Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Paul Beaver

Much of the exhibits this year relate to counterterrorism technology or equipment used in homeland security.

Mike Quinn

None of these 12 victims was wearing a life jacket at the time of the incident. Life jackets remain the most important safety equipment that Ohio?s recreational boaters have on board.

Lee Hamilton

No one could order the troops in, they couldn't get the equipment in, they couldn't evacuate the people who needed to be evacuated, ... that was glaringly absent.

Carl Duke

When the new surveillance equipment comes out ... the better quality that we are getting ... you are going to see more and more of this ... us putting these pictures out. We need the public's help.

David Chan

For safety, the helmet is the most important equipment to protect your noggin.

Sabiha Hossain

We need better classrooms, more equipment and training for teachers.

James Donahue

The plant was shut down from about 5 p.m. to midnight, and the equipment was turned over to (complete this project),

Jimmy Johnson

I was filling in for the 25 ... I'm not the only one that's been in somebody else's equipment or with somebody else's number on the side. There's been a lot of people doing it. It's just kind of how it is.

James Whalen

I was really, really mad; really upset when it happened. It's one thing if you fall and go down, but if it's an equipment problem, like I've been having with the bindings, it really gets to you.

Anna Lindh

major step forward toward the integration (of Macedonia) into the European Union.

James Peterson

So far the protectionists have won in the European Union,

Peter Power

No new offers were put on the table by the European side.

Matthew Buckland

Negative sentiment is expected to weigh on European equities.

Ivo Daalder

NATO's future is very much at stake. NATO may in fact no longer be the instrument of European security and will become increasingly marginal in the foreign polices of its major members.

Ivo Daalder

NATO's future is very much at stake, ... NATO may in fact no longer be the instrument of European security and will become increasingly marginal in the foreign polices of its major members.

Donald Tusk

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

Robert Lutz

Fuel prices would have to go to European levels for that to happen. If it stays (in the $3 to $4 per gallon range) it will result in some market shift. It has to.

Li Zhaoxing

If a German leader went and worshipped Hitler, worshipped the Nazis, how would the European people look at this? Would this hurt their feelings? You should think about this carefully,

Jason Calacanis

Let's make it so the more you invest in YouTube, the better deal YouTube gets for you.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Hugh Johnson

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

Ted Falgout

Monday morning, take every penny in your wallet and invest in oil.

Gordon Haff

Obviously, they have to sell lots of systems of this size to pay back what has to be a considerably larger R&D investment than they have even with Galaxy.

Eric Coldwell

If an investor pulled out of the space because of this, they don't understand what they are invested in.

Jeffrey Benjamin

The only lasting investment is an investment in yourself.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

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.

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.

Billy Childish

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

David Harris

I realize that the margins are being squeezed, ... We have a plan for that.

Yoshihisa Miyamoto

The size of the outlook revision, unseen in recent years, was a big surprise. Profit margins are dropping.

James Carrick

The margins story is better than expected. Things are getting better for manufacturers.

Howard Davidowitz

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

Timothy Noah

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

Ted Sarandos

When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

Roberto Azevedo

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Douglas McWilliams

Those in the metals markets will have noticed the push into metals and I think we'll see more of that.

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Sam Bodman

There's no way that we would support a windfall profits tax,

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

David Brady

It has revenues and profits and a very strong pipeline,

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

David Nicholson

The merchandising is where the real profits are made,

Paul Sagawa

So it's relatively significant that they said flat-to-down.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

David Brewer

When they are available, they are relatively inexpensive.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Kevin Huck

We have a relatively young team with Keith Overton (160-pounder) the only senior starter.

E. Hurley

On having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.

Jonathan Burns

What we're talking about here are relatively small co-pays.

Charles Browne

We are going after some relatively strong growth.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.