Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Hong

Many core MBA accounting courses more vigorously attack issues of ethical dilemmas and awareness in accounting. And many courses help users of financial information unearth inconsistencies and potential accounting red flags.

Anne Edwards

Mr. Crafts' report was nothing but an accounting exercise. It doesn't show anything about proportionality or uniformity of the property tax system in New Hampshire,

Elizabeth Selvin

Men who reported being physically active were much less likely to have ED compared to men who reported no daily physical activity. Similarly, men who reported being sedentary - measured by hours of daily television viewing and video and computer use - were much more likely to have ED, even after accounting for other risk factors.

Kevin Downey

No credible analysis of an accounting failure would suggest that the appropriate role of the chief executive officer was to substitute his own accounting judgments for those of the professionals.

John Mackey

My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.

Thomas McInerney

Obviously the final accounting is yet to come, (but) we do think we're actually going to see profits decline year over year.

Rosa Parks

When the history of this country is written, when a final accounting is done, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.

Michael Hecht

Given the company's prior accounting and regulatory issues, this is likely to have a meaningful negative impact on the stock today.

Stephen Cutler

For Xerox, the accounting function was just another revenue source and profit opportunity, ... As a result, investors were misled and betrayed.

Mamie Van Doren

Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

Keith Lawrence

We're not doing anything special to market them. We're trying to go ahead with business as usual in pretty unusual circumstances.

D. B. Weiss

Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved.

Mike Chapman

Manhattan Associates was ahead of the curve in being able to show us how its RFID solutions would meet our needs. With the help of Manhattan Associates' project team, the implementation was smooth and came in under budget. Shire is poised and ready to meet upcoming retail requirements.

Frank Brothers

Like everyone else, I knew there was a possibility Jerry might not ride the whole winter, but I told him before the meet began that as long as he was still riding and the horse was doing well he'd have the mount. At the moment, Edgar has the call for the Hutcheson and we've committed to nothing else beyond that point. In this game you never want to get too far ahead of yourself.

Roger Martin

Luigi's chose to go ahead and do this on its own. I think it's incumbent upon those of us who don't smoke to support businesses that have gone smoke-free, whether they think they have to or they volunteered.

Steve Elkington

Major-championship golf, you're just really concentrating on more or less the shot you're trying to hit, ... If you get too far ahead of that, you don't seem to do too well.

Kirk Salvo

Mack spent the whole ride taping his ankles and his headgear and visualizing. He's a step ahead of other high school wrestlers, but you would never know it from talking to him or watching him on the mat. He's so humble and a real class act.

Kevin Correia

Making the rotation is my goal. Today I was able to get ahead of most of the hitters and that makes for short innings. That's been a problem for me the past few years.

Eminem

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Rick Perlstein

Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.

Richard P. Feynman

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Robert Mankoff

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

Kevin Mitnick

Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.

Kurtwood Smith

We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three.

Kurt Browning

What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.

Malcolm McDowell

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.

Marc Faber

This is the choice in life. You choose what is less bad. I don't particularly like Mr. Obama, but I think he is less bad for the world than Mr. Romney. It is a tragedy of life that both candidates did not lose the election. They would have deserved both to lose.

Marcy Kaptur

The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that they have an outsized interest in their own profits.

John Rothfield

Major central banks in the world have talked about hiking rates, so if the Bank of Canada signals they are coming to the end of rate increases, it may push investors to sell the Canadian dollar further.

Gary Hufbauer

Many of our banks have lent money to Brazil, and some of those loans may not look so good today after the devaluation as they did before. so banks will be hurt, or some banks will be hurt and the stockholders in those banks will be hurt.

Claes Fornell

Many banks struggle to deal with customers. Customers often end up feeling trapped in a technology maze, where they have to press this button or that button on their phones, and can't find their way out.

Mario Pierry

Shares of banks in emerging markets have a much larger growth potential than banks in developed Europe.

Alwi Shihab

Several Islamic banks are keen on opening branches in our country.

Sandy Sanderson

Mother Nature plays strange tricks in strange ways, but the Outer Banks has been spared a direct hit.

Pierce Brosnan

My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.

Gerry Rawcliffe

One motivation that could be at the back of European minds is the danger of the American banks coming in.

