Famous Quotes & Sayings

At one time, 60 percent (of the income tax) went into the general fund, and 40 percent for capital improvements. Now, about 95 percent has to go into the general fund and 5 percent for capital improvements.

At that point, we had left 10 guys on base. We had had a couple opportunities, but we didn't capitalize on them. Getting off the hook like that was good.

At present, order levels clearly reflect lower carrier capital spending and the resulting desire of our customers to reduce inventories sharply.

John Burns

Conquering himself, he has learned that he can conquer the world of capital whose generals have been the most ruthless of his oppressors.

Erin Hunter

Contrary to public perception, it's not just 'college kids' or 'bleeding edge' internet users who are streaming videos. This creates a fantastic opportunity for advertisers to capitalize on what is now a mainstream audience.

Could this have a potential impact on the supply of venture capital to the next generation of companies five and 10 years down the road?

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

don't want to put that capital in there, we can't force them as human beings. We can't do that.

Customers can now capitalize on the impact of color while trusting that their highly sensitive documents and intellectual property will remain secure.

Currently, the marketing plan for the Hospital Foundation is to raise money for new programs and for the future capital expansion of the east campus.

Currency trading has been one of the fastest-growing segments of the electronic trading universe in recent years. As a pioneer in this market, Gain Capital has helped drive the growth of the market and has become a highly profitable company.

Virginia is the information technology state in the United States, ... Virginia is leading the information revolution as the Internet capital of the world. Half of the world's Internet traffic passes through Virginia.

James Packer

We are of the view that the expected returns from the integrated resort are insufficient to justify the higher projected capital costs of the project.

We did a nice job pressing to start and jumped to a nice lead, but later we had a few steals we couldn't capitalize on.

Chris Armas

We did a good job with Ruiz, and we had a couple of clear chances, but we could not capitalize on them,

We'd have to convert our hole into a mountain, which would require higher capital costs over the next five years.

We had our opportunities (against Buffalo). The thing now is to go and capitalize on them. The thing with Pittsburgh coming into town, whenever they give you an opportunity you have to capitalize, because they are a team that's big on turnover ratio. The thing for us is to go in and win that.

David Miliband

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.

Ben Shapiro

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

We saw our goals come from a lot of people and a lot of different things. Our goals are a result of a lot of work, like people framing the goal, and causing problems in the box. We also have some dangerous weapons on restarts, and we were able to capitalize on them last week.

We see exciting opportunities in the Chinese and the Indian markets. Capital will go to those markets.

You give him a split second in any situation, he'll capitalize on it. They have a lot of firepower up front, and we took a lot of penalties.

There's never been a good period of venture capital when prices weren't high.

Michael Sims

E. B. White had a romantic tenderness toward nature in a capital R, 19th-century way. He was knowledgeable, a part-time farmer, and a hardheaded realistic person.

But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

Hines Ward

To me, it's like you put in all this hard work, and we didn't capitalize on it. When you look at it, we had a great year.

This was a big game for us, and we had a lead again, and we weren't able to capitalize on it, and it's something that we are really going to have to work through.

Today most open-source-related companies, whether they seek venture capital or not, need to define their market and objectives in the context of technical maturity, commercial support and partnerships with system vendors and independent software vendors, licensing, and the vibrancy of their respective open-source communities,

With scandal-ridden capital markets, a mediocre recovery and still high valuations, a lengthy bottoming and healing period is needed before we get a substantial upturn in equities.

We wanted this opportunity. Now we have to capitalize on it.

We've had so many of those kind of innings that went the other way, it was nice to finally capitalize on one of our own. We've had trouble coming up with innings like this, and we've given away too many of them to the other team.

The running capital of the world is also a hippie haven. The home of the University of Oregon is a gorgeous place, great for those who love the outdoors.

The running capital of the world is also a hippie haven,

Sean Casey

It was the same kind of game as the one last night, but they won that one. They had opportunities, we had opportunities, we couldn't capitalize until the 11th.