Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Hastings

Our recent visits to some stores indicate better controls over displays, clutter, and shelf appearance, necessary steps to stabilize store aesthetics in support of their apparel initiatives.

David Spooner

Our preference is to seek a longer-term solution that will permit the orderly development of textile and apparel trade. But the United States will have no hesitation in walking away from a bad deal.

Paul Charron

Our 1998 performance is particularly rewarding given the highly competitive retail environment and the incremental costs associated with our transformation initiatives, ... These initiatives strengthen Liz Claiborne's leadership position in the apparel industry and position us for continued growth into the millennium.

Scott Krugman

It is an easier last-minute gift. For people that are trying to avoid the long lines or as the apparel selection starts to thin out, I think you will see more people turning to gift cards today.

George Crane

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

Eric Gordon

The apparel industry has for years failed in its old role as a fashion leader, so they've run up the white flag. They're saying, 'Well, at least we're the leader of the old stuff. Won't you come back and see us again?

Renaldo Nehemiah

The athletes coming out today are marking $350,000 to $650,000 plus a year, just from their apparel deals.

Fazlul Haque

I will urge India if our apparel quota could be increased. I will also seek Indian investment in our local textile, clothing and knit sectors.

Dwyane Wade

I am excited to extend my partnership with one of the premier shoe and apparel companies in the world. Converse represents tradition, a passion for sports and has a vision to revolutionize the industry.

John Styll

Part of the reason is to build the brand of Music City and to have it have a worldwide reputation that June in Music City is a smorgasbord of stuff.

Dave Dickson

Part of why Kleenex and all the leading brands use virgin fibers is because of the strength and softness of the tissue.

Herbert Hainer

Our mission is to be the leading sports brand in the world. This definitely brings us a huge step ahead,

Edward Fox

People have positive associations with George Foreman. Part of the value of having a good, positive brand image, like George Foreman does, is you can take that brand and you can put it on new products.

Mark Gibson

People have more media choices than ever before, and this is a unique and different way to get our brand out there.

Jack Trout

People like to bring back the old stuff. These are all classic brands so they have a history ... it is sort of reintroducing the brand to a new generation, using the old symbols.

John Masefield

Success is the brand on the brow of a man who has aimed too low.

Joe Eberhardt

Our strategy with Jeep is to expand the brand at the upper end and entry level while staying true to the brand hallmarks of freedom, adventure, mastery, authenticity and capability while maintaining the brand's global appeal.

Philip Bowman

Our focus remains on generating profitable value from our existing portfolio of powerful brands and on strengthening the portfolio and our distribution capabilities through acquisition and joint venture.

Christine Jacobs

Our relationships with GPOs represent a major new distribution channel for Theragenics' products and reinforce our position as a leader in the brachytherapy marketplace,

Gordon Haff

Particularly with this kind of niche, this isn't really so much about the box, it's about channels and go-to-market. It's about setting up distribution and supply partners more than it is about the right box.

Aaron Woods

Our long term goal is to see a satellite office in the North Channel area, but it won't happen without community support.

Travis Bradberry

Staying composed, focused, and effective under pressure are all about your mentality. People who successfully manage crises are able to channel their emotions into producing the behavior that they want.

Roger Farah

Our strategy to elevate the product and to refine the distribution channels is really paying off.

Patrick Lo

Our supply constraints also resulted in the company's inability to replenish the channel towards the end of the quarter. Compared to the end of 2004, we ended the year with significantly fewer weeks of inventory in the channel in the U.S.

Joseph Flowers

Restaurants are moving in the direction that consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers took some years ago. Continuous measurement and evaluation of marketing channels such as television, radio, internet and print and in-store promotions is either in practice or under consideration at a number of leading restaurant chains.

Nancy Christensen

Redid it (basement) for a place for them to go. They have a lot of energy and talent. You have to channel that.

Andy Duncan

I will not let Channel 4 become another Sainsbury or M&S.

Margaret Gatz

Our finding confirms the higher estimates that have been suggested previously.

John Snow

I think it's probably on the high side. I've seen other estimates more in line with a half-percent hurt to GDP growth in the third quarter and fourth quarter -- but with a pick-up of roughly that order for '06,

Mark Grossman

I think most people understood that estimates for the year were way too high. When the estimates come down to reasonable levels, that's when investors look to get back in.

Gale Norton

These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.

Joe Walsh

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.

