Famous Quotes & Sayings

I had Dell for four and a half years, and its sales are still phenomenal, but their operating margins started to contract, so I sold it in early 1999. There's nothing wrong with Dell! It's a fine company. It's just the business risk they took.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.

The one thing we know for sure is when competition for something increases, the percentage of the market any one business has will decline.

B. F. Skinner

The point is for the governor-elect to, first of all, have an opportunity to talk directly with commuters and business men and women about his vision for tackling the state's transportation challenges.

We are preparing for tremendous growth. Our business has never been better.

Gary Marshall

We usually present classes like this in our training room downtown, so the chance to get out into the neighborhood and connect directly with the community is really exciting. It's important to provide the option of business ownership to everybody.

We are at a defining point in the Bush presidency, and all indications are that we are headed for a calamitous result and most likely failure.

We?re in a good region with a lot of vitality and small business growth.

Mark Burnett

My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo.

When you strip out those acquisitions and new partnerships to really get a sense of what the company's core business is doing, it really struggled through the first half of the year.

We need to make sure that we have one another's back and recognize the fact that patriots come in all different sizes, shapes, colors, not all of them wear uniforms, some of them are employers, some of them are the family members who stay at home and take of business back here in the state of Oklahoma.

Bernard Baruch

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

Carlos Ghosn

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

Amit Bhatia

We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

We want residents to take the time and refresh the information, if it has changed. People's cell phone numbers tend to change or business phone numbers, and they may have changed jobs.

We want our customers to think of energy efficiency as a critical business issue, and to look to The Gas Company for valuable solutions. We also invite any food service representatives to think of the Food Service Equipment Center as their one-stop resource for fine-tuning all of their kitchen operations.

John Ford

We want not-for-profits to know they should start running their business like the for-profit ones do. The applications work.

Andy Reid

We wanted to win the game. I don't care about the 8-and-8. I wanted to take care of business and we did not do that.

Charlie Munger

You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.

Richard Davidson

There is no question that we will continue to see our business impacted throughout the first quarter and perhaps into the second quarter while we get this thing back on its feet,

Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently, and it is business as usual.

Nicholas Kristof

For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government trough. His father, Fred Trump, leveraged government housing programs into a construction business; the empire was founded on public money.

Cary Sherman

Whether or not it is lawful for users to share music one on one, it is entirely different for a commercial entity to create a business that induces users to do that,

We've always wanted to live in the village. This street offers some good-size houses, big yards. Really kind of private and quiet, but just a few steps away is the hustle and bustle of the village.

We're marketing to international business travelers, those people who get on a plane, fly overseas and go right into a meeting.

We remain of the view that the Fed's near-term objective is simply to support the stock market until consumer and business sentiment improves,

Mark Foley

We're going to spend the next 30 days at least focused on relief restoration rather than business as usual.

Tom Zbikowski

We're going to regroup come the off-season, bust our butts, keep training, train hard with one thing in mind, that's the national championship--ending up back here.

When we have a special event, our sales triple. If you don't do anything, business goes on as usual. It's challenging to do business in the Square. Every merchant is trying really hard.

Calvin Coolidge

The business of America is business.

We're still planning on growing on the commercial business. Commercial business can be very profitable.

We've got hopefully a couple of new businesses that will be in the mall by early spring.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers..