Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Boxer

To my constituents, today's hearing is about shared sacrifices in tough times versus oil company greed, ... Working people struggle with high gas prices and your sacrifices appear to be nothing.

Alan Rifkin

We remain very positive on the home improvement sector and Home Depot's prospects, particularly given current valuation levels. Home Depot shares are currently trading in line with the five-year historic low forward price-to-earnings ratio, based on consensus estimates.

Chris Killingstad

We remain solidly on track to deliver our 2006 financial goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and mid to upper single-digit revenue growth. We continue to make progress on our medium-term goal of 9.5 percent operating margins.

Ralph Norris

We remain on track to deliver earnings per share growth for the 2006 fiscal year which equals or exceeds the average of our peers.

John Joyce

We remain on track for your consensus earnings per share estimate for 2001, which is consistent with our longer term business model.

Patrick Stokes

We remain confident in our ability to consistently achieve annual double-digit earnings per share growth over the long-term, with a 12 percent average annualized target through 2004,

Ignacio Bunye

We respect the views of the former general, appreciate his sense of nationalism and share his concerns about the plight of our people. But this quixotic declaration is pathetic and unfortunate.

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

Mike Benson

When we built the site for Oceanic Airlines, we wanted to do something that was different from all the other TV show sites. What we discovered was that by creating additional content for this show, we could create a marketing tool that would have fans more invested in the program, and if it was cool they'd share with their friends.

Pat Comack

WorldCom and AT&T basically have a duopoly on Fortune 500 customers.

Mark Pollard

We're focused on the SMB market. Our customers are Fortune 500 companies and down. We don't sell into the data centre. Our focus is on simplicity and ease of use.

Charlie Munger

[With] closet indexing....you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you have such a system, you're being played for a sucker.

Charles Handy

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

Jeff Gundy

The positive is they found something they can fix. It's been a string of bad fortune for him injury-wise, but we're happy the doctor has been able to locate something we can do something about.

Dean Turner

We are seeing a shift from the destruction of data to the theft of data. They are going from hacking for fun to hacking for fortune.

Jane Austen

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

William Shakespeare

Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.

William Shakespeare

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Jane Austen

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Arthur Rimbaud

Misfortune was my god.

Abraham Lincoln

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

Charles R. Swindoll

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Benjamin Franklin

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

Charles Portis

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.