Famous Quotes & Sayings

Exxon Mobil today accounts for a smaller global market share than Exxon and Mobil did together eight years ago.

Failure to have even a simple plan for the maximum amount that can be spent in any one month, given the savings, earnings, scholarship and grant money available. In other words, developing a plan that matches available funds to expenses, and thoroughly accounting for regular as well as occasional and unplanned expenses.

John Boehner

fails to take into account a number of key provisions that strengthen overall pension plan funding.

But so far, in the accounts given by reporters about their conversations with administration officials, no such crime has been described. What has been depicted is an administration effort to refute the allegations of a critic (some of which did in fact prove to be untrue) and to undermine his credibility, including by suggesting that nepotism rather than qualifications led to his selection. If such conversations are deemed a crime, journalism and the public will be the losers.

But pension accounting is awfully complicated and it's an awfully big company, so it's not surprising the markets would get a little spooked by it.

But on account of mercy from your Lord-- surely His grace to you is abundant.

Alex Berenson

Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used accounting gimmickry to inflate their profits, many investors thought the crisis at Enron was an isolated case.

Pele

When I was minister of sport in Brazil, I tried to bring in a law that would make the chairmen of clubs reveal their accounts like other businesses. It was turned down, but I think it is an important story that will make a good film.

Pete Stark

It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops.

Pete Sessions

As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?'

Robert Jackson

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

Anil Biswas

The government has withdraw the provision of bonus on maturity of the scheme on any accounts opened with effect from February 13, this year which was payable at the rate of 10 per cent of the deposit.

There are a few ways to get into health administration. One is to graduate with a bachelor's degree in health. The other is to get a business degree in accounting or finance, and just happen to land a job in health care.

There are lots of other background costs. That doesn't take into account all of the people who have to replace them...and our carpenter's shop.

There are lots of eBay account information and names and addresses of the people owning those accounts. Names, passwords, all matched up.

Federico Fellini

When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account of shared memories. Its not that you refer to them constantly. In fact, for people who do not live in the past, you almost never say, Do you remember that night we...? But you dont have to. That is the best of all. You know that the other person does remember. Thus, the past is part of the present as long as the other person lives. It is better than any scrapbook, because you are both living scrapbooks.

Donald Cargill

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

Henry L. Stimson

I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under.

With consumption accounting for about 70 percent of GDP, the extra strength should add about 0.7 point to total GDP growth.

With one side of his mouth the Prime Minister Gonzi tells the Leader of the Opposition to take his questions of corruption to the Police Commissioner. With the other side he denies the opposition the proper working of the mechanism of the Public Accounts Committee.Something's beginning to rot, somewhere.

Without fresh good news on the U.S., the current account worries come back to the fore so people worry about the dollar. With stocks it's a question of how much good news is already priced in.

With the American and US Airways alliance, miles can be pooled so you can use miles from both accounts to claim an award on either airline.

With the 2004 and 2005 fire season having been relatively less active than normal, surplus funds sit in this account and can be rescinded without hurting the program,

We call on the Chinese government and Yahoo to provide a full explanation of the circumstances that led the company to provide account holder information,

Michael Chertoff

We owe the American people a full accounting from all levels of government concerning what went right and what went wrong with the initial Katrina response,

While overall rates have decreased, several communities account for a disproportionate share of infant deaths,

While none of these issues are enough to change our thesis on GM, they do raise our concerns on the company's internal accounting controls.

With a growing number of HDTV channels to be delivered by satellite pay-TV providers in 2006, those pay-TV providers are looking to the higher capacity enabled by DVB-S2 for more efficient HD channel delivery. In 2009, we expect satellite set-top boxes with next-generation advanced modulation technologies to account for 30% of the worldwide satellite set-top box unit shipments.

With 20 years of experience under our belt, we recognize that we can reduce the burden without losing much of the data we now receive. These are very small facilities that account for a very small percentage of the releases.

Richard Ben-Veniste

We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

Stephen Kinzer

Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.

Rachel Sklar

If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.