Premium Quotations

I would agree to some extent that on the Champions Tour that there is a greater premium on putting than the regular tour because of the course setups.

Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service.

In addition to transitioning to the cloud, our customers continue to invest in premium versions of our on-prem server products like Window Server, System Center and SQL Server.

Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.

I am training at such a high level that I actually could eat anything and get by. But as my coach always says, your body is like a car, and food is like your fuel. I am a race car, so I can't just put unleaded fuel in my car. I need that good premium fuel.

When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful.

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.

Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.

At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal lenses synchronized via infrared signals with the movie projector, which runs at twice the normal frame rate. These movie viewers plumb new depths in depth perception - they experience extreme realism.

I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.

The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.

I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

I'm very particular about the pizza that I eat. Godfather's is still a premium-quality product, and I cannot always find that. It's got to be as good as Godfather's or I won't eat it.

As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.

The potential supply disruption risk premium has already been built into the price and because there really is no immediate threat to supply ... prices are correcting downwards.

The perfect design should place a premium upon sound judgment as well as accurate striking, by rewarding the correct placing of each shot. Mere length is its own reward, but length without control ought to be punished.

We've also heard that people who do have the skills and can demonstrate them are able to charge a premium for their services.

We believe that Japan's premium (price-to-earnings) multiple is justified given the lower level of interest rates and higher earnings momentum we expect.

While maintaining its status as the dominant supplier of premium fiber and cable, Corning has emerged as one of the premier players in the red-hot optical networking space.

Watch data for February, although strong in the premium segment, was weak in the middle and even up into parts of the luxury segment.

We've been able to respond to their needs. We sell spring wheat in 100 markets each year, and they're consistently our third largest (market) behind Japan and the Philippines. They pay premium prices, and they pay cash.

When we consider Iran, Nigeria and now the tape from Bin Laden, the terror premium must be put back into the price.

We believe this premium valuation ... is difficult to justify.

Unless some sort of financial support, capital injection or business tie-up materializes, we expect Sanyo's spread in the cash bond and protection premium in the CDS markets to stay wide.

United HealthCare does not and will not raise premium costs to cover the cost of business transactions, ... Premiums in California will only reflect the cost of health care and will not go up as a result of this transaction.

We're hoping to attract the 25-and-up demographic with relatively well-known entertainment but it doesn't always work out that way. Upstairs, we're aiming for a more mature high-end clientele that wants a premium experience.

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

With the new CBA in the NHL, there's a premium on player development, and players being assigned to our teams gives us a lot of dynamic young players. So we expect a banner year competitively.

very concerned by OPM's announcement tonight of a significant increase in health insurance premium costs.

VeriFone delivers innovative, highly reliable payment system solutions that add value and speed to the point of sale. VeriFone is a premium supplier that fits well with our philosophy of providing customers the best service and products available.

Ultimately, a company needs to decide if it prefers best-of-breed security -- and subsequently pay a slight premium for it -- or if ease of use and simplicity is more important. Integrated and embedded endpoint security will address each of these priorities respectively.

would provide Vincor's shareholders with an immediate cash premium far greater than we believe the company can deliver on its own, given today's increasingly competitive and consolidating global wine industry.

We have secured a premium price for a substantial number of our beverages businesses, ... We will retain robust and profitable beverages operations in the U.S.A. and Europe and simultaneously broaden our strategic options for the further development of the company.

The only way you gain any amount of power is if you introduce new products you get a premium from.

Yahoo! is committed to building the richest set of premium and personalized content experiences for our users.

There is a willingness on the part of investors to buy premium names in anticipation of a recovery, but I really think there isn't a lot of conviction on the part of buyers or sellers.

We have a robust trade surplus and, thus, low vulnerability; the country risk premium is declining, despite the fact that a new minister of Finance has just assumed command; and long-term interest rates, which might indicate some change in the international market, continue to fall.

There are very deep concerns in the oil complex that the terrorists will now reset their targets on the oil complex, thus disrupting the flow of oil to the free world. That has probably cost oil a $15 premium right there.

Macs still present a price premium on the consumer side. That will always be an issue to many consumers. However, for those where technology and differentiation by innovation is the key purchasing factor, this certainly does remove that obstacle.

Lexus won by a wide margin, achieving a rating of 88 versus 83 for Porsche and 82 for Acura. Lexus customers rated it the most worthy of a price premium by a five-point margin. Lexus also posted the highest ratings in the critical Customer Retention and Customer Referral indices.

Many people feel if regular is good than premium must be better, ... and that's not the case. Due to advertising, a lot of people think premium fuel is better fuel, when in actuality it simply has a higher octane rating.

Since the start of the new financial year the key drivers of performance have remained unchanged, ... In premium drinks, top line growth ... has been maintained despite some weakening of economic conditions.

Since the beginning of the month, Exxon has outperformed its peers by over 6%, leaving the company trading at a significant premium to the group. As such, we are downgrading Exxon to neutral, as the stock's valuation is not as compelling.

