Famous Quotes & Sayings

Over the past couple of years, our consulting group was really targeted to increase revenue, but we really couldn't differentiate our service from a partner service. It was just very competitive. We've made the decision as a company to have the business model of our services business be a cost-recovery business and to have our primary targets not about increasing revenue or margin.

Over the past 75 years, The Dearborn Inn has served as a shining example of what a great American hotel should be. While the hotel has evolved to meet changing guest needs, it maintains its traditional roots as a business and leisure destination, as well as a community gathering place for countless events and celebrations.

Richard Long

Over the medium term, though, they're going to have to rely on increased investment in the next generation network (voice over Internet protocol) in order to rip out costs out of the old business platforms, otherwise earnings are going to come under pressure. But that's planned for, and that investment will come.

Over the last five years, the Insurance Solutions business has lost $700m and required the infusion of $3.2bn of capital.

Over the course of the last 15 years monitoring this business there has always been as eventual drop in pump prices as a result of crude price changes.

Marc Faber

Over my career, somewhere, somehow I must've made some right calls. Otherwise, I wouldn't be in business.

(Owners) feel that if we impose an anti-smoking ordinance within a very short time, they definitely would face a loss of business and eventually even closure of some of their establishments.

Our programs don't require radical change. Our programs require just enhancement and tuning and trying to get better yields on the investments that we and our partners have made. A great example is the fact that we now have 100 business partner innovation centers around the world.

Jeff Brown

Our professional products deliver performance, stability and the extended product life cycles required to maintain specific configurations and lower total cost of ownership. Four years ago NVIDIA introduced business application testing and certification to our enterprise graphics and our customers and partners like HP are now reaping the reward of this investment.

Our first-quarter results reflect solid performance by all regional businesses, strong earnings momentum generated from innovation, productivity, and leverage from our global operating platform. These results reflect the 19th consecutive quarter of year-over-year sales improvement and each of our four regional businesses delivered higher operating income during the quarter.

James Packer

Our gaming and magazine businesses continue to perform very well whilst the television business is working its way through a difficult period,

Overall inflation remains quite benign. Companies selling to consumers and businesses have limited pricing power.

Our warden force is busier than ever. This shining and shooting has gotten worse, it really has.

Bobby Rush

The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.

NeNe Leakes

I'm coming out with a wine... I'm actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I'm also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.

Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.

The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.

We have lots of opportunities, product launches are going super well, restructuring is delivering, market share trends in lots of businesses look good. Things look good.

Wiz Khalifa

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

Niecy Nash

I'm a work in progress. You know, my kids didn't come with instructions... and neither did this business, so when I put the two of them together, I gotta take it a little at a time.

Nicky Oppenheimer

Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.

Lindy Booth

I literally think that if you're in this business, it has to be the only thing you can and want to do, because it's so hard. You have to be fully committed - and partially insane - to wake up every morning and be like, 'I'm an actor.'

This step will enable us to concentrate on our core businesses in home and personal care.

You don't need to fear diversity in tagging vocabularies. They are inevitable, because businesses are so diverse, ... But if you're going to live with differences, you're going to need strong transformation technologies. That's why the key to XML is not representation, but rather transformation.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Sheryl Sandberg

I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all.

Jason Terry

We were able to handle our business and get it over.

Rebecca MacKinnon

To have a .cn domain, you have to be a registered business. You have to prove your site is legal.

William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Xavier Niel

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Wentworth Miller

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.