Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Dudack

Really what the markets have been struggling with is: What is the direction of the economy and therefore corporate profits.

Kimberly Caughey

PC sales are strong and this quarter shows it. And Microsoft still has room for growth in the corporate segment.

Matt Smith

Our objective was to select an anti-spam and anti-virus provider that complimented our overall corporate strategy of continually providing our customers with 'best-of-breed' solutions. Another key criteria for our search was to implement a solution that would be easy to manage and administer.

John Matelski

Oracle has done an excellent job integrating PeopleSoft and JD Edwards customers, not only into their overall corporate support structure, but also their Fusion application strategy as well.

Darren Dopp

People like Eliot because he's a fighter, not a quitter. If Mr. Weld thinks Eliot was too tough on corporate crooks, he is out of touch. If he thinks New Yorkers want a patsy for governor, he's wrong.

Eliot Spitzer

People like Eliot because he's a fighter, not a quitter, ... If Mr. Weld thinks Eliot was too tough on corporate crooks, he is out of touch. If he thinks New Yorkers want a patsy for governor, he's wrong.

Greg Myers

Our problem was that we did not receive the corporate sponsorships this year that we have in past year, ... That represents $1,500 right there.

Claire Buchan

Our focus is on ensuring the SEC has the resources it needs...so that it can go after corporate corruption and fix the system so that abuses do not occur in the future, ... We view this as something that can be viewed as a distraction from those important goals.

Robert Scoble

Our corporate policy is, be smart. We don't talk about things we don't know about.

Jeremy Reichert

Our main focus for the next two weeks will be preparing for the division (matches). This will determine the seeding for zone and is crucial to our success.

Christopher Shays

Our waterways are crucial to the economy in our region, so we need to take every step to keep them secure,

Matt Raymond

Roads are not only crucial in fighting forest fires but also in promoting forest health.

Jerry Narron

LaRue's play is one that nobody talks about. That was the big play in a crucial part of the game.

James So

The 13,500 level is the next crucial support level but I don't think we'll see the HSI falling that far today.

Jeff Haile

That was crucial for us and that was a crucial shot for them to miss. It's a hustle play, a heady play. She knew what was on the line, she had to hustle to get back and she did.

Annika Sorenstam

That was a pretty crucial eagle. And the momentum definitely turned there.

Jill McCorkle

I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.

Rep. Flores

I think that what we saw from last hurricane season is that increasingly, having gas is as important and as crucial as having electricity and running water.

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.

Michael Thomas

Recent events overseas have probably elevated the global economy to the top of the RBA's risk list,

Jason Schultz

Really, ... what we're talking about here is the U.S. struggling to find its place in an economy where the labor markets are just so vastly different.

Andrew Rudnick

Our relatively strong economy is showing itself in the real estate market.

James Fiorillo

Part of the problem to the ailing economy of Japan is the sloppy hiring practices in the 1980s.

Don Brunell

Our members (are) unified around the fact that without workers who are presently here, our economy is in trouble.

Doug Myers

People here are selling stocks. The GDP report might have been sort of a catalyst. Some people think the economy is either not slowing down enough or slowing down too much. In my time, I don't recall any soft landing.

Doug Myers

People here are selling stocks, ... The GDP report might have been sort of a catalyst. Some people think the economy is either not slowing down enough or slowing down too much. In my time, I don't recall any soft landing.

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Ron Lehman

Sustained job growth speaks well for Texas employers and the Texas economy.

Ian Shepherdson

Manufacturers are still miserable, and output will keep falling for some time, but they can now see light at the end of the tunnel, ... They are working off their excess inventory ... and are now hopeful of stronger orders by the year-end.

Tom Antenen

We'll always need some excess capacity, just in case.

Carrie Fisher

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Rod Stewart

That was a turning point in my career, ... We've sold in excess of 3 million (copies) in the U.S. alone.

Dave Duncan

I thought it was an awfully big fine for what involvement I had. I thought it was an excessive fine.

Gareth Jones

I'd like to see it go gold (U.S. shipments in excess of 500,000 copies) and I think it will.

Sara Barwinski

It amounted to an excessive waste of resources and the destruction of a community.

Edmund Phelps

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

Cindy Sheehan

I think their use of force was pretty excessive for someone that didn't have a permit.

Felton McClellan

Regardless of the fact that we lost everything materially, we are so blessed.

Rachel Laws

Regardless of the fact that it's Senior Day, we have to win our last home game because we haven't been winning lately and we really want to stop this streak.

Katsuya Okada

Our policies weren't wrong, but I have to reflect on the fact they did not get across.

Jim Mott

Part of it is losing to Herkimer and part is the fact that we're 1-3 now and really need a quality win. Hopefully the kids are mad and will come back ready to work tomorrow.

Michael Lynton

Part of this is the fact that the movies may not have lived up to the expectations of the audience, not just in this year, but in years prior,

Mark Shapiro

Part of what makes Peralta even more valuable to us is the fact that he plays up the middle.

Steve Johnson

Our load factor (the percentage of seats filled in October last year) was only 56% of what they offered. With that as one of the arguments, you'd look at providing fewer seats.

Andy Kopplin

Our No. 1 goal is to get that money out as expeditiously as possible. The limiting factor will be the number of contractors available.

Willie Geist

People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

Glen Hanlon

Our next step of improvement is to play a 20-game stretch where we go .500. If you play .500 for 20 games, that's a pretty good cross-section of the schedule. We haven't spent a lot of time focusing on those things. We've tried to get better and improve and work on our systems. Winning will be a byproduct of that.

Carlton Hill

That was a major part of it. The hurricane gave me more time in practice, gave me time to get better. The key was when I left receiver and started focusing mainly at quarterback. I started picking things up real well.

Mark Kelleher

I think that's the No. 1 issue that people are focusing on.

Hanna Salonen

I went (back) to Finland, and stayed there and the only thing I was focusing on was how I wanted to come back.

Adam Gilchrist

I think people questioned whether we were even interested in trying to win this, you know, maybe focusing too much on the World Cup.

Carmelo Anthony

I think I'm starting to get into a rhythm a little more. I'm focusing more.

Preston Early

(Julius) was real smooth. She did a great job of focusing and knocking down some big shots for us.

Vince Young

I didn't want that to happen, ... I started focusing in more on sports.

Jeff Suppan

I don't feel like I'm laboring, ... I'm just concentrating on that one pitch and letting things happen. I'm trying to use the defense. I haven't really thought about (start to start). I'm just focusing on the now.

Al Lopez

I think people are forgetting that we have a growing population that we need to inform.

Courtney Taylor

With such an incredible family, it's no wonder that she is like she is. I keep forgetting how young she is. She is so mature.

Carmen Electra

To the victims and people out there, our hearts are going out to them. We're not forgetting about them.

James Altucher

Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.

Mark Norris

People are forgetting he took us through some pretty rocky times,

John Salley

In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.

Wanderley Luxemburgo

I have worked on my striking, without forgetting my physique. I look good, Even to myself

Vladimir Guerrero

I'm very happy for the fans. I wanted to do it at home. During the ovation, I wanted to run out to right field, forgetting that I was the DH.

Goldie Hawn

No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Dodge

Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Mark Batey

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Ken McCarthy

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Bill Crawford

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

C. S. Lewis

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Matthew Lewis

Overall this is a high-quality set of results... and their handset margin of 25 percent is phenomenal.

Steve Ward

Rendell's winning margin is black. Take that away, and he's even.

Steven Wood

Because pricing power has disappeared, profit margins will remain under significant pressure.

Ai Miyazato

I'm a little surprised and very satisfied about (the margin of victory).

Arun Sarin

The place where our margins are really being impacted is in Japan,

Frank Lee

The PC sector is weak in the first quarter but I am still optimistic for the whole year. That's because the trend for the TV sector is positive so profit margins should go up from the second and third quarters.

David O'Brien

We want to be satisfied the plant's safety margin is not compromised,

Bill O'Reilly

In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.

James Harrison

We made a statement. We won, that was the statement we wanted. Margin of victory, stuff like that, is nice. But winning and going to the playoffs is our goal. That's what we want.

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,

Earl Blumenauer

Part of what needs to be going on,

Hal Mumme

Paul Dombrowski is a tremendous competitor. If he wants to play at the next level, he needs to be a slot guy, a running-back-type guy.

Cheryl Smith

Some of the teachers and the administrators are part of the problem. The federal, the state just needs to come in and take over, not just Hillside and Southern, the school board, the administrators, all of it.

Scott Benedict

Someone needs to step up to the plate and offer him a scholarship.

Dan Daly

Our position would not be that we don't need to do anything. The status quo is not appropriate. Something needs to be done.

Steve Zeller

Our secondary still needs some work. We weren't making the reads on the ball.

J. C. Watts

Our team is pretty unique because we're all so close. If you're scared to do a trick, you know you have to do it because the team needs you to do it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

Barry Ritholtz

Salesmen always need something to sell.

Paul Carvel

Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion.

James Cornish

People look at it in a negative way. It shows things were worse than we thought they were.

Nick Kinsella

People who say 'I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist' are actually just negative people who think they are always right.

Barry Mann

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Ed White

I think the signs, so far, are not negative any longer.

Grace Fey

I think the worry is they are going to say something negative about the third quarter.

Jim Bryson

That story should be negative for the rand.

Hemant Shah

That's a very big negative overhang on the drug sector.

Patrick Newport

It isn't very much but it's the first negative in 10 years. That's the big difference.

Tom Wilson

Some of them, quite frankly, are nothing more than a driveway.

Kevin Spacey

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

Mary Kelly

The (anti-virus) system worked, which was quite a relief.

Carl Jacobs

That was quite a ride. We'd be thrilled to repeat it.

Tom Miller

That was quite an accomplishment for us. This is a very tough tournament.

Paul Johnston

That's the really big trend, ... Year 2000 has been the big thing that has really worked quite well.

Steve Griffin

That suggests to me there is something quite clandestine going on or something strange.

Terry Grant

I was quite shocked when they called me.

Carol Patterson

I was quite disappointed the vote went the way it did.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

Lara Rhame

It erodes the relative interest-rate support for the dollar.

Jon Favreau

I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'Spider-Man' did having Tobey Maguire, who was a relative unknown at the time.

Jordana Spiro

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.

John Schultz

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

Chen Shui-bian

I got up at 2 a.m. for this trip. I want to see my relatives and I want to see China,

Shahazad

My destination is at a place where my late-friends and relatives are waiting for me to arrive.

Dave Bristow

She's by herself, she has no relatives in Manatee.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

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.

Aaron Williams

Our water supply is very important to us.

Ben Bernanke

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

Tom Fitzpatrick

It always comes down to supply and demand,

Derrick Johnson

If they are any discrepancies, we want to make sure that if there are individuals in need that we supply as much support as possible,

Mike Johnston

Obviously, more supply is going to hurt, because the occupancies are still not to 1999-2000 levels.

Craig Bruce

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Azim Premji

Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.

Mitch Dorger

You can do the math. Supply and demand.

Lola Russell

We do not have a supply problem. There have been some distribution issues.

Gilbert Arenas

It got weird toward the end on this one, but it was our third win in a row.

Kyle Gilchrist

I thought I was in better shape. He had so much weight to cut. I thought that if I got him into the third period, I could get him.

Robert Eenhoorn

He can play first, second, third or the outfield.

John Smoltz

If it were the old way there would have been another four-spot in that third inning.

Marc Crawford

He was a difference-maker in the third period.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.