Objective Quotations | Page 3

Our objective is to drive towards 60 percent. We will try to make that this year.

Our objective is to ensure the building is occupied -- that it just doesn't sit vacant.

Our objective is to (essentially) take a 20-acre piece of Gore-Tex and put it over this golf course.

Our objective is to find another Subaru world champion and we'll do all that we can to help Chris and Stephane reach that goal.

Our objective is to get to the playoffs and play good baseball. We'll figure that out once that happens.

Part of my objective next year is to make a tally to see who is not using the zone benefits so I can go out and knock on their door. We still have a vast majority of our land that is still underdeveloped and unused. We have a long way to go.

Part of our objective in creating the original reference design for the UMPC category was to engineer a platform that's both very compact and, through careful component choice, possible to sell for $500 MSRP.

Our mission with this study was to launch an annual, objective evaluation of this important technology category. We wanted to give potential buyers insight into the factors that most significantly influence implementation success and long-term satisfaction so they can improve their decision making processes. The study also provides vendors with direct feedback on strengths and areas where improvements can be made.

I support the idea of a quantitative objective for price stability.

I will have discussions with our athletics directors soon and will recommend that we eliminate the subjective element of the tiebreaker and replace it with objective criteria.

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.

My next objective is to win more races and the big Crystal Globe.

My number one objective continues to be to defund or delay the implementation of Obamacare. But as long as any piece of this law is standing, it needs to apply to all Americans equally, and that includes members of Congress and our staff.

Making this list is a testament to the hard work our team has put forward over the past several years in establishing secure asset tracking and computer theft recovery as a new product category for computer security. Our current objective is to more than double our number of subscribers in less than two years, and we believe that we have the right people, product suite, operational platform and distribution partners to achieve that goal and remain one of Canada's fastest growing companies.

I think that might be his own personal feeling. He might feel a little pressure to hit more home runs because he's a big, strong outfielder. But for me, the home runs really aren't a factor. It would be nice, but that's not my main objective with Luis.

I think that was our main objective this time in going into the studio. We just wanted to go in and recreate what we do live. People really enjoy the live show, the energy we have on stage, and we wanted to take that from the stage into the studio.

I think that the objective of the interest rate hikes is to keep the economy in the 3-1/2, maybe 3-3/4 range. So the Fed has been saying all along, give us 12 months from when we start to raise rates and we'll get the trajectory down. And I think that's what they've done.

I think the biggest assumption about Vista that will likely be untrue is that it will be dull/dowdy and/or fail to effectively compete, at least for objective customers, with Mac OS. Revitalized competition in the OS space is going to be great for all customers, in any case.

I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.

It is important to take an objective view of the advantages offered by WTO membership, as well as the possible risks involved. We do not need WTO membership at any price. There must be no compromise here.

It is a necessity if our objective is to provide higher quality education. It's not uncommon that a very good student has to go away to Orlando or South Florida.

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine,

I think there's two issues. Obviously emotionally he's not right and physically he's off the pace. We'll definitely start doing some one-on-one stuff with him shortly so he's on top of that. He's definitely off the pace at the moment and he knows that and I can see that so there's no point in trying to get him to play at anything less than 100 per cent. So I think it's a fairly objective decision.

I think any time you can have an objective expert do your returns, you've got go with that. They can find things that perhaps you haven't seen, they give you good clean records, they keep track of your documentation. But there is always a price tag attached to doing it that way so it's not something that everyone can afford.

Retailers are putting a great spin on this, saying that the customer benefits in the end. However, the self-checkout is not driven by customer service but by the retailer's objective to reduce costs.

Our $80 per share offer for Guidant is compelling. We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson's.

Our price objective is based on a 40 times PE (price/earnings) applied to our new 2005 earnings per share estimate of $1.35.

Our primary objective is that Jiri is taken care of.

Our primary objective is to build value for our shareholders, ... Wall Street has the company valued at less than the cash we have in the bank.

Our primary objective is to provide the police department with the information they need to enforce the ordinance fairly. The administration and council must provide the department with tools, definitions and intent so they know how to enforce the ordinance.

Our primary objective is to right-size the company so we can focus management and move forward with a solid core of performing locations with an appropriate capital structure.

Our primary objective was to get some wide receivers in here and get some depth at running back, and we did that.

Our principal objective is ... to see the administration re-formed but re-formed on a sound basis.

Our principal objective remains the need to create a climate for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe so that the Zimbabwean people can speak through the ballot.

Our whole objective was not to let Amy hurt us because she's such a great player. So we devised something where we were always in position to double her if we had to. Of course, we did leave some people open.

Our whole objective was to have the FBI come in and lead an investigation. We will know the truth.

Our ultimate objective is to find artisans who create something that people will want to leave San Antonio to come see.

Our staff objective for the spring is always to prepare for the fall. We wanted to work with the team in different systems and with a variety of players in different positions - a lot of experimenting. That being the objective, I think we had a successful spring.

