Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are increasing our capital expenditures by 41 percent this year, as part of a long-term plan.

Returns on capital are highest where capital is scare.

People will feel they did not make a lot of money (this year), and yet they may well see some significant capital gains taxes due on their funds holdings.

Potentially, we're looking at either murder or capital murder depending on the circumstances,

Robert Wilson

My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

My sense is that the market is responding to the possibility that a meaningful economic stimulus package will be in place soon that will at least shore up some of the shortfall in capital spending,

Next year it may be tepid with a capital T.

Sarah Hall

Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city.

On the edge of London restaurants for instance are doing particularly well, it is the central core of the capital that is suffering.

One of the reasons foreign capital keeps coming to the U.S. is that yields are higher than what you're getting globally.

Pierre Omidyar

You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.

We couldn't capitalize on our scoring chances and that was the story of the game. They capitalized on our mistakes.

We have to work on our shooting. We've had our chances but we don't capitalize on them. Other teams do and that's hurting us.

Reza Aslan

There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.

Paul Hawken

Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance sheets was an understandable omission. There was so much of it, it didn't seem worth counting.

We'll have an incredible critical mass for purchasing, we think there's some working capital opportunities, so there's a lot of opportunities.

You have the foreign capital coming into China in the form of QFII. That's also positive for the A-share markets.

Today we got one answer, and one man can not speak for the correctness of verdicts in a thousand other capital cases.

Though we are trimming capital expenditures in 2002, we will continue to invest capital in the right places, namely our major growth drivers, ... It is critical that SBC continue to provide excellent customer service and invest smartly to grow our data, long-distance and wireless revenues.

Nassau William Senior

Thus, in ordinary language, the word Capital is sometimes used as comprehending every species of Wealth, and sometimes as confined to Money.

We didn't capitalize on rebounds. Their goalie had several saves that were just by instinct because there was no way he could have known where the puck was.

We didn't capitalize on our opportunities. We had a first-and-goal on the 1-yard line and didn't score.

We didn't capitalize on our opportunities. A lot of their stuff was just off-speed. They weren't overpowering. They just kept us off balance.

We did not receive any official confirmation from the Syrian capital on whether President Assad will head the Syrian delegation to the United Nations Summit that will open on Sept. 14,

We don't have the capital solution that we need.

We are seeing stronger growth for the semiconductor industry this year. They need new capital spending for an industry that is expected to grow by 10 percent, compared with 6 percent to 7 percent last year.

We are seeing now is more spending by corporations on capital equipment which includes electronics equipment.

We are pleased our strong financial standing and outlook enabled us to establish this new credit facility under favorable terms with a syndicate of high-quality lenders. The capital this facility provides will support the company's growth as we further solidify our leadership position in minimally invasive sports medicine, spine and ENT surgery.

Pension funds and insurers have targets to double their allocation to real estate to 15 per cent. Still, so much capital being raised may be a sign of the end of a good market as some companies may overpay for properties.

Alan Greenspan

Our judgment is that the level of consumption growth...will slow down, and the dramatic expansion in capital investment will slow down, ... Something will eventually change the pattern, but there are a number of different ways that can happen.

Our inside presence opened up a lot of free throw opportunities for us. We actually got what we wanted and we didn't capitalize on it.

Our identical-store sales are the strongest they have been in over four years, ... We gained U.S. market share and our capital investments and lifestyle stores continue to exceed expectations.

Patrick Murray

Our Human Capital Index research has found that companies where a relatively high percentage of employees evaluate their superiors tend to have lower performance levels.