Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mary Long

People like the banks and hospitals have hundreds of openings.

Jason Schenker

Such a strong report by a financial institution has to help others in the same sector. Rates have been rising but gradually, which gives some banks opportunity to adjust.

Luis Gutierrez

Our bill ensures that national banks will be bound by state consumer protection laws, including predatory mortgage lending statutes.

Steve Jones

Retailers, as well as banks and restaurants, are constantly refreshing their stores so that they look new and exciting.

Chris Hoofnagle

Retailers and banks are trying to pass a law that's much weaker.

Michael Joynson

Retail banks are the best way to play the improving consumer environment, and investment banks have been performing well on the back of a strong market.

Boris Schlossberg

Reserve diversification by central banks has been a key driver of dollar weakness this year.

Zeng Jun

Remember, interest paid to banks only comes back to you in the form of a billing receipt. Nothing else...

Jim Henderson

Recent economic news around the world is causing us to reassess our near-term business prospects in key international markets,

Keith Morris

(Receiving the grants) started pointing us in the right direction of the whole change process, ... If that didn't occur, I'm pretty sure we would be doing business as usual.

Rich Gadomski

Price competition and the availability of quality scanning technology have encouraged and enabled the counterfeit tape market. We are aggressively exposing this business as it may put our customers at risk and negatively impact the perception of our quality and value of our brand. It's important that companies realize that they may be contributing to the problem by selling their used tape - or by buying from un-authorized resellers and distributors.

Deane Dotson

Our rental business stays very busy. And we don't require a Visa or MasterCard.

Ken Stein

Our partnership with ADP is a true reflection of successful collaboration, resulting in increased efficiencies. ADP has turned a typical business arrangement into a successful partnership between two dedicated parties with a common goal -- to lower costs and improve service levels.

Jill Lajdziak

Our owners don't want us to lose the honesty of our brand, how we do business without haggling. But they do want a different more dramatic look and feel.

Porter Erisman

Our overall position is that it is the responsibility of every business to follow the local laws of the countries in which they operate.

Sathya Baba

Our relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love, not a business of money or materials.

Stan Marshall

Our regulated utility business, non-regulated generation business and Fortis Properties all delivered increased earnings in the third quarter,

Matt Armstrong

Surfing is not an organized sport, but it does have rules. The surfer closest to the curl has the right of way.

Greg Dixon

Right now, our POS/AIDC VARs are the closest to adoption. We're telling them to come on in, the water's fine. There's no doubt RFID is going to happen, and our VAR community is standing right in the middle of this opportunity.

Jessica Laws

That was the closest meet I've ever seen. I don't have words to describe it.

Daymond Langkow

That was probably the closest thing to a playoff game all year.

Joe Horn

That's what everybody wanted to know, and Gene couldn't tell us that. The closest he got to telling us was that we'll know our schedule by January.

Morris Johnson

I was the one who interceded in helping move the bodies. I had to locate the closest relative and get permission to move them to another cemetery.

Morris Johnson

I was the one who interceded in helping move the bodies, ... I had to locate the closest relative and get permission to move them to another cemetery.

Mary Ellen Mark

I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.

Mike Jacobs

I think he's the closest we've had to a national figure.

Linda Miller

Recently we've de-emphasized the large multinational drug companies because of the headwinds they've faced because of patent expirations and no big product approvals,

Gilbert Lopez

Our recommendation would be to go for companies that are seen benefiting most from the likely end-result of all these developments -- lower interest rates and improving consumption.

Rob Morris

Our rapid SOA development tools are specifically designed to enable mainframe developers to deliver more than just Web services from the mainframe. With Ivory, companies can quickly and easily incorporate the full value of their mainframe resources in their SOA.

Tim Bajarin

PC companies do not want to have more than six weeks of inventory, and most of them try to live within three- and four-week turns, ... We're hearing about inventory build-ups in some companies that are as much as 13 weeks.

Tetsuhiko Yasuda

Our No. 1 competition is not other companies but counterfeiters. We want to work with governments to stop this.

