Quotes about Rising

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

Henry David Thoreau

Funds are putting more money into oil because of rising geopolitical risk about Iran. Gains in Tokyo reflect records abroad.

Koji Suzuki

At the same time, there are worries that bond yields may be rising.

Ian Harnett

We are a people enterprise and rising housing costs have undermined our ability to attract qualified teachers to our area.

Hugh Futrell

Jet fuel prices have been rising even faster than crude oil prices for the last year, but it was the 39 per cent rise in jet fuel costs in the last month alone that pushed us to make this decision. We have made incredible progress in lowering our operational costs for over two years now. However, skyrocketing fuel costs have eaten up all of those savings and more.

Dan Garton

You can't have this kind of slowing in job growth coupled with rising energy prices and not see some adverse impact on consumer spending.

Alan Gayle

Small-caps should do better because they are less sensitive to interest rate increases. A rising rate environment historically correlates with small-caps outperforming.

Thomas Laming

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

There is better confidence in Asia. Corporate profitability is improving, unemployment is falling, wages are rising, interest rates are low, and there's a willingness to buy into assets. People are getting their money out of saving and into assets; otherwise they're competing with inflation.

Chris Reilly

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

Tom Seaver

Michelin and the industry continue to pass on rising material costs through tire price increases. Tire price increases have been crucial to offsetting the projected 15 percent increase in raw material costs Michelin will feel in 2005 (approximately 450 million increase vs. 2004).

Adam Jonas

There are some questions whether local car sales will keep rising due to a slower-than-expected recovery in private consumption, although it is premature to take a pessimistic view.

Stephen Ahn

The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him.

Clay Aiken

We're at a perfect storm. Business units are requiring IT departments to do more with less. We have (chief financial officers) question why all the racks aren't filled. The IT guys are saying 'I need another data center.' Then we have the rising cost of energy that's bringing all this to the forefront.

Ben Williams

It has a lot of references to nature. The beginning sounds like the sun rising and birds chirping.

Gregory Pritchard

I'm sure rising interest rates at some point are going to take some buyers out of the marketplace. Typically, though, this does not happen in a big way until interest rates hit 8 percent and we have a long way to go until it reaches 8 percent.

Bernard Helm

Global markets have not been affected by the possibility of rising U.S. interest rates. Japan and the Nasdaq in the U.S. are gaining, so that's creating a positive flow.

Jason Hwang

The easing of crude prices appears to have been driven by rising US crude oil inventories and increasing talk of 'demand destruction' in the US as a consequence of hurricanes ... and high retail oil prices.

The Centre

As a result, 2006 probably will see only a modest pick-up in economic growth, rising unemployment and, with public spending still growing quite rapidly, another overshoot in the fiscal deficit.

Michael Saunders

Both sides have to be careful, they have to be responsive to the rising nationalist sentiments in their respective countries, so there is very limited room for maneuver.

Joseph Cheng

What President Bush encountered was the rising tide of resentment, both popular and among leaders ... that the Bush agenda just does not jibe with Latin America.

Bruce Bagley

The rising number of cases and deaths indicates that something may have happened to that system whereby some breeding places have gone unnoticed and therefore uncontrolled.

Kevin Palmer

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'

George Grosz

A lot of times, rising rents really rely on growth in the area. If you have people shifting from owning to renting, then there's less competition.

Charlotte Yee

I'm so proud, but not at all surprised, that Marin County is rising to the challenge of doing something about Darfur, ... the conscience of the Congress when it comes to Africa.

Lynn Woolsey

We don't know how big the (Rita's) impact will be but the market is being quite rightly a bit cautious ahead of what is an unknown. It's not just the hurricane; U.S. rates are rising along with other different things, and valuations are just not as cheap as they used to be.

Adrian Darley

The market is definitely a lot more sluggish than at the end of last year. However how much of that is attributable to the holiday break and how much is to do with rising interest rates is hard to say.

Howard Morley

The shorter the time until maturity, the less impact rising rates will have on bond prices.

James Stack

Stocks are very sensitive to the risk of interest rates rising further. Financial institutions are especially vulnerable.

Patrick Casselman

Commodity prices are rising, quite dramatically for copper, tin and steel scrap. That would not happen if there was an expectation of a slowdown.

James Paulsen

The strength of the housing market this year continues to surprise, despite rising home prices and slightly higher interest rates.

Gregory Klump

Inflation is not something you can put back in the bottle very easily. Rising interest rates and inflation would affect corporate profits and make valuations look overdone and stocks look expensive.

Tim Hayes

Business demand consistently exceeded our expectations throughout most of calendar year 2000, and in an effort to meet our customer expectations we continued to increase our inventory and capacities to keep up with rising demand.

Larry Carter

The population is rising, the housing demand is steady and the dispersion of jobs increase traffic on the roads.

Marsha Gordon

We will ensure that, even in an environment of rising inflationary risks, the ECB will make an important contribution to growth by anchoring inflation expectations.

