Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's been a lot of speculation as to how consumers will react to higher gas prices, ... I think consumers really took us by surprise.

If the world did not purchase and consume meat, there would be none to slaughter and offer meat for sale.

Monica Crowley

If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.

If you have productivity growing faster than the economy, how can you expect demand for labor to be all that strong? I'm still hopeful that unemployment won't go much higher than 6.2 percent or 6.3 percent, but where we'll peak is not as important as when we turn around. If we sort of linger at 6.2 percent, that will put some downward pressure on consumer spending.

If you had any conscience at all, this wouldn't happen. We would find other sources of energy instead of trying to destroy our back yard.

If you don't offer consumers a legal alternative, they're going to migrate to an illegal alternative.

If you have a strong opinion on X, and Tim doesn't share it, well, it may be a little tricky to get a standard out, Tim is the key to ensuring a consistent architecture, to keeping things from fragmenting.

If you quit, what are you going to do day in and day out when you are used to working? You are better off with some consistency.

If you're going to sue the organization that you want to be a part of, sometimes that comes with consequences.

Ric Edelman

If you're portfolio consists of nothing but tech stocks, you should seriously consider repositioning.

If you relax too much, the subconscious plays the role; the conscious does something else, rather than the other way around, which is the way it's supposed to be.

David Caruso

If you're in over your head, go out tomorrow and see a consumer credit counseling service, ... Talk to someone if you can't do the things on your list, or go find a financial planner to get some help.

If you're a government employee, e-mail is considered public property.

If you're considering taking your life, consider how many others will go down with you.

If you look at the trend in Internet media, it's all about giving consumers control. You don't have to be unsatisfied by your local radio. You can find someone out there who's putting out what you want to hear.

Alain Vigneault

If you look at the overall season, he's been a very consistent and steady force back there. He's very poised and plays within his limits. That's been his strength.

W. S. Gilbert

If you look at the new products and consumer interest, they generally peak quickly and decline eventually. Over the last 15 years, organics has just continued to increase a little all the time. It never had the fashionable peaks of those other fads.

Confucius

If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?

If you look at what we consider to be the transformative industries of the 21st century, we want to be the players there. We've said that we not only want to be great, but we want to let the world to know we're great.

Michael Keaton

If you look at what I do, there's no consistency. The consistency is that there is no consistency. I do projects that are good and not so good.

Jeff Lindsay

If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.

Scott Skiles

If you look around the league, other than the top teams, all the teams try to get to be a consistent team. The only way you get to be a consistent team is if you get a consistent effort, especially from your key guys. That's kind of kind of separates the teams.

If you trust the market, you let the consumers pick winners and losers rather than the government doing so.

In the world of insurance, $20 million in punitive damages is considered a very substantial jury award.

Jack Valenti

In the last several years, piracy has been the dominant issue that has consumed my life,

In the first year, that saved me a lot of time. I probably would have had to hire a consultant for a month to sift through all that, or figure out how to do it myself with some sort of programming tool.

In the first quarter of 2006, emerging markets and consumer demand in the mature regions were the major growth engines on a worldwide basis. Mobile demand remains strong worldwide, but in the U.S. desktop consumer market demand increased in response to renewed price competition.

Bill Thomas

In the face of layoffs, tumbling corporate profits, falling stock markets and shakier consumer confidence, no doubt remains that this legislation is needed.

In the current rising cost environment, we consider the all-in unit reserve replacement costs, which are essentially flat with those of 2004 to be excellent.

Bud Selig

In the '80s, this sport had a very serious cocaine problem - and that was a pretty consistent pattern.

Intel's pre-announcement goes a long way to explaining softness in the DRAM market. PCs consume well over one-half of all DRAMs.

Intel's financial position and status as the semiconductor bellwether may be in jeopardy if it fails to find strategic opportunities in other faster growing markets such as communications and consumer electronics.

Intel revenue and earnings per share were in line with our expectations, but consensus for 2001 will be slightly down revenue, which has not occurred since 1986,