Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darren Shaw

We remain unconvinced that an acquirer would be interested in buying/merging with Hanson, unless the asbestos liabilities were capped in law. We continue to believe that the probability of asbestos reform becoming law in 2006 is extremely thin.

Charlie Bell

We're starting to come around as a team, we're really playing unselfish basketball. It's becoming a recurring story just about every game, we come in and play well together.

Peter Cardillo

What we're seeing here is investors becoming increasingly nervous, awaiting the economic data tomorrow (Thursday). Profit warnings and future growth (concerns) are overshadowing the enthusiasm that we saw develop late yesterday -- it's a feeding process.

Gerard Way

When we first started out I had a really big issue and a lot of my loved ones had a really big issue with the fact that I was totally in pain up there and there was a time when I tried to hurt myself off stage, but I got over that. Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself. Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person and I think that that is going to be a lot of what the next record is about, not to plug it or anything. Like, it's going to talk about dying and coming back to become what you totally want to become. We are all becoming what we want to become.

David Ludwig

We found that for every additional serving per day of soft drink consumed, the risk of becoming obese increased by about 50 percent.

Richard Kahn

We greatly support the idea of helping people with diabetes better manage their disease. We also are concerned with information about a person's individual medical condition becoming publicly known.

Saul Berman

We believe your grandchildren won't know what a TV is. Programs will become unrestricted by becoming more mobile, but programming will be freed as well from constraints.

Ned Riley

We're going to have more people talking about the Fed becoming less aggressive, which will be neutral or negative for the market because the market has been feeding off low interest rates. I don't think the Fed commentary is going to be as predictable and direct as the last meeting.

Tom Johnston

Years ago it was pretty common to move for a job, but today, people are much more concerned about lifestyle, and location is now considered a major factor. Relocation is becoming a very big issue today.

James Glassman

Usually economists are figuring things out after the fact, especially the Fed chairman.

Alan Greenspan

If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.

Mark Helprin

To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices.

Herbert A. Simon

The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population.

Joe Francomano

With this jobless claims number, I don't know what the final figure would be, but some economists may have to revise their payrolls estimates.

Ben Stein

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

Benjamin Graham

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

Thomas Sowell

With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.

Frederic Bastiat

There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.