Our financial performance is unacceptable, we know that and we've been working hard to turn around North American operations to improve our financial performance.

Toni Simonetti

So here we are in this environment of pay for performance and what is this agency doing but getting rid of the details, which I should also add are offered to recruits as [an] attractive reason to come here. It's sort of like a bait-and-switch.

Leslie Rossen

People handed over $20 bills and no one batted an eye. One guy brought in two cans of soup because that is what we charged at the last Plan B performance. I told him this was a different cause and he said to keep the soup and then paid his monetary donation. People are very giving in the Austin area.

Arnie Earl

We're seeing a good chunk of our customer base upgrade to 2005 to take advantage of query and analysis performance on the Web.

Clay Young

Dealers should not necessarily assume that vendors' performance has fallen just because overall satisfaction slipped. I would assume that the expectation has risen.

Mark Rush

We're very satisfied [with this performance]. It's a big deal for us to beat Michigan and Northwestern. We're a Central Region team, and so are they, so we should meet them again.

Debby King

Our revenue grew 7 percent on an organic basis this quarter, ... We are confident EDS' revenue performance will improve in the second half of the year and beyond.

Dick Brown

(It) is not a bad performance but it is not spectacular.

James Hamilton

The Internet is improving in its performance and in its price point. We're using it a lot more than we used to.

Doug Hill

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

Jean jacques Rousseau

This is really a stock picker's market and not an index picker's market. I'm not buying stocks on a group's performance ever.

Marc Gabelli

He hit a bomb to center field with two outs. He is our No. 3 hitter and he is expected to drive in runs for us. That was a much-needed blow for us. You can't say enough about his performance tonight.

Justin Hraby

U.S. stocks are cheap and will make up the gap in performance with other markets around the world.

Larry Smith

There is some performance-chasing going on.

Dan Mcneela

I've cleared 5-6 once before, but it was at an indoor meet and conditions were perfect, so I would say this is by far my best performance.

Ashton Bishop

This is disappointing, as the industrial production figures yesterday were. Still, the business surveys point to a better performance going forward.

Dirk Schumacher

The more demanding the task—ripping a CD while watching a movie, for instance—the better the performance improvement.

Keith Kressin

It was just a classic All-American performance, in terms of her aggressiveness and her willingness to take her team on her back and get the job done.

Joanne P. Mccallie

In terms of performance of vehicles there will be no difference. Where [ motorists] will see a difference is in price. It's impacting prices nationwide.

Mantill Williams

Christa got ahead of her batters and had the ball moving. She pitched an outstanding ball game. I'm very excited for her performance.

Margo Jonker

None of us are satisfied with our performance in 2005. We are acting with a tremendous sense of urgency to win back our customers.

Paul Pressler

With the phenomenal market growth of Power and [the Power5 processor], we have a lot of interested parties. It's only been discussions, but they are interested in the market performance of Power and AIX.

Karl Freund

This is very definitely an opera -- there's no spoken dialogue at all, but because of the use of folk songs, it's a very unique type of performance.

Linda Dobbs

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

Anthony Chukumba

We already knew that any soul and jazz band has to go through James Brown. He didn't impart any wisdom -- he mumbled a lot when we talked to him -- but we learned a lot from his performance.

Felix Riebl

We're developing these high-performance products to enhance our private-label brands.

Tim Lyons

A couple times we pushed her out a little bit outside of what I thought her range was. A couple of them we had a hand in her face. She just had an outstanding performance.

Jeff Guenther

Our strong performance in winter testing has given everybody a genuine boost in motivation.

Bob Bell

I thought we looked much better and, overall, I felt our performance had improved.

Victoria Gonzales

Dance Bar girls also make performance during the private shows. They are forced to do such shows to eke out living.

Varsha Kale

Performance is everything. This represents making some tough decisions on our product line and ensuring our investors won't go elsewhere.

Marilyn Morrison

I'm really pleased with what I know so far about this election, ... It's light-years away from what the performance was last year.

Ron Sims

Strong performance in Latin America, central and eastern Europe and northern Asia, as well as stabilization from an increasingly focused North America.