Mirage is clearly an industry leader in loudspeaker sound quality and design. Mirage's premium speakers complement our industry-leading home entertainment selection, and we're excited to offer an even broader selection to our customers.

Much of Avon's premium valuation is built on the market's expectation that the firm will continue to tick off positive financial results with the precision of a fine watch. While we think Avon has a stable business model, it's not immune to business hiccups.

Movies have always been sold in a subscription environment, starting all the way back with premium television. Music tends to be in the background, where movies are different: You stop and watch them.

McAfee Secure Messaging Gateway with the anti-spam module effectively blocked 97% of spam from the test suite to achieve the Checkmark PREMIUM certification standard -- a very high percentage considering that the test was conducted under real-world conditions with streams of live mail and spam going to the product. Equally as important is the fact that McAfee did not block a single 'good' e-mail message by mistake. There were no false-positives.

May has paid a crazy amount of money for what many think is a declining asset. Not all of the Marshall Field's locations make sense to May, especially in areas where the Field's stores overlap with its stores. I think the company will try to recoup some of that money, the hefty premium it paid for the chain.

May has paid a crazy amount of money for what many think is a declining asset, ... Not all of the Marshall Field's locations make sense to May, especially in areas where the Field's stores overlap with its stores. I think the company will try to recoup some of that money, the hefty premium it paid for the chain.

Medicare premium increases are unaffordable for many seniors as they struggle to keep up with the high cost of prescription drugs, record gas prices and their daily expenses.

Medical care costs continued to rise but premiums stayed flat. People continued to use services even though the premium wasn't enough to cover them.

None of us wants this premium ultimately to be enacted into law.

Now we're going to lose $5,000 of $6,000 in rentals. And if anyone needs rent money about now, it's us. On Nov. 11, we have a big insurance premium due, around $18,000.

Now that Neenah is a standalone company, it gives us the opportunity to be fresh thinkers, enhance our premium positioning and be environmentally responsible, ... We wanted to build a workspace that reflected us as a unique type of paper company with new thinking and ideas. I'm ecstatic that we've done that.

Obviously KPMG is an old-line name. It's a really encouraging sign to see it trade to a premium like this. The deals up to now have been really spotty.

Obviously KPMG is an old-line name, ... It's a really encouraging sign to see it trade to a premium like this. The deals up to now have been really spotty.

Points are hard to come by against Memphis, and it's been that way for everybody because of their tempo ... and their defensive scheme. We've got to place a premium on getting good shots.

Only the amount of the premium is considered the gift.

One of the biggest gaps in health care in Humboldt County is in dental care, and the enhanced premium pays dentists better and almost eliminates co-pays.

I would be surprised if there were significant appreciation. Whatever the premium is, three or four points ... because 85 percent of the company is still going to be coming, there is not much they can do to please the public on the upside.

I don't know anyone, first of all, that has their premium totally paid for, for health care.

I don't know, 33, he may have had a lot of hard miles on him. Sometimes these coaching years are like dog years. It's all relative. I think the experiences through the course of that. He's a guy that has coached in and won the Super Bowl. You can't put a premium on that. That's what everybody in this league is playing for, that ring. I don't have one on my finger, he does have one on his finger. There is something to that.

I do not think stocks should have a bid premium built into them. That assumes that there is a good reason to buy them.

I credit the whole company for this success. They did a good job in Europe of keeping it a premium brand, and the U.S. followed suit. That drove this phenomenon.

I believe the group is going to be able to grow at least 8 to 10 percent in the future and I think the S&P earnings are going to slow down to maybe 7 or 8 percent, ... So this group could have actually a premium growth rate and yet a discount to the market that's, at least, 50 percent, if not lower.

Business customers are not price-sensitive. They desire premium service rather than cheaper tariffs. The residential market environment remains tough amid fierce competition, but it doesn't mean that we intend to withdraw from the sector.

Basically, it was an in-line quarter. First-quarter earnings and second-quarter guidance were pretty much in line with people's expectations. But that wasn't enough to sustain the premium stock price.

Because of the long-term growth outlook for the company and the stability of earnings generated by the royalty revenue, we are willing to give the company a premium over its peers.

Fox is not going to tell you this, but it is an open secret on Madison Avenue that they are charging a premium of $50,000 to $100,000 a spot to be in the first six minutes.

Freedom is a great demonstration of how the Opera Platform(TM) mobile AJAX authoring environment can help operators, handset manufacturers or content providers create compelling user-oriented premium services that are not hindered by the limitations of WAP and GSM/GPRS data transfer speeds. AJAX has become very popular on the Mac/PC platform, and it makes even more sense in the mobile space as it enables the creation of Web-based services that are so fast that they seem like local applications.

