Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is a 12-cent per gallon normal retail markup. But usually, the profit margin is about two cents a gallon.

Why should investors sit passively by and take a couple of cents on a the dollar. This is an extraordinarily powerful tactical weapon.

We can't speak for each of the 170,000 gasoline stations nationwide, ... But it's clear that gasoline prices are up 29 cents a gallon because crude oil prices are up about 29 cents a gallon during the same period.

Spencer Tracy

This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?

James Hill

Fifty cents of every $4 will go back to the family.

Three cents sounds good. We do have a surplus and we should do something about the surplus and this is a way of giving something back to the taxpayers.

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.

We're using the new ultra-clean diesel which is 20 cents more a gallon to start, It's worth it for the kids.

We're up 500 percent in bioheat sales over the last heating season, ... Bioheat is working from a pricing standpoint. It's 6 to 8 cents less per gallon than conventional heating oil.

Susan Molinari

We have an opportunity in going through our daily lives and sending out letters to our loved ones, or paying bills, to also contribute a few of our cents toward research and finding of a cure for breast cancer.

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.

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

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.

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 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,

Chuck Grassley

We need to get the price of wind energy down to 3.5 cents per kilowatt,

While the order is not exactly the way we had presented it to the commission, we feel like we can work with the guidelines that have been given to us. And it is still good news for our customers. We are still able to move forward with our plans for the Attala plant. This is a very efficient plant. It's a proven plant. We're getting it for cents on a dollar.

John Edwards

The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.

This is in spite of gasoline rebounding 10 to 15 cents in January. This also squares with the jobless claims data.

Not including your time, just the materials to make a fly from can run between 15 cents up to a dollar. ... How much time it takes to tie a fly depends on the complexity of the pattern and the skill of fly tier; some people might take an hour to one fly while a more-skilled person can maybe do a dozen in an hour.

Not only was I the artist, publisher, songwriter and producer, I was also the singer, ... For every three cents Elvis made on a record, I made 45 cents.

I know what it's like to be poor. I know the value of a dollar and the value of three cents a pound (of cotton).

Chris Bosh

I'm sure that's what they're trying to do, they're trying to do something. All I can do is hope and pray and give my little two cents to the guys upstairs and they're going to make their decision.

It will cost an extra 15 cents to 30 cents per ticket for most riders.

There's no more upside coming. So we're not going to see more than 65, maybe 70 cents out of this company for the whole year. This is a very expensive stock to be earning 65 or 70 cents.

We expect Jones to report total revenue of $1.15 billion, a decline of 14.4 percent versus last year, and earnings of 47 cents per share. Management did not provide quarterly guidance, and this quarter will reflect a decline in revenue due to the sale of Polo Jeans Company.

In traditional Medicare, over 97 cents of every dollar spent goes to directly providing health care. Under the Part D disaster, we are just starting to see the enormous cost of privatization.

If you think gas prices are high now, you are in for a real surprise, ... A spike of about 80 cents to what you currently have is very possible.

If you roam outside the United States you pay.0195 cents per kilobyte.

Scott Adams

It has no real financial impact on me. And I'm not the angry-getting type. If they prorated my subscription fee, I think they owe me 85 cents or something like that.