Neville Isdell

We know that our change in auditors and the investigation by the SEC have raised concerns, ... We understand those concerns and we certainly know that this company not only has to substantially improve its performance but also needs to enhance its financial controls and discipline.

Leonard Green

These are attractive levels to get back into the market, and we are anticipating a good performance ahead of us. We plan to gradually accumulate Treasury positions.

Akira Takei

It was kind of a spark, a spark that we needed at that point. He was so effective, we just said going into the next game, he's got to get the football. So that's kind of how we got headed in the direction that we've arrived at now was just that second half and his performance then.

David Brooks

He didn't place and finished 3-2. He was a little disgusted, frustrated with his performance. He thought he could place.

Casey Schweitzer

There seems to be a drop in performance at transition years, from fifth to sixth grade and eighth to ninth.

Connie Jones

One of the things we don't need to overlook is they won the conference championship last year. That (performance against Midland College) doesn't necessarily need to be that big of a surprise.

Dennis Helms

We told Doug at halftime that we really needed him, and he came out and gave us a gutsy performance.

Quinton Dale

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

Derek Walcott

If a deal doesn't get done, bondholders are looking at owning a credit that has seen its financial performance deteriorate at kind of a staggering rate.

Craig Hutson

We are not into hype, but not to categorize 2005 as our strongest performance year since our turnaround would be too much of an understatement.

Jim Jenness

It was a shame to to close the year with a performance like this.

Mariano Garcia Remon

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

Damon Hill

The Fusion is a disappointment because it's a brand new design. Ford has done a good job with some other recent models, but the Fusion is at the back of the pack among midsize sedans for overall safety performance.

Adrian Lund

We have embarrassed them into putting in a performance where they have embarrassed us. We made them play so well.

John Gorman

Passionate and committed to theater and concerned by the lack of public performance found in Taipei.

David Young

This is where you can get a large boost in network performance for a modest investment.

Joshua Feinberg

Investors can be assured that the company is financially sound and focused on improving our longer-term operating performance.

Bob Rossiter

We are exploring moving beyond silicon-based chips to significantly boost the performance of PCs. Silicon chips will continue to improve, but we need to look ahead decades into the future.

Joerg Appenzeller

We've got a small team, only six athletes here. So we are going to have to do well with six athletes in seven events. On the other side of the coin, on the performance list there are four No. 1 and a No. 2.

Bob Braman

We think that Harley-Davidson could guide production down slowly later in the year, pending seasonal performance.

Tony Gikas

The emphasis is on performance these days. Now we're looking at hot rod boats.

Jim Wirt

Performance of great defiance and passion.

Robin Oakley

Were we to cancel it outright, I am convinced that what we will do is not only set back the effort to advance our military and its performance of missions ... (but) we will wind up paying in a currency that we hold particularly dear. And that's the lives of Marines and other service personnel.

Frank Gaffney

The Air Force's desire to keep costs low on the guidance replacement program contract and Northrop Grumman's desire to enhance contract incentive performance dovetail into a mutually beneficial effort to decrease production costs.

John Clay

Just say the whole era - that these records were established in an era when the use of performance-enhancing drugs was widespread in baseball.

Walter Harrison

This is an area where you could say the performance appears not to have been great. Someone in the Army or the company should have figured out what the requirements were.

Cai Von Rumohr

We give guidance that accurately reflects what we think we can achieve and therefore I urge analysts and investors to take full account of our guidance and be conservative in modeling our future performance.

Dennis Powell

I am pleased with our earnings performance for the quarter, and I'm confident in our ability to execute our plans for 2001.

Paul Fireman

I am not alarmed by that at all. It's not a change in the expectations for the business performance; it's a change in the size of the company.

Robert Lafleur

He has the compatible personality to maximize that platform. That's the key. He can translate that on-field performance into a marketing ability and appeal. That is going to make him outstanding (in marketing). I'm convinced of it.

Don Hinchey

The bigger factor for the Taiwan dollar is still the yen's performance against the US dollar.

Lo Chung

Our games were very close games. I believe either team could have won either game. We would like to show our best performance this time.

Sadaharu Oh

That was a good performance for a six-year-old. He ran his heart out, and may have one more run this season.

