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.

Greg McBride

Pay your bills on time, and pay your debt down over time. Together, those factors account for 65 percent of your credit score.

Susan Thomson

Part of the idea was to help our financial consultants focus on their bigger accounts, the ones that are more labor intensive, ... This also gives smaller accounts the service they need. They can call three or four times a week and have all their needs met and not have to split their attention and time with financial consultants who have $5 million accounts.

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

David Markowitz

People often use Internet trading accounts to try to conceal their trading activity. People don't realize with that there are different types of evidentiary trails being left behind.

Ken Worthington

Such fees help to get rid of non-profitable accounts or turn them into profitable ones.

Michael Harrison

Stern as a property is far more expendable to Clear Channel than to (Viacom), taking into account the money involved and the politics of dealing with the FCC.

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.

Kyle Cooper

Refiners don't buy crude oil to look at it. Once units are back on line we are going to see them produce a huge amount of petroleum products.

Joe Barton

Releasing an equivalent amount of oil from the reserve for a short period of time will help keep fuel supplies adequate, not just for the Gulf Coast area, but for all the United States.

Dan Bartlett

President Bush gets his briefings from commanders on the ground. He has reason for his optimism because of the enormous amount of progress we have made.

David Keating

Our research showed that a significant amount of people were planning to shop later in the season. That attributed to continued increase in sales through Christmas and the weekend after.

Victoria Morgan

Paul brings a tremendous amount of experience on the administrative side as well as the creative production side.

David Downing

Patients shouldn't freak out over it, ... but should be cognizant of it if they really want to minimize the amount of mercury the might potentially be getting.

James Murphy

Past food service bid processes have lasted between nine and 12 months. During this process, a considerable amount of time is spent upon gathering input regarding service and price preferences from various elements of the campus. These inputs are then balanced and included in the bid specifications.

Matt Ward

Part of the reason his music was so inviting to me is the amount of history in it.

Bob Daniels

Part of our problem was Northern; they played a dynamite game. But because of the sheer amount of time we've had off, you can't duplicate the intensity of the game. I felt we were going up hill all night.

Ronde Barber

Regardless of what 2004 was about, 2005 gave us a new opportunity. Everybody jumped at it, believe in it, worked for it.

Friso Abbing

Regarding the substance of the proposal, our view is the reverse of the people you have been speaking to. We believe that we need to protect innovators, therefore we want to send a strong signal to those people infringing intellectual property that they face criminal sanctions.

James Loy

Recent information from ongoing investigations, detentions, and emerging-threat streams strongly suggests that al-Qaeda has considered using the southwest border to infiltrate the United States. Several al Qaeda leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons.

Anthony Romero

President Bush may believe he can authorize spying on Americans without judicial or congressional approval, but this program is illegal and we intend to put a stop to it.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes that we need to explore new methods of deriving new lines that would not result in embryos being destroyed. He feels that we should push the envelope of science in a way that does not cross fundamental moral and ethical lines.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job, We don't speculate on personnel decisions.

Alan Greenspan

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job.

Donna Shalala

(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), ... Meet The Press.

George Buckley

Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.

Steve Sexton

Our new era at Churchill Downs got off to a spectacular start last year with a record-smashing Kentucky Derby Week and we look forward to welcoming our fans back for another exciting spring meet. That Derby Week momentum carried on through a terrific spring meet in which fans got to know and love our new facilities. Our staff is working hard to present those fans not only with the finest racing facilities in America, but to provide unparalleled guest service as they enjoy the strongest and most competitive daily racing program in the country.

Philip Tod

Such an exercise had never been carried out on this scale, it was a full-blown scenario with the worst that we could be confronted with.

Gene Watson

Stephanie had a real solid game and carried us for a while. We did real well as a team in the first half, we just couldn't put another half together to go with it.

Ashley Burnett

Our pitching has definitely carried us. All three go out and compete and give a chance to win on most nights. For the time, Bryce was out there, he was pretty good.

Brian Anderson

Our pitching has carried us so far this season. The guys are doing a great job.

Don Sutherland

Our pitching has been very good and is what has carried us.

Justin Higgins

Our understanding is that this decision is a positive development since it removes the risk of the death penalty being carried out.

Hamid Awaluddin

Remission is for all prisoners without looking at the type of crimes which had been carried out,

Jaromir Jagr

I want to win the Cup and I want to win the Cup in New York. My first two years, when I won the Cup in Pittsburgh, especially the first year, I was on the third or fourth line, and I wasn't really involved in the game, there was Mario and other veterans who carried the team and they kinda gave the Cup to me.

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.

George Gero

Recently, funds who were selling oil also were selling the metals, but then everything seemed to change. Investors see that there are whiffs of inflation out there.

Mel Carnahan

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.

Jay Vavricek

Just because you appropriate funds doesn't mean you have to spend them.

Christopher Sullivan

I didn't give a legal opinion on any of the funds in question,

Eric Schwartz

Given the magnitude of the contributions, it is inevitable that some of the funds are not going to be spent as efficiently as possible.

Brian McQuade

Funds that are highly leveraged are risky and only pay off when the markets are up.

David Li

Funds moved back into technology shares, on strengthening sentiment in the industry.

Koji Suzuki

Funds are putting more money into oil because of rising geopolitical risk about Iran. Gains in Tokyo reflect records abroad.

John Brady

Funds and trend-followers who were short are getting in the market, and that?s why it is going up, too.

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.

Kevin Rose

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

Hugh Johnson

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

Craig Callahan

Most people want stocks to go up all the time. We're back to normal and people don't like it, ... Investors that don't have the patience to ride through trading ranges won't be able to participate in the surge.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Patsy Crisel

(Relay) is important because the money raised stays here.

