Quotes about Relative

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

Eastern Europe has opened up and there have been people who have been buying in countries like Bosnia and Poland. Clearly, again they have to assess the relative risks of going into new markets.

David Simister

I think it's a good company with a very strong management and it's priced very attractively relative to the market and its peers like T. Rowe Price and Franklin Resources.

Alex Paris Jr

We decided to take an offensive stance relative to our pricing...in order to increase the size of our footprint in the marketplace.

Dirk Meyer

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

Mencius

The improving stock-market environment as people start to price in the end of Fed tightening has positive effects on Asia. Lower interest rates are positive for stock markets and they diminish the importance of relative yields.

Simon Flint

The growth outlook relative to developed markets is still in tact. We believe in the consumer story in emerging markets.

Joanne Irvine

I've never been in a network where the number of users relative to the bandwidth is so great that it [the bandwidth] approaches zero. What usually happens is that the percentage of users that are actually on the network is quite low.

Junaid Islam

The rating reflects the company's high leverage, weak profit margins relative to peers, participation in a highly competitive industry, and reliance on the popularity of Hollywood films.

Tulip Lim

Intuitively, you would think service should be improving over time, and there's some indication that it is. But, relative to what customers expect, service hasn't been keeping up with their expectations.

Kirk Parsons

Relative calm in about 80 percent of the city as residents carry out their usual routines.

Thomas Johnson

He told the child that a relative had asked him to take him to the men's room and check him. Of course, the child acquiesced to that.

Rev. Roger Woodard

It makes all the sense in the world to diversify if the opportunity presented itself because of the lack of clarity relative to Sears' direction in the mid- and long-term.

Stuart Kessler

The relative turnout between the two bases is going to have an awful lot to do with who wins this thing. Particularly since there are so few swing voters anymore.

Stephen Craig

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Bruce Henderson

People here are really wedded culturally and emotionally to very rich plan designs relative to what you see in different parts of the country. They are just more expensive.

Charles Baker

The biggest one out there is the federal one. I wouldn't glean anything from what negotiations with the state attorney general could mean relative to settlement with the DOJ (Department of Justice).

Rob Mains

It's interesting because our athletic directors, presidents and commissioners are quieter than they've ever been. There were so many different opinions leading up to the decision on the format that I think people are just enjoying the relative calm and quiet now that it's in place.

John Junker

You have kids that are in crisis shelters or staying with a relative because there's been abuse or drug use in the home those kids would be considered homeless.

Paul Cunningham

The different treatment that top management are getting in companies relative to the work force has been the catalyst.

Chris Hart

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Gustave Courbet

We recommend purchase for intrepid investors looking at the improbable size of this markdown relative to any reasonable estimate of possible future costs.

Barbara Allen

I'd bet more than 50 percent of our players have a relative who played football here.

Randy White

Our demand curve is extremely accelerated relative to other businesses.

Scott Plank

Automakers are still cheap relative to their earnings outlook.

Hideo Arimura

These discussions have centered on open formats particularly as they relate to office documents, their importance for the current and future accessibility of government records, and the relative.

Peter Quinn

Your first quarter came in light and it looks like your second quarter is going to be light relative to our expectations. So, it's just not clear why you would be re-affirming the guidance. It seems like we're going to be disappointed later in the year.

Margaret Whelan

Our rankings, relative to other sites, rise and fall over time, ... But our traffic continues to grow ? at a pace even faster than the explosive Internet itself.

Joseph Farah

I'm not sure how much lower we can get, relative to consolidation. I'm starting to see a lot of cheap things out there. I think the key is going to be whether we're going to push off this recovery another quarter or not.

Kent Vogel

Fears that production will be cut at a time of relative tightness has pushed the price higher.

Daniel Hynes

While [Best Buy] may look like the relative underperformer this quarter, we believe their strategies will prove more fruitful long term, especially as [Wal-Mart] gets aggressive.

David Strasser

The earlier you apply, the earlier you'll know what kind of aid you're going to get relative to what your bill is going to be. Students don't apply for scholarships like they should.

Keith Barnes

Small caps are modestly overvalued, but not dramatically overvalued, relative to large caps. But we would have thought that last year.

Mark Balasa

Some of the workers had expressed an interest in having the ability to organize, and I felt that they ought to have the ability to organize if they want to without any fear of intimidation from (the county) relative to that organization. It was a rights issue for me.

Commissioner Sam Hart

Channel checks reveal PC pricing pressures continue to ratchet up, with no indications of easing until mid-2001, ... We also believe that notebook demand, one of Intel's strongest drivers, has slowed, leaving Intel with less cushion relative to its overall exposure to the PC industry.

