Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Bezos

Competition will accelerate in 1999. We still believe it is impossible to keep the pronounced bookselling market share lead over the long term.

Jeff Bezos

Competition will accelerate in 1999, ... We still believe it is impossible to keep the pronounced bookselling market share lead over the long term.

Cultivating mushrooms is a great way to accelerate the decay of the stump.

We are going to be pursuing legal remedies in every form we can to accelerate the appellate process.

We felt that a royalty-free software approach was the best way to enable the supplier community and accelerate availability of EDA. ISMI also will be able to offer some level of support for ECCE users.

We expect this trend to continue and to accelerate in 2006 and 2007.

We expect the company to put its $14.5 billion of net cash to work in pursuing acquisitions to accelerate growth. That said, we would not be surprised to see the shares trade sideways until a significant acquisition is announced.

We expect services revenue growth to accelerate throughout 2006 to achieve mid-single digit revenue growth in the second half.

We expect seasonally normal PC demand and a richer product mix to drive a positive first quarter earnings surprise. PC demand should accelerate in the second half of 2000, (driven by) a strong economy, Windows 2000 and a sharp increase in microprocessor price performance.

We expect Microsoft's commitment will accelerate deployment of many services that carriers see as important for the next generation of wireless communications. Microsoft's digital media expertise, applied to wireless in a way that focuses on the needs of the carriers, is a very positive step for our industry and consumers alike.

We expect both the rate of customer adoption and ecosystem building to accelerate even further in 2006. Concurrent with accelerated customer adoption, hardware vendors, OEMs, and software vendors are aggressively building products and solutions that enable and facilitate server virtualization.

Brian and David are both extremely talented individuals with a keen sense for emerging market opportunities, and broad-based experience in capitalizing on them. We look forward to tapping into their industry expertise as we further accelerate the development of market-leading products and execute on our go-to-market strategy.

We're trying to move this forward to the next step, designing and removing this hot spot, to accelerate the whole cleanup.

We as a nation--government working with the private sector--must do more to accelerate this technology and make it accessible to American drivers.

We will continue to accelerate our sales push to stay as the leading plasma TV maker, and we aim to capture some 40 pct of the market.

We wouldn't want everyone to go running out and dump all their investments and bury cash in their mattresses, because it would only accelerate the crisis - at least the financial crisis. But I don't believe people would do that anyway.

The demand for new housing surged, likely because rising mortgage rates motivated some potential homebuyers to accelerate their buying decisions.

When he gets to hitters, we can probably accelerate it pretty well. Until we get to that point, I don't want to accelerate it too much.

The external disk storage systems market growth continued to accelerate through the year. Data growth was one driver, but the availability of affordable systems that support multiple tiers of storage to address data protection, business continuity requirements, and online, active archives also contributed.

The extension of the IBM, Sony and Toshiba relationship to fundamental research is extremely promising. This joint development project will help accelerate the cycle from fundamental research to commercialization based on detailed feasibility studies of potential technologies, device structures, innovative materials, and unique processing tools.

will further accelerate the creation of global hit titles and be responsible for creative, technical and strategic direction setting of development and production.

WildBlue-1 will help to ensure that we are able to handle 100 percent of customer demand into the foreseeable future. Our low-cost, high-speed Internet via satellite service has proven extremely popular nationwide, requiring that we accelerate the launch of our new satellite later this year to meet the demand.

While the drag from net trade will linger in 2006, most of the impact has already been felt. Our strong dollar will not prevent Canada's growth as the economy is expected to accelerate this year.

John will continue to accelerate changes in the largest segment of our business.

Dan Jansen

Maybe that slip in the 500 actually helped, ... The 500, I was on the last turn and trying, maybe, to get too much out of it.... When I slipped in the 1,000, in a split second it went through my mind: 'Don't panic. Don't try to get it all back in one stride. Just ride it out and try to accelerate out of the turn.'

Malaysia's exports have so far benefited from the recovery in global electronics demand, which has helped to boost economic growth in the third quarter. We expect exports to continue to accelerate in the last two months of the year.

Alphonso Jackson

I'm heartened to know that our partners are doing their bit to keep the home mortgage finance pipeline opened so we can accelerate the recovery in . . . these devastated communities,

We believe this acquisition will turn out to be both a strong strategic and financial positive, enabling (PepsiCo) to accelerate both top-line and bottom-line growth by building a leadership position in functional beverages.

We believe the odds GM management could be held accountable for accounting errors has gone up, and this could accelerate a bankruptcy protection decision that we think is inevitable.

We will accelerate the study of financial derivatives and futures to further develop the market and provide hedging products for investors,

Ismail Haniyeh

We will accelerate the process of forming the next government so that we will not have to have a political and constitutional vacuum.

We have to let him make the calls from now on. It's up to him to accelerate his rate. We want it done right the first time.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're up to 50,000 or 60,000 and headed toward 100,000. We've got to find ways to accelerate the process.