Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Trill

Last year there was somewhat of an absence of the PC from the boom; it was very much consumer electronics centric. This year, I think it will be more evenly balanced where we will see the effects of the consumer cycle include more computing products.

Pichai Lertsupongkit

Many local investors are switching to small-cap stocks on lack of clear direction in blue chips, absence of fresh corporate news and political uncertainty.

Mohammed Nazzal

Sharon's absence removes from the political scene a professional killer who mastered the murder of Palestinians and addressed the most violent, brutal and bloody strikes in the history of the Arab-Israeli struggle. The Palestinian people can only hope that what is coming is better, not worse.

Mark Volpe

Mr. Levine is extremely disappointed about his continuing absence from the BSO podium, and sincerely hopes to return as soon as possible.

Marcos Basaglia

No one really expected a lower rate. It's just that, in the absence of good news, a flat rate added to the profit taking.

Chris Kaman

No offense to Kenyon, but I think (his absence) helps them. Look at their record without him.

Jim Calhoun

Obviously, we are disappointed that Jeff will miss the game at Providence, but the rule as stated in the rule book is very clear. Other players will have to step up and make up for his absence and I have complete confidence that will happen.

Charles Bullock

Obviously, it's a great opportunity for somebody else to build a brand in their absence.

Marc Kennis

Given the current operational performance, the potential to free up large sums of cash and the absence of larger acquisition opportunities, I expect Philips may engage in further share buybacks or pay out higher dividends in 2006.

Paul Turner

We're not dismayed in any way, we're building but it's a slow build right now.

Peter Steinbrueck

We're not building the public transportation system that we need.

Ben Howland

We're not building a program, we're following the leadership of John R. Wooden. He's the one that built this program. It will always be his program.

Abe Reichental

We're not building a future for a few years, we're building for a lifetime.

Steve Harrison

Let's be a little creative about this before we start building three- and four-story circular structures. This is Beaufort.

Stuart Butler

Let people try what they want in their states, providing it meets certain standards. It will mean diversity. It's also a way of building consensus over time of what needs to be done, something you can't do if you go nationally initially.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily, the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. Within six to eight weeks, I'll be completely back up and running and three weeks after the surgery, I should be jogging and building it up until I'm back.

Chris Buck

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

Jeanne Miller

Maggie had a lively spirit, full of fun and humor. The building will certainly be emptier without her.

Kevin Mitnick

A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people.

Laura Bullock

Let's put it bluntly. If rail would be profitable, private companies would be doing it already.

Michael Atmore

Let's wait and see how the two companies mesh. They can learn from each other, if they're smart.

R. Halloran

Libya has been a fairly easy place for these companies to deal with, and I think they welcome the opportunity to get back and be able to operate there again.

Richard Bernstein

Lower quality companies are dramatically overstating their growth rates by using pro forma earnings.

Mark Greenberg

Lots of companies talk about having a long-term focus. At Liberty, they really do.

Promod Haque

Lot of technology companies in India are hoping for better relationship with the US.

Alan Ackerman

Lots of money has moved to the sidelines, ... People are not comfortable with the uncertainty ahead, made up of the fact that many of the tech companies keep lowering their guidance.

Eric Chaney

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.

Robert Scoble

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

Tony Woodley

Make no mistake, we will be looking, as a matter of the utmost urgency, to explore with the company as well as with ministers ways to have this devastating decision reversed.

Robert Reid

Make no mistake, INTL has been missing estimates recently as the company has missed the last four quarters,

Michael Cohen

Lucent will never be the company it once was.

Henry Schacht

Lucent got off track because we tried to grow our company faster than, in hindsight, we were able to,

Terry Williamson

Major Moves. I support it as long as this private company lets us in on the work.

Bill Ford

Lots of stuff that made this company great started off as something that wasn't in the budget.

Konrad Becker

Last year they had a big contribution from selling company stakes. Next year they won't have that.

J. Hoover

Learn what's important to your boss, understand what your company is looking for and help the fool meet those expectations.

Mike McCue

Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.

David Mellem

Lower taxes are great, but if its going to cost you money, it's not worth it. If a stock hits your sell range after 3 months, do you really want to risk 9 more months of fluctuation to get a lower tax rate?

Frank Armstrong

Lower costs will give you higher net returns. I think cost is critically important.

Kumi Naidoo

Leaders have dashed hopes and squandered opportunities, and empty promises cost lives.

Mike Kelly

Last year we reached 355 fifth-graders, at a cost of $6 a student, ... We did this with the help and sponsorship of SFA, Nacogdoches ISD, Coca-Cola, Nacogdoches Safe and Drug Free and others. People stepped up throughout the year, and we received very positive feedback. It was a great adventure, and we will do it again.

David Hudson

Many, many farmers have made significant inroads into their cost structure and we have seen a very significant surge in diversification.

Joe Baca

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Kurt Barnard

Sears is on the way back to health. They're doing a good job (of cost cutting) and they are offering customers a good, recognizable value and customers are responding.

Stephanie Marquis

So far, we have 382 claims. We're estimating the cost to the state has been about $64,000.

Robert Love

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

Jason Wong

One more rate hike late this month is a sure thing, but further tightening is data dependent.

Larry Ellison

No one has ever done this before. We think it will be a huge market and we think it will help drive database growth for years to come.

Richard Smith

Maybe the data files are encrypted not for protection but to keep competitors away from the data as a useful monopoly tool.

