Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our preference is the sooner the better. People in the markets prefer certainty versus uncertainty.

Our $80 per share offer for Guidant is compelling. We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson's.

Martin Frost

Management conveyed that if they didn't have certainty that things are settled with the unions, they will be looking at bankruptcy,

I think they're waiting for Cisco, but they're also injecting their own level of certainty about the third quarter as being the turning point for the front end of technology stocks,

It is a simplification of the system but the detail is still unclear. The only certainty is that in the short term it will produce more work for employment lawyers.

That's very significant to us to have certainty around the pension funding.

Winston Churchill

It is not given to the cleverest and the most calculating of mortals to know with certainty what is their interest. Yet it is given to quite a lot of simple folk to know everyday what is their duty

I don't know that we have any certainty about what's going to happen in the future.

I would say no company has a lot of visibility past a couple of quarters all you can have is a framework. No question that going out a couple of years is really hard to do, and the level of certainty you can predict two years from now is lower than even what you can predict in the current quarter.

Bart was, like a lot of people who were converted to fundamental evangelicalism, converted to the certainty of it all, of having all the answers. When he found out they were lying to him, he just didn't want anything to do with it.

I think it's a virtual certainty that the low turnout this time around will be used by opponents to say this was a misbegotten project that never should have happened in the first place.

If we delayed the move, we would have turned certainty into uncertainty.

If we obstinately refuse to reform what we have implicitly declared to be wrong, and engaged to put away the holding of the Africans in slavery... have we not the great reason to fear, yea, may we not with great certainty conclude, God will withdraw his kind protection from us, and punish us yet seven times more?

Samuel Johnson

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Carl Sandburg

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

Sophocles

One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try

Aristotle

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try

Obviously, we're starting to get the news from Katrina on the real situation, and the market is viewing that as not as bad. What's really driving it is when some refiners will come on line. That kind of certainty gives the market a platform to move higher.

We're happy to provide habitat for fish and wildlife species, ... But we wanted some regulatory certainty and stability.

Many parties have complained about a lack of legal certainty with regard to investment permits. We need more detailed and clearer regulations.

Like any good cook, you go back in the kitchen and you revamp your recipe and you take what you have on hand and you still make up something pretty good. And I think after spending the last two months with the women on our team, I think that with certainty we can whip up something pretty good.

Maintaining vigilance is going to be a long and exhausting process. Nobody can say with any certainty when a pandemic virus will emerge.

Yehuda Berg

'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

Yehuda Berg

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

We are not going to speculate on what may happen. The only certainty of next week is that the generators will continue to charge high prices for the power they sell to California.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

The only certainty is that there is consciousness

Pliny the Elder

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

The only reason people want water rights is to have certainty to what their place in line is.

E. W. Howe

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

Two months ago, a hike in May seemed not so likely; now it seems like a certainty.