Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Shepherdson

People have plenty of cash - and the inclination to spend it,

Wayne Fraser

Steel companies need cash to operate. Steel prices fluctuate and steel companies need cash to manage the ups and downs of the historically cyclical market. Raiding cash during good times is short sighted and counter to the long-term interest of the company.

Cai Rumohr

Spinning it off kind of just gives the problems to your shareholders, and a joint venture really doesn't do much for you. The optimal plan would be to sell it and use the cash to reduce debt.

Robert Lane

Our price realization and what our customers are willing to pay for has been very encouraging for us. That's why you see another very good profit year coming up and a lot of cash being generated.

David French

Our focus on these product lines is leading us to sustained profitability, strong gross margins and a solid cash position.

Gary DiCamillo

Our focus is to generate strong positive cash flow and invest in specific market opportunities, such as instant digital printing.

Benjamin Swinburne

Our conviction level has been buoyed by Sirius' fourth-quarter results and long-term free cash flow outlook.

Andy Brough

Overall, the reporting season has been pretty good. There's a lot of cash around at the moment.

Ethel Barrymore

Ring of Fire, The Johnny Cash Musical Show

Michael Metz

Regardless of what the Fed does today, I think that maximum monetary stimulation throughout the world is over. We are seeing the low point of interest rates throughout the world. The next move will be upward. Moreover, I think the earnings momentum for the markets is eroding as well.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Ralph Acampora

Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate price.

Josef Ackermann

Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-digit earnings per share growth.

Robert Campbell

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Mike Holland

People have been worried for the last several quarters that earnings were going to slow down. If in fact they don't slow down and if it looks as if there's no resumption of inflation ... it'll be interesting to see how people respond to that.

Alan Ackerman

Stay with the big stocks with the big backlog and big trend of earnings and with management that have been there before,

Peter Cardillo

Some of the good earnings reports and good guidance are reversing market psychology. In general, we're probably heading for a good earnings season.

Jon Brorson

Our forecast was for earnings to come in around 13 percent year-over-year growth, and they're on track to do it. They are surprisingly better than expected, and outlooks have been good, generally speaking.

Nobuyuki Oneda

Our operating profit surpassed our previous estimate because the one-time profit from returning pension funds to government was larger than expected.

Jack Gerard

Our reserves are the world's largest, giving us, conservatively, an estimated 250-year supply.

Margaret Gatz

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

Daniel Loeb

our worst-case estimated value of $14 per share.

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,

Sandra Irvin

It fluctuates from year to year, but I'd estimate there's about 800 students playing.

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.

Richard Goodman

I thought he would give me an estimate about how long he would be here, but he just said he's not going anywhere, ... I really felt like he wanted to win one more.

Tom Stehn

It is estimated that between 10 and 19 whooping cranes have started the migration.

Shawn Baumgartner

Part of it is to give the starters a rest. The other part is to get the others more quarters and get them into the flow of the game.

Eugene Jr

People needed to be more involved with each other for information to flow and knowledge to get passed on more quickly.

Jan Popa

Sprucing up the front porch is pretty critical. New paint is good and placing urns of flowers around the door, if the season is appropriate.

Benjamin Grumbles

Our peak flow policy puts a premium on stopping leaks and spills, improving treatment, and increasing public oversight.

Jack Scoville

Places further north haven't seen much rain. At flowering time you need to see an increase in rain. A month from now it could be a problem.

James Lloyd

Man, it will be 30 years next year, and they've really flown by, ... But even after 16 albums, we haven't hopped off yet.

James Lloyd

Man, it will be 30 years next year, and they've really flown by, ... But even after 16 albums, we haven't hopped off yet.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world...

Marco Rubio

Our leaders have to stop ignoring the impact that culture is having on our nation.

Travis Bradberry

Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don't leave jobs; they leave managers.

Donald Rumsfeld

I think it's important to think of the setting six months ago, ... Six months ago, the Iraqis refused to have inspectors in their country. They were ignoring 16 resolutions of the United Nations.

O. J. Simpson

People have questions. It's had a negative impact on the fishermen.

