Famous Quotes & Sayings

On the surface, the numbers look bad, but when you dig into them you see health. Moreover, the $5 billion share buyback just announced is exactly what we would recommend. Lastly, while the quarter looked soft due to comps, it should be temporary, as compared to long-term health in the growing cable business, which is why we believe the company can keep to its guidance.

Chris Powell

Our company has announced it is going to make a significant capital expense investment at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but on the specifics of those projects I'm not ready to comment.

Right out of the chute, we announced awards from returning customers and had a fantastically successful Atlas V launch with NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto - and there are 11 months to go in 2006.

Retailers have been cutting jobs amid falling demand. Boots announced another wave of job cuts yesterday and this suggests there will be more increases in claims.

Edward Kennedy

I think my friend and colleague John Kerry is doing a great job, ... I think he was out early, he's worked hard, he's speaking to all of these issues, and I expect he will announce his candidacy and I expect to support him and I expect he'll win.

It has been a big distraction. We haven't announced the final penalty for Chad yet. We don't expect somebody to fall into the bad zone, if you will, too many times. So we're going to have to check ourselves from a deterrent standpoint to make sure the guys understand what we're trying to get done.

We're disappointed that they didn't announce concrete plans to get their costs realigned.

We think that the attack was a response to our recently announced plan for a political solution of the crisis. The militants do not want negotiations, they want to draw us into a complete armed confrontation.

Warner Home Video has been working closely with our CE, IT and retail partners to design an optimal product launch for consumers and we?re pleased to announce the launch dates for these initial titles.

We are very pleased to announce the groundbreaking of the Paramount. It is always challenging to orchestrate the development of a project of this magnitude, particularly in an environment of skyrocketing construction costs.

Dom Starsia

We are very pleased to announce our schedule for the coming 2006 season. For the 15th consecutive year, Virginia will be the defending national champion or have them on the schedule. We have always felt strongly that the most rigorous regular-season schedule is the best preparation for championship competition. The young men who choose the University of Virginia look forward to the challenges ahead. 2006 promises to be a most exciting season.

We are very happy to announce that this year's recipes are, if possible, better than last year's recipes, ... The competition this year will consist of three cooks in three categories all vying for the coveted grand prize and the honor of calling themselves the 'second annual Prime Beef Cook-Off Grand Champion.'

We are very encouraged that supporters of these taxes have been conducting polls. The fact they have not announced the results of those polls tells me their side is losing.

Jay Feaster

We did an awful lot of homework. We actually started doing the homework going back to when the CBA was announced -- recognizing that depending on what Nik decided to do that we might not have him here.

All speculations regarding my role in the third round of candidate cities for 2012 are completely unfounded. I declare that I did not vote during the third round, as I had announced during the election in question.

The market's been hoping the Fed will announce a shift toward a neutral bias (towards future interest-rate changes), which could help the U.S. market recover.

Expanding upon Starwood Capital's longstanding relationship with GE, we are extremely pleased to announce this venture. Private capital has played an important role in meeting growing electricity demand, and in the process, has helped provide efficient, low cost power on behalf of ratepayers. GE, the industry leader, and Starwood seek to provide critical development capital and expertise to developers for select opportunities in recovering power markets,

Companies generally present it as something that is hard and fast, so when they call you in to discuss it, it's really just to announce what their severance package will be. The fact of the matter is, though, that you can enter into discussions. Companies do have incentives that they can offer so you have some cards to play.

Despite the phenomenal growth of Las Vegas, the construction talent pool is not deep enough to provide the needed labor to build all currently announced projects. We believe if all announced and anticipated projects were to proceed before the end of the decade, a significant portion would not get off the ground given the limited depth of the construction talent pool, most importantly subcontractors.

Warren Buffett

Despite the lack of precedent, a negative coupon security seemed possible in the present interest rate environment ... I asked Goldman Sachs to create such an instrument and they responded promptly with the innovative security being announced today.

Despite the announced closure of the two Tyson plants, Nebraska's confidence index stood at a regional high of 70.2. Certainly, the rising fortunes of the state's ethanol and renewable energy industry have buoyed businesses in this industry or firms with close ties to this industry.

A number of immunisation programmes are funded and announced by the government and international bodies, but little thought goes into the injecting or delivery mechanism.

Any marketing program that we would offer would be consistent with the marketing strategy we announced on Jan. 10.

announce new procedures with respect to how charities work abroad.

Mike Johanns

announced without the benefit of a public hearing as to necessity and reasonableness ...

A replacement will be announced in due course. The ship is in good shape and she feels she needs a change.

Joe Girardi

Anything is possible, but we pretty much have the 25-man roster. We probably won't announce it until we leave, in case something comes up.

Anyone can announce a plan, the real challenge is implementing it. Stringer is coming from the outside, and he only spends part of his time in Japan.

Anyone can announce a plan, the real challenge is implementing it.

Arthur Fogel

Any fan of U2 will realize that this decision has not been taken lightly. We will announce further details as soon as we have them.

Our expectation right now is we expect to bring at least several million gallons of discounted oil into Vermont and we expect to announce the details next week.

G. H. Hardy

People, as soon as the LDS Church announced they would build a temple, clamored to get lots, ... The prices went up significantly.

Rebecca MacKinnon

After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture capital' approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training.