Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Zandi

Productivity growth is slowing and it is not strong enough to forestall rising labor costs and broader inflation.

Dick Cheney

Our concerns are broader than that, in a sense that we really need to sit down and look at our total energy situation nationwide -- maybe even look at it in a hemispheric basis, ... Look at Canada and Mexico. Look not only at electricity, but also natural gas and oil, coal and other forms of generating power as well.

People say the city will recover, and the question is, whose city? Is it the city that the tourists see or is it the broader city that really only came to the nation's consciousness after the hurricane?

Offset is helping to expand our relationship with large enterprises and serve a broader set of imaging.

Tom Rath

'StrengthsFinder 2.0' is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers - it was oriented more toward managers - or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow.

Sturdy product inventories should help to temper market fears of energy shortages, and should help cajole broader energy prices lower in the next few weeks.

Oil is strong and that is helping oil companies, but it is surprising the broader market is as strong as it is, given higher oil prices.

Delta's hard stance is aimed at trying to get the president to intervene. It's increasingly clear this may have much broader implications.

Delta's hard stance is aimed at trying to get the president to intervene, ... It's increasingly clear this may have much broader implications.

Tim Bajarin

There's a lot of potential for it in the upper end of the consumer segment and even the broader consumer market. For this to get the most attention, they've got to get it to a price point of under $500.

There's a whole lot of ways money changes hands today that we've started to tap into. There are broader targets, a broader set of delivery mechanisms and products. It's not just a physical card anymore.

There is value in everyone working together. . . . I think it's worth it to get broader support for something that already has strong support.

As she gears up to run for president, it?s a broader stage, and these issues matter in a way that perhaps they don?t when she?s in the Senate.

As we have maintained, we will offer a series a recommendations ? some specific and some broader ? to protect the interests of those the program was meant to serve,

Ken Goldberg

As much as I want to use Suffern as a platform to get out there, I want this effort to be broader than that. ... We just want to save one person.

George Russell

All of Colorado has grown in the meantime to a much more sophisticated place. We have a much broader mix of people than we had then.

This earnings season, instead of getting a ripple effect on positive news, you're seeing that particular company's stock react, but very little spillover, like with IBM today. The negative news has tended to spill over to the rest of that sector, and in some cases, the broader market.

This certainly lends support to the (Bank of England) hawks that suggest the official retail sales data may not be a fair representation of broader consumer demand in the first quarter of the year.

It really is a broader international issue that requires the general consensus of countries that intellectual property protection is critical to growth and productivity.

David Nelson

For investors, this makes it hard to know whether one quarter is reflective of broader improvement in the business.

For a small group of people to make a decision that these are inappropriate, I think, is not the way to go. There has to be broader consensus.

They are determined to do the right thing, determined to keep the huge run-up in energy and other commodity prices from infecting the system in a broader way by pushing up core inflation. That means a period of uncertainty for a while for investors.

This move was a natural for us. The product synergies created by combining our companies allows us to more fully leverage our capabilities and offer our clients a broader range of services.

Kofi Annan

There were governments that were not willing to make the concessions necessary, there were spoilers also in the group, let's be quite honest about that, ... I've tried to get them to understand that in our interconnected world, we need to look at issues in much broader terms rather than narrow national interests.

There were some unforeseen things like a lot of communicating between the company and manufacturer. It gave us a broader view of how business is run. There were bumps. It wasn't a smooth ride. We had to go back and correct things.

You would need to have O'Connor and Stevens leave to have any change on the larger, broader question.

This is a real dilemma for the leadership. There is the possibility for this to get mixed up with broader social grievances, so they have to tread carefully.

Kenny Leon

He put our history in a storytelling context and put a human face on those people who were free from slavery but had no jobs. He gave his characters big voices, when the broader community thought they had little voices, that they had nothing to say.

Julie Smith

If Germany's politicians are concentrating on trying to build coalitions, and then on trying to keep those coalitions together, the broader cause of economic reform within the EU will not exactly be at the top of their agenda.

Robert Forster

I decided I would open this little actors' workshop I always told actors to look for. That gave me something to do on Wednesday nights, and after about a year of that, I realized that some of the things I was saying to actors probably had broader application. I ran into a magazine called 'Speakers For Free.'

I don't we're seeing we see the collateral damage to broader market that we did in the fourth quarter,

How the market interprets some of the earnings next week will be the broader focus,

Robert Casey

I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.