Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Wong

The decline today was a disappointing end to the year. The weak performance was attributable to weak Asian stocks as well as profit-taking after recent gains.

The degree to which mobile commerce stakeholders can identify the sectors and markets with the highest demand for mobile based payments will determine the success of these stakeholders in a rapidly growing sector of the payments world. Our research on both mature and developing markets in Asia provides insights into both what is happening today and where to look next for mobile commerce development.

Wayne Swan

We know that a smarter Australia means a stronger Australia. An Australia able to grasp the opportunities of the Asian Century. A skilled workforce and a strong, productive and resilient economy. We know we'll only win the economic race in the Asian Century if we win the education race.

Anna Akana

I've always wanted to be in comedy... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.

My vision is to make Seoul the center of East Asia in terms of economy, culture and tourism.

The prospect for price improvement depends on the performance of the Asian and European economies, who are big users of metals, and the prospects are getting better. There's still a lot of uncertainty there, but relatively speaking the signs are fairly encouraging.

Traditionally Central Asian gas is cheaper, so there won't be any shock for the Ukrainian economy.

Nydia Velazquez

Nationally, more than one million Asian American entrepreneurs create jobs in their communities, helping fuel local commerce. In New York, we have seen firsthand how this community has helped drive our economy forward through hard work and ingenuity.

David Suzuki

We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn't vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960.

David Suzuki

I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.

Norman Schwarzkopf

As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'

Tippi Hedren

We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline.

I think we could rally for the next 30 days, but again, I think you probably want to be more cautious as you get into the spring when the IMF austerity programs in Asia start to really pull the economies down. So even though we have some current relief rally happening, I think it could be short-lived and not as sustained as we might want.

Ichiro Suzuki

I think we have to rethink, because now we are on the big stage, and the Americans are a big-stage team. In the Asian round, we felt we had to worry about not only winning, but playing good for the (home) fans. Here, we have one purpose only.

I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going on at the same time, all of which aren't very good. We've got the Japanese yen going to eight-year lows, we've got talk about devaluation in China, we've got Hong Kong coming under attack and we've got a number of other Asian economies just showing incredible signs of weakness.

Bernie Ecclestone

I think Asia is good. We have had a lot of success in Asia. Malaysia has become a lot stronger now and there is a lot more interest there. Maybe we can squeeze one more in Asia.

The Panda mission really speaks to our philosophy. It is, 'Deliver exceptional Asian dining experiences by building an organization where people are inspired to better their lives.' I'm talking about everyone who works at Panda. They're inspired to better their own lives.

Stephen Elop

If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all led North America.

Benigno Aquino III

I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.

When you had the tsunami in southeast Asia and you saw all that water coming in? Well, that's a good example of what it looked like when you saw all that stuff cut loose.

With still strong domestic demand and improving international demand, the factory sector is continuing to recover from the sluggishness that resulted from the Asian economic crisis.

We are excited about the synergies and strategic benefits of this acquisition, including the improved reach into Asia and the broadening of our offering with less-complex, higher-turn products in the mixed-signal and structured digital business. This acquisition expands our market and scale in both mixed-signal and structured digital products. In addition, the peripheral imaging sensor products included in the acquisition enhance our core competencies while driving profitable growth.

Ellsworth Huntington

The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.

Ferdinand Marcos

The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.

The real meaning of being an Asian director is we can put the power of culture from all Asian countries together and show everything people can possibly imagine.

David Henry Hwang

I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

This reflects the importance of Asia and the variety of its cinema.

Tobacco has to be addressed and fought now because the children and young people of Asia are becoming influenced.

Robert Zoellick

The Philippines copyright enforcement is weak and and we are concerned it has the potential of becoming a center of pirate optical media production in Asia given the doubling in the number of production lines for compact discs (CDs) and other optical media during the past year,,

Richard Boucher

We and Japan are allies. When there are tensions in some parts of Asia -- whether it's North Korea, the Taiwan Strait or some other part of Asia -- we talk to Japan about it.

Mark Kirk

When you look at the state of the economy right now, you have to set a priority. And my top priority is the deficit of jobs and economic growth, and especially this perception that the United States could be falling behind especially Asian economies.

This report indicates manufacturing is continuing to rebound from the Asian crisis, which is exactly what the Fed expects.

Pete du Pont

We run very strongly with the Asian community, with the Hispanic community, not as well yet with the Black community. I think that's coming.