Charlie Glavin

This report tells people outside the agricultural sector what the relative pay of their region is.

Charlotte Yee

Music is part of the big three. New Orleans is food, architecture and music. Everyone in New Orleans is a musician or has a relative who's a musician, whether they are professional or amateur.

Jack Stewart

For Petro-Canada, it's a great price relative to the return they're earning, and they're not exiting the country. They're only exiting that contract, that asset.

Wilf Gobert

Earnings growth is still improving and Europe has the advantage to be late relative to the US economic cycle.

Thierry Lacraz

Believed was a friend or relative of a Bradley County Jail inmate.

Jennifer Johnson

The coupon on the ruble paper is fairly low relative to most expectations and certainly the maturity on the dollar paper and the very low coupon does not add up to a very attractive package.

Sonja Gibbs

The likelihood that the Fed will go to 5 percent means that for now U.S. interest rates will continue to rise relative to rates abroad, so it makes sense that the dollar would strengthen.

Stuart Schweitzer

I believe that Mr. Victorino most likely had a gun in his hand and was pointing it at him [Gleason] and was the cause for him calling for help, ... I can say that with relative certainty.

Robert Hogan

Leaving aside the exceptional nature of the 1930s, we can see a peak in the film industry's fortunes in the 1960s and 1970s, and a relative decline since then.

David Hancock

Merrill is certainly one of the most attractive of the brokerage firms in the industry and it would be a nice set with Chase on paper in terms of product line. Merrill is at the top of the rumor list relative to Chase.

Michael Flanagan

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Nicholson Baker

We're trying to get some variety and take-out products that are not doing well. We really didn't know the current relative acceptability of the menu items except for some of the components used in other rations.

Vicki Loveridge

European markets still have a safety buffer from relative valuations that will protect equities from any downward pressure from rising interest rates.

Lars Kreckel

We chose this because it was a population of all girls and we wanted to see if the distinctions of their trash were relative to their living environment.

Tom Collins

'Distressed' is all relative. Cowlitz County is almost always higher than the state, but in terms of job growth, things are certainly improving.

Scott Bailey

We have the least (economic) resilience (of all the states), we never built up a surplus. We don't have the momentum, and we will go backwards; the economy of Michigan will get worse relative to the other states, we will go backward 1 to 2 percent.

David Littmann

Even though this is the lowest-cost coverage that they're going to face in their careers, it's still high relative to their incomes.

William Custer

Our self-pay as a percentage of our overall business isn't that high, from a relative standpoint, ... But it's still 5 or 6 percent of our business. And if you're one of those 5 or 6 percent, it's still a big issue to you paying for your health care cost.

Mike Green

Everyone should get a home inspection; it really makes sense. The cost relative to the investment is so minimum.

Andy Allen

There was an inordinately low amount of crashes relative to a storm. I was surprised at how few we had.

David Buck

By no means impedes our commitment to continue to try to make our business count for something relative to people's lives and the environment where our coffee is grown.

Dave Olsen

[Yet a woman's position in her husband's family was not secure until she had his son.] And as a daughter-in-law, she was a relative stranger, ... So she had to work hard to gain acceptance in her husband's family.

Cindy Chu

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

Jeanette Winterson

There's an expectation built into Nortel's valuation for the company to outperform relative to expectation and with all of the indications prior to the call that the demand for optical remained quite strong, especially with service providers.

Christin Armacost

It's like everybody's a relative: the whole country's glued to the radio or the TV, waiting for details from the hospital.

Tom Segev

Age is relative, especially in sports.

Alan Goldberg

They are certainly blazing new ground with the price of the drug. They're saying, we think this is fair value, at least on a relative basis.

Geoffrey Porges

They had very strong results relative to the environment.

Joel Gomberg

As a global sport, we can afford to have pockets of strength and relative evenness, without really affecting the total pie. Growth is never a bad thing.

Richard Davies

It's the relative price of corn and beans and the relative yields that will determine this.

Bob Wisner

So far there's very little evidence of excess inventory and 1Q 04 expectations seem reasonable to us relative to historical norms.

Pip Coburn

When we planned our experiment, we estimated how long it would take for the dust to fall back onto the comet, and multiplied that estimate by 4. We only had a limited time to observe because this was all happening at relative speeds of 22,000 miles per hour. To our surprise, the dust never cleared!

