Famous Quotes & Sayings

We wanted to finally bust out and score some goals, and we did that, but ultimately I think the key was that we wore them down a bit.

We had struck out at several businesses because we couldn't operate them.

We have 160 jitneys that can carry 13 passengers each. School buses are in our plans ... and five trains in the railroad system with the capability of moving 500 to 1,000 people.

We are exiting three businesses that were not delivering growth and financial returns.

Kathleen Brown

We are excited to be working with an organization that shares our goal of financially empowering women business owners,

Bob Richards

We are excited about the opportunity and look forward to serving all the people in Orangeburg and Orangeburg County with great service and a great automobile, ... We like it (Orangeburg) because it is not too far from Augusta. We enjoy doing business in South Carolina.

We are excited about Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising and about our relationship with the talented people at Perpetual. Our relationship with Perpetual Entertainment is an important element of the overall business strategy of Platform Publishing.

We are evolving into a company with multiple platforms for growth. Over time, we expect an increasing penetration of our businesses in the professional contractor space. Consistent with our growth strategy, you shouldn't be surprised when we make strategic acquisitions like National Waterworks.

We are evaluating our financial prospects in light of current and anticipated business conditions and are withdrawing our prior guidance.

We are evaluating our financial prospects for 2006 and 2007 in light of current and anticipated business conditions and are withdrawing our prior guidance for those years,

The president's detractors should know when to throw in the towel so that we can already get on with the real business of the people.

Unfortunately, in the music business everything changes. You'd like to stay at the same label, with the same manager, the same crew and have everything stay the same like Elvis did.

Kerry Stokes

Unfortunately if you want to protect your interests there is sometimes no other way of doing business with Telstra.

Unfortunately, I don't think this is an empty threat. The problem for Philips is they are in such commodity businesses at the moment and production costs are much lower in Asia.

Unfortunately, I can't talk about any legal business.

Two tankers we wanted to use from Oklahoma were busy so we're having to move helicopters from (a fire near Childress) to fight it.

Two income families, busier lifestyles and a greater desire for personal amenities are driving the demand for more services to make life less hectic and improve mental as well as physical health. Franchising companies are fulfilling that demand.

When looking at the private rented sector, its important to remember that landlords are running a business in which customer demand is key. If individuals, couples or families need homes in a particular area, landlords are likely to respond to meet that demand.

Sophia Amoruso

Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they're either a television personality or someone who had the perfect pedigree and worked their way up the career ladder.

Everywhere there is a piece of land, there is a house. We've scared a lot of business out of town.

Finances would help, anything they can spare, it doesn't have to be much. The business is gone. All three of us are in the same house and running out of money and food.

Peter Drucker

First and last, Drucker is a moralist of our business civilization.

Finally getting that call saying I was on the team? Needless to say I was very happy. This is my hometown. Then, the next day, my dreams came crashing down. I understand that this is a business and you can't take stuff personally, but it was a very, very tough time.

Mo Ibrahim

Experience counts in government even more than in business.

Extol has a platform that literally can cut the time required to integrate these applications by 50% to 90%. If you're a CIO, the hairy problem is that you've got people in your organization with a mentality oriented toward manual coding. Until you get that monkey off your back, it's going to limit your business opportunities.

Extol has a platform that can literally cut the time required to integrate these applications by literally 50 percent to 90 percent. I've got people in your organization with a mentality oriented toward manual coding. Until you get that monkey off your back, it's going to limit your business opportunities.

Conan O'Brien

Experts say it could take 80 days to drain all of the flood water out of New Orleans. When President Bush heard this he said, '80 days, that's half a vacation.'

Brian Kelley

The real value is in business to business e-commerce.

Charles M. Schwab

The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory.

The real strength in the market in 2003 was from small-cap and mostly busted companies. It was a huge sigh of relief that many unprofitable companies did not go out of business.

There are a lot of pre-existing businesses that are expanding. This is an indication that business is very good. They need more workers, more inventory and more space because the demand is there.

Morris Chestnut

There are a lot of people in this business that don't work consistently.

John Perry Barlow

There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.