Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Alterman

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Bob Taft

Recently, I saw firsthand how the Emerald Ash Borer is destroying our vital ash tree resources, ... We appreciate these additional federal dollars, and I will continue to work with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to pursue further funding for 2006.

Lester Crawford

Previous shortages highlighted the need for additional influenza vaccine manufacturers for the U.S. market,

John Nestor

Our own high end estimate was between 1,000 and 1,200 - there may be additional advisors who aren't signing up and adopting a 'wait and see' attitude.

Gary Spear

Our overall crime rate would have changed dramatically, if you take out those additional vehicle burglaries.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmsuch as mentoring or fundraisingand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmùsuch as mentoring or fundraisingùand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Gary Walker

Patients will be notified with additional information (soon).

Chris Brathwaite

Part of this process is looking at staffing needs going forward. We believe the changes will allow stores additional flexibility ... to serve our customers.

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

Bart Melek

Recent oil and fuel inventory trends are clearly demonstrating that the oil industry is no longer in crisis mode and that energy prices are likely to continue to soften.

Dipen Sanghavi

Reliance Industries has clearly led the rise today, and investors are confident because of the fund flows into the market.

Stephen Greene

Our research shows that event information consistently ranks as one of the top three requests by visitors to our Web site. People clearly want to know all their options as they map out their vacation plans.

John Skipper

Our research and the ratings clearly suggest that a daily show may have been too much.

Scott Paluch

Parse and Thomas are clearly as good of a one-two combination as there is throughout the country. But on the other side of the ice we have a pretty good combination of our own.

Richard Petersen

Part of the weakness has to do with global IT demand. This is a moderately negative signal about the tech spending outlook. But it's clearly more than just IBM.

B. R. Hayden

Our main concern is to reduce mercury. We look at it clearly as a toxic chemical. We've been doing more testing around the state in streams and lakes and fish, and we're finding more of it.

Joseph Biden

Staying the course is clearly something the American people will not follow ? will not follow. So tell us, what are the standards?

Ted Lempert

Statewide, Marin is doing well but nationally, clearly there is room for improvement especially when you look at economically disadvantaged kids. When you look at Marin statistics, you are still looking at a lot of students who do not hit the national mark.

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.

Ken Joyce

Our goal is for 2006 SG&A expenses to be $25 to $30 million lower than in 2005.

John Fuller

Overall, our restaurants are still doing fine. We just had a lot of expenses this go-around.

Arthur Johnson

It has been a tremendous expense on our school system.

Samuel Hopkins

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

Steve Carter

I wouldn't recommend they try to make more money with a second job, since living paycheck-to-paycheck is already stressful, and they have a young child. Instead, they'll need to reduce their expenses as much as they can.

Malessa Wing

Batteries. All their little things take batteries. That seems to be a big expense right now.

Dick Bennett

Because they score at the expense of their teammates.

Sherwood Schwartz

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

George Moore

God is a great expense but government would be impossible without him

Glenn Tilton

reflects the financial foundation of the much stronger, much more competitive United that we have built.

Hilary Clinton

Passing this legislation today is an important step in making sure that these families, who have been through so much, receive the financial relief that they need.

Sunil Reddy

Oracle is essentially trying to get rid of a competitor. This is more of a financial transaction than a technology transaction.

Thomas McInerney

Some of this may be because financial planning is confusing,

Doreen Toben

Our strategies are really starting to take hold, and you can see it in our financial and operational results this quarter.

Trevor Fetter

Our financial results for the quarter were severely impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

Toni Simonetti

Our financial performance is unacceptable, we know that and we've been working hard to turn around North American operations to improve our financial performance,

Niall Ferguson

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

Sergei Kiriyenko

I think there remain no organizational, technical or financial problems on the joint venture establishment.

David Healy

I think there will be a strike, but a short one. But any Delphi strike would shut down GM totally in a matter of days.

Tom Hoppe

I'm always getting ready to leave. Some GM workers just keep their stuff in boxes. You never know.

Floyd Reese

I don't think I've ever seen this. I've only been doing this for 30 years, and this is the first time the press got an e-mail and the GM didn't.

David Smith

GM stockpiled a lot of pieces, but that can only last so long,

John Casesa

GM likely doesn't have enough inventory to maintain a strong sales pace.

Harley Shaiken

GM is sending signals about its priorities. The 2007 negotiations are going to be tough.

Joe Barker

GM is going to take Saturn up a notch.

Lindsey Williams

GM has their own attrition plan that they're working through with the union. Now how we play into that ultimately impacts what happens in terms of people movement for GM.

Todd Leone

GM has just been a big dog. It can't get out of its own way. It's going to be a 'show me' kind of stock, until they show us they're actually not going out of business.

Alex Wong

PCCW still has more upside potential but I think we will see some resistance when it reaches HK$15.5,

Mike Keenan

We've talked so much about the potential of our young players, ... This will make the team a better team.

Tim Ghriskey

It is a stock that has the potential to disappoint.

Keith Hennig

Jess has the potential to be something really special.

David Cronenberg

I wrote a script that I thought had a lot of potential,

John LaMattina

I think this will be the norm. When you have something new, there is the theoretical potential for harm.

John Montgomery

I think this has the potential to be one of the sexiest projects we have seen in years.

Wendy Hall

KBR remains a potential subcontractor for this important work,

Paul Herbert

I think it could be significant, and a potential drawback.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Lu Donnelly

Barns are for sale on the Internet. The wood is sought after now.

Keith Alexander

His sale to Watford is another filip for the youth set-up.

Ricky Gervais

Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already?

George Stephen

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.