Arthur Moore

On the eve of the strike, we saw very, very poor performance.

Andrew C. Roberts

Today's performance was absolutely amazing.

Michael Strahan

As difficult as the past year was from a financial performance standpoint, 2005 was a year of accomplishments from an operational standpoint.

Joe Scaminace

It was a really nice performance both days. We would have finished ahead of Grand Junction, but we didn't have a diving team.

Silas Almgren

The strong performance of the group has surprised most market participants, including ourselves.

Ross Nussbaum

I walked out absolutely stunned by his performance. I've been a fan ever since.

Pat Taylor

We are an incredibly performance-focused operation. We have developed a culture around growth and focused work.

Nancy Schlichting

Without a doubt, the weakening U.S. economy caused a reduction in business travel that affected our performance in the first quarter.

Don Carty

In this divided system, there will not be an entity to hold accountable for the performance of the Postal Service.

Tom Day

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

In not-for-profit performance evaluation where profit and loss measurements aren't obvious, this has been a breakthrough tool for us.

Clarence White

I am massively disappointed. When you reflect on the performance, at least two goals came after schoolboy errors. Big players need to play big in big games.

Stuart Baxter

Individual performance/company performance is linked closely to shareholder return.

Gregory Comeaux

State law generally requires the city to indemnify and defend city employees in litigation arising out of the performance of their duties. We evaluate each case based on their individual facts and circumstances to determine whether any exceptions to this general rule apply.

Alexis Truchan

3D is one of the fastest growing segments in computing and Voodoo3's ... performance will enable our enthusiast gamers as well as mainstream consumers to experience the next generation of highly complex 3D interactive entertainment.

Greg Ballard

He had five matches today. That was an outstanding performance to come through the back door.

Bill Ross

It was a really good performance by O'Brien in all events. He was consistent and to place in all three was a great effort on his part.

Ryan Long

I'm very happy with the performance of all the kids. Even in the losses, they gave it all they had and I never ask for more than that.

Jamie Wise

Right now I want to tell our investors to calm down and give us more time to fully integrate to get better performance.

Yang Yuanqing

Penn is just a very good team. Although I felt Scott did some good things during that game, there were other significant factors besides his individual performance that keyed the loss.

Jerry Schmitt

I let myself down, ... It was a poor performance and got beat fair and square but I'll bounce back.

Michael Sprott

[Law, who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in] The Talented Mr. Ripley, ... Alfie.

Sienna Miller

I see her coming out of her shell. She has that big smile. It can go a long way. I think she's got something. It's not just her performance.

George Sourlis

That was our worst defensive performance all year. There's no excuse for it. You have to make the plays.

Karen Baird

The Diamond Standard 570T is ideal for customers who want high performance but are hitting the wall with the ARM11 when it comes to area, performance or power, or where large up-front license fees are a barrier.

Steve Roddy

I'm not that happy with my personal performance, but honestly, it doesn't matter that much to me because our team did good. That's what I'm more worried about.

Lauren Watts

This is a difficult show. The cast is extremely talented, and this is a very professional performance.

Whitney Rydbeck

Your performance has not only been outstanding, it has been dazzling. We haven't seen a commissioner move with such efficiency and expediency as you have for a long time.

Sen. Roosevelt David

It wasn't our best performance. We lost the other two (championship) matches to kids we had beaten before, and that's not something you like to see at this time of the year. Hopefully we can rebound from that.

Mark Reiland

It was another solid performance. Our defense improved, but we were a little weak in some areas of the midfield.

Bill Kirk

The Silver Dart is the DC-3 of the space industry. It has so many things going for it in terms of performance.

Geoff Sheerin

We're just incorporating so many things into one event — it's not just music, it's not just performance art.

Lipscomb Coach Scott Sanderson

It was the team's best performance by far. Everything was clicking offensively and defensively and my arm felt great. I was able to establish my fastball early and felt real comfortable.

Adrian Alaniz

Overall, I was pleased with our performance.

Craig Faire

If a fund's performance is mediocre, or the fund is having other troubles, average to above-average expenses don't help.

Bridget Hughes

Generally, what's driving performance is technology exposure.

