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.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Regardless of who will finally win this race between Law and Justice and the Platform, the road to change will be open.

James Browning

Regardless of what time you change or move or do anything, if it's for a positive effort, it's always a good day to do it.

Ali Larijani

Referring Iran's file to the Security Council won't change the Iranian stance about uranium enrichment. It serves no one's interest.

Roger Enrico

Recent changes in the home video market got us and others in our industry by surprise,

Will Whitehorn

Recent acquisitions coupled with further structural changes being made to the group, will provide a good platform from which to generate further growth in the next financial year.

Scott Reed

Regions is a big contributor to this community, and there have been some changes in the community. We just feel like this would be the time to reassert ourselves.

Karen Finney

President Bush's refusal to recognize that it's time to make a change and fire Secretary Rumsfeld is symptomatic of his administration's incompetent and failed leadership.

Frank Degen

Previously, someone like a plumber, who may have run his office from home and had a secretary there, could not take this deduction because he provided goods and services outside the home. Of course, the IRS realized the inequity there and changed the rules.

Liz Boyd

Our position hasn't changed and we would expect her to veto this legislation just as she did before. It's a divisive piece of legislation. The suburban communities and the city need to work together on these issues.

Peter Davis

Relevance to Alzheimer's? I don't know, ... It's a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer's is currently obscure.

James Allen

Part of the reason of the survey is to look for current information on what people are doing, what their risks are and what their level of knowledge is,

Keith Clark

Part of that time period will be a sports program that redesigns the current 'KDKA/IC Light Sports Talk' show, while keeping our branding with Pittsburgh Brewing.

Farouk Kadodia

Our long-term vision for the team, the current situation and our position on the log table has forced us to look for other options.

John Hahn

Our organizations currently provide the majority of the security details required during events at our venues.

Elizabeth Leonard

Some of the people that are currently getting services might not receive services. Or, it could mean that new programming that would've been more helpful won't be funded.

Lee Scott

Our goal for the second half of the year remains double-digit earnings growth,. However, given the current economic environment this will be difficult to achieve, ... We expect earnings growth in the second half will show improvement over the first half of this year as we leverage our sales and market share gains, but the growth may not meet our original goals.

Jamey Marth

Our findings suggest that the current human epidemic in type-2 diabetes may be a result of GnT-4a enzyme deficiency.

Mitul Kotecha

Overall, he is opening the door to further rate hikes. It could also suggest that rates could go higher than currently priced in.

Shane Oliver

Recent economic data has been on the soft side. There is nothing in the recent run of generally soft numbers that would support another rise in rates by the Reserve Bank.

David Mozina

Recent data in Japan suggest that the risk is Japan will end its quantitative easing sooner. That is lending some support to the yen.

Ram Bhagavatula

Relative to what was the first estimate of GDP, this data was a little worse and that's going to make the third-quarter GDP a little worse, to around negative 1.2 percent.

Mark Stevens

Organizations want to scan a wide variety of documents at high-speeds, but also ensure data integrity. The AS3690 can scan just about any type of document in the mailroom, eliminating extra hands and steps in the process. Not only does this improve efficiency and reduce costs, it's also more secure.

Henry Scott

People just extrapolate off the last data point.

Robert Sinche

Some of the recent data we have been getting is decidedly more upbeat. The market looks at this as interesting history, likely to be revised up in future months.

Hidenori Karaki

Some of the Kmart issue was worked in during the previous session. The data out of the U.S. still points to an economic recovery.

Jeff Swanagan

Some of the top aquariums in the United States, none have had two months of over 300,000 attendants. When we see this kind of data we're getting, we're not even in peak season yet, it tells us we're more than an aquarium.

E. Hurley

Someone once said that recovering data without the application is like reading without glasses -- you've got the book, you've got the words, but you don't know what it means.

London School

Spending is rising and the deficit is rising, the question is will they have to raise taxes further?

Cindy Crowe

Our projected deficit for the June 30, 2007, school year is $2.3-million.

Pete Sepp

Republicans are spending at a rate not seen since Lyndon Johnson's presidency, ... They're legislating as if deficits don't matter.

Stephen Rodrick

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

George Davis

I think the question on most people's minds is what are they going to do to be able to maintain the surplus and not overspend so that we move back into a deficit situation.

Julie Rousseau

I don't know what the largest deficit was, but I think that everyone got to really enjoy what I've had an opportunity to enjoy all year, and that's just how tough our women really are, how strong they are, strong in character. They showed a lot of fight and I'm very proud of them.

Joe Barton

Basically, it takes the money and spends it all. It doesn't leave anything for deficit reduction.

Matt Bennett

I don't think you would have seen a gathering like this six years ago, before 9/11, or even two or four years ago. This is a 35-year deficit Democrats have had on national security where it's been an issue to be survived, not highlighted.