Enrique Alvarez

Next week is characterized by very low liquidity in Brazilian financial markets, and no major economic data are released.

Ryan MacCarthy

Obviously, mistakes do happen. But we pride ourselves on data integrity.

Dean Kamen

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

Sarat Sethi

Given the lack of trading volume, it's going to be hard to gauge any moves we make. We have a lot of data to get through.

Naeem Wahid

Given the extremely weak data this morning, sterling has fallen quite sharply.

Albert Schweitzer

Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.

Michael Panzner

Lucent this morning hints at the possibility that you may see other disappointing earnings in the sexier names. The reality is that expectations seem pretty high and the price of the market as a whole has moved higher to reflect that. It doesn't leave a lot of room for disappointment.

Jean Johnson

Lots of people aren't academically inclined and there are still lots of ways to earn a living. But what you see in these young people is it's a very hit-or-miss road they're on.

John Butters

Many of the energy sector earnings have been revised up recently, and that includes forecasts for the second quarter and for the full year.

Marsha Blackburn

Many women are heads of households. Many are the primary wage earners for their families.

Marc Shapiro

Seven of our ten units had double-digit earnings growth and an eighth had record earnings.

Rose George

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.

Bill Coleman

Security guards for celebrities can earn six figures.

Patrick Casselman

Selling the drug unit is going to focus the company. The earnings were also better than expected. It is a good day for investors.

David Packard

Lew was such a straightforward and honest guy. The employees loved him.

E. B. White

Obviously, we look at all the federal employee issues pretty closely.

Michael W. Smith

No one is trying to terminate employees for expressing public opinion.

Dustin Moskovitz

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

Charles Rossotti

From my point of view any kind of mistreatment of one taxpayer or one employee is one too many,

Paul Tobias

Future employees at the moment of hire don't negotiate, don't hire a lawyer, don't tamper with those clauses, don't even read them. They're interested only in the money. They'll sign anything.

Kelly Ross

If an employee is misbehaving, an employer can establish rules to stop that. If they're not qualified for the job, you don't have to hire them.

Bill Black

If an employee is leaving a lot of money on the table, he will think twice about leaving the company.

Tom Reilly

When you'd come by there were more offices and people didn't know where to go. Employees can look out the window and see what's going on. Now we stop someone from standing around for 10 minutes, wondering what's going on.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

Lee Williams

My job is to grow this business. We've got programs with great opportunities and that's what I want workers to keep focused on.

Robert Esche

My first thought? You can't write it. I'm focused on seven games. I'm focused on leaving this one behind.

Peter Rohde

Obviously we're focused on not getting players rubbed out, but at the same time we don't want to make them too gun-shy.

Don Blandin

More Americans are focused on saving for retirement, but are they putting away enough? It's not grounded in a plan and they're saving blindly. They really don't know if they're saving enough.

Amy Ellis

My girls are only focused on (today's) game.

Eugene White

Many people think there is a big gap ... We need to review the strengths he had.

Lorenzo Codogno

Mind the Gap between Soft and Hard Data.

Darren Shan

One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.

Mark McDonald

This would have been like having a gap in a picture frame. It was a major issue in town. There were talks of lawsuits. Thank goodness it didn't come to that.

Joseph Biden

We're losing them because they look over there and they think ? there's this giant gap between what they see and the rhetoric they hear.

Norman Geisler

Jesus is the only way because the Bible says it to be true. Why? Because only He can bridge the gap between God and man; there's no other way.

Charles Stross

If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing ...

David Trimble

There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.

Li Shufu

No matter how hard we work, there is always a gap with Western brands.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Craig Venter

Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.

Renee Ellmers

Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.

Susan Ferguson

More rural states tend to have higher fatalities.

Marie Wilson

More women should be running for higher office. This is just a straw poll, but it makes people think about putting a woman in the White House.

Alderman Mokros

Now we are looking at a higher price.

Ed Slott

Now the IRS fees are higher than mine.

Doug Davis

We might be in for a pause after the recent gains. We're waiting to see when rising interest rates have an impact. Higher rates in the U.S. are the key -- if the U.S. falters, the rest of the world will falter, too.

Robert Toll

Since Katrina, instead of going up $5,000 or $10,000 every week or two, we have been limited to no price increases or very limited price increases,

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Chris Neal

We don't like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Nigel Evans

There are millions of people out there who don't get inflation-busting increases whatsoever.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Kim Beazley

It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Lyle Gramley

Mortgage rates haven't been significantly lower than the rates we have today since the 1960s.

Safa Rashtchy

Obviously, it will mean a wider ownership of the stock and potentially lower volatility. We've seen that with other stocks that have been in the S&P 500.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Edwards Deming

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Dave Arnold

We do everything we can to minimize mortality.

Bill Johnson

We want to minimize placement disruptions if we can.

LaMont Jordan

We just keep getting penalty after penalty. ... If we can minimize those things, then I don't see a team out there that can stop us. That's why I say it's really all about us.

Don Griffin

You can never make a place 100% safe, but you can do some things to minimize the dangers.

Michael Marks

You can never be 100 percent sure but you can minimize the risk of selling to the wrong people. We have to be responsible.

Greg Blache

You have to tackle. You're not going to shut him down, but you want to minimize his big runs.

Jackie Speier

We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of terrorism - by making sure our infrastructure is secure and by working to minimize threats as much as possible.

Walt Byrd

We really tried to minimize the communities we affected.

Kevin Sullivan

Anything that can minimize paper and streamline the process would be great,

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.