Adrian Gonzalez

Order-to-delivery times are shrinking and companies are heavily outsourced, which means reliability and consistency of performance are more critical than ever. Companies are striving to meet service levels at the lowest possible cost and are turning to carrier- and vendor-performance metrics to do that.

David Rudow

Oracle's success hinges on retaining its customer base, including ones it inherited from the companies it bought.

Mike Viracola

People have been looking for companies to say we've weathered the storm -- no pun intended -- whether it's the hurricane stuff or the macro things,

Margo Timmins

Success is a very difficult thing in a society where we dispose of what we like very quickly, before you even learn to play your instrument, ... So far, the record companies we have worked with have respect for us as musicians. I want to sell records and I need a record company to do that, but I don't want to sell myself.

Elizabeth Caroscio

Our outfield will be quick. They cover a lot of ground and they all have pretty strong arms.

Mike Riley

Pass defense starts with a rush and then good solid coverage down field after that. We feel we have a lot of good people who can take us where we want go.

David Southern

Part of my role is to extend the reach of Hearts, ... In our outlook, we're not just a Scottish football club. We're now getting more and more UK coverage than at any time in our recent history and also more European coverage.

Bill Ferguson

Our magazine isn't covering shuffleboard; we're covering people who are still grabbing surfboards even though they're 60 or 70 or older. The people who've seen this magazine love it. Through word of mouth alone, we've already generated more than 7,000 sign-ups on our website.

Bill Davis

People knew in this area, or should have reasonably known, or been told, that their standard homeowner's policy did not cover storm surge or flooding.

Lucie Morillon

People kind of wonder what's going to happen during the summit, especially for journalists who would try to cover freely what's going on there.

Mark McClellan

People need to start by understanding what kind of coverage they have now.

Kylie Jenner

People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.

Benjamin Franklin

Squirrel-like she covers her back with her tail.

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Kevin Daugherty

Our free-throw shooting has really improved over the last month.

Joseph Wood

Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen property snatched up by investors, improved and then sold.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Gerry Murphy

The academies have tremendously improved training for young players.

Karl Hobbs

That we had improved from last year. The program is improving every year, and that was an indication that we had improved it. This year, we improved our status.

Mike Ortner

Lindsey has improved each time out and has been very consistent. She'll be tested. Hopefully, she can come up big for us, and make some game-changing saves.

Jim Oberdorf

I think she is great. She has improved a thousand percent.

Richard C. Armitage

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

Paul Charles

Our market share has risen to record levels on the most competitive routes in Europe.

John Lackey

Our mitigation strategy was the realignment of the road. We need to back up and start all over with a new strategy. Otherwise, I don't feel any level of comfort.

Chris Dwyer

Stable water levels are really important for management of vegetation.

Mike Brady

(Our girls) weren't going to settle for a tie and they picked up the level of play as they will have to do in our conference.

Jerry Cohen

Over 45 percent of Oregonians will qualify for some level of subsidy,

Kate Taylor

On the surface level they've got rid of a lot of the street element, but there's still the same old people in charge.

Rory Fitzpatrick

Playoffs are always a big jump. I've been through it at different levels and in the NHL.

Harry Smith

Really, what it comes down to is: What's your level of paranoia?

Javad Vaeidi

We need some time to reach that level with all centrifuges because of the two-and-a-half-year suspension. However, the preliminary phases have been launched.

Rick Bowers

Overall it was good. We had some disappointments and some surprises; it's all part of the game.

Ken Read

Overall it's disappointing. I think that disappointment is shared by the athletes. I think their expectations was they wanted to do better.

Michael Lawson

Overall it is pretty much the same procedure.

Paul Nolte

Overall it doesn't look too bad. The prices paid is a concern. We'd like to see it come down a little. It's an inflationary key.

Keith Hembre

Overall there are not a lot of surprises here.

Paul Ballew

Overall share is going to be tough for us this year.