Tom Courtney

I think you're going to see a really wide range of estimates unless they help us with that, which I'm not sure they'll do.

Drake Johnstone

If they exceed estimates for this quarter, which I think they will, and raise guidance for the upcoming quarter, investors would be more favorably inclined to Microsoft.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

James Faucette

Most people's estimates will be going up for the fourth quarter.

Michael Dell

Sure. We do not have an exclusive relationship with Intel.

Keith Henson

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.

Donna Shalala

She has the right stuff, ... And having the right stuff is not something that is exclusive to one chromosome or another.

John Ridley

Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches.

Thalia

Kmart is incredibly supportive of the Hispanic community and is therefore an ideal partner for my exclusive collection.

Mark Luscombe

There are a lot of little wrinkles as to how exclusive the use of the office has to be.

Gerald Levin

We've declared openly that this is not about any exclusive arrangement with respect to content,

Jonathan Zuck

We don't have exclusive documents, ... We don't shred our trash and still won't after this.

Steve Matlock

Our reorganized sales management team is 100 percent focused on providing dealers with the support they need to be successful in their businesses.

Saddam Hussein

Our political program will focus more on getting the Americans out of Iraq ,

Tom Amstutz

Our players were aware, sure, but they didn't focus on any of that. We prepared well and we executed well. I was proud of the way our team went about its business.

Elliot Hovey

Our race on Saturday was the most focused and well-executed race this year. Every race we've been getting better and better.

Chris Hutchens

Our main focus will be to have a quick start and not wait until the second half to make plays.

Mike Pirtle

Our main focus was to play the we've been playing.

Andre Morgan

Our main focus was to come out (in the first half) and execute. I guess we did execute, because (Jacksonville) is a very competitive team.

Amanda Hansen

Our main focus is to get past that first round.

Andre Patterson

Our main focus has been getting better every time we get on the floor. We don't look at where we're playing or who we're playing. We just look at it as five-on-five and that we're going to work harder.

Arsene Wenger

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away

Randy Baseler

The A340 is on its last legs. Airbus has a huge gap between 300 seats and the A380. They will have to do something.

Alan Levenson

I think we are looking for the trade gap to stabilize, not to decline.

Rick Sweet

He keeps hitting gaps and running, and he's 30-plus (actually 32) years old. He's the one who told me, 'I guess I'm just getting old.' But it's hard on you with all that running, especially as hot as it is.

John Walsh

There are still huge gaps in the system,

Naoki Iizuka

I think the output gap is around zero percent, plus or minus 0.5 percentage points.

Steve Allen

It is going to be fearfully close. On Monday night the gap between Seven and Nine was just 8000 people.

Zach Thomas

He was huge. The guy takes up a lot of gaps and does a great job of getting push. He does a great job of plugging.

Warren Wilson

There is a functionality gap in the Microsoft lineup.

Bernard Golden

Photo sharing, by its nature, is a high-bandwidth offering -- just the sort of Internet service that could be impacted by a lack of net neutrality.

Bill Tancer

I think there's a lot of romantics out there who use the Internet to get inspiration. People are at a loss for words.

Michael Mahoney

I think there is going to be more Internet consolidation.

Lauren Gelman

Just because we are talking about the Internet does not mean we should lose the right to speak anonymously.

James Awad

I would urge people not to speculate in the Internet sector.

Rod Lache

I think it's a smart move because it's less deceptive. People who are going on the Internet can get the right news up front.

Rob Enderle

He was an instrumental part of making the Internet happen. When your on the Web and doing shopping, say a little prayer for Scott because he's part of what got you there.

Bill Clinton

We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

Al Gore

As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet

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.

Jennifer Gray

He did research on the Internet. He stalked the house. He stalked my brother. He's cold, he's calculating and he took out his competition.

Skylar Astin

I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it.

Mike Bradley

Heretofore it's not had all that research and those developments under one roof and under one coordinated organizational structure.

Rosemarie Truglio

We took a long time and did a lot of research and preparation. We wanted to make sure we did this right.

Charles Kettering

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

Charles Kettering

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Mike Wallace

All I'm armed with is research.

Burt Rutan

NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.

Burt Rutan

I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things.

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.

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.

Aimee Mann

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Sheryl Kingstone

Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.

Erin O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Keith Nowak

We don't make enough on selling accessories that (standardized ports) would be that big of a deal.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.