Axel Weber

Information technology has changed the world and now the world is changing IT as concerns about growth, customers and market needs top the business agenda. In a world of increasing competition and customer choice, IT is rising to the challenge of making a tangible difference in the business.

Mark Mcdonald

The Department of Defense is being eaten out of house and home by health care costs. More retirees are going with military medicine, Congress is allowing more National Guard and reservists to enter (the VA system) and the costs are rising. You have to say if you are going to have this kind of ballooning in PTSD benefits, a review is appropriate.

Dan Goure

This [youth violence] is a very big issue facing youth today, and it's rising. We are the next generation, so we need to make a stand and make a move.

Sean Smith

I am looking to pair David with a rising star in the GT class for an all-American lineup in the SHOES FOR CREWS® Porsche. We are evaluating the best options available and will be choosing a co-driver that can give us a chance to contend for another championship within the next few weeks.

Cole Scrogham

It was rising at a 20 percent annual rate and then suddenly stopped in its tracks, ... Bubbles and How to Survive Them.

John Calverley

The rising cost of fuel affects the NASCAR industry the same way it affects everyone else. Whether it's our transportation needs getting from track to track or the impact it has on our fans, there's a price to pay.

Ramsey Poston

Samsung's proven that its strategy's worked and if it keeps it up, there's no reason why its market capitalization shouldn't continue rising for years.

Michael Min

The results of our 2004 program were so successful that we are extending it to a six-month period this year. Using generics when appropriate cuts members' out-of-pocket expenses, but it also helps hold down overall medical costs. Since prescription-drug costs are a key driver of rising medical costs, the long-term increased use of generics impacts future premiums to the benefit of our customers.

Bob Greczyn

Given that rising US interest rates underpinned the greenback's stellar performance in 2005, dollar bulls' disappointment in the wake of these minutes is inevitable.

Neil Mellor

Our poor pricing, rising cost structure, mismatched fleet, weak operational performance, low-intensity performance culture, and social obligations all contributed to our dismal financial performance across most routes we fly.

Idris Jala

The productivity and labor costs reports abated pressures (over) rising interest rates from the Fed, which is giving a kick to the market. Also, the storm in the East wasn't so bad, so oil pressure isn't bad.

Jim Awad

We have the lowest average wage rate of any metropolitan area we compete with. This might sound good if you're an employer, but combine this with our rapidly rising cost of living and absence of affordable housing, and rapidly rising housing costs - up 30 percent last year - and you have a formula for failure.

Bob Abberger

Their costs for hiring and contracting services is clearly rising faster than their revenue. They are going to have to get a handle on that because the industry is just not growing fast enough to support that.

Felipe Cunha

As long as U.S. rates are rising you've got this double-whammy effect of spare cash looking for yield and yield is there (in the U.S.).

Luke Waddington

One concern is that its production cost is rising, but as long as the oil price is high, that's acceptable.

Gideon Lo

A flood is defined as rising water, and it doesn't matter why the water is rising. If it rains faster than it can be pumped away, that's a flood. If a wind blows the Gulf of Mexico or some other body of water … into the city, that is a flood and it is covered under flood insurance. Rising waters, by definition, are excluded from a homeowner's policy.

Jeff Albright

A rising gold price makes merger activity really active. Everyone wants to grow their business when commodity prices are rising and you can make money on almost anything. We're going to see more of this.

Deron Collins

The frequency of automobile accidents is declining in North Carolina, but the severity of accidents involving bodily injury is rising in the state. That's something we will keep our eyes on in preparing our request next February.

Tim Lucas

Rising inflation will prove to be the starting point for the undoing of the domestic economy.

Carl B. Weinberg

These are important numbers, particularly the one on employment costs. There's some concern about rising wage costs and rising prices and I think the market is really going to be on alert for that.

Adam Blankman

As Japanese companies can no longer absorb the entire negative impact of rising basic material prices with revenue growth, corporate profit trend will slow down further going forward.

Junichi Makino

Most of their operating profit comes from the U.S.. Everyone's been hurt by rising oil and gas, especially smaller and mid-sized pickups.

Pete Hastings

I would imagine that men are caught between two issues. The rising cost of everything, houses, child care, private school. They need more money to provide for their families but they are caught trying to weigh the balance.

Jason Murray

With the rising costs of oil, the issue of energy efficiency has never been more important.

Marty Seyer

The acquisition of the copper mine at a time when metal prices are rising will benefit the company.

Yoshihisa Miyamoto

The central bank is taking a pre-emptive action. Confidence is rising, sales are picking up and the central bank is looking at higher growth next year.

Im No Jung

People are continuing to invest in their houses despite rising energy prices.

Keith Davis

These imbalances, reflect in part in the rising US deficit as well as the massive surplus in China's current account, pose a threat to international trading relationships upon which much of the recent global prosperity has been built.

Charles Dallara

Most of the markets in the region are also under selling pressure on fears of rising ( U.S. ) interest rates. The funds have definitely been trimming down their [Asian] exposure.

Alex Tang

People are paying attention to what Fukui will say. It's hard to find a reason to buy bonds as yields are rising.

