Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Davis

Recent economic data gives us confidence that corporate spending is coming back to life, so I'm hoping sales could be above $5 billion. That would set a strong tone for the rest of the year,

Matthew Dowd

President Bush maintains an approval on the economy in the mid-forties -- exactly what Clinton had at the end of 1995 and above what Reagan had in 1983.

Shen Haihua

Prices above 50,000 yuan will have some negative impact on demand, but in this bull market consumers may be forced to accept these levels.

Andrew Kerr

Our re-analysis revealed that the distance of a village from the coast and the height of the village above sea level explained 87 percent of the variation in mortality among villages.

Ron James

Particularly defensively, we're starting to come into our own. In an Arena Football League game, when you're getting above four stops, you should be able to win every one of those games going away, and we did.

Tony Crescenzi

Parry's comments hint that the Fed still views the neutral level of the federal-funds rate to be approximately two percentage points above the inflation rate,

George Nathan

Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Grant Wistrom

Our new guys have come in and believed that they belonged from the first day. They practice like it and then they go out there on Sunday and show it. Without those guys, we are an average football team, a little above .500. I think we owe them a lot.

E. Hurley

Our message between zero and .08 is a responsibility message. The message of .08 and above is an illegal message.

Sandra Hughes

Record high gas prices won't keep Americans from traveling this holiday. Despite gas prices that are nearly 50 cents per gallon higher than they were a year ago, record numbers of travelers will hit the highways.

James Bennetts

Price of Herald three cents daily. Five cents Sunday. Bennett.

David Pohl

Right now, you're talking to a company that 60 days ago had stock trading in the 12 to 14 cents range.

Chuck Phillips

We now expect EPS of 15 cents a share, excluding amortization and charges. Our previous consensus level EPS estimate was 55 cents a share.

Gary Harris

I think everybody's looking for gas to drop 20 cents a gallon. It's not going to do that. It's going to slowly go down as things get back to normal.

Gerry Snyder

It can be as high 20 to 25 cents on the dollar for administrative costs.

Perry Farrell

Here's my system. Music that's five years old should be a nickel. Music's that's three to four years old, you should pay a dime. If it's two years old, it's 50 cents and for new singles, 75 cents.

David Barr

Historically, over the past 10 to 12 years, depositors with excess of $100,000 received 72 cents on the dollar.

Jack Scoville

I don't think we're going back to 50 cents a pound.

Gene Orza

Part of our task is to let a consensus emerge.

Chris Spear

I think there is finally a consensus that we need to be securing these facilities.

Ian Gunner

I think there's a whole wealth of information suggesting that things are on the mend... I don't think this is really going to disturb market consensus that the German economy will continue throughout the course of this year.

Joe Moore

I think there was a pretty good recognition that the consensus number was too high and that some of the estimates out there were stale.

James Schmidt

I think some of the consensus numbers are a little stale some of the estimates that go into that don't reflect the recent thinking many analysts have about Morgan Stanley.

Edward Gramlich

I think his departure is more a sign of stability and consensus at the Fed than a reflection of disagreement.

Mitch Daniels

I think this is a matter for local decision-making and local consensus and that seems to be what is happening,

Tom Schlesinger

Greenspan is an orthodox thinker in most ways, but you have give him credit for questioning consensus thinking.

Keith Sherin

Given the current outlook, we expect to modestly exceed the first quarter consensus estimate of $0.75 per share,

Peter Volk

Our rescue workers are expecting not just seriously injured people, but also people suffering from hypothermia.

Tatsuo Ichikawa

Some market participants are expecting no rate increase unless CPI increases to 1 percent, but if Mizuno suggests the BOJ can hike rates before, it could be a selling factor for bonds.

Karen Haus

Overall, the macro-environment was somewhat challenging for software vendors in the third quarter, but we are expecting to see in-line quarters from most of the companies.

Andy Roddick

I was a little low on energy, I wasn't expecting to play back-to-back. I'll be glad to have a day off tomorrow before playing Tommy on Friday.

Brian Rolston

I was just sitting here. They'd been making that middle pass all night. I just read it and got a quick shot off. The goalie probably wasn't expecting it.

Ken Mehlman

I think the reason we're going up there is we're expecting an extreme makeover, ... Inside Politics Sunday.

Chris Allen

The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.

Chris Liddell

The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,

Travis Rauh

(The 100) is something we're expecting her to be a threat in when we get to state.

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.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Lewis Platt

Our results this quarter were mixed. We're disappointed with our profit outcome.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

David Brady

It has revenues and profits and a very strong pipeline,

D. H. Lawrence

If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.

Rick Hind

I think the industry's trap is they're in a quarter-to-quarter profit cycle.

Ludwig von Mises

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.