Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jobs

Selling one million videos in less than 20 days strongly suggests there is a market for legal downloads. Our next challenge is to broaden our content offerings.

Dean Haskell

McDonald's has introduced healthier menu items to broaden their appeal, particularly to women and specifically to moms, and this is just an extension of that.

Kathy Hotchner

If we can get the $250,000, we can broaden the programming and make Theater 4301 a premiere theater.

Jack McKay

If they wanted to broaden it, then give a tax refund or lower the state taxes.

Pierre Voges

The project should support and broaden the current retail function, be conducive to reinstating the office and residential function of the area, and is expected to be a catalyst for increased private sector investment in the area.

David Harsanyi

Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze.

Ethan Zuckerman

It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.

Olly Murs

I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars - that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.

Yang Yuanqing

The decline in profit margin reflects an increase of market competition, and shows that we haven't optimized our cost and expense structure. We need to broaden our product portfolio and increase our market coverage.

Freddie Ljungberg

We're not big-headed, but when you play for Arsenal, every time you enter a competition you are trying to win it, and that's what we hope to do.

Joe Barton

Let the market work. Competition will drive investment.

Robert Nebeker

Last year we won that tournament with an even younger team, but the competition this year was a lot stronger. And that's good. The stronger competition is only going to make us better ourselves.

Dr. Karmanova

Many of the students that come out here take this competition very seriously.

Karen Rambo

Many of my students are now looking to the high school level, and this competition has inspired them to continue with their interest in math. Math is going to be even more import as we get further into the technology age.

K.J. Choi

My job here is to open the gateway, I guess, for more competition to come in (on the PGA Tour), ... My standards are what's been set for these new guys to come in.

Joe Torre

My feeling is that once he starts, he'll come quickly. We'll let the people down there who are watching him make the determination of when he's ready for competition at this level.

Mikael Silvestre

My future is with Manchester United. I am not on the transfer list. Ferguson wants to keep me. There will be competition for places, but that doesn't worry me.

Harry First

One overall problem for the government is that after all the e-mail smoke clears, the government has to show where the consumer injury is. It can't just look like the competition has been hurt.

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.

Joe Carson

Low growth in GDP and a decline in productivity -- hours worked rose more than GDP -- implies margin compression and a sequential decline in operating profits.

Eiji Dohke

Many investors did not expect that yields would decline from the start of the year. They rather not to have a 1.4 percent coupon the new debt.

Stephen Kinzer

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

Mark Fields

So far this year, our U.S. share decline has been half of what it was a year ago. That means we're making progress on slowing the rate of decline, which is the first step toward stabilizing it over time.

Michael Lewis

One reason we've seen a decline in the past few years is that going to the movies isn't as special as it used to be. People have big screens and good sound at home. Why would they leave if you don't offer more than that?

Janet Jacobs

One reason we're talking about it now is that we've seen a decline in foot traffic downtown.

Andy Whitaker

One month of information really isn't helpful but, yes, there was a decline in February.

Holger Schmieding

French unemployment is stabilizing. We see further declines in the jobless rate.

Samuel Bodman

I would expect there to be some decline in price but that is a function of the marketplace,

Proverb

The price of a laugh is too high, if it is raised at the expense of another

William M. Thackeray

When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.

Dick Bennett

Because they score at the expense of their teammates.

James Farrell

Shopping is a pleasurable experience for many people; there's actually a hormonal release that makes us feel good. For some, shopping is a vacation, ... And the mall operators know that and spare little expense in market research to get them inside to shop.

Sharon Harrington

This would be a huge expense and very difficult.

Nestor Kirchner

We are not interested in exporting at the expense of the hunger of the people.

Marguerite Cotto

We have worked very hard to reduce expenses through all the units.

Chris McGinnis

You know, the hotels are going to go to all this expense of getting a hard wire into each room, and by the time they do that, everyone's going to be using wireless modems.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England.

Eliot Spitzer

Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.

Julius Wellhausen

Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Yajur Veda

May all the radiance unify and increase in magnitude.

Kevin Norrish

One question would be whether it would be necessary for an increase in production in order to make up for Nigeria. I have a feeling, they probably view that as a bonus.

Akira Takei

One more rate increase may be enough for the U.S. economy.

Alfred Neuman

Money still talks these days! Trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!

George Goncalves

Mortgages were super, super rich in February. It made sense for them not to increase their portfolio using mortgages, but they did increase it, and it was mostly floating-rate type products, mortgage-related securities and those kind of asset-backed products.

Masao Nakamura

Next year is going to be the peak year in many different ways. We're seeing a steep increase in 3G users now, so we have to keep the momentum going next year.

Arun Sarin

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

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).

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.

Mike Dunham

We have to find ways to win. There's not much margin for error. Just because it's not your night, you can't say it's not your night. We don't have enough time for that.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

David O'Brien

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

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.

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices here rebounded ... after the market succumbed to profit-taking for a second straight day (on Wednesday).

Michael Carty

Sentiment, generally, is the big problem now. Even as market fundamentals are starting to improve, people are reluctant to buy,

John Yap

Sentiment around IPO stock reflects market sentiment, especially on the first day.

Corey Ostman

Semiconductors are not what the market wants to see right now.

Loren Loverde

Maybe we can't keep up the pace, but the market is healthy.

Mark Mahaney

Maybe the market wants to pay that, but I wouldn't want to do that,

Hideyuki Suzuki

Now, the market is in panic but we will see it settle down after a while.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

Next week's market is going to be big for tech companies. As long as the Nasdaq powers ahead, we're going to see more and more filings.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

Joan Buyce

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

Mark Brunell

I'm not thinking about my portfolio in the huddle,

Jerry Yang

one of the better products we've launched in a long time.

Liem Nguyen

no new product announcements are forthcoming at this time.

Michael Howard

More and more of the products are going to become 'carrier Ethernet,' because manufacturers aren't going to be able to sell them to service providers unless they have all these features.

Karen Burk

We want to make sure we're only putting safe, quality products on our shelves for our customers.

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Stanley Hauerwas

I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.

John Jackson

If they didn't want the product or they didn't have the money, than they should just say (so).

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Drew Rosenhaus

We had a productive meeting. We talked about things important to us, and they talked about things important to them.

Ludwig von Mises

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

D. H. Lawrence

If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Ludwig von Mises

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Frank Adams

We work off of a back log, ... But that puts us in a real profit squeeze.

Frederic Bastiat

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Michael Kilpatrick

We're making a profit every year, but the thing is, we keep putting that profit back into the business.

Dhirubhai Ambani

You do not require an invitation to make profits.

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.

Peter Orszag

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Jeremy Corbyn

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

Kathy Burlison

Who we serve reflects where we are in the community.

Thomas Kochan

until we have a revision that reflects the way work is done today.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Charles Bradford

It's not surprising at all, because (Nucor) reflects the market.

Mike Stevens

That got my attention. They were asking, 'What are the values we have between us and how can we take all that and put it into a venture that reflects our values?' That is the right way to think about being an entrepreneur.

Sam Brownback

I do think she reflects the president, and I think that's the strongest thing, really, that she has going for her,

Brian Hill

If anything, this shows we're not throwing in the towel on the season.

Pete Carroll

If anything, it shows that we can finish.

Earl Nightingale

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Casey Wilson

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

Paul Pierce

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

Bruce Cockburn

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'

Terry Wogan

Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.

Constance Wu

Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.