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We sold 6,000 clocks last year. If you know of an... BOB CROWDER The U.S. trucking industry, which moves 70 percent of domestic freight, is on schedule to pay $6.6 b... BILL GRAVES It went more smoothly than it did last year. We had a year to learn the routines of the building, th... BILL SIMMONS There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind.... HOWARD SCHULTZ We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit;... RICK PERRY We're so immersed in ourselves at home, but when you're travelling, it's important to be... SARAH ALEXANDER A billion dollars in annual savings translates to a 10-point improvement in our margins. We did bett... JEFF HENLEY I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that i... PATRICIA RICHARDSON The year Reagan was sworn into office, 1981, the United States was the largest importer of raw mater... THOM HARTMANN We're looking for the early adopter who considers style to be an important part of the purchase ... FRANZ VON HOLZHAUSEN I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percenta... CHRIS CHRISTIE There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so m... MICHAEL FASSBENDER The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have ... MATT BLUNT Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it'... BILL GATES Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a w... RAF SIMONS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Both AARP and The Home Depot are committed to providing the right resources and information to help ... BILL NOVELLI We now have poured in an enormous amount of resources into cancer. The National Cancer Institute Pro... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, yo... STERLING MARLIN All I'm saying is that, you know, whether we're worth a billion, whether we're worth a m... JON HUNTSMAN, SR. With an amazing 96 percent of all Subaru vehicles sold in the last 10 years still on the road today,... LISA FLEMING Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're o... MATTHEW DESMOND When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have register... LAURA BUSH The percentage of the U.S. population to buy a book in a given year is less than 10 percent. We thin... MICHAEL FRAGNITO Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are ... PICO IYER To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowe's... EDWARD LAMPERT The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world. The positive results this year comp... DOUGLAS ELLIOTT The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world, ... The positive results this year ... DOUGLAS ELLIOTT We expect Jones to report total revenue of $1.15 billion, a decline of 14.4 percent versus last year... LIZABETH DUNN It's happening: Lou Dobbs' dream come true and Silicon Valley's worst nightmare. We'... SARAH LACY We are looking forward to our semifinal match against Minnesota in front of our home fans. Hopefully... DOUG HAMILTON In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States' top port for forei... MICHAEL MCCAUL We have been looking for a home for the last 10 years and have not been able to acquire a building, JOAN SMITH When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you... JONAH HILL If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every yea... JEFF GOODELL It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 per... BILL GROSS Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much le... BEN MARCUS People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed sin... COLIN HAY The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the co... MICHAEL MOORE One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we under... BERNARD MARCUS Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. T... ELON MUSK It's a small market for us with much less than one percent of total sales and we have no sales offic... CHARLOTTE SIMONSEN I'm up at 5:30 or 6, but not willingly. By 8:30, I'm in my home office. I take a swim in the... ROBERT SILVERBERG I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better... CURTIS STONE Record wood product prices may spur comparable store sales at Home Depot and Lowe's, ... Wood produc... MICHAEL LEWIS Record wood product prices may spur comparable store sales at Home Depot and Lowe's. Wood products r... MICHAEL LEWIS [Despite making the playoffs last year, the team felt it could have achieved much more than they did... ED BRADLEY When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you'r... TYLER JOSEPH It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There ar... DAVID PLOUFFE We are afraid of ourselves and our own unconscious minds. When we are building something that reflec... GRAY SCOTT We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people... ... MALIN AKERMAN As Omron Corp. aims to reach 750 billion yen in consolidated sales in fiscal 2007, we want to contri... KEIICHIRO AKAHOSHI Our hitting this year is much better. We have more home runs this year already than we had all last ... BARBARA REINALDA It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Frida... CHARLIE KIMBALL Did people care about how a singer sounded live back in the day? I don't really feel like they d... SHAWN MENDES When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it... DAVID H. KOCH I stay in Jersey - it's home, man. It's home. And I think that's the foundation of the t... JOE PISCOPO If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need it. MARK BRADFORD It's not about today or tomorrow; it's about building a company that can build the best race... ROBBY GORDON You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misna... RICHARD ARMITAGE We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-le... PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We are expecting a 30 percent increase this year (in total sales). HU YONG It's an awkward thing for the four home countries to do that. It would cause an awful lot of problem... WALTER SMITH We're adding a billion people every decade. We're just spin doctors. Whatever we do is suppo... PETER BEARD Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you... RICHARD LAMM Over a period of 20 years, German reunification has cost 2 trillion euros, or an average of 100 bill... PEER STEINBRUCK People have different expectations when you're younger - it's less about changing yourself i... FREDDIE HIGHMORE The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can se... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO 'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there i... AARON SORKIN It's hard to believe that we won the division last year and this year we're out of it. But this year... ODALIS PEREZ We have to win 80-90 percent of our conference home games. Last year although we didn't play many at... EMILY COOMBE We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don't want to weaken the link in sho... BERNARD MARCUS We have an awful lot of assumptions that these numbers hold a certain amount of magic, when they rea... ALAN YOUNG Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less tha... SOLOMON ORTIZ We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in. GALE ANNE HURD It helps an actor an awful lot when he looks like the part. There's nothing more disconcerting, ... PETER FALK The distributor used to get 10, 12, 14 percent in most cases, but the App Store or Steam - they'... MITCH LASKY A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're childre... STEPHEN KING Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay becau... URSULA BURNS In 1999 ... booster seats were used by only 5 percent of 4- to 8-year-olds. By the middle of last ye... DR. DENNIS DURBIN Bad weather and the war did affect Lowe's sales in the quarter. That's the logical assumption. But w... COLIN MCGRANAHAN Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven pr... MARINA ABRAMOVIC To get the win at home means so much more. We have to keep building. JARRET STOLL There were never as many big businesses as people were piling money into in the late 90's or ear... DAVE MCCLURE When you have a high-volume magazine or an assault weapon, you're not hunting deer or protecting... MIKE QUIGLEY We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We... TONY FADELL We shoot an awful amount of free throws and we try to simulate pressure in practice. When the game?s... DUSTIN WERDT Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-br... MOLLY IVINS When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping a... DAVE ROWNTREE Six months after we started, in 1964, there was a day when we sold only seven sandwiches. If we'... FRED DELUCA The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a d... ALEXANDRA STODDARD
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