Famous Quotes & Sayings

They're team speed is much better than ours, but that's a given; everybody is faster than we are. We just didn't give a very good account of ourselves tonight.

And were it not for Allah's grace upon you and His mercy in this world and the hereafter, a grievous chastisement would certainly have touched you on account of the discourse which you entered into.

Norm Coleman

Ensuring the security of our global supply chain is critical to homeland security since maritime trade accounts for over 25 percent of the U.S. GDP (gross domestic product) and many experts believe that terrorists are likely to exploit the inherent vulnerabilities of the global supply chain for their nefarious purposes.

Energy prices are coming off, mitigating the positive effects of the current account number. The Canadian dollar is still closely tracking energy.

Ginni Rometty

Embracing new ways of managing key business processes, such as procurement and accounts payable, allows leading companies like Colgate to uncover significant new sources of value within their operations. We're pleased to help Colgate move its business forward using our organization's expertise in procurement innovation coupled with IBM's well established group of supply chain and accounting professionals.

Educational toys account for 50 percent of all toy sales to kids aged five years or under. This is a category where parents make the primary purchase decision, not the kids. It's definitely a hot area for toymakers.

Edgar Johnson, unlike Major Parker, has quite an extensive criminal history. The judge did what he thought was just taking into account all of the circumstances (with a lighter sentence).

Each day the uncertainty surges and investor non-confidence increases amid the rise in cases of creative accounting in the United States.

Due to population growth, it is reasonable that construction would account for 8.8 percent of all jobs in Western states, somewhat higher than the national average of 5.4 percent.

Early accounts coming in to us say that people are running across malls to the department stores to take advantage of the best deals.

E*Trade's strategy is to make money on the margin balances, and the larger the balance, the more desirable the account is.

Michael Davies

Establishing LEA Europe and LEA Asia Pacific enables us to deliver a unique advantage -- best-in-class strategies and processes, faster new service development cycles, improved recruiting and retention and accelerated profitability -- to accounting firms around the world.

Essentially, what you are doing is getting more money into a tax deferred account as soon as possible so any interest earnings are generated tax free,

Essentially we want to provide an appropriate balance between professional services and managed services to those accounts and owning the IT function of those small businesses.

Even an 8% current account deficit failed to dent it significantly, which is surprising.

Jim Ramstad

Flexible spending accounts are an important vehicle to help workers and their families save pretax dollars for medical expenses.

Folks are trying to rebuild their lives. They know they want to take care of their taxes, but they've got other problems they need to take care of. When you get somebody giving you a call saying it's a new policy that you automatically get a refund if you give us your checking account number, that's total ridiculous. Just stay away from them.

First of all, it's very expensive to administer private accounts, especially if you let people manage these accounts themselves, ... Bush is vague on how he would set it up and make it work.

Mary Schapiro

Fee-based accounts can be appropriate for a wide range of customers,

Excluding securities losses in the fourth quarter of 2005, core fee revenue growth from a year ago was $1.3 million, or 12%, with steady growth achieved in nearly every category. Service charges and fees on deposit accounts increased $970,000 to $6.6 million, primarily due to growth in transactions and new accounts resulting from core deposit program and the cross-selling of other products and services. Brokerage fees increased 85% to $789,000 due to strong market activity. Consulting fees of $1.7 million were down slightly, due to the timing of work completed last year for the documentation and testing of internal controls in our risk management practice.

As the final results are not confirmed, there is scope for the New Zealand dollar to be a little shaky on account of the perceived uncertainty. This is exactly what has happened.

A state EITC takes into account household income and dependents, something a minimum wage hike can't do. As a result, the benefits reach those in real need without putting them at risk of losing their job.

O. J. Simpson

At some point, the market is going to return its focus on the current account and the U.S. fiscal deficits (but) at the moment, interest rates are still driving the dollar.

At Regions, we believe it is important for kids to learn the basics of money management at an early age. That's why we support this program. We also offer Junior Savings accounts to get kids started on the right path.

Jean Chatzky

At the time of my second marriage, my husband was in his early 50s, I was in my mid-40s, and we each had two kids. We maintained our individual accounts and opened one for the house. We each kick the same percentage of our incomes into the house account and have a joint credit card. But we pay for our children separately.

Bob Graham

did not resolve the many contradictions between various accounts of what actions the Bush administration took in response to the threat of terrorism prior to 9/11.

District 2 is going to have to barely function and watch every penny. Gradually, over time, the account can build up.

Consumers would be shocked to learn that the amount of many short-term payday loans may be as high as 500-percent APR or even greater in many cases. Undoubtedly, some consumers would choose to forego the loan in the face of such written disclosures. However, even when disclosures are made, they are frequently inaccurate, failing to take into account various fees and charges.

Corporate governance mandates, new business practices and recently created regulatory agencies have made this a dynamic time for accounting and finance professionals at all levels, and have led to new opportunities and challenges. To succeed in this environment, accountants must go beyond their traditional roles of simply delivering financial data. Rather, they will need to discuss the implications of this data in the broad context of compliance and how it impacts other areas of the business.

Confident singers. This isn't professional theater, in that situation it's then and now, a bad note and you're gone. Here, we take into account nervousness and we give them more leeway. We're looking for potential.

Continuing sharp improvements in Venezuela's external and debt indicators motivated the upgrade. High oil prices have generated large current account surpluses for the country, which in turn has boosted the external assets of the public sector.

Don't fall for the pitch '15 months is as good as cash'?even if you have lawn furniture in your living room. Retailers know that most customers won't pay in full within 15 months, and they'll be charged interest from day one. So, if you sign up for such a plan, be sure to put one-fifteenth of the full payment in a special account each month and pay in full at the end of the interest-free term.

Custodial parents are very familiar with when their exes are sending in their checks to the state and they know that three days later their checks are supposed to be in the bank. If the checks were sent to the state on those three days after the fire, they have been processed and they will be posted to bank accounts by Tuesday at the latest, if they haven't been already.