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Do I think the shareholders are in a better position today than yesterday? Yes.


Laurence Pettit

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JOHN DALTON All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
JAMES HOWELL Let today be better than yesterday, and tomorrow be better than today.
EDDY SOULZ Dear God, make my today better than yesterday, make my tomorrow better than today..
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ART BUCHWALD We did what we needed to do, ... And the crowd was great today, so much better than yesterday.
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EDIE BRICKELL What you are going to do today should assume a bigger shape than what you have done yesterday.
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RICHELLE E. GOODRICH The chances today are better than they were in the past. I still think there are some barriers we wo...
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IRINA SLUTSKAYA Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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GABRIELLE UNION Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.
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BOB BRUSCA Wake up every day stronger than yesterday,Do away with fears & failure of yesterday & move forward w...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Thee only person I am better than is the one I was yesterday.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Push yourself today more than you pushed yesterday and get ready to push even more tomorrow. The mor...
LUIS F. GOUVEIA Tomorrow is always better than yesterday.
CHARANJEET SINGH He is better than yesterday (Friday).
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KJFORCE For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
ROSEMONDE GERARD Only question one should ask is "am I better than yesterday?"
ELECTROJIT I do think this is an important issue in society today, and it hasn't gotten better.
DEXTER WEBB The actions you take today can propel you into a better position tomorrow.
STEVE MARABOLI The better you do today, the better you can do tomorrow.
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ROY T. BENNETT It was pretty old, but I made do until I was in a position to do better.
HERMAN PERSAUD The city is calm but tense, with a few more businesses open today than yesterday.
ABDULLAHI SHIRWA I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
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STEVE MARTIN The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are...
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JARROD KERR I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
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JENNIFER SCHACK Don't aim for perfection. Aim for 'better than yesterday'.
IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE Start doing something today that you did not do yesterday
SUNDAY ADELAJA What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.
BEN HECHT I live today to prove things I can do for tomorrow, not for things I did yesterday.
YTHAM REIJAN ROSELITTLE COOGEIL I am better than I was yesterday but not as good as I will be tomorrow.
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JOHN MCMILLIN All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today and yesterday.
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LAURENCE MILLER When the chairman made his recommendation at the start of the go-round, the game was up, it was over...
LAURENCE MEYER I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't...
MARGARET LAURENCE The Committee continues to see the removal of accommodation as the focus of policy and has given no ...
LAURENCE MEYER We are pleased to finally reach an agreement on major remedies to deal with major water pollution pr...
LAURENCE LAU Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't s...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE I'm a very good packer, but I probably take too much in the way of toiletries. You only really n...
LAURENCE FOX 'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt ...
LAURENCE OLIVIER It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary t...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find your...
LAURENCE GONZALES Fantasy, myth, legend, truth - all are intertwined in the story that is Scotland.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE The reason that kids take chances when they drive is not because they're ignorant. It's because othe...
LAURENCE STEINBERG The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public...
LAURENCE STEINBERG Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.
LAURENCE STEINBERG The older you are, the more hours you can withstand without seeing harmful effects. But generally, n...
LAURENCE STEINBERG We are not very good at looking at people when they are 16 and predicting what they will be like whe...
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