Bill Rocco

He gave an incredible performance in the film. I think he is going to be remembered for years to come and we will miss him.

Finn Taylor

We view cost-cutting as the largest opportunity for Sun to improve financial performance and believe the company is set to announce a restructuring over the next 6 months.

Rebecca Runkle

The things that limit the continued extensibility of the fiber-optic network are cost and performance of future lasers. Lower cost could drive much more fiber into metropolitan areas.

Malcolm Thompson

We've already tested the fuel in one of our transit buses and the performance was excellent.

Bill Cartwright

No one lost any work and there was no lost production that affected our performance today.

Steve Patterson

I am delighted with our performance in the UK and Continental Europe and in particular in France... 2005 has been a very successful year for the group and we are well positioned for further growth in 2006 and beyond.

Terry Benson

We assumed the folks at Budweiser would have more confidence in their driver's performance, especially given that so many experts and fans expect Dale Junior and his team to be so strong this season.

Tom Long

If fuel prices persist at current levels then the potential exists for the current year's performance to be around 40% below 2005.

John Palmer

We are very happy with the performance and services we are deploying on our CDMA EV-DO network and how seamless and easy it is for customers and ourselves to upgrade services and employ advanced services.

Theresa Gattung

It has to be fluid -- unless we are completely brilliant or in a market that is completely stagnant. We make assumptions and we will be wrong but we need to build in the ability to be wrong. That is the difference between performance measurement and performance management.

Howard Dresner

Higher underwriting revenues, increased mergers and acquisitions fees, growth in trading and merchant banking gains, and increased commission revenues were the factors underlying this excellent performance.

D. Miller

We delivered on our commitments in 2005. We are pleased with this performance, but clearly are not yet satisfied. We are focusing on a number of initiatives to enhance operating results and grow revenues in 2006 and beyond.

Michel Mayer

Overall the performance was extremely disappointing.

Mark Mccall

Nike celebrates the athletic achievements of our elite competitors. Kobe's inclusion in marketing and promotional material is an acknowledgement of his elevated level of sports performance.

Rodney Knox

Federated had two good years in 1998 and 1999, but before that its performance was middling at best, and in the past few years, it's been doing pretty badly. With the exception of two good years, Old Westbury International has been in the bottom third of its category.

Bridget Hughes

The absence of bad news is one trigger for the rather good performance at the moment, but there is virtually no liquidity.

Juergen Lukasser

The important thing they are taught is that if they forget a line or two, they are to continue on and finish the piece with poise. Improvise if needed, but continue to speak in character until they have come to the conclusion of the performance.

Nancy Wade

It's coming off a really outstanding year in 2005, and it has reached the size when it's really difficult to sustain double-digit performance growth.

Tony Plath

We expect a neutral monetary policy stance in 2006, but much will depend on movements in the rand and the performance of mining and manufacturing.

Dennis Dykes

What a performance. She did all the things she was supposed to do.

Jeff Judkins

We worked hard on defense and tried to change things up. The key has been communicating on defense. I was really happy with the performance.

Mike Hofland

Of course we want everyone to play but sometimes even great players have to stay on the bench. Overall, though, I was delighted with his performance.

Mariano Garcia Remon

Sort of a repeat performance.

D.b. Conerly

Trent threw about like he always does. He kept us in the game until our bats were ready. I'm very pleased with his performance.

David Loyd

So it's like Auburn and Georgia last year. That's the exact kind of performance we're going to need and we're going to look for.

Phillip Fulmer

Saturday is just one of those games you have to forget about. You can't let that effect your performance in your next game. That's something we've been doing better of late.

Danton Cole

We were very good in the second half and moved the ball really well. It was an excellent performance.

Simon Delahunty

Anyone who even goes near steroids has to be crazy. But that doesn't mean performance enhancement is gone. Genetic doping. It's all in the genes. Steroids are history.

Roger Abrams

It was our best performance of the year.

Maxim Marinin

2005 has seen another robust performance by our Grocery business with our drive brands growing strongly and our operating margins improving in line with our targets.

Robert Schofield

The team gave as good as they can. It was a very committed and organised performance. But it was not enough.

