Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're excited about how prosperous the coal industry has been and excited about having Steve Leer join us on Oct. 11 to speak at this very important annual function.

Leonard Mlodinow

We unwittingly judge products by their boxes, books by their covers, and even corporation's annual reports by their nice glossy finish.

Ian Macfarlane

With strong investment growth and an expected improvement in exports, our forecast for the economy overall is that annual GDP growth will pick up modestly during 2006 to about 3.25 pct.

With some retailers seeing between 25 and 40 percent of their annual sales during the holiday season, there's still time for retailers to show positive gains in 2003,

Gary Hume

I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

Debi Mazar

On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon.

We have seen growth every year since our initial kick-off in 2003, ... Our goal is to see every golf club in Canada host an event and raise $1000 through our pledge program. This would translate into an annual contribution well over 1.6 million dollars, something that female golfers could be very proud of.

Mark Hall

There is probably anywhere between 8,000 to 10,000 kidnap and ransom situations globally on an annual basis,

This sale represents the continuation of our Company's strategy to dispose of assets located outside of core markets and provides the opportunity to recycle capital into acquisitions and development in our higher growth markets. We have sold $27 million in properties year to date versus our stated annual goal of $100 million.

This represents an annual cash dividend of $.32 per share and an increase of $.04 per share, or 14%, over the dividends paid for 2005. This increase reflects our continued strong performance and commitment to deliver value to our shareholders.

There have been some intermittent improvements over the years, but the station has, over time, experienced deterioration to its concrete passenger platform. We have conducted annual inspections that revealed water infiltration and the effect of salt corrosion.

When people look at the Lew Platt era in the annual report, it's going to look pretty good.

We will continue to drive for at least 10 to 12 percent annual earnings growth.

Trusts should take note that they will feel the effect in their annual rating if they fail to rise to the challenge.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

With 10,000 construction jobs created, 2,000 permanent jobs, $250 million in annual economic impact projected to the region and $1.6 billion in new tax revenue over the next 30 years, I'd say, 'Jets, welcome home!'

Expectations are that the semiconductor industry continues to expand despite the normal historical summer seasonality. Annual revenue growth for the industry could be up to 40 percent.

Alex Berenson

Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising oil prices and dozens of corporate scandals. It was the third consecutive annual decline, the first time that has happened in 60 years.

The good news is that this is much more moderate than we had seen in September and August and it brings the annual inflation rate down to 4.3 percent.

The good news is that spring is our wet season, with the months of April, May and June providing nearly a third of annual precipitation totals. So far, the long-range outlooks are showing no indicators that spring will be dry.

Today southern Arizona has already had a third of its annual average rainfall.

We need to examine where the burdens will fall under the governor's proposal. It's clear that people who have annual incomes of $200,000 or more are clear winners.

When the annual FISMA grades are released -- which could be imminently -- you have to ask yourself, what do those grades really mean? The high grades could mean a lot of compliance, but not a lot of security. The low grades could mean that there's plenty of security in place, but it just wasn't verified on paper properly.

We have PEO and bridge clubs who meet here a lot. Several businesses have their holiday or annual meetings here. Caterers come in for special events and use our kitchen facility. We also have groups from town decorate each room at Christmas and we're featured in Wakefield's Tour of Homes at that time.

We wanted to hang up two banners, but we're only going to hang up one this year. We want to make this an annual thing, getting to this game.

We've gotten a great response from the community -- and from the kids. We're considering making it an annual event and stay committed to the cause.

We've lost 95 percent of our wetlands when the big agricultural push took place and people were filling wetlands. Now we're building them back. We have a great lineup of speakers for this year's annual wildlife program.

Jim Balsillie

We recently passed the $2 billion annual revenue and 5 million subscribers milestones and we have begun the new fiscal year with over 150 carrier partners around the world.

We estimate that organic growth of this company is about 10% (annually) and they've targeted 20% annual growth over the next five years. There are a lot of acquisitions built into that.

David Tom

We don't get an annual report in our locker. You go to the majors, they don't want you to know what's going on.

We are thrilled to partner with the Mayor's Council of Technology Advisors on our fourth annual high school Web design contest. It is very important that we recognize the talent of tech-savvy high school students and support their technical and creative development as they consider careers in information technology.

We are thrilled to be a part of this year's Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards. Music is a central component of the show and the 'Kids Choice' CD is a natural and perfect extension. We are thrilled to release the 2nd annual Kids' Choice CD this year.

We'll wait until we hear for certain what their intentions are before we decide what the consequences will be. But I think it's safe to assume that, at a minimum, NHL clubs will no longer be willing to release players from contractual obligations to participate in the annual world championships.