Richard P. Feynman

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn't want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn't supposed to be able to draw - isn't that wonderful - so I made up a false name.

Manolo Blahnik

I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

J. Horton

We're not buying some report that's going to go on the shelf and never be seen again. This is a research and marketing tool we can start using immediately once we get it.

Jill Nelson

We're not buying outright like Plato's. We're doing a 60/40 split.

Carolyn McCarthy

make it easier for criminals to buy guns at gun shows.

Tom Henderson

Make sure you go to a trusted source to buy your parts. If someone is selling you oil filters out of the back of a truck, they probably aren't the real thing.

Scott Holmes

Making habitat restoration part of public works projects is cheaper than eliminating the species and buying mitigation habitat at another location. With the San Pedro Project, for example, habitat restoration cost $3 million, but it would have cost $5-6 million (twice as much) to destroy the habitat and try to recreate it elsewhere.

John Savage

Let the guy do his thing. It's a unique event that should be encouraged even if you don't buy into the whole program. The guy's been doing it for 30 years around the world, and every place has survived.

Hugh Thomas

Licensing our WiFi product to Symbian was an important milestone for us. It provides a real endorsement that our technology is the de-facto standard for the future. From a commercial perspective it positions us well to deal with the handset manufactures, as they will know that they are protected for the future if they buy from us today.

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.

Ben Bernanke

All the Federal Reserve can do is make loans against collateral.

Kemal Dervis

Turkey could not have obtained loans under better conditions.

Scott Hoyt

It just suggests that consumers, particularly lower-end consumers, are going to be more stretched when these loans reset, with potentially negative implications for spending growth.

Mark Milner

These non-traditional loans transfer risk to the borrower.

Jean Chatzky

I've never been a fan of loans between relatives or friends. They can divide relationships.

Tessa Hafen

Senator Reid has done nothing wrong and he doesn't see any reason why he would need to return the money.

Don Braunecker

Megan Richardson was a big reason for our success (Tuesday) night.

Charles Spurgeon

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is reason at rest in God.

Deborah Tannen

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Edgar Allan Poe

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Taylor Vichorek

For some reason OTs haven't treated us as well as we hoped.

Ahmed Chalabi

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Sheryl Kingstone

Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.

Erin O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Bernard Ebbers

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

Brian Lucas

We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them,

Don Cooper

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

Aimee Mann

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Bruce Springsteen

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

Clive Barker

I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

David Cooper

Since September 11 we have been continually challenged.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We probably won't make the September 22 window.

Dick Cheney

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

Chris Chocola

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good and the Yankees are good and you are playing a big series in September in Yankee Stadium, four game series, there is no greater excitement anywhere than the Yankee Stadium.

Brent Scowcroft

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

Barbara Olson

What do I tell the pilots to do?

Michael Englund

I wouldn't be surprised to see more weakness in the September report.

Richard McCabe

We may spend most of September going sideways,

Hannah Noel

We got a little shaky there. But we regained our composure.

Dietric Slater

It is kind of shaky for us right now. We really don't know what to expect. But we got to find something to do (to win). Fast.

Gia Coppola

I like the camera to be still and not very shaky and have everything happen within the frame.

Cary Fukunaga

It's so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people's faces.

Duane Goldman

It really started us off on the right foot. If he had a shaky match, that could have made it real difficult.

Tyler Oakley

You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.

Dave Baseggio

Hopefully, (Wednesday) is a stepping stone. We can't make it a one-night wonder.

Dick Pound

I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying,

Kirk Walters

We had to get this one; there was no panic. We had to get it; no stepping back.

Johnny Whitaker

We are not stepping back to a time when we are going to have anything even approaching hazing.

Rajon Rondo

We've got so many talented guys. As long as someone's stepping up, we don't need a (consistent threat), but in the long run, we'll need someone consistent.

Mike Dunne

I'm just concerned. No one's really stepping forward. It's a public-safety issue.

Stephen Davis

It was a stepping stone for us. The thing we have to do is to keep getting better.

Cassie Scerbo

Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all.

Lane Larive

They are stepping up to the plate. We need to work with their aggressiveness and get-ting into live action.