Brian Kerr

The post-Fed performance of the S&P 500 could prove to be the biggest surprise of 2006.

Francois Trahan

When I was mixing the album I was just cheering it on, ... I was actually getting to put myself in a position of observation of listening to the band, watching it, experiencing it probably closer to a fan thing than I've ever had the ability to do, or that I've ever let myself do. And I was just like, yeah, George is getting it on. And that's what you want for anybody's performance.

John Bell

I'm very pleased and impressed with the performance of all my girls.

John Wells

The fall was an up and down performance by our team but I'm excited about the spring and I think they will do better. But we'll have to wait and see.

Devon Brouse

It was an excellent performance, a great European performance.

Steve Mcclaren

The audience is fifty percent of the performance.

Shirley Booth

We have continued to see good momentum in all core business areas. These trends underpin our expectation of an excellent trading performance.

Clara Furse

There was always going to be a time when the competitors improved their performance and that's beginning to happen.

Brian Tora

Tough talk ahead of the encounter proved to be just that with the second-half performance abysmal in the extreme.

Tony Ward

In addition to the strong U.S. performance last night, there is already talk in the market that February revenue figures (to be announced before March 10) may turn out to be better than expected.

Stanley Chou

People that were at the first performance will see a huge improvement. We're a completely different team.

Jannie Brenner

You can't look at it like [a high-pressure situation]; you just have to have fun. I've grown so much since the first performance week, and it's because I was so nervous. You have to get the nerves out and just have fun, because that's what it is all about.

Kellie Pickler

You see this movement by the carriers and their equipment partners to make sure that home networking becomes as easy and hassle-free to install and configure -- not only to get the basic performance working right, but also the security issue.

Kurt Scherf

A significant increase in customer demand translated into higher-than-expected order growth and strong financial performance.

Mike Splinter

To say that our performance away at Nottingham wasn't one of our greatest would be an understatement. It will be difficult again because the side is so disjointed through injury. We've lost Paul Knight again, who has an infected groin, so he's not available.

Phil Maynard

The company deserves the premium to its peers given its consistent performance, operating leverage, margin expansion opportunities and growth drivers going forward.

Michelle Gutierrez

The emphasis of the 12th annual MTV Europe Music Awards is on spectacular live performance.

Brent Hansen

If people like Ms. Finley and other performance artists who do things with vegetables that you and I would find to be ... unusual, they can go and find patrons and supporters in the marketplace.

Colby May

Once again, the stellar performance of mobile phones has been marred by difficulties at Nokia networks.

Richard Windsor

This is an incredibly rare performance for Woody outside New York City, so we're thrilled to have him.

John Nugent

There is a very negative feeling after Saturday. You could talk for hours about what went wrong. It was a bad performance and we didn't do ourselves or the fans justice.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy

What a good offensive performance and a very poor defensive performance. I thought we were really kind of unconcerned on the defensive end, and that's not like our team at all.

Dale Layer

We have built new cars and improved on the performance of our engines, and we still seem to be lacking somewhere, ... We need answers on how to get better so we decided to put someone else in the car to get feedback from his perspective and go from there.

Larry Mcclure

That summed up our second-half performance. It was just too easy for Petrov.

Jimmy Calderwood

My first and most important goal is to accelerate gains in student performance. We have to roll up our sleeves. We have to redouble our efforts.

Carl Cohn

It was a good, quality performance. It is beatable.

Sandra Bezic

The performance will be our credentials.

Ken Bouldin

The northern New Jersey market has not participated in the recovery as early as the Manhattan market but you are really starting to see performance accelerating.

Sean Hennessey

Performance is what matters, not the niceties of the corporate structure, as far as I'm concerned.

Patrick Cescau

The brokers have had a tremendous run and have separated from the banks in terms of their performance.

Paul Mendelsohn

We believe that Intel's lead in [the] 65nm transition should provide it a limited performance boost given the limitation of its current processor architecture.

Charles Santiago

I was happy with my performance. But I was mad that I gave up that takedown. I hate to give up points. Everybody down here is good. No one's a joke and it will get tougher and tougher as we go.

Donny Clark

That kind of performance has always been there.