Tom Lewis

Our political system has become more about money than it has about people,

Phil Hardberger

or at least give us the money to do it.

Jay Johnson

People laugh, but we have to move money around occasionally.

Deborah Voso

People often underestimate how much money it takes to live in retirement.

Nancy Bain

Surveyors could make some money on this one.

Peter Schiff

Some of the smaller stocks have been moving, but the big stocks are going to take real money to move.

Francis Maude

Some of that money may well have been from overseas sources.

John Nicholson

Our staff needs raises; we need roads, parks, all the things that this money can provide,

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.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Neil Baldwin

Our revenues are down about 20 percent from prior years.

E. Hicks

Over 90 percent of phones really do not really have vulnerability.

John Bradley

Over 60 percent of runners are from Utah,

Robert Straus

Right now, tech stocks are about 20 percent undervalued. While I wouldn't be surprised if some profit-taking took place, we still see a lot of upside.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

James Thrash

That's what it was, 75 percent of the offense?

Roger Clemens

I was pitching 100 percent at this time of year regardless.

Giulio Andreotti

I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

David Beamer

Our personal reaction was one of relief, because they got it right.

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Lee H. Hamilton

I was personally kind of discouraged with that statement. This is not a new problem.

Roger Lemerre

It is not a personal thing for me, it is a voyage for the Tunisian team and people.

Mark Valley

'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

Aaron Spelling

Stay tuned! I may not be here, but my show was picked up!

Wally Szczerbiak

Pick your poison. Try to stop K.G. or me . . . They wanted to play a small lineup, and we made them pay.

Phil Garner

Pick 'em out of a hat. We just need somebody. Nothing scientific in the formula.

Rabih Alameddine

I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

Robin Hobb

I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.

Denny Hamlin

That was pretty good, we picked up three-quarters of a second from practice.

Scott Lawson

I was pretty frustrated. I kind of got down on myself, but my teammates picked me back up and told me to keep shooting.

Billy Beane

I think it took a lot for him to pick up the phone.

Joan Buyce

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Mark Brunell

I'm not thinking about my portfolio in the huddle,

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

Merle Bishop

If we get together, this could be the premier place to live in the county.

Sylvester Croom

We are talking about one of the premier teams in the country,

Ben Bradlee

She was the premier American publisher, ... She got tested more than most of them, and she stood up with such bravery.

Jonathan Demme

We pretended it was a world premiere concert.

Alan Smith

You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One.

The Eagles

Until we prove otherwise, they're simply the premiere 3-A team around here that I know of,

Jean Charest

It will be the first time that a premier from Quebec will go there,

Donald Davis

This is the premier short track race in Florida.

Lara Giddings

Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

C. S. Lewis

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

Brett Basanez

That's the risk you take in the shotgun. But it was nothing serious.

Scott Riggs

That's the risk when you come down here with no points.

John Barlow

That's a world worth taking a risk for,

Paul Browne

I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero.

C. S. Lewis

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

Keith Hampton

He didn't sell any stock. He went down with the ship.

Jackie Spaulding

going to make me sell the motel and make me go with him.

Don DePalma

For me this is just one of the fundamentals of doing business: If I can't understand what you're selling me, I'm not buying.

Merle Olberding

For the state tournaments, some of them were in here Tuesday wanting their tickets and we didn't start selling until Wednesday.

Johnny Rivers

He was signing everyone else up, ... He just didn't think I could sell any records.

Tod Kowalczyk

I was surprised it didn't sell out in September.

John Roberts

If they want to sell and get out, if they have enough land, it's OK, they can downsize and do that.

Ed McIntosh

If this situation isn't fixed, they won't be able to sell their house.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Harry Eisenberg

If you look at the universe of the 7,000 or so stocks that are priced this way, most of them you wouldn't want to touch,

Steve DeLuca

These stocks come in and out of favor.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Beeban Kidron

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.

Beck

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

Beck

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

Barry Ritholtz

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

Barry Lopez

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

B. F. Skinner

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

Billy Corgan

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

Carrie Snow

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

Beth Simone Noveck

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Branko Ivankovic

Our players, when it's tough and hard, can do anything.

Sebastien Caron

Somehow, we always make it interesting. It was tough in the end, but we'll take it. It doesn't matter.

Felipe Alou

That could make it tough on him. It's a possibility.

Tyler Arnason

We've talked, and we've come to the understanding that he wants more from me. It's been a tough year on all of us.

Todd Galloway

I was just trying to be tough and find it.

Pierre Pettigrew

It is a very tough lobby. You have my sympathies, Condi,

Paul Collingwood

Kumble is a world-class bowler. He is tough to play on any wicket.

Bob Lutz

That was a tough one for them to lose.

Paul Mainieri

That was a tough decision, but I think I would have done the same thing.

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Estelle

I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.

Simon Schama

Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Gore Vidal

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

Ciara

I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad.

Colleen Murphy

I think it's going to be great. Unless there's a blizzard.

Luke Waddington

I think it's discounted, unless they do something and do something decisive.

Rod Thorn

Unless we get very fortunate, ... we are not going to be a championship contender.

Robert Farmer

Unless they shrunk up over the years, he must not have been a real big fellow,

Bethenny Frankel

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

Bob Bauman

That was a lot of weight off their shoulders.

Dusty Baker

He can't put any weight on it right now,

Al Gore

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

Charles Darwin

Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.

Chris Farley

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Farley

I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.

Burt Young

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

Carnie Wilson

The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight.