Offset Quotes

While small businesses are certainly poised for growth in the marketplace, they are constantly balancing the fear of change with the need to adapt to customer needs. Often, technology is a key component to improving productivity, but managers worry the increase in productivity will not offset the cost of the upgrade, both in expense and potential impact on their business. - Steve Hilton

While I applaud the sentiment, I think it's not likely to be practically realistic to plan to try to offset in other places of the budget the large emergency relief that's needed in this case. - Joshua B. Bolten

While global economic growth rates have slowed from the exceptionally high levels of 2004, the emerging economies remain buoyant, offsetting slowing industrial production growth in the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) nations. - Don Argus

While consumer confidence is beaten down at present, a strong influx of public and private rebuilding dollars for the Gulf will in large part offset the negative effect of higher energy costs. We are currently projecting that U S trailer shipments in 2005 will be around 253,000 units, with containers, chassis and dollies adding another 36,000 units. - Kenny Vieth

When you're not very good at something like free throws you need some things to go your way to offset that. For such a poor job of shooting free throws we needed something to happen. - Paul Sather

When you're adding those extra 5,000 seats, you have to build more ramps, more bathrooms, more plumbing, and it gets very expensive to build those extra seats. The number of times you sell the last 4,000 to 5,000 seats and the fact that they're going to be the less expensive seats, does not offset the cost of operating a larger facility. - Marc Ganis

When we look at the newly constructed homes, we ask why the taxes on those homes are $15,000 to $20,000. It's because there is no tax revenue to offset the high taxes, and this plan is a start. We have to start somewhere. - Larry Feldman

What's been disturbing to me, over the last few years (the price) has been high and consistently high... There hasn't been a low to offset the high. - Tony Clark

What we likely know is the ($2.96) increase will not be completely offset. - Michael Yackira

What we decided was in response to a shortage caused by Hurricane Katrina, in a situation where there was lack of spare capacity, which is much more difficult to offset without the reserve release. The prices are a signal, but not the basis for us to decide. We are convinced that they have hurt the economy since last year. - Claude Mandil