Alan Smith

The last time we did this concert (in Cape Ann) was for an outreach program, but we never did a public performance. The fact that we're doing it for the public this time is really exciting.

Heidi Dallin

Although an improvement on trend from our first quarter, our sales performance this quarter is still not at the level we know we can achieve.

George Heller

Lockheed now has an additional $1.7 billion of cash to deploy, and its use of it should be a key to the performance of the stock. We view the repurchase of stock as the best use of cash given its low valuation.

Joseph Nadol

That was a mature, smooth, professional and comfortable performance.

Farley Flex

We've definitely got to go there and put in a better performance than we did the other week.

Gary Wood

It's mainly due to the performance of mainland Chinese equities.

Brad Durham

Certainly the performance of their employee as it relates to the EDC can be discussed in closed session.

Mike Tadych

I think everybody's extremely happy with our performance (on defense) in the second half.

Philip Dean

Even though we finished fifth in the two distance events, it gave us the four points that we need to win. I don't think I could be more pleased with today's performance.

Claudia Potor

IBM just doesn't give me the performance I'm looking for in tech.

Knox Fuqua

3 Italia is not experiencing the same negative operating performance or outlook as incumbent mobile operators in Italy and Europe.

Canning Fok

If it is a public health emergency, we're going to be in a sorry state if Homeland Security is in charge. Not just because of their performance here, but because of their lack of experience.

Bill Waugh

There is now a case for qualified optimism about the industry's financial performance.

Brian Pearce

After burning $400 million of cash in 2005, we expect the company to use another $150 million in 2006, and we have no reason to believe that 2007 performance will be much better.

Darren Kimball

Record-high fuel costs, industry overcapacity, and the growth of low-cost carriers and the fares they are able to offer are negatively impacting the financial performance of many of the flights we currently operate.

Tim Griffin

The new engine was good, both performance-wise and for reliability, ... It has more drivability and throttle control, and better acceleration. There is a noticeable difference compared to the engines we've been running before.

Paul Morris

We lost some tough matches in the first round. We lost a lot of close matches but we won some close matches, too. I am pleased with everyone's performance today.

Kirby Moses

That's logical because there is no connection, ... They're paid by the hour, not by performance. It's a (union-) negotiated wage.

John Wanous

Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

Paul Mcculley

Performance has returned into the normal spectrum and we're comfortable where we sit right now.

Andy Roberts

Korean suppliers are important to General Motors' success. We buy $7 billion from them and personally, I am very pleased with their performance.

Bo Andersson

More and more people are getting interested. We see it in the demand for manual transmissions here for Porsche. That is a clear sign that people are more performance oriented.

Michael Vetter

Brett turned in a very impressive performance. He knows how to pitch. Getting out of the fourth without allowing a run was huge since we only led 3-0.

Jerry Dawson

As expected, we experienced pay back in September following a strong performance to start the quarter.

Steve Lyons

As she was doing well the Selection Committee also provided her a chance To prove her performance on March 12.

Lalit Bhanot

This was a critical win for us. Our guys were hungry. We were kind of stumbling and bumbling offensively, especially in the first half. But we gave the kind of over-the-top performance on defense that got us back on track tonight.

Dennis Felton

I think if you look in the investigation report, it indicates, at least in that that, that they were in compliance with the leak performance detection standard.

Bill Hutmacher

There is not now, nor has there ever been, any question about his performance.

Charles Gribble

It's an ideal notebook for anyone who wants optimum productivity and multimedia performance in a portable form factor, whether around the home or away.

Jeff Barney

You can't worry about those things. You control how you play. Let the performance decide who is going to play.

Jussi Markkanen

It was the best performance of all our short programs this season.

Tatiana Totmianina

Years ago, Fidelity told you not to buy because of a manager, but because Fidelity as a whole always turned to gold. Now you have to look at a manager's performance.

Lewis Altfest

It can be anything that gives them a sense of control, ... A lot of performance is mind over matter, so if they believe it will give them control, it may give them control. If they think they will perform better, they will perform better.

Henry Hartman

Overall, the momentum we are facing is very strong now, the performance is very healthy. We expect this to continue on to the first half.

Chu Woo Sik