Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Murdoch

The future belongs to brands that do more than pay lip-service to real dialogue and recognise that their customers want them to believe in something.

The department store business has gone through enormous changes in the last 10 years and we aren't through yet. It's a retail format that doesn't have a great future in it. Consumers have decided traditional department stores aren't their favorite places to shop.

The distinction between the conduct of a business and the mere pursuit of a hobby is often a difficult distinction. However, the fact that you excel at a particular hobby should not be fatal for tax purposes.

The deterioration in agribusiness contrasts starkly with the ongoing strength in the non-farm business sector as a whole.

Roger Price

The consortium needed a very tightly integrated HR and financial system, and Lawson presented the strongest choice in terms of full functionality, ... For the first time, these districts can create a personnel budget, report on it and understand exactly where they stand on a daily basis. By automating these business functions, we're reallocating resources and providing high-powered, integrated systems without impacting funding for the education of our students.

The disaster is always greater to the one having the event. No one else really notices -- they are busy having a great time.

The days of security being handled by the 'network person' who did security in their spare time are over and increasingly we are seeing seasoned professionals with real business experience and business school qualifications stepping into the security space.

The days of everybody trying to be American are over. When you do business with or go to other countries, be prepared to work on their terms.

America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal status to foreigners in the US when there is no reason that they could not go home safely.

Bob Lutz

All of those things are gradually coming true, so I'm cautiously optimistic about the way the business is developing in the United States.

Cindy Sheehan

All of those reports prove my son died needlessly. This proved that every reason George Bush gave us for going to war was wrong.

All of the top candidates have said that they want to repeal some or all of the Bush tax cuts, but Clark at least has a specific plan.

All of the company's business segments have contributed strongly to the earnings improvement, which shows that the past years' efforts to improve efficiency have paid off.

All of that is the Navy's responsibility to cover. But there are other things that the company had insurance to cover, things like capital expenses and business interruption.

Ralph Nader

All these candidates talk about children. George W. Bush has pictures with minority kids all the time while he lets them rot in Texas. When are we going to decide that enough is enough?

All the life insurers have got to get used to the fact they are no longer writing business at the same high margins they used to six or seven years ago, when they wrote a lot of with-profits business.

And Cheney is like a member of the Bush family. The president would no sooner push Cheney overboard than he would Jeb.

And business leaders continue to value and invest in what they consider to be one of the state's most important assets, Connecticut's skilled work force.

Edward Dahlberg

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Edward de Bono

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Edward de Bono

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

Edward de Bono

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

Edward de Bono

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

The markets took a rest Friday after a pretty busy week. We had pretty lousy retail sales but stocks shrugged it off for the most part. The market has factored in another rate cut next week. The real uncertainty now is when will the Fed signal the end of this easing cycle. We think that could be around the corner.

The market is too competitive for a business that's not operating at peak efficiency.

The mayor has taken us through a series of fiascos with the takeover of private bus lines. The city is down to half as many running buses as we had a few years back and riders are forced to wait twice as long for service.

Donna Mills

The meeting tonight was to reinstate or not reinstate the bus stops.

The meeting and convention business is big. We welcome (them).

The medium-heavy truck market can be lucrative when the business is booming, but we are currently heading into a downturn.

The median startup is a business that's capitalized with about $25,000. The financing of that business comes from the entrepreneur's savings. The business is a retail or personal service business, a hair salon or a clothing store, that kind of thing.

The media business is increasingly difficult to compete in effectively if you're not a media conglomerate. They've taken it as far as they can and it's time to move on.

The men went down to the last relay with Alabama, and they did a great job to get the win. It was an ugly win, but we'll take it. We mucked one out. For the women, it was business as usual. We're proud of the undefeated season.

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