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.

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.

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.

Michael Roth

Our top priority is to fix our financial controls and leave accounting issues behind us.

Ned Hill

Our accounting faculty has done a terrific job building an innovative and practical curriculum.

Frances Johnson

Results from 1,177 polling places of the 3,070 polling stations have been counted and tallied, accounting for 378,008 of the votes cast so far,

Craig Aaron

We need a full accounting of the Bush administration's spending on advertising, PR, and fake news. It's time for Congress to reclaim its constitutional role as a counterweight to the executive branch and permanently cut off funding for covert propaganda. We must ensure that taxpayer money isn't being spent by the White House to secretly manipulate the American public.

John Coffee

I think the SEC had to get aboard this ship. Otherwise, they would look like they are lagging behind the parade. They have been somewhat embarrassed by being behind everyone on the issue of accounting reform.

Neil Mawston

Japan and Korea dominate market volumes today, accounting for over 80 percent of TV phones sold in 2006. However, Western Europe and North America, as well as China, will be the hot spots for global volume growth over the next few years. We expect Western Europe to ramp up to over one million units sold this year, with North America and China coming online in 2007.

Maria Martinez

Reed Elsevier has long been recognized as a leader in using technology to strategically build its business, while Microsoft has been at the forefront in helping publishing businesses find solutions to the fundamental changes that are required in the new digital era. Together, we've charted a new course that will provide Reed Elsevier with significant competitive advantages as the company continues the fast-paced growth of its online properties.

Kevin Wallace

Our play was symbolic of a losing football team. We were very fortunate to take advantage of some personnel mismatches. That is the only reason why we won the football game.

Kevin Wallace

Our play was symbolic of a losing football team, ... We were very fortunate to take advantage of some personnel mismatches. That is the only reason why we won the football game.

Ted Spadaro

Our players have to understand that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, getting to play the No. 2 team in the state. You get that opportunity, try to take advantage of it, and you take it from there.

Reed Hastings

Our outlook for the future reflects the continuing rapid subscriber growth and the increasing impact of the cost advantages and other financial benefits that flow from our market leadership.

P. J. O'Rourke

Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

John Schwarz

Organizations are placing a premium on the value of accurate, complete, and timely information. Enterprise information management provides Business Objects with a significant competitive advantage in what we can offer our customers, and we expect it to play an important role in our future growth plans.

Paul Fix

Patience is going to be key around the narrow circuit. I'm close enough to the lead pack, I intend to stay with the lead pack and take advantage of any opportunities that come my way,

Steve Mansfield

Paying people to search and share what they've found is a concept that's gaining in popularity. Community and social search is the wave of the future, but these types of sites need to quickly build high-quality, human-indexed content, and their members are looking for the motivation to participate in this effort. Further, advertisers are anxious to take advantage of targeting large groups of users that are all interested in common products and services, which PreFound.com provides.

Elizabeth Kemf

Recently, 15 rhinos were killed in a five month spate of poaching in Nepal, showing us that there is no room for complacency in our battle to save this species, ... Wanted Alive: Asian rhinos in the wild.

Manmohan Singh

Regional economic cooperation in South Asia has fallen far short of our expectations and the dreams of our founding fathers, ... It remains far behind more successful examples in both Asia and other regions of the world. I sincerely hope that SAFTA comes into force by January 1, 2006, but even this will represent only a modest beginning in terms of our goals.

Jonathan Bloomer

Our position in Asia and the rest of the world and American General's strong position in the U.S. make us one of the top five or six players in the world,

David Miller

Organizations in Asia that are growing aggressively simply can't find the senior executives that they need to underpin their growth,

Jackson Tai

Our margins are better and we maintained asset quality. We will continue to invest in a resurgent Asia but will balance our growth with a stronger focus on productivity.

David Mitchell

People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.

Craig Chan

Some of the Asian currencies are following the yen. As the yen goes stronger, then there's some trade influences on those economies.

Paul Little

Our strategy to aggressively grow the company's capability and reach into the Asian region and will position the company to produce sustainable long term superior returns.

Bill Tyler

Our vision for the Chinese market is to continue our efforts on increased distribution with China's leading retailers. The expectation for Jamieson Laboratories is a significant increase in awareness and in sales of our products in Asian markets over the next year.

Chuck White

Our patents are around the delivery of services,

John Hutton

Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Michael Chapman

Our new 32-bit processors promise to be some of the fastest, smallest, and most energy-efficient available. We researched many options for getting them to market, and are excited about delivering these innovative cores with the proven, well-respected people at CAST.

Rick George

People often times have their deliveries stolen. Things like prescription medicine and so forth. We provide a spot for only $2 to have the item delivered securely instead of sitting in someone's mailbox or on the front porch.