Freedom is a great demonstration of how the Opera Platform mobile AJAX authoring environment can help operators, handset manufacturers or content providers create compelling user-oriented premium services that are not hindered by the limitations of WAP and GSM/GPRS data transfer speeds. AJAX has become very popular on the Mac/PC platform, and it makes even more sense in the mobile space as it enables the creation of Web based services that are so fast they seem like local applications.

Friday afternoons, Saturday mornings and Sunday afternoons, those are really tight days for the cheap stuff, ... You may find the cheaper fares Tuesday through Thursday. But if you're not willing to do that, then you'll pay a premium -- maybe double the cheapest airfare on some of these routes.

From a strategic point of view, this sale allows them to narrow the spotlight on being a maker of premium cars. There was some haste to get this done and had they had more time and a relaxed schedule to get this done, they might have been able to get more for the business.

Fundamentally, there is very little genuinely new business about. Much of the new business written is simply premium income that has been recycled from one provider to another.

If a company bids enough, it can exclude all other competitors, leaving airlines with only one possible supplier and passengers with no choice. Experience shows that if a company has the chance to buy a monopoly license, it will pay a premium for it. That is because it allows them, with one fell swoop, to ensure that competitors will not be able to keep prices down or force them to innovate.

Global demand has pushed oil prices to a new higher platform, and risks of serious supply disruption (Iran, Nigeria) are adding a premium to prices.

If we are right that both the pace of economic activity and corporate earnings are still fraught with near-term, downside risk, equity values and risk spreads will carry a recession uncertainty premium for some time -- a premium that the Fed will still want to counter.

He'd lose his means of livelihood if he lost his sense of smell and taste. Underwriters based his premium on the likelihood it happened and he lost his earnings.

There is enough competition for (these) workers that they are receiving a 15 percent premium over the rest of the nation.

We think he's above average offensively and defensively at a premium position.

We're offering domestic light beer drinkers the option to 'trade up' to an easy-to-drink product that carries the image and cache of Heineken's premium brand status. We want consumers to question their relationship with current domestic light beer. We're confident they will 'succumb to smooth' once they've experienced Heineken Premium Light.

We are gaining a premium company and valuable real estate that provides an immediate critical mass of stores that would have taken years to develop organically. These are successful stores.

We are further extending our ... position ... in the premium segment, while other airlines are withdrawing from (it).

We are focused on delivering the service and experience our customers expect, and we will continue to identify opportunities to enhance every aspect of our customers' premium travel experience.

We are extremely pleased to extend our collaboration with Campbell, our long-standing partner and a leading global provider of soup, vegetable-based beverages, and other premium quality foods.

What will happen when the CFO looks at his premium and realizes that it will go down 50 percent if he gets rid of all his insecure Windows operating systems and replaces them with a secure version of Linux? The choice of which operating system to use will no longer be 100 percent technical, ... Microsoft, and other companies with shoddy security, will start losing sales because companies don't want to pay the insurance premiums.

Having more money than the other candidates has always been important, but there is a bigger premium on it this time. There will be multimillion dollar advertising budgets needed for those large states.

He's been really working on that. We put a big premium on catching the ball, and unfortunately that's something he didn't do on the second one.

Under normal circumstances, this would present a challenge for Boston Scientific because they're already outside their normal comfort zone. But now you're doing something unusual: You're paying a premium for something that's broken.

Harley-Davidson has selected one of the most well-established retailers of imported motorcycles in China. Mr. Wan has more than 10 years' experience selling and servicing imported heavyweight and premium motorcycles. Moreover, he and his management team are motorcycle enthusiasts who share a passion for riding and who understand the market.

Guests who stay at the Hilton are paying premium dollars for a safe, secure, well-run hotel, and they deserve to have that. I don't know what's worse, all the Hilton violations or the way they keep covering them up.

J.P. Morgan had a fairly strong independent streak. In the last two-to-three years, they decided they were going to try to get their brand name out there to and leverage that into a business stream of revenue that would have allowed them to remain independent. It didn't work. Their second goal: If you can't do it internally, let's command an extreme premium for that brand name. And they did that. Chase paid top dollar.

I think it's a reasonable premium for both entities. This is an industry where it's tough to justify huge premiums just because it's a very high-asset intensive business, there are high fixed costs and there really aren't much in the way of cost savings that you can justify at the field overhead level or at the retail level.

I think it shows demand is better than expected. If they can get a premium elsewhere, why would they offer the employee discount?

I think you?re going to pay a premium for the hotels, but you probably would pay a premium anyway because of spring break.

I think what it's coming to is when you have a salary cap that creates parity, it puts a premium on coaching.

I think it's the realization that some of the inventory is not (in) the premium location or in premium condition and it's on the market at a premium price, ... Buyers are opting to let the inventory stay there. Some sellers are well-meaning, and others are opportunistic, but they're finding buyers are much more educated and much more discriminating and the result is standing inventory.

I think it's through the same provider. We (Peninsula College) pay an annual premium for insurance. The moment students sign up to be on a sports team they are automatically covered.