On the (Tahoe), we're beating expectations on a number of fronts. We're beating the production schedule, we're ahead of our sales objective for the month and the response we're getting from dealers is positive.

Our findings show the importance of looking at objective as well as subjective measurements of how the body responds to pain stimuli.

Our first objective is to try to maintain the 0-0. That's all we need to eliminate Liverpool and that is what we are going to play for.

Our first objective is to win every conference series this year and we just wanted to stay on top of other teams. We had three really hard games against Binghamton this week and they may be last in the conference but they are playing spoiler in the league.

Our folks (DNR) love Fair Hill, so we have a shared objective with the citizens who came to Annapolis to testify.

I studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough... also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. So I was prepared actually for the possibility that the game theory work would not be regarded as acceptable as a thesis in the mathematics department and then that I could realize the objective of a Ph.D. thesis with the other results.

I think everybody's on the same page with the stated objective of cracking down on pedophiles and sexual predators.

I was very happy with the performance, particularly with the weather. I just told them not to try and do anything extra, just do as well as you could but try not to get hurt. That was our whole objective this week.

I will spend between two and three days in each country. The objective of our trips is always to improve relations with our customers, present novelties, keeping in mind, of course, an increase in our market share.

It fits in with our objective of generating more value for our customers and shareholders.

It doesn't make sense that Wall Street applauds us because we do things well at the macro level. The objective is that that healthy economic growth is reflected in the reduction of extreme poverty,

It hurts everybody when somebody declares bankruptcy, ... It is harder on small businesses, no doubt, because they have fewer people to spread the work out of collection. It used to be that people would declare Chapter 7 and walk away from it. The objective of the new law is that people don't walk away from it and leave other people holding the bag.

I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play.

We need a panel of qualified experts that is knowledgeable and objective and has all the investigative and subpoena powers necessary,

To make conditions for ... international security forces in Kosovo, to create security for the people, and to return the people to Kosovo, is the major objective for us now, for me personally and for the people of Kosovo,

We believe the long-term outlook for hotel investment remains quite attractive. While we are not driven by a specific timetable, our over- arching objective is to strategically invest $500 million annually over the next several years in the acquisition and development of primarily hotel- related opportunities. We have carefully assembled a first class investment team over the last several years, and our depth in this area continues to fuel a very active pipeline of prospective investment opportunities. HEI now has 13 professionals, with more than 185 years of collective experience, driving its acquisition and development effort with several additional positions to be filled in the coming months.

While that's still true, price objective has moved down to fourth or fifth for buyers. Now the appeal is for presentation, excitement, a differentiated product, something that is unique and entertaining.

The preparation and the process of guaranteeing Iraqis a vote since January has been difficult, due to security issues. But despite these huge challenges, we achieved our objective and managed to hold the follow up election in December.

We were in the double bonus, so the objective was to get fouled. But I saw an open lane, so I took it. And I just scored the ball.

We are committed to making the tough but necessary decisions to ensure the future viability of GreenMan and continue to evaluate all viable alternatives to achieve this objective with our primary focus on our southeastern operations,

We anticipate by the end of 2007 we will have taken the number of hotels to at least 20 and we will be well on our way to achieving our medium term objective of 25.

We know that Americans are consuming their media across different platforms. Although nothing will duplicate the shared experience of watching a big event like the Olympics on television, the reality is that people are on the go and at their desks. Our objective was to create deep and compelling and rich offerings of Olympic coverage on these mobile applications -- and I'm including the Internet with that.

We have had an arduous four months where we've been tested under fire and we're looking forward to bringing this group of 20 athletes together to make the final push. As Americans we all know what the objective is and this group of athletes gives us the best chance of accomplishing that goal.

We're very young, and I'll need to be very patient with this group. The objective is to bring them along one step at a time.

We have been very successful with this project because we have been apolitical. Both governments seem to understand this program is to help children ? in this case, they happen to be Cuban children. Our objective is to not take political sides.

We have changed the objective now to sell out every league game of the season. The response from the fans has been great. We are not going to be complacent, though. There are a number of things we still haven't got right yet but Rome wasn't built in a day.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

I was pleased that we got a lot of players in the game and I was impressed with what I saw from our pitching. Our objective with a predominately Division I preseason is to play against the best opponents we can so we can improve, and it allows us to make better player evaluations against top competition.

The $54 price objective represents 17 times 2002 estimated revenue. The stock currently trades at 28 times 2001 revenue, implying a multiple contraction.

The accomplishment of this objective demands a high degree of responsibility and a balanced approach in order to maintain the effectiveness of measures aimed at establishing constitutional order in the Chechen Republic and normalizing the regional situation.

Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. You can find positive signs or you can find negative signs. How you evaluate them depends on something that happened in your life recently or something like that. There's no objective way to do it. The important thing is you try to commit yourself to making the positive signs more real. Suppose you felt that there's 99 percent of a probability that human civilization is going to be destroyed in the next hundred years, but one percent chance it won't be, and that one percent offers some opportunities to do something. Well, you commit yourself to that one percent.