Patrick Cescau

Our savings programs are delivering well and, together with an improved mix, they have enabled us to fully offset the impact of higher input costs,

Don Blandin

Our goal is to deliver the seminars in as many public libraries as we can.

Warren Spector

On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

Charles McCarry

Other writers tell me about these bushel baskets delivered at the front door. If I've gotten 50 letters over the last 18 years, I'd be surprised.

Jack Straw

Rigid pan-European working limits on hours will not deliver health and safety for our work force, particularly where the rules are unevenly applied.

Jack Crumbliss

Our new offense gives us a triple option that enables us to better utilize our personnel and hopefully keep our opponents off balance.

Krish Krishnan

It enables the seller of the stock -- that is, management -- to price the issue right. It also enables management to pick the right investor.

Graham Walker

It enables the replication to keep going and tolerate the damage, even though it doesn't get rid of it.

Donald Rumsfeld

have made extensive use of the underground construction, which enables them to do things such as development and storage and, indeed, even launching from underground hidden silo areas.

Tim Ryan

Luis does all the things that enables your team to be successful.

David Selby

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

Leon Max

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

Wendy Kopp

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Alan Moore

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

Seimone Augustus

Regardless, we knew she'd want us to come back to Europe and go for the gold. While it was shocking when it happened, at the same time we knew what we had to do.

Brian Bethune

Recoveries in Europe and Japan are gaining momentum. This should provide the underpinnings for respectable growth in exports.

Adam Cole

Outside Europe things are looking pretty healthy, with imports falling back a little bit,

Thomas Koerfgen

Results have been much better. The market seems to be recovering. We're optimistic for the long run for European stocks.

David Byrne

required an immediate response from the European Union.

Fabricio Oberto

Playing in Europe so many years, you see more strategy, not so much freestyle game. You learn how to make plays for your teammates. For me, that is one of my powers.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Europe and America should judge Georgia's leadership on the basis of their actions, not just their words and promises. Otherwise Saakashvili will transform Georgia into a dictatorship.

Bianca Jagger

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

Bernard Berenson

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Evan Harrison

Our stripped series has taken off even faster than we had originally anticipated.

Charlie Cook

Playing at this level, it's ... a much faster game, and I've seen improvement (in my game). They've been on me about my play defensively down low, and I've made improvements there, and they're using me on the penalty-kill more and more.

Jim Johnson

I'm impressed with how young he looks. He's playing like a rookie. He has so much energy, you wouldn't think he's been in the league this long. He's playing faster than I've ever seen him play.

Jack Rio

Jimmy looks really quick. He's a full step faster than he was last year, if not more than that.

Shigenori Okazaki

That was a very big mistake. He should have kept everyone guessing. Now he seems to be losing influence much faster than we would have thought.

Russell Sciandra

That would work a lot faster than the lawsuit.

Quincy Allen

That was two minutes faster than Tuesday and four minutes faster than Monday.

Sam Dresser

That way, we take out that player, put in a faster runner, and maybe score a run.

Nezette Rydell

It gets out much faster than if we had to stop and record these messages each time we issued a warning.

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.

Amanda Vanstone

The Pacific solution has been an outstanding success,

Keith Aubry

No one's ever studied them in the Pacific states before.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

Lacey Schanz

Recruiting is an art. You have to be as serious about recruiting as you are about coaching.

Terry Gough

I don't know what it is. Recruiting is crazy.

Bill Burton

I wouldn't say we're recruiting them. ... Most have taken it upon themselves to run.

Greg Schiano

We just have to keep recruiting to the finish. That's it.

Vivek Wadhwa

Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selling.

Randy Edsall

There has to be a whole revamping of recruiting because of technology.

Robert Massey

Winning's a recruiting tool, ... We have to get some wins.

Steve Merfeld

We really like the versatility of the 2006 recruiting class.

Brian Carlwell

My visit was good, and I just wanted to get the recruiting over with.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Robert F. Kennedy

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Sebastian Thrun

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

Gerry Waldron

I did keep a local-only service for just that reason.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Rocky Smith

If they put together some type of a waiting list, my service would not be needed.

David Turangal

We've survived 50 years because of our service.

Dick Miller

We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization.

TR Harlan

She can do everything. Her service killed us. The way she started the match, that put us back on our heels.

David Doniger

Look for the U.S. to use a variety of strategies to try to veto consensus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

B. B. King

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

Bill Taylor

The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.

Bill Smith

Crystal Cruises has individually crafted each European cruise itinerary to provide a rich combination of destinations with more overnight stays and more time in ports. Whether taking a shorter seven-day jaunt or combining several unique cruises to create the ultimate European exploration, luxury travelers will enjoy the grandeur of Europe and the warmth and luxury of the Crystal experience.

Bill Condon

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

Bill Cosby

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

Big Sean

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.

Bill Vaughan

No one can bring to God what you can.