Cassie Desmone

Overall our season was fine, but not one of our better ones. We've got some work to do in the future.

Cristobal Huet

Overall I made a lot of progress this year. I worked on the little details, the small things that make you better.

Michael Woods

Overall for the first game, we played well,

Rick Springfield

Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.

Aleksandr Sebryakov

Relationship is more than love, but it's all about love.

Daren Kagasoff

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

Samari Rolle

Our relationship is more like brothers. He's kind of like my big brother,

Jim Hagan

Our relationship didn't change, ... I could still walk right into his office.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

B. R. Ambedkar

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

David Phillips

Some of the results will be sure to surprise you.

Lee Scott

Our results were not up to Wal-Mart standards,

Takashi Oya

Results were just as strong as we expected.

Mark Hurd

Results have been inconsistent. The stock has been volatile, if not disappointing.

Antoine Lavoisier

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Andrew Johnson

I think that's been a really important, big step in the U.S. having more competitive results internationally.

Glen Taylor

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Joe Escobedo

It doesn't take 18 months; it doesn't take 18 days. The results were immediate.

Brett Tomko

I thought I pitched pretty well, but I've had the same results all year,

John Buskirk

That was a tremendous punt return. Robert's punt return really kind of put us over the top. That put us in a real, real strong position.

Susanna Moore

I have to admit that I was very happy to finish 'In the Cut,' and happy not to return to it.

Rick Perry

I can't say in strong enough terms that those who evacuated that they should not return at this time,

Carlos Menem

Here we are. What Evita (Peron) said is being fulfilled: I will return and be millions,

Antoni Gaudi

Originality is a return to the origin.

Charles Spurgeon

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

David Nicholls

She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy

Martin Singer

She's acknowledged she has them, she just won't return them,

Gregory Reid

She intends to return to New York and straighten out the situation.

Piers Handling

We didn't steer away from the Karla thing this year,

Joel Kinnaman

I've learned to steer away from the wrong kind of woman for me.

Sylvia Plath

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

Jamie Shea

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Bill Toohey

Our strategy with someone like this is ... surround and talk. And we will talk for a long time.

Sam Bhavnani

One thing that is challenging Dell is its strategy towards higher-end products,

Patricia Grogan

We need to put a clear, structured suicide preventions strategy in place,

Don Frye

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.

Donald Trump

And whereas [Donald] Trump let two or three hanging curveballs go by, [Mike] Pence will not, unless they have a strategy to let them go by.

Charles J. Givens

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Lauren Cercone

We're going to set our strategy and do what we think it takes to win. It won't be cheap.

Bill Gates

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Carrie Brownstein

I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.

Carl Rogers

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

Unknown

May you get all your wishes but one, So you always have something to strive for.

Edmund Spenser

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

Abraham Lincoln

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

Alexander Crummell

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

Angie Martinez

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Ai Weiwei

Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

Frank Bennett

Part of it was to support the facility,

Hank Aaron

I'm here to support the commissioner and tougher drug penalties.

Kim Coble

We need a much more supportive infrastructure for farming.

Carl Sagan

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Art Alexakis

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

Homer Thompson

I was always in support of the coach.

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Michael Campbell

I think it's the Polynesian connection. I have a lot of support here and it's wonderful.

Rafa Benitez

I was with our supporters at the end. I could see him but he didn't want to.

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Jason Mraz

I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Emilia Clarke

I wear tinted moisturized since, on the stage, we tend to wear such heavy stage makeup.

Ron Eldard

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.

Joel Robuchon

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

Dan Boone

It can tend to snowball if you let it go.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Linda Martin

Lacy tends to be calming. She is not part of the therapy, but she's therapeutic.

Patti Hoch

That was our top relay. There's not much else I can say about that other than it was disappointing.

Paul Malone

I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Ed Burnsed

He is one of the top sprinters in the state.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Carles Puyol

I can't see the top of the Eiffel Tower yet.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Jeremie Cook

I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.

Gary Linden

Going from underdog to top dog is exciting, but it comes with problems.