Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Hoch

Reconditioned models are like borrowing your neighbor's pressure washer, but instead, you pay a discounted price to keep it.

Tamara Draut

Stagnant wages and skyrocketing healthcare, education and housing costs, plus greater job instability has pushed America's families right to the limit, and they're borrowing on high-cost credit just to make ends meet.

Ross Levin

Rising interest rates would typically increase the costs of your home equity line and that's also one of the things that causes the market to implode. You've got borrowing costs that are increasing and secured by your most valuable resource potentially at a time when stocks aren't doing what they could do.

Eldred Masunungure

The are probably keeping their plans close to their chest maybe because they are borrowing from the military strategy of a surprise attack.

Dean Baker

It does pull a lot of money out of people's pockets. Even if it doesn't go back up much, it translates to a 50-to-60-cents-a-gallon gas tax. But for the borrowing that people were willing to do, it probably would have led to recession.

Elna Moolman

Buoyant spending and borrowing have not yet been inflationary, and will not necessarily become inflationary, partly because of relatively low global inflation and strong price competition from imports.

Rand Paul

If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.

Leon Panetta

None of this is being paid for. At some point, all of that borrowing comes back to haunt you.

William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Chris Parker

Reform is needed, especially in the U.S., to curb the excessive litigation costs .

Ike Skelton

Our military's unmet needs are at record levels. We are seeing the costs and strains of sustaining a military at war.

Cal Jillson

People know we're running huge deficits and they know the costs have just rocketed upward. Many Americans are now looking at the Iraq situation in that context.

D. James

Steel costs are expected to increase another 20 percent this month alone.

Colleen Kelley

Staggering increases in the price of gas are having serious ripple effects throughout the economy and forcing employees to dip into their own packets to cover the costs of fuel. This is an untenable situation for these workers.

John Caudwell

Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.

Michael Gray

Some funds might not start up because they perceive these costs as being too high.

Pat Stewart

Our productivity is way up and costs have gone way down.

Kazuo Okamoto

Our goal is to reduce the costs of gasoline-hybrids, get a lot of people driving them, and then think about diesel-hybrids.

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.

Anthony Hitt

Our new app increases the exposure of Engel & Volkers' premier services and properties to the growing number of iPad users who are researching their real estate markets, locally and globally.

William Cheney

People have been talking, talking, talking about real estate as a way of getting rich.

Sharon Stewart

People move to Riviera Estates for peace and quiet. And no kids.

Virginia Postrel

Some of the higher price of L.A. real estate does reflect the intrinsic pleasure of living there, as I'm reminded every time I walk out my door into the perfect weather.

Mark Toigo

Some of the growers are taking big hits and they're tired of it, and now they're seeing real estate pressure.

Dorothy Ellington

Our role is to provide housing. It does not change. If it changes, then we go out of business. That was our pre-Carver Estates demolition goal, and that will be our post-Carver Estates demolition goal.

Walter Molony

Our survey doesn't explain why. It gets down to being as simple as women have a better understanding of housing as a long-term investment. Single guys are more interested in consumption. They don't get serious about real estate until they meet the right woman.

Bill Strauss

Most of the real estate they own is well-located real estate. There's room in this market for more than one grocery store chain.

Kurt Fuller

I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no more for you then than it does for you now - then sold real estate and did theater for nine years.

Jean Charest

Our real interest starts with our neighbors ... the future is about regional economies.

Chris Buckley

Our membership has taken the responsible step in securing their future.

Robyn

Sure the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal.

Greg Peterson

Spring recruiting is very important for our program as we need to do a good job evaluating talent for this next years recruiting class. Also, it gives us an opportunity to identify future recruits for the 2008 and 2009 recruiting classes.

Kristy Orem

Our future schedule will work as a gauge to see how much we have improved.

Dick Kanyan

Our future goals include winning the SSUSA World Championship Tournament in Phoenix in October and to win the Winter Nationals in November. We have moved up from an AA team to an AAA team in the national tournaments this year.

Diane Johnson

Our whole idea is to save these things for future generations.

Lisa Love

Rescheduling this series was a priority for us. We are thrilled to have a series of this magnitude on our future schedules.

Catherine Misko

Relocating has everything to do with trying to handle future growth properly.

Ron Vos

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Mark Waggoner

Supplies really aren't a problem. Consumption over the holidays is usually a little higher than normal but production has been keeping up.

