Famous Quotes & Sayings

Auto execs are grappling with the dynamics of increased competition, rising commodity and healthcare costs and the need to invest in new manufacturing facilities. All of this is leading to a rather bleak outlook on profitability through the rest of this decade and a trend toward greater consolidation.

Auto designers usually have to think in terms of the standard categories: SUV, sports car, etc.

Ameen Rihani

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

Auto buyers like to know what automotive professionals consider the best cars and trucks on the market. With so many factors to evaluate when purchasing a new vehicle, the Most Significant New Introduction Awards help consumers identify one worth considering.

At some hotels, the general manager or the front-of-house manager would have the autonomy to negotiate with you,

Back then, with the bikeways, it was thought that it would take part of the automobile traffic off the road.

The Mitsubishi press incorporates all the automation features we could want. They are uniformly productive features.

Eastern Maine Electric was the first utility in the state to use widespread automated meter reading. The Turtle meter reading system was funded by research dollars from co-ops like EMEC. Now it's also used by investor-owned utilities like Maine Public Service as well. By improving a utility's efficiency, this technology saves energy users money.

Blaming other people and circumstances leads to automatic failure.

Every single time, they'll face the same problem that confronted Neil Armstrong. Any autonomous vehicle has to have the same degree of smarts. Without that, it's very difficult to picture a step-by-step progression of a human return to the moon in 10-to-15 years.

Every single automobile on the road today is ethanol-capable. All vehicles can operate on a 10 percent blend of ethanol with gasoline, and Flexible Fuel Vehicles can use E85, an alternative fuel containing 85 percent ethanol.

For any company that has a few IT people and more than 50 or 100 computers, it isn't that overwhelming to install and manage SMS. And if you're real small, you're probably just going to install automatic updates.

For an automatic trigger, it has to be a tie.

The number of gasoline- electric hybrid engines is growing but is still a very small share of the auto market and has limited impact.

Jeff Gordon

It's the only autograph I've ever gotten from a driver that I've raced against.

It's kind of like NASCAR. I don't know if you've been to Fontana for the California 500. There is more than an auto race going on. We are going to create the same thing here, and we have the room to do it and the facilities to do it, and that's our goal.

It's a lot of different factors. Auto sales were no surprise, but that's hurting the Dow, with GM falling, the dollar is down, you've got Warren Buffet making bearish comments, and then there's the usual malaise with Iraq.

He believes it would eliminate flexibility and use dated information in order to impose on the private sector the same automatic spending that has caused the state budget crisis.

I chaired the 1982 Democratic Party Commission on Presidential Nominations that created certain automatic delegates to the Democratic convention - the 'superdelegates.' It was a good idea then, and it is still a good idea.

Bud Selig

I don't think that's true at all. There's no facts to support that and we're doing everything we can. We've taken care of the present future. Senator Mitchell has complete autonomy to go do whatever he has to do, wherever he has to go. In the meantime our minor league program is in its sixth year.

I don't see how he could keep his post with all the pressure. Both public opinion and political forces have failed him. In any other country, this would have already led to an automatic resignation.

Sharon Stone

I don't mind being recognised, I often quite enjoy it. I don't mind signing autographs but sometimes it can be just a bit too much.

Colorado is a healthy and competitive market. Over the last two and a half years, we have seen auto rates drop between 10 and 30 percent in Colorado, homeowners rates are stabilizing and Colorado is one of six states that does not have a medical malpractice crisis. This bill is a solution in search of a problem.

If crimes are committed, they are committed by people; they are not committed by some free-floating entity. These companies and other entities don't operate on automatic pilot. There are individuals that make decisions - and some make the right decisions, and some make the wrong decisions.

Certain tasks become automatic and don't require your attention, like walking or driving, so that you can easily carry on a complicated conversation while driving. But you probably wouldn't be able to do this if you just learned how to drive.

Miles Franklin

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

The Japanese auto companies are saying you have to meet a world price. Whether it's China, Mexico, Brazil, wherever it is, because of the competitive nature of this business, you go to the most competitive sources.

P. J. O'Rourke

The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.

Ray Bradbury

I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.

George Takei

All that was required for it to become law was the autograph of one actor.

And, as long as I've lived in Southern California I've never done the autograph thing. So, I guess as long as you're in Hawai'i, you might as well do the touristy thing.

The electronics industry moves faster than the auto industry, and that's typically why cars have historically lagged on consumer electronics.

Martin Winterkorn

The European auto industry made a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 140 grams per kilometer. But then there was a significant change in what customers wanted in their vehicles.