Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brown

Good design is a form of respect - on the part of the producer for the person who will eventually spend hard-earned cash on the product, use the product, own the product.

I don't think it's a sign of give-up. They don't need all that cash to grow.

Azim Premji

For us Japan is a much higher priority. We find there are challenges in China -- the stability of people, intellectual property, uncertain cash flows. They are hard-working people but they don't have democracy. When they have a transition to democracy there are going to be huge challenges.

Giving cash rewards is one of the least-effective means of motivating employees. While money may induce short-term involvement, it does not create motivation for the long term. Merchandise has a residual value over cash because the objects serve as reminders.

Given the risks related to closing the deal, they are probably pretty comparable. A better situation, in my view, would have been $26 per share in cash on the table.

Jack Smith

GM's strong cash position and our expectations for future cash flow make it possible for us to return cash directly to stockholders in an effective and timely manner,

If it comes back too far I think there are buyers. There's still cash around and plenty of M&A talk." ()

I got a Johnny Cash voice, but I'm gonna sing Kenny Rogers. I'm sure I'm the oldest here. I'm 62.

The range of $0.505 is at the low end of historical experience. New highs in the spot cash price are certainly possible, particularly if weather concerns persist into the spring.

Megan Fox

I always bring cash for tips, and I never give less than $20. I used to work in a smoothie shop, so I know the value of a tip.

He was actually paying them. He was the paymaster. He had firsthand knowledge. He would run down to New Jersey, get a check, cash the check and pay.

If we don't see signs of earnings growth soon or in early 2006, you'll see investors look at that situation and say cash does start to make sense.

If we hadn't saved the $2 million we would have gone through the entire working cash fund of the district,

If we do get a market rally, it will be short-lived as people will cash in on any kind of sustained rise.

Jack Greene

If we committed that cash toward a match for purposes of a grant, then we wouldn't be able to use it for anything else.

If the club and the manager say let's work on this, we think we can generate some more cash and improve your profile, which indirectly extends the profile of the game then that's what I like about it.

He had this spirit of giving back. I remember his telling about him returning home after a long trip selling cars. He had enough cash to send his father and mother into retirement in Florida. Whenever he told about that, he cried. That was Marty, always giving back.

There is a lack of quality around and we were not going to make signings for the sake of it. It was not just about cash availability.

Michael Sheehan

We had cash flow issues. Right up until yesterday (Tuesday) morning, I thought we had a deal.

Ben Feldman

The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.

McDonald's has run out of high return places to invest cash like they did over the last 50 years, so the prudent decision is just give it back to shareholders.

Me and my wife put a family of five in a hotel seven or eight nights. It's kind of hard to imagine waking up one day and losing everything. They were sleeping on a floor in a relative's house. My wife, Judy, gave them some cash to go by some essentials. Hopefully they're on the road to recovery.

One needs to remember that production disruption insurance usually doesn't start until 90 days elapse from outage, so some companies could stand to lose meaningful cash flow if their facilities are affected.

No one has anything to cash out. I think this year people are going to be feeling pretty poor.

Money funds look very good at the moment, but you don't want to move everything into cash and at some point next year, when the rate hikes are over and the Fed starts cutting, find you've missed your chance to lock in higher long-term rates.

Richard Ford

Now we have proof and evidence that these authorities have been used as cash cows and patronage mills by the Pataki administration,

need to preserve as much cash as possible.

New management might decide to make that choice, to reinvest some of the cash from the dividend back into the company, ... meaningful growth until the end of the decade or later.

The price strength has been a little surprising given the magnitude of the surplus in U.S. corn inventories. However, over the past 32 years, the central Illinois cash price has never established a marketing year high in February, suggesting that even higher prices might be expected sometime over the next six months.

Dave Ramsey

The first step in taking control of your money is to stop borrowing money. Start using cash today.

George Bell

We were committed to continuing a high level of investment in marketing this quarter to the extent that we could maintain earnings per share and generate positive cash flow, and that is precisely what we did,

There are only about 10 airports in China that are profitable, some only in terms of cash flow. Overall, Chinese airports have the potential to make money.

There are too many department stores in Canada. It simplifies the corporate structure so he doesn't have to worry about minority shareholders. If he wants to start selling real estate and leasing back stores, he can do that and get some cash back. It gives him complete control.