(Willingham) would have to demonstrate to me (and the athletic director) that we would maintain an objective performance assessment and evaluation for pay increases.

You can have a contract in snowfall, wind speed, sunshine duration, instantaneous temperature. We can trade any measurement that is available in an objective fashion.

That's the objective -- to get the play off before they can substitute on defense,

We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.

The 100 Top Hospital award winners continue to demonstrate significant distinctions in provision of value to their communities, as shown by objective differences in clinical outcomes, patient safety, efficient operations and financial stability. These top 100 hospitals react quicker to challenges than their peers, and they focus on all aspects of care, not just one.

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

My complaint is not so much about the smear campaign as it is about the laziness of so-called objective journalists who failed to even do basic research.

While we must always ensure that any proposed foreign acquisition does not threaten our national security, we must also recognize the importance of making fair and objective decisions in working with our allies -- especially those which are actively supporting the coalition of nations engaged in fighting the global war on terror.

We were able to come to an agreement with Goldman Sachs on the pre-IPO market. We feel that 9 billion euro is a fair value, not overly exciting, and it's an objective value that we can put before shareholders and give them a benchmark to look at our business.

You always think you can win every game, but after last season making the tournament is our objective at this point. Jason is good enough to beat anybody.

We continue to build our brands and expand our international, national and regional capabilities. Our objective is to provide seamless, end-to-end global transportation solutions to our customers.

We recall how, starting with purely practical and quasi-physiological groups, the child begins by elaborating subjective groups, then arrives at objective groups, and only then becomes capable of representative groups.

When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.

We are training for objective behavior characteristics. Certainly, there is some interpretation, but there has to be such an aggregate number of concerns before we do get involved, and there will be constant review and oversight and analysis of the data to be sure their folks are performing in a proper manner.

We have spent last couple of days reviewing many options about playing this football game. Our first objective was the safety of our student-athletes, staff and fans, while still being able to contribute to the community efforts relating to Hurricane Rita.

We have spent the last several years restructuring our business to try to assure each customer received the attention and support they needed to meet their goals online. The Certified Call Center award from J.D. Power and Associates is an acknowledgment that we are achieving that objective and a reward of the highest level for Network Solutions.

We've looked at all the other options ... but they all have different financial numbers attached to it. The objective is to position Michigan Stadium so that it will serve our constituents for the next 50 years.

We've made significant progress in our cost savings initiatives, with reductions in all operating expense categories, ... Hasbro's management team remains focused and the expense reduction initiatives we began last year are a major step towards our most important objective of returning as quickly as possible to the profitability levels we have had historically.

We engaged Lewin to obtain an objective assessment of the potential for savings.

We'll also have people on the Mon-Fayette Expressway (Route 43) to make sure people make the correct turns. Our main objective is to keep traffic moving efficiently.

That was a quality football team we beat out there. Not only beat them, we dominated them, 38-10. Getting in the bowl game is one thing, but winning it is the objective ... Did I see a 38-10 victory? Absolutely not. Did I see us playing well? Absolutely yes.

That was our main objective because the 2007 World Cup will be played in France and we want to keep our home advantage inviolate until the final.

We shall achieve the objective of building a country and also develop the country according to law,

There is a lot of common ground between us. We share the objective vis-?-vis Iran and its nuclear program. Our discussions will continue both here in New York and Vienna and between capitals.

We hope we go back with them being educated about what the agenda is and willing to mobilize, ... Our objective is to get people to help us help them.

We really felt the last 20 minutes, and how we chose to approach that, could set the stage for the rest of the series. We wanted to make sure we continued to play hard and honest and not compromise ourselves. We gave our opponents something to think about going into Madison Square Garden. Our objective was to be every bit as intense as we had up to that point and execute the best we could. We tried to send a message.

We really have no expectations at this point. This meeting is about seeing where we are, and what the parties' thoughts are about where we go from here. It remains our objective to reach a new agreement with the union at the earliest possible date.

We did not hinder the investigation. The main objective for Syria was to uncover and give a full picture of how the crime happened.

There are two types of royal programs. One is ever-praising of the queen, and the other is of the tabloid-sort, having a go at the royal family. We were trying to be as neutral and as objective as possible. We hope people make up their own minds.

There are ways to achieve the objective with a degree of flexibility. The trustee should be able to stand in the shoes of the client and provide for all the financial extras that the client would be doing, had they been alive.

We are leaving our fiscal 2001 estimates and $87 12-month price objective for Microsoft materially unchanged, following fourth-quarter results that were largely devoid of the drama of the past two quarters. Nonetheless, 'caution' remains the operative word from Microsoft management, as continued choppy monthly unit demand from business PCs and a deliberate, gradual ramp from Windows 2000 platforms and related applications hinders near-term growth.