Famous Quotes & Sayings

We also think that the Street's fourth quarter 2002 expectation of 17 cents in earnings per share is unreasonably high,

Daniel Yergin

We're expecting another 20 cents more than where we are,

The profit is between 5 and 10 cents depending on what kind of gasoline we get,

We've seen our gas prices go up more than 25 cents since the first of the year. This is the fastest increase ever in the 10 years we've done the survey during this time of year.

We had a very good relationship with Bruce, ... I am sure he put his two cents in. He was the only guy who knew me, so I would imagine he said something.

Many people are choosing this winter to replace their older furnace and invest in a high-efficiency furnace. Some of today's furnaces have an efficiency rating of 94.2 percent. That means, for every dollar you spend on gas, nearly 95 cents worth is heating your home. If you furnace is15 to 20 years old, the efficiency could be as low as 65 to 70 percent.

Simple. I grew up a field-worker. My dad made 50 cents a day picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley. I never thought I'd get to teach, never thought I'd get to coach, never thought I'd have an NCAA champion, never thought I'd get to see the world. This university has done more for me than I could ever pay back. But I can do this -- and I want to.

Most of the time, ethanol-blended fuel is usually a couple of cents or as much as five cents to eight cents less.

I don't think we're going back to 50 cents a pound.

It can be as high 20 to 25 cents on the dollar for administrative costs.

I think everyone knows it's not a huge incremental piece of information when oil's up another 25 cents or so, even when it's near another record.

We think American drivers should brace themselves for a fairly large increase, as soon as this weekend. It could be an increase of around five cents a gallon nationwide.

Steve Largent

to ensure that 90 cents of every federal education dollar goes directly to the classroom ... not the bureaucrats.

Perry Farrell

Here's my system. Music that's five years old should be a nickel. Music's that's three to four years old, you should pay a dime. If it's two years old, it's 50 cents and for new singles, 75 cents.

Stephen Moore

For those who are counting, that's a steep four-and-a-half-fold increase in 16 years. When state and local gas levies are included, motorists in many states now pay 40 to 50 cents a gallon. It's hard to say where all the money has gone. Clearly, the nation's roads aren't four and a half times better today than they were 15 years ago. In fact, it seems that there are more watermelon-sized potholes nowadays than ever.

James Mitchell

Go and see the quality of life of the people on the Chiquita plantations. People living in shacks, people living with tin roofs held on by stones and with earthen floors, people working for 20 U.S. cents a day.

James Mitchell

Go and see the quality of life of the people on the Chiquita plantations, ... People living in shacks, people living with tin roofs held on by stones and with earthen floors, people working for 20 U.S. cents a day.

If the high-grade gas commands 20 cents more per gallon, ... he can pocket $200 for selling 1,000 gallons of regular at the higher price.

Price of Herald three cents daily. Five cents Sunday. Bennett.

Chuck Phillips

We now expect EPS of 15 cents a share, excluding amortization and charges. Our previous consensus level EPS estimate was 55 cents a share.

Local plants have netted most farmers between 10 and 15 cents more a bushel.

I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.

Most of the places around town already went up about 20 something cents a gallon so we happened to find this which is still around about $2.50.

Historically, over the past 10 to 12 years, depositors with excess of $100,000 received 72 cents on the dollar.

Right now, you're talking to a company that 60 days ago had stock trading in the 12 to 14 cents range.

Record high gas prices won't keep Americans from traveling this holiday. Despite gas prices that are nearly 50 cents per gallon higher than they were a year ago, record numbers of travelers will hit the highways.

Joseph Wright

I would be more than willing to pay the extra 10 cents per container with my food to make up for that extra cost.

Larry Ellison

If we had made less than 12 cents in operating income, we would have had to warn. We didn't warn.

If we can get two-thirds of our product development at one-fourth the cost, we come close to cutting our overall costs in half, ... Put another way, if I have 25 cents of every dollar this company takes in to spend on product development, getting more engineers working is how we can develop faster and how we win.

Now, they're making about 70 cents a pound, and most are pleased with that. They're not making a lot of money now, but they're making enough to make a comfortable living and not worry about losing the farm.

We are confident that our operating results, excluding the impact of special items, will meet or be slightly favorable to our prior guidance of a loss of 4 cents per share.

When gas prices go up 5 cents a gallon, that's maybe an extra $10 a week out of consumers' pockets. But when they're going up 15 cents and more, it means $20 extra a week.

Tom Brokaw

My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.