Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you bring a straight accounting case to a jury, where it comes down to a battle of the experts, the government has a high risk of losing that case.

I just think there's nothing that's come out over the last couple of days that counters the primary issues (that) the market has been punished for over the last couple of months, which is loss of investor confidence over corporate malfeasance, accounting and terrorism,

I really do believe that investors have to have a diversified approach. It will be very tough to pick stocks unless you have a big amount of money in your personal account so you can diversify on your own. So I would think you'd pick the premier technology funds and I'm not trying to sell myself, but I do think that it helps. And I also think that you need to have tech in your portfolio. Tech right now is about 30 percent of the weight of the S&P 500. I think investors are going to put themselves at substantial risk if they get too carried away with some of the companies and have too much in their portfolio. The appropriate weight in your portfolio is 30 percent, which is neutral the benchmark.

I record the account of the Lord s Name, and I shall not be subject to death again.

I recommend that 529 account owners take care to withdraw 529 funds in the same calendar year as the payment of college expenses. Otherwise the taxpayer assumes the risk of IRS challenge by trying to tie this year's withdrawals to prior-year or future-year payments of qualifying expenses.

I know he's a great runner and I know he's a guy you can't account for,

I know our judges here will be practical and take into account that there's only so much a lawyer can do to make certain his client is being complete and truthful.

Richard Gephardt

I hope now that the Administration will rethink this approach and submit a fast track bill that accounts for labor, environmental, narcotics enforcement and human rights issues.

High-volume manufacturing has shifted to other regions so there is a greater focus on smaller accounts in North America than in the past. When we talk about expanding, we mean paying more attention to customers who have less than $100,000 a year in purchases from us.

John Burnside

High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.

I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters. It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted for perjury and for lying, and nothing in his account seems to sanitize those lies if in fact they turn out to be lies.

I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters, ... It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted for perjury and for lying, and nothing in his account seems to sanitize those lies if in fact they turn out to be lies.

John Lennon

I don't know how much money I've got . . . I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.

It is regrettably my conclusion that we are unlikely to return to balance in the federal accounts before possibly fiscal '05, ... Things will have to break right for us to do that.

It's a drug that's obviously important to the MS community, and the committee advised us to help get it out there. What we need to do is take into account all of the committee's recommendations, and reach our own conclusions about what various critical components of a risk-management program will have to be included. There are a number of details to be worked out, and we will have to do that very rapidly.

Fred Davis

I told him his account of the incident did not match what others who had witnessed it had told. You can infer liar from that. But I did not call him a liar.

Carolyn Maloney

It merely says, and I quote, 'equality of rights shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex,

It's very possible we're at the beginning of a current account deficit that is going to widen substantially.

Richard Shelby

It's very important that we bring credibility, which is integrity, to our capital markets. And we're going to have to do this by strengthening in a big way our accounting profession.

It's time for the Chinese government to give a full account of what has happened to these five men, including any charges against them. Independent doctors and lawyers should be allowed to meet with them to ascertain their condition.

It's tough for other people because everyone accounts for Marisa, and Lindsey cleans up the garbage on the weak side.

I view this as putting smaller portfolios into incubators to wait for them to be hatched into higher revenue accounts, ... But lost accounts is precisely the risk that Merrill Lynch runs with this strategy.

They created an e-mail account to mislead voters. It's what we've come to expect from the Bob Beers campaign.

Kate Warne

(The TSE 300) started sliding at the beginning and it just kept sliding. Nortel accounts for most of it but you have Seagram pulling back, techs took a big hit. It's pretty much across the board.

William Boyd

The vote during this weekend's meeting on the compromise, or 'alternate proposal,' is not necessarily prologue to passage up the NAIC committee hierarchy and certainly not in legislatures. Regulators will have to take into account what legislators think about the internal accounting content in the proposal that is derived from Sarbanes-Oxley.

Jim Cooper

The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.

The use of false pretenses to retrieve confidential customer account information not only victimizes those consumers whose privacy is violated, but also compromises the security of financial institutions that strive to increase customer convenience by making such information more easily accessible,

The US currency has come under pressure on speculation of a pause in the US monetary tightening cycle together with the increase in the US current account deficit, which the market usually shrugs off.

They can really look at cash balances. They can look at other accounts and investigate where money is and where money is being spent and how money can be shifted.

John Heywood

They can legally cash in that account and spend it as they wish.

They can correct any errors or inconsistencies and find out if (the report) lists any accounts not belonging to them or transactions that are problematic.

They can come at you in different ways. You've got a guy like Dunn who is small but has a lot of speed. Duckett is a big guy who can pound it between the tackles. And of course, you have to account for Vick. It's going to be a challenge for our defense to stop these guys. After last week, I think our guys will be ready to play better than they did in Tampa.

David Newman

They were all excited and eager to work. We even found a worker with three to four years of candy-making experience and one with a strong accounting background, ... We're now working out some transportation arrangements to get them to and from Camp Williams to their job sites.