Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Justice Theodore

I am confounded by the tortured tale of these negotiations. It is unfortunate that it had to come down to an illegal strike.

Ian Mckellen

There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

Sam Harris

There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

Mark Warner

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

Don Gilmore

We're going to get to the problem and fix it. We're really confounded by it.

Jinny Sims

I'm confounded by his refusal to meet and find solutions.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Generally, we try to have a situation where the person is healthy, so you're not confounded by disease. So, that means that healthy individuals are donating their blood samples for the studies.

Kofi Annan

Reform is a process, not an event and we are going to continue after the summit

John Chambers

recovery continues to gain momentum on a global basis.

Robert Milton

Recognizing the significant progress we have made, there is no room for any complacency and we must continue to pursue efficiencies throughout our businesses.

Philadelphia Fed

Price pressures remain but continue to show a moderating trend.

Jorma Ollila

Our position in the fastest-growing market in the world continues to be strong.

Ed Colligan

Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products,

Anna Rozenich

Our reduction is taking longer than anticipated. We continue to make progress in our testing because we want to make sure we get it right for our customers.

Joseph Farah

Our rankings, relative to other sites, rise and fall over time, ... But our traffic continues to grow ? at a pace even faster than the explosive Internet itself.

Marc Andreessen

Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.

Adriano Galliani

Real Madrid are interested in him but I don't know if there have been any contacts.

Doug Bereuter

Releasing Mr. Pollard would put vital U.S. interests at risk and send the message that we are not serious about punishing espionage.

Phil Brown

Paulo would be one we are interested in but not at the moment.

Alan Greenspan

Our operating procedures, as you suggest, do tend to smooth out short-run fluctuations in short-term interest rates,

Chris Byrne

Star Wars' is a 20-year-old brand. When the next 'Star Wars' movie comes out, there's going to be much more interest in the product.

Danny Diaz

Sportsmen represent a very important constituency to this campaign. They reflect, in many cases, the interests and views of a majority of Americans and rural America.

R. Robinson

Our weakness is inexperience. We have no seniors and we've never been here before. I'll be interested to see how we come out and play.

Beck

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

Bill Shaw

We've told all judges we're not interested in their money, we don't want it. We want the poles removed.

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Jeff Cheah

Stabilizing ... that is the key word that investors are reacting to.

Grant Wilson

Japanese investors are still looking to put some money to work overseas. We're still seeing those flows.

Lara Rhame

That's the nightmare that keeps a lot of investors up at night -- but I just don't think that scenario is realistic.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Susumu Abe

There are no new incentives. It's just that the investor mood is so good.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Joe Portera

The prudent investor may want to take some of their money off the table and maybe they should be looking overseas.

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

Sophia Drossos

Reinforcement of imbalances and lack of saving in the United States is not dollar-friendly.

Calvin Coolidge

Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.

Rob Portman

Overall, our U.S.-China trade relationship today lacks equity, durability and balance.

Tony Pinto

Our beef, for lack of a better word, is with FEMA, not with the victims.

Rosanne Cahn

Manufacturers are still selling a lot in the United States but their lack of pricing power in the top-line really puts a lot of pressure on them to become more efficient.

Frank Gannon

I think there's a kind of 'buyers' strike,' for lack of a better term,

Bruce Arena

I think there is a lack of respect for our soccer.

Brian Billick

Just a lack of focus, ... We'll work at it, and the next time they won't try to do those things.

Brian Billick

Just a lack of focus. I don't know what to tell you. We'll work at it.

William Diamond

Our upholsterer teased us about the scale of the sofa. He says it's the largest sofa that he has ever made.

Sam Moore

Remember, I'm your largest shareholder. Don't screw it up,

Sonia Kim

That's the rules. We have to respect Panasonic's rights, even though we're the largest producer of plasma panels.

Sonia Kim

That's the rules. We have to respect Panasonic's rights -- even though we're the largest producer of plasma panels.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Eric Beder

I think people are a little nervous about turnarounds in general. This is probably the largest turnaround ever tried in retail, and people are impatient.

Eric Beder

I think people are a little nervous about turnarounds in general, ... This is probably the largest turnaround ever tried in retail, and people are impatient.

Roland Betts

It doesn't matter if the firms that respond are the largest or the most best-known around the world. We are looking for excitement, creativity, energy.

Nick Frey

I don't have any problem with it. It may not be the largest in volume in the state, but the old vines have the longest tradition of the major varietals.

Walt Harris

Our special teams is the most respected part of our team.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Tom Stoppard

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Saina Nehwal

My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields.

Henry Cabot Lodge

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

Renzo Rosso

We're always trying to break the boundaries of what a 'denim brand' can be, and we want to be respected for it.

Jill Soloway

After 'Nikki' and 'Steve Harvey,' I had written on a show called 'The Oblongs,' which was pretty well respected and had a lot of 'Simpsons' writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment.