Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcy Forman

reflects the growing importance of our international audience, and further ensures that our users around the world have access to the in-depth news and market coverage important to them.

Royce Engstrom

Recently, many European countries have increased access to higher education. Dr. Card wanted to see first-hand how those changes have been implemented, and her experiences may prove useful to higher education in the United States, and specifically South Dakota.

Gwyn Morgan

Record setting wet weather in key Western Canadian producing regions and industry activity levels in the North American oil and gas service sector have restricted access to land and equipment in an unprecedented way this year,

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.

Susan Schwab

President Bush spoke of the risks of economic isolation and the critical importance of American competitiveness. I am utterly convinced that to maintain American global prosperity, we must pursue a sensible, market-oriented trade policy that provides greater market access and enforces our laws and agreements.

Judd Gregg

President Bush recognizes the challenges faced by those who lack health insurance and remains committed to ensuring that every American looking for a job is able to find one and to expanding access to affordable health care for all Americans,

Jim Towey

President Bush delivered on what he promised to do: Addicts, the homeless and the jobless should have access to the best programs available.

David Roberts

Our partners have been asking for more help from us on the services-strategy side. It's a constant request that they need access to more technical resources and other things.

John Scott

Our own Drug Information Database pioneered the way in which athletes and support staff could access accurate, up-to-date information on licensed medications and substances,

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.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves. They need the market.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves, ... They need the market.

William Warlick

Relative to the bankrupt carriers, this is a fairly strong liquidity position, but obviously they face cash flow pressures.

Pat Lewis

Relationships with our customers have never been better. We made the investment into their emotional bank accounts, and they are paying the dividends with their increased frequency and ticket averages. It truly is a win-win relationship.

Stephen Walters

Parts of the economy are still doing well, with mining booming and that's generating jobs. I do think that employment growth will slow this year and that will be enough to keep the central bank on the sidelines.

Dana Hurst

Our loan officers were seeing women coming into the bank struggling to be successful in business. We realized we weren't seeing a lot of men coming in with struggles.

Karen Rugen

Our lead banks support the plan and we believe the plan is in the best interest of our other lenders, so we expect to get all the approvals we need.

Paul Foster

Option market makers and hedgers are pricing in the possibility of (Delphi) filing for bankruptcy before October 17.

Keith Leggett

People need to choose the risk and savings instruments that are right for them. If a person is very risk averse, then bank deposits are very attractive.

J. Horton

Regardless of what you all were told, when you basically tell somebody with six games left that they?re not going to be here next year, I think it?s pretty tough to finish the year out.

Brian Wallace

Really what we're providing is a basic public health service. The fact of the matter is, dirty laundry has to be done. It's not something that can be rationed or put off until energy prices come down.

Jo Bonner

Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.

Michael Gowell

Relationships are ongoing negotiations. The usual basic dynamic is that the man offers security - emotionally and financially - while the woman nurtures.

Jim Watson

Our research shows that some basic changes in regulations could make a significant difference,

Donnie Wilson

Our rent has gone from $1,000 a month to $2,500. That's basically our whole budget.

Nancy Schaeffer

Our outlook is really positive. I think the girls have worked hard the past couple of weeks, just making sure that they are consistent with their basic fundamentals. We have a little more speed than we did last year.

Herb Sendek

Our rebounding was basically non-existent tonight, and I'm very disappointed in the way we played. Noel had it going and their entire team really played well, but we certainly helped their cause.

Craig Venter

Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.

John Connor

reflect some guarded optimism in the direction the market is taking.

Shaun Stenshol

Our goal is a sustainable society and Bio-Beetle is a step in that direction, giving visitors and L.A. residents a renewable energy option when renting a car. As our slogan says, 'Give the planet a vacation the next time you take one.

Shen Haihua

Overall trade was quiet as most players stayed on the sidelines to wait for direction from investment funds.

Pat Summitt

Management wanted to go into a different direction.

Jaromir Jagr

We need some scoring and we need some defense, too. There are a lot of players around the league that see this team is going in a different direction than before.

Jeff Candage

We need someone to get in there and give them some direction. We need oversight by someone in a leadership position.

Joseph Lyons

We need rates to go down, but this goes in the other direction.

Derrick Kellier

I will have to meet with the officials in the ministry and to take direction from the prime minister to see what she wants to be her focus. It is not my focus; it is what her focus is and that of the entire Cabinet.

Thomas Steg

It is another step in the wrong direction by Iran.

Ryohei Muramatsu

Reflecting the improvement of economic fundamentals in Japan, inflows into Japanese assets, equities in particular, are likely to grow stronger.

Anthony Chan

Recent trends in this index strongly suggest that the largely anticipated path towards economic recovery has in all likelihood already begun,

Michael Malone

Recently, when yields move down, the market has moved up. Investors are looking to the fact generally that economic growth worldwide is robust right now, so you're seeing a lot of these multinationals that participate in that doing quite well.

Anthony Chan

Real new home sale prices and existing-home sale prices have been rising very sharply. When that starts to give way and we don't have the equity market picking up where housing left off, that's another reason the economic expansion will be gradual.

Ignacio Bunye

President Arroyo has not only taken the barbs without flinching but has stuck to her economic plan with steadfastness.

Tom Richards

Part of the point here in GRE and economic development is a forever job ... it takes staying power and ... Michael helped to teach us that, quite frankly,

Keith McKeown

Part of our mandate in Florida is to encourage economic development, and this would be an opportunity for some economic development and jobs.

Edward Zander

Our nation's wireless needs are too often governed by outdated regulations that hinder economic progress and innovation.

Bob Straus

Some investors are waiting for economic confirmation so they can purchase tech stocks, but by the time you get the confirmation, you've already missed out on most of the rally.

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.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Kurt Kutay

Our market is national. All of us (in the industry) want to live here. We love the outdoors, and what greater place is there to live than the Pacific Northwest?

Richard Dodd

Some of the species, like the pipistrelles, are increasing, and the rarer species, which include the greater horseshoe bat, are actually stable, so we are trying to find ways to increase their populations.

Steve Phillips

Our BI system provides information that helps us seek out greater efficiency.

French Proverbs

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

Robert Teeter

We need an umbrella under which we can put all of the President's programs and end up with the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

Kevin McCarthy

I think the sooner we get it done the better off we are, the greater trust the public will have,

Steven Anderson

Larry King has been in the paper for a very long time. But we want the news to be trendier, newsier and to have greater impact than it has now.

Wesley Moultrie

It is having a much greater impact, I think, then what had been anticipated.

Phil Ramon

Some of them will need some major (repair).

Joe Jenkins

That day, there was nothing major going on,

Harley Dale

Outside of NSW spending on major renovations was softer, but not substantially so at the end of 2005.

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

Shane Coursen

We now know that it's not only a threat to smart phones. All these regular phones that support J2ME are vulnerable and can become a major target.

Shizuka Arakawa

I was a little nervous today, but there was not any major mistake tonight. It was ok.

Silvan Shalom

I think there was a very major breakthrough today in the relations between us and Pakistan,

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Jason Venable

Stephen Munoz really stepped up when Thomas went out.

Dave Huppert

Someone is going to have to step up for us.

John Connelly

Our forwards were very disappointing. They have to step up to the mark.

Dan Furmansky

Overall, it's a step in the right direction.

David Cameron

We'll be able to comply. But now we're working to take it a step further.

Anthony Gonzalez

I was just tired. When he took me down I said, ?this kid's tough.' So I stepped it up.

Doug McCrary

I think we can play better. We're winning, and we've got to go one step at a time." ()

Charlie Bell

I think this woke us up. As a team, we stepped it up a bit.

Scott Roembke

I think we're just going to take it one step at a time just like we've been doing all week.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Lakpa Sherpa

I think this is a very wealthy country.

Charles Babbage

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

Ludwig von Mises

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

Ayn Rand

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Dave Ramsey

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

Babe Ruth

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Walter Benjamin

I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!

Alfred Marshall

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Adelbert von Chamisso

Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.

Jeff Probst

Survivor. With all the women together, there's no modesty.

B. R. Ambedkar

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Carrie Snow

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

Carrie Chapman Catt

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Bette Davis

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Heinrich Heine

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day

Stephen Lewis

It is always the village women who drive these things.

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.