“Sometimes trying to find yourself is a lot like swimming upstream. I don't think that he had a whole lot of a plan of attack when he first got up there.”
Dan Rohn
“Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.”
W. C. Fields
“Always drink upstream from the herd”
Cowboy Proverb
“Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.”
Josh Billings
“Most of (Chevron's) earnings miss was in the upstream and was caused by weak U.S. oil and gas volumes (hurricanes, declines) plus lower than expected U.S. gas realizations, as well as weak European gas volumes.”
Credit Suisse First Boston
“Our upstream business -- exploration and production -- continues to be the major contributor to overall profits, ... However, the improvement in earnings from the year-ago quarter was largely driven by our U.S. downstream operations -- refining, marketing and transportation.”
Dave O'Reilly
“You can't come here as a Pollyanna. We're able to intervene upstream and stop it.”
Kevin Evans
