Famous Quotes & Sayings

Output has not been increasing as much because of the higher costs of production. Investment is also weak.

Our company's first-quarter growth was exceptionally strong through a healthy combination of 7 percent pro forma revenue growth and ongoing cost management,

Rising health-care costs are pushing more people into public coverage from private coverage. I don't know how long that can last.

Robots could offer them an effective way to raise quality and reduce cost in front of intense competition.

Retailers are being forced to turn into discounters at all levels, and that early transformation to a discounting posture is putting great pressure on profits. Retailers make a good percentage of their profitability in the last two months of the year. This year those earnings are going to be under real pressure. They'll be fighting to keep costs down.

Results missed our estimate of $5.07, reflecting higher operating costs than we expected and lower throughputs than expected.

Repealing the individual AMT will cost $1.2 trillion. Either that has to come from higher taxes or reduced tax expenditures or some combination.

Clint Bowyer

Restarts earlier this season, do we have to talk about them? I cost us a couple of wins on restarts this year, ... That's something I've really worked on this year, and it showed today. I got good jumps especially the last five times.

Pimps and hookers are always popular Halloween costumes for adults.

I'm happy for a lot of people who are faced with rising costs for just about everything,

I'm hoping they'll come through a be able to pick up a at least part of the tab like that, because we're going to have to rework mortgage issues to just get the furnace and everything back in here all at once with what's it going to cost to cover all this.

I'm here on a scholarship, so this is a fair way to pay back the community. I realize how lucky I am, and (public-service projects) cost me nothing but a little time.

Most of the real costs they aren't even going to touch. It completely misses the mark.

We need more than $5 million because construction costs have gone up.

We now have about 18. It's double the cost of a regular helmet, so we've weeded them into the program little by little each year.

Bobby Cox

We normally don't make errors. Today it cost us.

Bill Delahunt

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

Bhagat Singh

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian..

Michael Franti

I went to Iraq as a listener. I just got tired of watching the news every night and hearing generals and politicians talking about the economics and the politics of the war, and never explaining the human cost of the war. I just wanted to go there and listen to people.

I think they're seeing it. I think people are seeing the enormous cost of housing versus what people make.

I think the time frame as well as the cost may depend on how extensive the search will be.

It is a tough crowd to try to convince. The message about what will happen, as far as how much money it will cost them and how they will lose their driving privileges if they get busted, seems to have more of an impact than (the message of) saving lives and preventing injuries.

Michael Porter

It is a real disappointment to see us make so many mistakes. The mistakes cost us the game. We were prepared, but mistakes cost us.

It is an inconvenience, but what is the cost of those minutes opposed to the safety that is gained?

I think there were mistakes made. We don't want them to happen again. They could have cost one of our lives.

KPN is doing a lot at the fixed unit with cost cuts and introducing new services, the question is whether it's enough in this market.

I think cost cutting is part of it. Is it a big part? I don't know,

I think cost containment is the wrong priority for making technology decisions. You should be thinking about the business.

The achievements in India are significant, but there is so much more to accomplish, ... The pace of reforms will be decided by India's economic leaders and the demands of the global economy, but I think it's important to recognize that there are costs to going too slow.

The affordability of light vehicles has been quite stable over the past ten quarters. Family incomes have been rising faster than vehicle prices, but higher interest rates have increased the cost of financing a new car.

That would help lower the cost of development and give the developer different options in what to build.

That would cost us millions of dollars. But it's never been said we would have to do that.

That would cost $30 (million) to $40 million.