Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've been to a lawyer, and a business advisor and a CPA (Certified Public Accountant), and I have a business plan ready.

We welcome these distinguished technology executives to our Technical Advisory Board. These IT visionaries bring a wealth of experience and unique perspectives that will be enormously valuable in helping define ANTs' future product strategy and direction. I look forward to working with them as ANTs moves forward to strengthen its presence in the marketplace.

The public's faith in the integrity of the process is undermined when one-third of an advisory committee's membership has significant financial ties to the company seeking the product's approval.

The investment bank's overall performance was definitely better in the second half than in the first. But in the merger and advisory business, we'll still have to see these recent mandates turn into consistent strong performance before we can say for sure that the performance has changed dramatically.

Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.

It really isn't over. The advisory board is not very happy about the situation, but we're in an elected office without much power.

Each of the championship courses has a golf advisory group. It is made up of residents and is our liaison to the residents. Right now, I am one member short and I am taking names for a replacement. Our goal is to meet once a month and discuss course issues.

In the U.S., we're working with our retail financial advisor network to create a first class mortgage program.

Lee H. Hamilton

I cannot remember a national security advisor testing in public, under oath, talking at length about policy matters, and that's an unusual event.

Arthur Goldberg

If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

I have tendered my resignation as a presidential economic advisor and handed it to my employer. I think the decision will be approved.

It was impossible to get sufficient time for consideration by the Government Advisory Committee members and therefore the board, the chairman decided to postpone the consideration.

It will be very specific as to the size and species of fish and how often they can be eaten. It will be a stricter advisory for pregnant women and children.

It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.

There is this cyberspace budget advisory council out there.

There is that concern especially with the wind. We're supposed to have a wind advisory for Wednesday. The wind is a concern and that's why the fire fighters are on scene and they will be standing by to ensure the fire is mitigated favorably.

Class expansion has been one of those issues over the past decade that has repeatedly been brought to the forefront by member schools. However, until the membership was polled in the recent advisory referendum, there hadn't been the kind of support to warrant such an expansion.

I'm pleased to serve on this new advisory board and to help improve communications and understanding between higher education and the FBI,

Jim Doyle

I'm pleased to announce today an Advisory Commission for reusing the site of the 440th air wing. I am asking this Commission to explore every option for the 440th, and the people who have been displaced, ... All of us are disappointed by the Pentagon's decision to close the 440th. But the site still has enormous potential for the local economy, and we are determined to see that it gets put to use in a way that creates good paying jobs and contributes to the economy. It's time to get to work on building a new future for the 440th.

Tom DeLay

I had no fiduciary responsibility. I had no managerial responsibility. I and four other elected officials were on an advisory board. I went to five fundraisers, ... They did use my name to raise money, but that was the extent. So, I didn't know what they were doing.

John Thain

The firm's investment banking advisory business, particularly in mergers and acquisitions, demonstrated a strong performance in the third quarter, and asset management continued its steady growth,

The goal isn't for the advisor to divorce him or herself from the brand, but rather to go beyond it.

Chris King

The dynamics today were perfect for severe storm development. Earlier today, they had a snow advisory in Waterloo and a tornado warning in Clark County, Mo. Anytime there is that differentiation in temperatures, you'll have explosive thunderstorm development.

The first question I ask an advisor is, 'What are you saying now when someone asks you what you do?' Oftentimes the advisor says: 'I am a vice president with x brokerage.' This is too generic, and it's not client-centric.

It just so happened that I was going to be her advisor for the Presidential Scholars program that summer.

This is not some tame advisory committee. These are real people with real questions, and a lot of them are real angry.

Terry Pratchett

Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.