Famous Quotes & Sayings

We still see more downside than upside risk to 2007 consensus earnings.

David Douglass

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

While management will likely continue to guide conservatively, we expect 2006 outlook will be at least in-line with (analysts' consensus estimate of) $4.18. JC Penney's stepped up branding campaign, which kicks off March 2 and includes a temporary NY store, should drive some sales and more importantly position them for market share gains as industry rationalization frees up share.

Hugo Chavez

What a great truth and how good it is that in Mar del Plata President Kirchner has come to say it to millions: the Washington consensus is broken; we are looking for a new model,

Leonard Susskind

Why is there space rather than no space? Why is space three-dimensional? Why is space big? We have a lot of room to move around in. How come it's not tiny? We have no consensus about these things. We're still exploring them.

We share the wish for a national consensus for peace as a passport for the reconstruction of our country.

Natan Sharansky

The prime minister is traveling without trying to make consensus here. I prefer to be with the majority.

Samir Geagea

Lebanon is the true land of consensus par excellence,

The overlap was startling, really. There was a great deal of consensus on where to intervene,

We are definitely going to have to look at all of the recommendations, find some sort of consensus and do what we can to implement those, but it will probably be a lengthy process.

Jim Jordan

When we're done, piping plover and habitat will still be out there. The consensus is, if we do nothing, the habitat is going to go away.

There is a very strong consensus that gold will continue its trend higher this year and that, in itself, is a warning sign.

Lloyd Banks

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Whether it is by consensus or by vote, either way it ends up in New York.

Herb Kohl

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

Tom Chatfield

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however, is a deeply unsettling question - not least because intelligent machines seem considerably more achievable than any consensus around their programming or consequences.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Peoria, Connecticut, Atlanta, ... I've got the Big East tournament on Thursday, the ACC on Friday, the SEC on Saturday. Then we've got the NCAA tournament. We've had guys out for the past six months. We've seen all the consensus top high school guys. We've been to Europe. We've ranked all the NBA players from all 29 teams. We've got guys everywhere.

Basically, the consensus is Stayton and Cascade will be at the top. ... But I think we've improved enough to be in the playoffs. It's just how focused we can be in the next (eight) games.

Given the current outlook, we expect to modestly exceed the first quarter consensus estimate of $0.75 per share,

Getting a global consensus, it turns out, is not that easy. We're hoping we're going to get widespread support so we can stand up and say to the U.S. government that this is a true consensus document.

Burt Rutan

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

Alan Dershowitz

President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.

The crisis is not gone. There is still more work to be done. And the thing that worries investors the most is when consensus develops and the market recovers, there is a big sigh of relief.

I would say the consensus is that the Fed goes to a neutral position on inflation.

Greenspan is an orthodox thinker in most ways, but you have give him credit for questioning consensus thinking.

I think it's fair to say that these are difficult issues -- they are difficult moral, ethical, legal issues. And one would not expect that everyone would come to a consensus on this.

Jim Cooper

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

There is no consensus in the Republican Party.

There is no consensus in NATO today for a ground invasion force.

Howard Schultz

There is more of a consensus than I saw in the past in terms of how people see things,

When Howard signed a Sirius deal in October 2004, we had 660,000 subscribers. Analysts' consensus predicted 2 million by 2005, but we are already at 3.3 million. Clearly, this jump can be attributable to Howard.

When interest rates go up, the utilities don't do so well, and I think there's a developing consensus that they've gone awfully far.

We may have a greater consensus on this matter in German society than we thought.