Famous Quotes & Sayings

The market has been stuck in a very tight trading range for a month. Yesterday's NYSE volume of just over a billion shares makes me nervous. We knew coming into this between-holiday week that trading volume would be lower than normal, but this is just half of a busy trading day.

The market is in a 'show-me' way of thinking right now. The savings sound great, but it's hard to gauge how realistic the $4 billion number is, for this year.

Norman Ralph Augustine

A billion saved is a billion earned.

Haim Saban

Sergei Brin will tell you that there's $12-$14 billion to be made. I wasn't wrong, and I don't look back.

So 900 million in 8 months will not reach the target of global, equitable and timely access. One needs enough vaccine for 6.4 billion people and that is currently not in the cards,

Sky has made a lot of acquisitions. We're a disciplined acquirer. We have a strong track record. This is the third acquisition that's been over $2 billion in deposits, so it's not outsized. This isn't something we don't know what to do with. So we're already in motion.

That's at least $3 billion higher than my expectation.

That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year.

Eliot Spitzer

Every time we turn over a rock in the mutual fund industry these days, we are seeing vermin crawl out that are appalling: Late trading; timing by those in the executive boardroom; billions of dollars being scraped off that should be going into the pockets of investors instead ending up in the hands of the executives,

Companies around the world have purchased more than US$40 billion worth of enterprise applications, including ERP, CRM and HR, during the past few years.

Companies around the world have purchased more than US $40 billion worth of enterprise applications, including ERP, CRM and HR, during the past few years. This has generated significant volumes of data in support of the operational processes they automate. By investing in BI, companies can further leverage their enterprise application investments and turn the torrent of data into meaningful insight to better measure performance, respond more quickly to market changes and opportunities and comply with an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

Companies around the world have purchased more than $40 billion worth of enterprise applications, including ERP, CRM and HR, during the past few years. This has generated significant volumes of data in support of the operational processes they automate. By investing in BI, companies can further leverage their enterprise application investments and turn the torrent of data into meaningful insight to better measure performance, respond more quickly to market changes and opportunities and comply with an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

Despite spending more than $6.5 billion since 2001, these grants have not been able to demonstrate an impact on crime.

Bruce Golding

Despite some US$4 billion in foreign investments in recent years, there has been less than 5 per cent growth in the last eight years.

Peter Diamandis

And that's what we need to do in the space world to get to that point. It's the cost of operations that makes the space shuttle cost three-quarters of a billion dollars per launch. Fuel is one percent of the cost. It's the operations that we have to work on.

Any suggestion that one supports the objectives and the targets but not the approximately $5 billion allocated to these targets is of great concern to us because we won't be able to meet the targets without money.

Annalee Newitz

As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.

As China's industrial output soars and more than a billion people participate in a transformation of their living standards, the demand for the metals and minerals we produce has expanded rapidly.

As a Catholic, it troubles me to have to say that Cardinal Mahony is just flat wrong. First of all, he seems to not understand the difference between legal immigration and illegal immigration. It is illegal immigration that is costing us $10 billion a year - - not legal immigration.

Jim Costa

As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit, ladies and gentlemen, is over $700 billion today.

Our cuts are deep and painful; they hurt. But at the end of the day, the over $2.5 billion in cuts are not enough to close a $4.5 billion deficit.

People paying electric bills have been paying a fee into a DOE fund and there's been somewhere between $18 and $20 billion collected by the federal government for the purpose of shipping and storing fuel.

Of this projected deficit, 21 billion rand originates from the poor performance of the trade account.

Off the top of my head, $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money. I think it will be a billion dollar drug but it will take some time.

Michele Bachmann

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.

Kary Mullis

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

A deficit of only $8.4 billion in fact is not as much of a drag on GDP growth. It keeps things faster and also means that American exports continue to remain competitive in a market where the world is growing generally slower than we are.

A deficit of only $8.4 billion in fact is not as much of a drag on GDP growth, ... It keeps things faster and also means that American exports continue to remain competitive in a market where the world is growing generally slower than we are.

Gene Sperling

A down payment by the United States of $1 billion would provide further momentum. This down payment would make it possible for more than 10 million children to go to school and ensure that our country is contributing at least as much as the United Kingdom.

Paul Wolfowitz

The oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 billion and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years,

After 9/11, they said the project was too far gone to stop, when truthfully, they would rather spend a billion dollars than fix the mistake they made.

After any large loss event, the Bermudian reinsurance market always sees the inflow of billions of dollars of new capital.

Glenn Reynolds

After Katrina, when people started talking about it costing $250 billion for repair and reconstruction, it made people think about cutting some of the projects that are everywhere.