Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's achieving all the things he wanted to and more. And at a storybook level when you're at George Mason.

We expect to realize cost savings beginning in 2006 from the consolidation of headquarters functions, achieving economies of scale and the adoption of best practices across the combined company. We fully expect this acquisition to be accretive to earnings in fiscal 2006.

I always tell people to look higher. I believe every single person is capable of achieving success.

He is achieving what I consider to be his key objective in this testimony, which was to keep the market expecting higher rates.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion.

There are many ingredients that are needed to implement, to realize the 2010 target, including building the skills and know-how of experts in developing countries so they can fully take part in achieving our mutual goals.

Cherie Blair

Understanding how your business affects human rights and using that knowledge to shape appropriate policies and practices is crucial to achieving what should be the goal of all corporations - sustainable growth.

With over two thirds of all wagers placed on Woods winning at least three majors this year, it's clear that bettors don't put anything out of Tiger's reach. Although he'll certainly be a clear favorite in each leg of the Grand Slam, both history and the odds are against Tiger Woods achieving golf immortality by capturing all four majors this year for a Tiger Slam.

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

The government said Gates personifies everything wrong with the company, ... I infer from that if Gates has a smaller role in the company and Ballmer has a bigger role, that is a somewhat more suitable environment for achieving an agreement.

We are excited that Tom is joining our senior management team. He is a seasoned CFO who brings decades of experience and knowledge in strategic financial leadership. I am confident Tom's background will enable him to guide Tennant on the course to achieving its stated financial and strategic objectives.

Unfortunately, Canada's willingness to return to the bargaining table sends a conflicting message to Capitol Hill - namely that Ottawa is not serious about achieving free trade or insisting on the NAFTA dispute settlement process.

The governor believes that protecting the safety of people and property is one of government's basic functions and most important responsibilities. Implementing this system will move us closer to achieving that mission.

The government itself has said you are free to praise groups that engage in terrorism as a means of achieving their ends, ... This case concerns Dr. al-Arian's right to speak, our right to hear what he has to say and the attempt of the powerful to silence him.

Peter Kenyon

With continued success on the field and the resulting growth stemming from that of our fan base, memberships and revenues, we are confident of achieving our targets.

With the 80-aircraft order and an additional 20 booked in January, we are well on our way to achieving the same volume as we did last year. We hope to maintain our market share of 60 to 65 per cent in China.

When we look at our comprehensive plans and we see what the future growth is (projected) for the next 30 years, we are actually achieving that (amount of growth) in half the time, ... I think we have been discovered.

Condoleezza Rice

We owe congratulations to the Iraqi people on achieving yet another step on their road to democracy ..., ... This is a remarkable story.

While profit may not be immediately possible, this is something that will develop over the next few years. Crucial to achieving this is ensuring that the percentage of active cards grows along with revolving balances.

Though disappointing, these results reflect the difficulties found in our visits and reviews of operations around the world over the last two months. There is no doubt that the time required for recovery is longer than previously anticipated. Stabilizing the situation has been our focus and much progress has been made, but achieving renewed growth will take more time.

UAL shares are trading at post 9/11 lows despite boosting liquidity 9$3 billion in cash, $4 billion unencumbered planes as of 3/020, achieving labor peace and improving service. We cannot imagine an industry recovery that leaves out United, which has the industry's most attractive network.

We closed 2001 with exceptional financial results, achieving record revenues, strong cash flow and enhanced operational profitability while lowering our debt by more than $430 million,

Khaleda Zia

We are close to achieving two other goals, namely, reduction of income poverty and under-five child mortality rates.

UPS is such a large (shipping) player that it made sense to us, if we're trying to bring the shipping industry in line with state and federal laws, if you have UPS on your side, you are closer to achieving that goal.

The Origami project is really our first step toward achieving a big vision.

There is nothing more fundamental to achieving success than providing superior customer service. We made efforts to improve service in a variety of ways this year, including increasing expenditures on line maintenance to shorten outages for customers when severe storms strike, increasing funding for our power partners program to help low-income customers, and expanded deployment of new automated meter reading equipment to reduce estimated readings. We look forward to further improvements in the coming year.

We're not in favor of sanctions. We still have time to be flexible, to work diplomatic solutions. I think that talking about sanctions at this stage would not be good for achieving the results.

Peter Rodman

We think they are not achieving their objective and in fact the government is extending its authority politically around the country,

We think the secretary can be more effective in achieving the priorities of the president by remaining in Washington.

George Coleman

Too many young people were entering school behind their achieving peers. We wanted every child to come to school with the same advantages as any other child.

This year... when this 80 is booked, we will have sold 100 planes in China, so we are well on our way to achieving the same volume as we did last year.

This year ... we are well on our way toward achieving the same volumes we did last year. We hope to maintain our current market share in China, which is about 60-65 percent.

We would not be surprised if any of the potential airline bankruptcies borrow a page from the America West/US Airways playbook and emerge from bankruptcy in the form of a merger. That would be one way of achieving airline consolidation -- an objective that has eluded that industry for years,