Famous Quotes & Sayings

Next to people, information is a company's greatest asset, but its value can't be realized if it's not effectively managed and delivered to the right people, business applications and processes.

Neighborhood schools are keeping families in Portland. My husband can walk our daughter to school, then take the bus downtown. We can walk to the park, the pool, the library, and that's repeated all over town. I just hope people don't vote with their feet.

Negative pre-announcements are outpacing positive ones by a three-to-one margin -- and that's very high, ... The big question is whether the market can look through that. We expect consumer confidence will increase and business confidence will start to turn up as well.

Needless to say, this isn't how companies do business -- there's always a human element to establishing a relationship. As a result, the UBR served as little more than an interoperability reference implementation. Now that UDDI has become more of a metadata management standard for SOA, there's little need for the UBR anymore.

Never make too good of a deal. It sounds a little counterintuitive, but the deals that are too good of a deal for you in the long run will end up hurting you. A lot of people in our business don't realize that. They think their job is to go in a room and negotiate the highest price.

Obviously, we are big fans of open-wheel racing. The door is open for IRL to have conversations with us with regard to coming back to California Speedway. But, in my mind, it's a business decision. We need to see what the sponsorship situation is going to be.

Andrew Huang

Friends from Malaysia and Brunei talked with us today about our business and hundreds of people have come to visit our product display.

From our perspective, at the moment, it?s business as usual. But the loss of any carrier would certainly be traumatic and we would work hard to replace that service.

Funds management has been a standout, but is as expected, given the strong investment markets. Business lending is also strong and has slightly offset weakness in Westpac's home-lending segment.

Jack Mitchell

I don't think we're ready to jump into the water business. It's not like it was 20 years ago.

For those people who have been in this business their entire lives, this is about the toughest market they've ever seen.

Dan Brown

For me, writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument. By making writing my first order of business every day, I am giving it enormous symbolic importance in my life, which helps keep me motivated.

If it hadn't been for this, we would have maintained our profit growth momentum. Our business hasn't worsened.

If it's got good data in a large index, then you can say it's a viable business and know your customers will go to that search engine.

I get walk-in business from the post office, (which) equals about 15 percent to 20 percent of my business.

If Yahoo isn't doing business in China, someone else will. It's putting American businesses at a disadvantage in the world marketplace.

Keyon Dooling

If we would've taken care of business early in the season we wouldn't be in this position. Our team was a little different then.

If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.

If the State Government hasn't made a decision come December 31, well the bus will be in the shed,

If we look at pricing holistically, we'll create a more solid business.

If we look at how AMD's microprocessor business has been since Dirk got there, it's very, very positive. I see it as a reward for the technical engineering and operational contributions he has made to the business.

If that factory has a catastrophic event, where can they provide alternative manufacturing facilities? If they can't, then you're out of business because they're out of business.

John Conyers

If the Congress has any sense now, it will put an end to this and move on with the business that the American people care about,

If the business model doesn't work out, then it's bye-bye, Software.net.

If the business model didn't work, the URL won't travel.

If the business case is made and the money is needed, the money will be made available.

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

If the governor signs this bill, she will send a message to the international and national business community that Michigan is serious about competing in the global economy.

Ridley Scott

If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that.

Brad Shaw

If something comes out of it long-term, that's why we're in the business. We're in the business to see how good we can get as coaches, to see what level we can get at for as long as we can.

Zakk Wylde

If it's a long bus drive after the gig, we'll listen to music all the time, like the Stones, Neil Young, Elton John. Just mellow stuff.

Chris Benz

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

Jared Kushner

I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But when my father got arrested, I really didn't have a choice. I was the oldest son, and it was something that had to be done.