Naomi Hasegawa

With rising energy prices and continued air pollution, this is exactly the kind of landmark initiative California needs. From this, we're going to see cleaner air, affordable solar energy and California regaining its world leadership in solar power.

Bernadette Del Chiaro

The traffic lights are green on Main Street, U.S.A.. Confident consumers, rising incomes, and innovative products continue to drive strong auto sales.

Bob Rewey

Despite rising fuel prices, devastating weather events and a difficult market environment, Chrysler Group products continued to deliver quarterly gains in market share, retail sales and shipments.

Tom Lasorda

In spite of rising costs and the carriers' desire to raise fares to cover those costs, there's going to be some real difficulty in accomplishing that. It does not look like demand is firming up at all. And therefore I see downward pressure on prices.

Dave Swieringa

We are pleased the proposed general rate increase for electric customers will be considerably less than we originally expected. Energy prices have been rising dramatically throughout the nation during the past year and it is gratifying that we are able to announce an adjustment that is more favorable to our customers.

Mary Simmons

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

Al Gore

The popularity in keeping and breeding birds is rising rapidly in the UK and we are one of the main players in the bird trade in Europe.

David Bowles

Oil companies are doing well as oil prices are rising.

Riccardo Marzi

We had a rising dollar against the yen, temporary collapse that had no fundamental basis, and then we stabilized and will move to new highs.

Michael Rosenberg

As a result of a rising interest rate environment — which is a positive for a bank like Frost with an asset-sensitive balance sheet — net interest margin for the year rose again to 4.45 percent, the highest level since 2002. Loans ended the year at $6.1 billion, reaching their highest level ever, and deposits rose to $9.1 billion, also a record.

Dick Evans

Look for renewed debate on whether rising producer prices will be passed through to consumers in the CPI measure of inflation, ... If so, that may well mean that the Federal Reserve isn't quite as near to the end of its tightening cycle as previously thought.

Derek Holt

I wouldn't be surprised to see (the Dow) trend lower because markets don't trend up in a time of rising interest rates.

Grace Fey

The key to sustained growth and rising standards of living will be the ability of developing countries to create vital export industries to compete in a free and open global marketplace. We should help these countries help themselves by opening the U.S. market to their exports.

Senator Dianne Feinstein

There are concerns about rising competition and there is still more to come.

Kevin Roe

The rising, moving water impact is something we can't mitigate.

Gary Vickers

EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Reveals the path that he should not have gone. Joel Frad Bink.

Ambrose Bierce

We also encourage community groups to contact our Speakers Bureau Program to arrange for a company representative to speak about rising energy prices and provide energy efficiency information.

Gary Stockbridge

We're facing the realization that rising (interest) rates and rising stock prices are incompatible. The higher rates are really starting to make themselves felt.

Richard Cripps

In an environment of rising poverty and unemployment, it is natural that people expect their governments to focus on the basics of life, and birthdays do not fall into that category.

Professor Heneri Dzinotyiwei

This will surely be a year of takeovers. Markets will benefit as companies buy growth. Stock prices are rising, but profit is rising in the same measure.

Thomas Koerfgen

Overall the storm will hurt, but it's certainly not the same as the impact of rising oil prices, ... a large effect.

Philip Baggaley

In our view, current financial market psychology is under-estimating the negative impact that rising joblessness will have on the housing and motor vehicle markets in the first half of 2002.

David Orr

An increase in purchases by overseas investors is a reason for bonds to rise. It will assure investors that yields won't continue rising.

Koji Mori

Stocks are very sensitive to the risk of interest rates rising further. Higher borrowing costs can affect the ability of companies to expand and for consumers to spend.

Patrick Casselman

That's the major driver of stock markets today. The rising interest rate cycle is close to an end.

Agnes Deng

The heat was blazing. From the sideline, you could see the heat rising. It hits you in the nose.

Michael Washington

We are seeing a rising increase in children coming through our children's emergency center with injuries.

Kathy Harper

This level of inflation, combined with falling unemployment and rising capacity utilization, is a recipe for continued preventative rate hikes.

Drew Matus

Inflation is a massive theme because we are in a rising-interest-rate environment. I think there is enough pressure for the European Central Bank to raise interest rates fairly aggressively.

Jane Foley

The universal hold used to be $1, ... Obviously that figure is rising along with gas prices.

Chris Roberts

The challenge there is that we're looking for larger users, and there's been some leveling off of activity the number of clients looking to build large facilities. And rising fuel costs may have had an impact on that.

Larry Burkhardt

Inflation is the wild card for 2006, with rising oil prices, an increase in commodity prices, slow productivity gains and rising interest rates.

Joseph Seneca

It won't solve everything, but this bill can hopefully lessen the impact of the hurricanes and rising fuel costs.

Bill Grant

A lot of countries' economies have done very well on rising exports, but they haven't been as successful in improving their budgetary situation. Latin America is heavily indebted, and the political cycle can be quite volatile, so there's a chance of some setbacks there.

Brian Coulton