Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Knight

Ultimately, we wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

Orville Redenbacher

The other Processors sold inferior corn in the consumer package because many consumer buyers were only interested in a good price.

Jim Cramer

There are companies out there in our country who historically have not been able to beat the Germans and the Japanese, who now beat them routinely.

Erskine Bowles

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

Erskine Bowles

It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.

Lee Scott

There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK.

Lee Scott

Don't say it's because of benefits, because our benefits are good.

Lee Scott

So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.

Lee Scott

You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

Jack Baker

Until earnings and forecasts start turning around, we are going to stay stuck in this tight trading range. There is no incentive for buyers to get back in the market.

Brian Flynn

We are seeing a lot of buyers priced out of Cambridge and Somerville looking in the Hillside. You can find a nice home in this neighborhood for $50,000 less than you'd pay in Somerville.

Richard Cripps

What this does is it keeps buyers away. It's a lack of buyers. And they would prefer some certainty.

Andrew Milligan

We would still be buyers of oil stocks if we felt reassured that supply was going to be constrained in 2006, which we do.

Diep Kiet

With much stronger competition worldwide, especially from China, garment buyers are now demanding more and better services from producers.

Julian Phillips

The real driver of the gold price continues to be lack of selling, leaving a small volume of investment/speculative buyers calling the shots.

David Howell

There is no doubt that buyers have more leverage than they did a year ago.

Judy Ramage

Seventy-one percent of home buyers start their search on the Internet.

Chris Avery

Second-home buyers should go into this with their eyes very wide open.

Kevin George

Ultimately it comes down to where the consumer is.

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

Gary Campbell

We are positive on stocks, especially those that are benefiting from very strong U.S. consumer demand.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Alan Ackerman

There are continued uncertainties, ... The U.S. economy is slowing and commensurate with that is slowing consumer spending and corporate spending.

Scott Brown

There are some encouraging signs in retail sales, but if you look at what the source of consumer spending is, it's really income growth, and wage growth has been lackluster, suggesting the consumer will not be robust going forward.

Bob Brown

We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works.

Marshal Cohen

Until they're able to prove that consumers are going to respond to the changes, the Street is very nervous. It's a very big undertaking to convince the country that a national Macy's is better than regional department stores.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

Jess Walter

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.

Cesar Romero

I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.

Estelle

The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

Talen Singer

We are looking to turn the corner this year and come out of a losing slump.

Mike Bair

There are customers from every corner of the globe.

Dean Chase

There are some farmers who pull up to the elevator here in the fall and just tell the people that this load of corn is going to the foundation.

David Ricardo

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it,...

David Hume

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.

Madeline Albright

There is no question that Yugoslavia has turned a corner and is moving in a positive direction toward Europe and democracy.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Elbert Hubbard

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Aristotle

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

Victor Munoz

On paper we are inferior to Real and to say anything else would be ridiculous.

Carl Jung

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

Alvin Ailey

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Rowan Atkinson

I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did.

Alfred Adler

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Bhagavad Gita

One's inferior natural work is better than superior unnatural work. One who does the work ordained by one's inherent nature incurs no sin.

Alexander Crummell

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

John Parsons

We are at capacity. We are interested in getting new equipment.

Valerie Miller

We're interested in using it if the waivers are in place and it's a safe alternative, ... This is not a quick fix. It could be a multi-year process.

Judy Woodruff

We're interested in knowing, ... how much each one of you uses the Internet. How much time do you spend on it?

Valerie Cunningham

We?re in discussions with other interested parties ... to see what kind of solution we could come up with.

Charles Clarke

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Rod Paige

whether or not I'd be interested is a whole other issue.

Park Chan-wook

When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

Joyce Brothers

We're so interested in it because it's different for everyone.

Chad Reed

We're just not putting it together. The speed is decent, and the package is there. We've just got to put it together for the weekend.

Tony Smith

I think we've only scratched the surface. I think she's just so unique. She's the whole package when it comes to her ability.

Brian Snitker

I thought he had the whole package going.

John Pike

I think we're going to see a package deal.

Robert Genuario

We've got a lot of work to do. Frankly, I think you have to scrap the appropriations package if you're going to do tax cuts. ... It just doesn't work.

Al Jarreau

I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.

Mario Martinez

Where are my packages because I want to know, I got the receipts, and I can prove to them that I haven't received my packages.

James Allen

We are reaffirming what is our policy. This is a standard package of incentives.

Ann Boeckman

When a product reaches the point of spoilage, there will be other signs that will be evidenced - for example, odor, slime formation and a bulging package - so the product will not smell or look right.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Wesley Clark

We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Denzel Washington

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Benjamin Franklin

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

William Shakespeare

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

Bernard Law Montgomery

There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.