Ian Shepherdson

If this is sustained we can be more hopeful the trade deficit will not rise further,

Brian Taylor

Regardless of the numbers the general tone of the market is dollar negative. You've got people jumping on the bandwagon.

JoEllen Kenney

People in McKeesport saw what happened in Duquesne when they lost their library because of the lack of funding. I would get envelopes with a dollar in them. The residents didn't want to lose their library.

Sunil Reddy

Surely the dollar makes pricing more competitive for U.S. companies. But it's more a noise factor than anything else on a short-term basis.

Hans Trousil

Some homeowners will be paying a few dollars more a year while others may have a tax decrease.

Glenn Kaplan

Our plans are to keep it completely as a golf course. We've put in multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars into the course, and for the last year and a half we've been operating it successfully as a golf course.

Stephen Meyer

Our tax dollars are being used to help a lawmaker get re-elected.

Tim Mooney

Our goal is to get more efficiency into the dollars that are being spend on education.

Malik Rahim

Our goal is only to help them in their recovery effort, help them get their lives back, and yes it is political, because we should not have to do it. our tax dollars should be at work.

Everett Tucker

Our goal is to manage every penny of every dollar that we spend with our suppliers, be they raw material suppliers, freight suppliers, or indirect. We want to touch every penny.

Hans Trousil

Some homeowners will be paying a few dollars more a year while others may have a tax decrease.

Glenn Kaplan

Our plans are to keep it completely as a golf course. We've put in multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars into the course, and for the last year and a half we've been operating it successfully as a golf course.

Stephen Meyer

Our tax dollars are being used to help a lawmaker get re-elected.

Tim Mooney

Our goal is to get more efficiency into the dollars that are being spend on education.

Malik Rahim

Our goal is only to help them in their recovery effort, help them get their lives back, and yes it is political, because we should not have to do it. our tax dollars should be at work.

Paul Kim

Overall pricing increases in broadcasting will be in the mid-to-high single digits, but total dollars are going to be flat,

John Williamson

Ottawa has had a spending problem, not a revenue problem, and surplus dollars should be returned to taxpayers.

David Stern

Maybe if you earn less than eight million dollars you'll get a scholarship from the commissioner,

Neil Anderson

Managers were paid huge sums of money - running into millions of dollars - and have failed to prudently manage the company, putting jobs at risk.

Mike Forsberg

I think I had him perfectly, ... Once Donovan started scrambling, the main thing is to find the guy and lock up on him. It just so happened, T.O., instead of going back to the quarterback, started drifting to the end zone, and I didn't expect Donovan to get out and scramble because he was injured.

Brian Finnerty

There aren't really any standout negative catalysts today. The market's just kind of drifting lower today on pretty light volume. We're also probably still a little oversold from the recent run.

Donald Selkin

We're drifting, and we're probably going to keep drifting for the next few weeks. But that's OK, there are positive developments out there. Oil prices seem to be under control, and I'm more encouraged about the second-quarter earnings than I have been in a while.

Bill Simmons

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.

Harbhajan Singh

It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

Donella Meadows

No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

Eleanor Catton

I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.

Matt Ruane

We're really in a trading range, drifting sideways for the time being as the market waits for its next catalyst.

Richard Champion

We've entered a lull again, with tech issues drifting lower on the back of the slowdown in mobile sales,

C. S. Lewis

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

Keith Hampton

He didn't sell any stock. He went down with the ship.

Jackie Spaulding

going to make me sell the motel and make me go with him.

Don DePalma

For me this is just one of the fundamentals of doing business: If I can't understand what you're selling me, I'm not buying.

Merle Olberding

For the state tournaments, some of them were in here Tuesday wanting their tickets and we didn't start selling until Wednesday.

Johnny Rivers

He was signing everyone else up, ... He just didn't think I could sell any records.

Tod Kowalczyk

I was surprised it didn't sell out in September.

John Roberts

If they want to sell and get out, if they have enough land, it's OK, they can downsize and do that.

Ed McIntosh

If this situation isn't fixed, they won't be able to sell their house.

Kelly Rowan

We never know what's going to happen. It's always a surprise to us too,

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

Stephen McPherson

I was a little surprised to see another 'Apprentice',

John Stocco

I was a little surprised by the call, but it was unbelievable.

John Heimlich

I will be very surprised if there is not a proposal.

Les Funtleyder

That was the first upside surprise for Merck in a long time.

Joe Mazzella

That surprised me. He's getting better and better all the time.

Michael Morris

I think we all were surprised by the price.

Carl Everett

I think we're going to surprise a lot of people.

Liz Williams

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

John Bradshaw

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

Edward Miller

They want to use it, but it can't be put out there. It's going to be an underlying part of the campaign.

Todd Williams

It's something within his joint, most probably the cartilage, and it could be something underlying from the old injury.

Mark Bradford

Everything I do has an underlying political question.