Lucy Mcfadden

People are just looking at the valuations relative to other industrials and other large conglomerates and they still feel the stock is still kind of expensive.

Tom Leritz

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Allan Bloom

I think every relative we know will (be at the game).

Nick Holmes

Notwithstanding these factors, we believe retail sales growth in the 7% range is quite reasonable given the increased attractiveness and availability of retail projects in Fort Bend and our relative prowess in the region as a retail destination.

John Wiley

Buddy thought I looked a little too light. I guess you're always worried about health and if you're too thin, you might break down. It's all relative. If you're 5-10, it's different.

Andrew Sisco

Our theory in the Internet is buy the street, not the store, ... We'd rather own the street instead of just an individual store on the street. And Earthlink certainly fits that bill. And again, relative to the other stocks, it's the cheapest in the group.

Tony Dwyer

Bill Miller is someone who very much has embraced the new economy. But he's buying some old economy stocks because he thinks they look so cheap relative to the fundamentals.

Peter Diteresa

We believe the tight supply environment may be unraveling faster than we previously anticipated, which does not bode well for pricing and bookings relative to our previous expectations.

Chris Danely

The fourth-quarter was a bit disappointing relative to both expectations and their strong third quarter.

Chris Meyer

Concern about deflation makes bonds look good relative to stocks.

Michael Cloherty

The program worked for about 13,000 youth. But it fell short. It works for relative caregivers who are not on a fixed income, but we place a lot of these foster children with grandparents who are low-income. We can help another 13,000 to 20,000 if Kin-GAP was expanded.

Trent Rhorer

The returns in the private-equity area have been huge relative to the returns in the public marketable-securities area. Over a period of years, private equity has achieved 20 percent compounded returns.

John Castle

Sixteen-point-five percent was very impressive relative to the [national] average [12 percent].

Andrew Leventis

We believe several of the company's assets/divisions may be attractive acquisition targets given their growth prospects and the relative ease to which they could be separated from the larger business.

Sarah Thompson

Oil prices are high but they are showing signs of relative stability.

Masaaki Kanno

We're focusing much too much on what's moving, which at the margin are the kind of that are negative for stocks and forgetting what's really crucial here. The fact is we are in an excess supply of money relative to the needs of the economy and corporate earnings growth will in fact be quite good in the third quarter.

Aaron Hill

The markets have pushed the euro somewhat too low relative to fundamentals.

Michael Mussa

We are going to see an increase in our fire activity as we continue to see very little rain. Our drought index continues to increase and with low relative humidity and the daily shifting of winds any fire that does start will be a problem.

Chuck Johnston

Japanese equities remain attractive relative to other developed markets.

Kathy Matsui

Relative to the bankrupt carriers, this is a fairly strong liquidity position, but obviously they face cash flow pressures.

William Warlick

The poorer performance of the stock market relative to the land market makes it attractive.

Michael Duffy

I think people will see one up there with a name on it and think that it would be a nice way to honor a grandparent or relative. It's a nice tribute.

John Winters

Our goal is to hit our own sales target. We don't much care about the relative position in the market.

Yuzuru Matsuno

Multifamily is attractive because of its low volatility and higher risk-adjusted returns relative to other property types.

Dave Hardman

I think the relative presence of the Tokyo Game Show has been falling so I should do something about it.

Yoshihiro Maruyama

These discussions have centred on open formats particularly as they relate to office documents, their importance for the current and future accessibility of government records, and the relative 'openness' of the format options available to us.

Peter Quinn

We learned at least back then he was quite conservative. He was even a relative conservative in the Reagan Justice Department, which is saying something.

Cass R. Sunstein

The Internet is pretty much a part of how people support their social networks and how people get help to find out issues relative to their health and finances. It really underscores how embedded it's become in people's lives.

Jeffrey Boase

We are now at the end of the second year of an up cycle and there is despondency regarding the future, as the fourth quarter of 2000 was weak relative to the preceding quarter.

Joe D'elia

Everybody's gone. They all had a place to go for Christmas, and this is probably the first year that's ever happened. It's definitely unusual, but everybody had a relative or someone to stay with. It's a quirk of fate, I guess.

Dean Hayes

It's going to make our relative rank weaker.

John Underwood

We issue these when we expect wind speeds to exceed 20 mph and relative humidity of 20 percent or less. The conditions for rapid fire growth and spread are pretty high.

Cody Lindsey

Well, offenders who have offended against a family member or another relative or neighbor who has not committed a prior offense typically score low on these risk assessment instruments, particularly if they have not, do not have any prior criminal history.

Georgia Cumming