Javier Solana

Steps are urgently needed to improve the visibility, impact and effectiveness

Dr. Jain

Our findings show that the technology is unlikely to be used by the majority of Americans and should not have an impact on the natural sex ratio.

Jason Gibbs

Our view is that this is an isolated incident and the value of the registry to parents and communities outweighs the impact of one isolated incident.

Justin Gray

Man, they made some tough shots. The three-pointers can impact the game. Especially when you give them up in a row.

Barry Manilow

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

Bill Crawford

The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.

Bethany Hamilton

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Tom Cech

It is a target that could impact a wide variety of cancers.

Henry Willmore

Previously the market had taken out any risk of a second-quarter tightening by the Fed. With this statement, we see that's not a risk to be discounted.

Mark Hoffman

Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.

Oleksiy Ivchenko

Our relationship is shifting completely to a market basis.

Evan Siegel

Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.

Ethan McAfee

Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.

Ante Kostelic

Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting cabbage.

Marina Amoroso

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.

Five Live

Some of the merchandise isn't right and the market is very tough,

Leendert Staal

Our priority now, our aim, is to get 25% market share.

Billy Donovan

Playing at a neutral site, you can throw all of the seeds out the window.

Michael Keenan

I think it was pretty neutral from a rand perspective but he did a paint pretty optimistic outlook for the rand.

David Robinson

GI is perceived to be a neutral supplier throughout the industry,

Alexei Yashin

It didn't go well for us. We had so many turnovers in the neutral zone and we didn't really have a lot of scoring chances.

Neal Milner

We're offering people a neutral confidential place to come in with whatever problems are on their mind.

Josh Wilson

We have been doing all this while staying neutral in the governor?s contest.

Nina Zagat

We have to take a neutral approach. We want to be able to work with all of them.

Zagat Survey

We have to take a neutral approach, ... We want to be able to work with all of them.

Patrice Clerc

Until we know the results of those investigations, we should not take position on one side or the other. We wanted to remain neutral as possible. Of course, when you are just neutral after seven victories in one event, you don't look neutral at all.

Charles Garfield

I'm not overweight, I'm undertall

Knox Fuqua

The big tech stocks are still where you have to be but I don't want to go overweight tech,

Kirstie Alley

I'm totally inhibited. When I'm overweight I will not go out.

Tim Albrecht

I am overweight chemicals, and I will stick with it.

Roberta Flack

I've been overweight all my life.

Uwe Reinhardt

Price (in the Swiss system) doesn't matter, because it's set by these negotiations.

Toni Simonetti

Suffice it to say that the price of the stock is an important part of the equation.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Ashton Kutcher

I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Jack Cox

I feel sorry for the (homeless) people. But what price do we pay?

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Bob Stern

I think Harman should be commended for raising so much in the district.

Victoria Moran

Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Nancy Kress

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to (do) better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

David Richardson

It will be 'Roseanne'-ish in nature, a real woman raising two kids. There won't be any winking at the camera, no double-entendre jokes.

Tracy Austin

It's about being with friends and raising money, ... To me, that's most important.

Mark Zandi

Implicitly, ... 'I can keep raising rates, and most homeowners won't suffer.'

Martina McBride

Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Mark Tacchi

That was the first time, other than the medley (relay) that we've put Libby (O'Brien) on anchor. Starting her just wasn't working. When Krissy (Brown) starts, that seems to spark her. We get more out of it all the way around with Krissy starting and Libby on anchor.

Fergal Murray

That?s the one everyone seems to go straight for.

Jimmy Baron

I was very concerned, but he seems to be fine.

Jim Smith

I tell them it's the future. It seems to be where truck tires are heading.

R. Robinson

I think just watching (tape of) the team we're going to play there seems to be more urgency, there's more awareness, more attitude.

Robin Wright

I think just by watching him, like, 'Let's get on with it. Let's just shoot the scene, and we're done,' which seems logical.

Randy Ready

(Johnston) has been hot. Anything he touches right now seems to work out for him.

Jay Haas

I'd like it to go back to no carts. It just seems right. It seems like if spectators can go out and walk, we can, too. It's part of the competition.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.