Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toshizo Tanaka

We also worked hard on costs and managed to limit rises in sales, general and administrative costs to the growth pace of sales, which helped pump up top-line (operating) profit.

John Conway

We had a very solid first quarter and are pleased with our performance. This is particularly true given the rapid increase in raw material prices and costs that we experienced.

Chris Hall

We're giving trial customers three months of next-generation services free, and after the first month presenting them with a total of their costs and asking, 'Is that value for your money?'

Frank Armstrong

Lower costs will give you higher net returns. I think cost is critically important.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

If your goal is to provide a service at terms your customers can afford, you have to figure out how to offer your services at price points such that your aggregated costs are lower than your aggregated revenues.

Erna Solberg

If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more.

Charles E. Wilson

Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour.

Chief Ogden

We are here to provide a service, but the more we run the more it costs taxpayers.

Ben Hecht

We are helping to make a market of low-income people, but making sure that the market is one these people can participate in, that the costs are affordable. And once they're online, there is something to do online, a destination where they can go and improve their lives.

Uday Kotak

Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.

Sanjay Gupta

We're giving customers more ways to detect fraud and keep an eye on their accounts. They can decide what they want to hear about and where they want to be told. This is another important step to help protect our customers online and give them greater peace of mind.

Mike Hamilton

We're excited, our customers are excited about it.

Scott Simons

make it easy for customers to make healthy choices.

John Phillips

Mainly 90-percent of my customers are here for speeding tickets and the reason is they're in a hurry.

Jim Murphy

Mac support for Lotus is a check-box item. We have a lot of health-care customers and maybe 1 percent of a company's research department is on Macs but they have 99 percent of the influence.

Anne Murray

Last year, we introduced DING! for Windows and immediately heard from our growing number of Customers that use Macintosh computers. Today, we will eliminate our Customers' DING! envy by offering a Macintosh version of the tool.

Mohamed Ghuloom

Learn to say No to customers out of your target, those in your target will learn to say Yes to you.

Howard Davidowitz

Lean inventories won't help retailers this year if they can't lure customers into their stores.

David Robertson

There is always a harmonious solution... If you stand back and give yourself time to find it.

David Remnick

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

David Icke

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

David Hockney

OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?

David Hume

of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

David Hume

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

David Duchovny

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.

David Burtka

The first three years was our honeymoon period. Then you settle into the relationship, and it morphs into just living, breathing. It becomes more comfortable, but it becomes a necessity - something you can't give up, like an addict.

David Burnett

It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures you will be glad to have.

David Rockefeller

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Jane Austen

Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

Olympia Snowe

The reality is, this is a very different world than where we were even six months ago,

Shimon Peres

The pope said he will go in the first months of next year.

Rob Glaser

six months to a year from now is realistic.

Laura Davis

Six months ago, I would have said we have the strongest team,

Roger Andrew Taylor

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Dianna Agron

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

Tom Shea

We have been very thoughtful about presenting a multipronged agenda.

Ruby Rose

When I was younger, I didn't know television presenting was a thing, which is how I totally got my foot in the door. But I didn't really know that was a job. I never really had a TV or watched TV, and I really just wanted to be an actor.

John Whalen

We are going to be presenting proposals that tip the scales a little more toward pedestrians and bicyclists.

Clint Hurdle

The top of their lineup was presenting problems.

Larry Spell

I really like what you're presenting to us here tonight.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Bill Graham

We think Web services has a way to go yet.

Estella Olguin

We're going to try to get him some therapy services right away.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

Pranab Mukherjee

Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Auguste Comte

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Brett Favre

Yip cabbage on three!

Japanese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Wade Smith

She said they were very close. He was only three years younger than her.

Willie Davis

Shoot, I made three in one inning all by myself!

Giovanni Ribisi

Yes! In three months, you'll be a millionaire!

Janet Johnson

When I got the assessment, I went into total meltdown.

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

David Schultz

The real breakthroughs will be in a totally different category.

Jordi Molla

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

Andray Blatche

Right now, I'm totally back, because I can do everything.

John Ashton

I am amazed. This is totally different from where we usually go.

Albert Young

But we had 500 or something total yards, so we're not about that.

Patsy Ramsey

let's have a trial and get it over with

Jane Austen

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

Richard G. Scott

Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more.

Bernhard Goetz

The whole trial seemed surreal.

Connie Willis

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

Elizabeth Warren

I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial.

Bill McCollum

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Ann Coulter

[Alan] Dershowitz has also offered to defend Osama bin Laden in court, saying it would be an act of high patriotism. It's kind of too bad there isn't going to be a trial. Having Dershowitz defend him could be Osama's only shot at not being the least popular person in the courtroom.

Susan McDougal

was not on trial here, only Mrs. McDougal.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Julius Baer

(It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.