Famous Quotes & Sayings

It also faces interesting tests from U.S. inflation data this week from which we expect strong readings. But the focus is on the adverse U.S. funding situation and it is becoming increasingly hard for the dollar to maintain its value as the current account deficit expands.

David Platt

But accounts are a nightmare because you are not parting with the cash out of your wallet and therefore you don't miss it immediately. The amounts being talked about are hellish ones but then players earn a hellish amount of money. But before we all start to condemn the players, we must also take account of the time frame involved as well.

Business owners overstate the constraints. People don't understand that they are not going to lose clients over a stringent accounts receivable policy.

Business is risky enough without the additional uncertainty created when a nation's unit of account -- in plain language, its money -- is undermined,

But French legislators aren't just looking at Apple. They're looking ahead to a time when most entertainment is online, a shift with profound consequences for consumers and culture in general. French lawmakers want to protect the consumer from one or two companies holding the keys to all of its culture, just as Microsoft holds the keys to today's desktop computers... Apple may not qualify as a literal monopoly -- there are lots of ways to get music and buying online accounts for only a small fraction of total music sales. But the sliver it does control it controls almost completely, and it's not out of the question to suggest that this sliver will ultimately become the only way people will buy music in the future.

Based on the behavior of these deer, we cannot account for the distribution of CWD on the landscape,

Wen Jiabao

China will expand the enrollment of secondary vocational education to the same size as that of the regular high school education in the next five years, ... By the end of 2010, the enrollment of higher vocational education should account for at least half of the entire enrollment of institutions of higher learning.

China will be held to account if it attempts to dump excess capacity on overseas markets.

China's current account surplus is now a major component of global imbalances, and its continuation risks undermining support for the open trade policies which have contributed so much to China's development. China is now simply too large to rely on export-led growth to pick up the slack when other sources of growth falter.

China is still too costly for manufacturing complex, low-volume products such as semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Executives have proven again and again to be shortsighted, seeking out the lowest wages and not taking into account all other factors.

China is accounting for ever larger proportions of research and development financing, but Vietnam is still not in that game yet.

Martin Seligman

I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

I make a personal commitment to the direction and success of all the programs in which I invest. I make all major philanthropic decisions myself after taking account of a range of expert opinion.

Doug TenNapel

I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.

I have, indeed, even omitted facts, which, on account of their singularity, must in the eyes of some have appeared to border on the marvelous. But in the forests of South America such extraordinary realities are to be found, that there is assuredly no need to have recourse to fiction or the least exaggeration.

I think it shows just how good our team can be. We had contributions from everyone, and I think when we were picked to finish behind them, they didn't take into account how well-balanced and how tough a team we are.

It indicates that the reliability of the river will decrease with climate change. And that model doesn't take into account population growth and the ensuing increase in demand. We can't do business as usual.

I think the managed accounts business is going to grow faster than the mutual fund industry.

Jason Kenney

I think the operational performance is poor and the numbers are confused by restatements for accounting changes and, obviously, the tax paid in Libya.

I think you should look for retailers to find ways to drive consumer traffic, but not necessarily through markdowns. There will be all kinds of promotions, coupons, open up a credit card account and get a discount, use your charge account and get a gift with a purchase. If they can get you into the store, even if you don't buy what's on sale, chances are during the holiday season you're going to walk out with something.

I think with what we did, and how well the kids from Oldham did and you throw in the four young kids from North who came down here and gave a really good account of themselves - it's pretty impressive. I think it shows the strength of the sport on our county. I think it's safe to say there's not another county our size in the state that put out these kind of results.

Jack Kelly

I think with regard to this issue, last week was really the news rather than today. Xerox has been turning things around, other than their accounting, by cutting costs. With regard to accounting issues, I would say they've been closely scrutinized.

Henry Paulson

I think the danger is to just look through that lens, to lose a sense of perspective and rush toward harsh regulations that are unnecessary. Some regulation will be necessary, some changes in accounting rules.

I think that the opportunity to be a kid another year and not have to not worry about the responsibilities of paying bills, and worry about getting an agent and worry about getting an accountant was important.

Steve Davis

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I was an accountant and tax-preparer for over 20 years. I enjoy the creativity and making people smile.

Laura Bush

Here is why personal accounts are a better deal: Your money will grow, over time, at a greater rate than anything the current system can deliver,

Mike Pence

Here in Indiana, we run a nationally-recognized program called the Healthy Indiana Plan. The Healthy Indiana Plan offers the uninsured an affordable health care plan with savings accounts that they control.

Jude Wanniski

has wielded a considerable supply-side stick, which accounts for the administration's aggressive tax cutting.

He's a great athlete. He's very strong. He can cover. He can blitz. He's got the total package. He really does. What he does is put a lot of pressure on offensive tackles. You have to account for him as well as our defensive line. It makes it tough on people.

Here we're talking about somebody who was considered for civil commitment - a high-risk offender who is going to need intensive treatment and monitoring well after leaving the center - but there is nothing in the law that accounts for that.

David Cameron

His private affair is a private matter. Clearly he looks a fool but our job in opposition is to call him to account on his ministerial record.

History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.