Alan Greenspan

Such an increase in market value is too often viewed by market participants as structural and permanent, ... To some extent, those higher values may be reflecting the increased flexibility and resilience of our economy.

Justin Lane

Some of the higher peaks I would imagine could see 2 1/2 feet.

Satish Kumar

Some of our standards are higher than the U.S.

Karen Johnson

Our prices are 18 percent higher that they were this time last year.

Rhonda Rompola

Our RPI has to get higher for any tournament play.

Bill Cooke

Our attrition rate is not higher than last year but it is higher than we would like.

William Ross

Right there, there is not that much inventory for that kind of property. Because of a lack of availability, what you get is higher prices.

Dan Marks

Our position hasn't changed. We don't have the money. We're trying to survive. We've never tried to do anything to hurt Beach.

Vince Testa

Our 103-pounder was sick with the flu, and I didn't have a replacement. Fortunately, the forfeit didn't hurt us.

Philip Rivers

(Rivers) won't ever hurt you by running with the ball. ...

Larry Wachtel

Rising rates won't hurt the new techies, but they might impact the 'old economy' customers.

Ed Skyler

Roger Toussaint should spare New Yorkers his disingenuous apologies. Millions of hardworking New Yorkers are being hurt by his illegal actions.

Henry Bunsow

Remember the test here was, will an injunction hurt the public interest.

Gary Schlossberg

Manufacturing is still in a world of hurt.

Becca Fitzpatrick

My arms hurt from how tightly Patch held me. “Now that’s what I call a scream,” he said, grinning at me.

Becca Fitzpatrick

...I need a boyfriend. And to get a boyfriend, you have to look good. Doesn’t hurt to smell good too.

Adriano Galliani

Real Madrid are interested in him but I don't know if there have been any contacts.

Doug Bereuter

Releasing Mr. Pollard would put vital U.S. interests at risk and send the message that we are not serious about punishing espionage.

Phil Brown

Paulo would be one we are interested in but not at the moment.

Alan Greenspan

Our operating procedures, as you suggest, do tend to smooth out short-run fluctuations in short-term interest rates,

Chris Byrne

Star Wars' is a 20-year-old brand. When the next 'Star Wars' movie comes out, there's going to be much more interest in the product.

Danny Diaz

Sportsmen represent a very important constituency to this campaign. They reflect, in many cases, the interests and views of a majority of Americans and rural America.

R. Robinson

Our weakness is inexperience. We have no seniors and we've never been here before. I'll be interested to see how we come out and play.

Beck

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

Bill Shaw

We've told all judges we're not interested in their money, we don't want it. We want the poles removed.

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Jeff Cheah

Stabilizing ... that is the key word that investors are reacting to.

Grant Wilson

Japanese investors are still looking to put some money to work overseas. We're still seeing those flows.

Lara Rhame

That's the nightmare that keeps a lot of investors up at night -- but I just don't think that scenario is realistic.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

Craig Callahan

Most people want stocks to go up all the time. We're back to normal and people don't like it, ... Investors that don't have the patience to ride through trading ranges won't be able to participate in the surge.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Relatively speaking, Japan looks the least uncertain market in regard to politics and the economy.

Christo

We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.

Stacey Widlitz

Japan turned positive after seven quarters of negative comparisons. That's the story here.

Junichiro Koizumi

Japan must import most of its oil from abroad. There is much that we can do for each other.

John Roos

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

Masayoshi Son

Japan has the infrastructure for this kind of service, so it would be a shame not to use it.

Ed Loyd

Japan has taken a number of positive steps, but they've been small tentative steps and they've been painfully slow.

Chris Reilly

Japan hasn't seen much recovery in housing. But inflationary pressures in Japan could be very positive for properties.

Robert Bach

Japanese software will be developed. It will be a breakthrough in Japan.

Russ Jones

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

Charles Nelson

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

Lawrence Yun

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

Mark Langan

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

John Kline

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

Elizabeth Warren

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

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Chris Perry

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

Bill Gross

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

C. S. Lewis

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

Don DePalma

For me this is just one of the fundamentals of doing business: If I can't understand what you're selling me, I'm not buying.

Merle Olberding

For the state tournaments, some of them were in here Tuesday wanting their tickets and we didn't start selling until Wednesday.

Aimee Mann

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

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.

Keith Nowak

We don't make enough on selling accessories that (standardized ports) would be that big of a deal.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

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.