great, a lot better than expected. I certainly can't complain.

S. Walker

Regrets? Well, certainly I regret that I did that which got me into jail, ... Other than that, no. I've had a very roller coaster life, very roller coaster. And except for that -- which, of course, I regret exceedingly -- boy, no, I don't have any regrets.

Gene Luen Yang

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Bret Taylor

Our long-term goal is to have our product give directions that are as good as the taxi driver. Certainly it's not there yet.

Stacey Phillips

Our No. 1 goal is to make the Big Ten Tournament. We haven't been to the tournament since 1997, and that's way too long -- it's unacceptable... We have the talent and we certainly have the pitching.

Robert Edwards

Our new Sprinters are still 'bedding in' so it is too early to talk about their efficiency and fuel economy. But we have certainly been satisfied so far with their overall performance and versatility.

Tony George

Optimistic? It's certainly possible, but it's a long way from there. Everyone would like to see it happen sooner than later... but it's not something you can hurry along.

Barbara Steinmetz

That was a thing we were getting away from when the equity markets were on a tear. Everybody thought you were a fool to get into anything else.

William Sullivan

The only thing that can take yields down is a total retreat in equity prices.

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.

Ken Miller

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

Hans Johnson

I thought what we would find was that it was only people who had equity or very high incomes who were getting into the market. But that's simply not true.

Anthony Chan

I think the big jump in Japan gives a nice tail wind to the equity markets this morning.

Robert Kraft

His sense of equity and fairness would be very helpful now.

Kevin Tynan

His motivation was to unlock that equity in GMAC. Rumor has it that it's not going well.

David Tepper

Given the question of where the liabilities lie, there should be a fight. That fight can't be made without an equity committee.

Roger Germann

Rod is worried about votes 20 years ago, but we are about to lose $13 million for traffic safety.

Ed Farmer

Maybe it made him realize he had to lose weight to get his swing back and to take pressure off his foot.

E. O. Wilson

Man, I think we just got to the point where if we were going to lose, we were going to lose fighting. If you don't like the way it's going, you have to do something about it. We did something about it, we got after them in the second half.

Martin Rees

Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Tuukka Rask

The Americans are such a skilled team and I just tried to not lose my focus.

Mirko Slomka

That was a real setback. We are the losers of this round.

Freddy Keiaho

That's the luck of the game. That's something you can't prepare for. In the end, we lose as a team.

Henry Willmore

Previously the market had taken out any risk of a second-quarter tightening by the Fed. With this statement, we see that's not a risk to be discounted.

Mark Hoffman

Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.

Oleksiy Ivchenko

Our relationship is shifting completely to a market basis.

Evan Siegel

Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.

Ethan McAfee

Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.

Ante Kostelic

Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting cabbage.

Marina Amoroso

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.

Five Live

Some of the merchandise isn't right and the market is very tough,

Leendert Staal

Our priority now, our aim, is to get 25% market share.

Bill Buff

Surprisingly, one in Providence, Rhode Island, just shows that big-time congestion can come to small and medium size cities. In addition, Tampa, Florida; San Jose, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; San Diego, California; and Cincinnati, Ohio; are all new to the top ranking this year.

Daniel Breaker

I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.

Doug Aitken

I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.

Marianne Williamson

Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.

Hasan M. Elahi

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

Daniel Suarez

We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.

Anthony Wayne

We are thinking through the medium and long-term needs here,

David Alan Basche

Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

Patsy Crisel

(Relay) is important because the money raised stays here.

Tom Lewis

Our political system has become more about money than it has about people,

Phil Hardberger

or at least give us the money to do it.

Jay Johnson

People laugh, but we have to move money around occasionally.

Deborah Voso

People often underestimate how much money it takes to live in retirement.

Nancy Bain

Surveyors could make some money on this one.

Peter Schiff

Some of the smaller stocks have been moving, but the big stocks are going to take real money to move.

Francis Maude

Some of that money may well have been from overseas sources.

John Nicholson

Our staff needs raises; we need roads, parks, all the things that this money can provide,

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Ryan MacDonald

Our problem (was that the DWI unit) was pulling over everyone, sober, un-sober,

Beck

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

B. F. Skinner

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

Bill Burton

You look at the states [Barack] Obama won and wonder, well, where would Hillary Clinton have a problem and where does Donald Trump have problems? And the truth is, Donald Trump is not showing strength in any of the big states that he would need in order to actually get to 270. And Hillary Clinton is showing herself to be remarkably stable in all the states that she needs.

Tom Smith

The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down.

Craig Conroy

That's been our problem -- we haven't been able to score goals.

Tom Collins

It isn't a problem unless you want it to be

William Pickens

It is not the ought-ness of this problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!

Fran Dunphy

I wish that was the only problem we had.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Juergen Michels

That will probably keep the ECB waiting until September, rather than going for a rate rise, as a done deal, every quarter.

Roni Java

That's a very respectable rate for a rural county. We know they're trying to reach 50.

Jill Dougherty

I think one of the misconceptions is that it is fatal. If it's detected early, the five-year survival rate is 95%.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Astro Teller

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Buck Showalter

You stay with it. But at some point, you have to get returns for the opportunities they are given.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Jim Cramer

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

Richard Jaffe

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

Barry Ritholtz

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

Brian Hill

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

Brunello Cucinelli

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

Joseph Lisanti

We like it even though the stock has been weak recently.

Robert D. Hare

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

Roxanne Dey

He was ramming vehicles out of his way. That's how it was described to me.

David Cox

She exited the vehicle and was very frantic.

Chris Squire

We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles.

Barry Eisler

Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.

Sgt. Frevola

We were having so many headlight thieves, on high-end vehicles with halogen lights.

Aaliyah

Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

Ian Baxendell

An MFO vehicle was damaged. The two occupants of the vehicle are unharmed and uninjured.

James Mercer

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

Tom Stephens

I'm going after the highest-consuming vehicles first, because that's where the big payback is.

John Rodeffer

Or August, or October, or whenever they begin.

Eileen collins

I wish I could come back up here whenever I wanted.

Natasha Leggero

You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Francis Lawrence

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

Bethany Mota

I feel like whenever you dress for someone else, you probably won't be as comfortable, because that's not what you genuinely want to wear.

Gertrude Ederle

Oh, I eat whatever I want whenever I want it.

Bryce Dallas Howard

Whenever I hear the word 'breakout,' I associate it with acne.

Anders Holm

Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude.