Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophia Amoruso

Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book.

Everyone appreciates getting a little something extra from the companies they do business with. We think free weekend rentals are the most valuable reward we can offer our customers today.

Ozzie Guillen

Everyone has to get thrown under the bus every so often.

Marsha Blackburn

Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow.

E. O. Wilson

Everybody is here, and it's been business as usual.

The blowgun has come out I think once and someone put holes in the bus and someone is gonna have to pay for those repairs. There are many whips on tour with us and those things get taken out quite a bit. Quite more often than the blowgun.

The better-than-expected results are mainly attributable to market-share gains in the LCD TV business and enhanced manufacturing capability.

Stocks don't always trade in conjunction with their business fundamentals. Companies like Compaq and Dell don't have big overseas exposures. They're just getting caught up in this general market sell-off.

Students were seeing the end of the Cold War, corporate restructuring, and layoffs. To tell them that they should focus on a computer science degree rather than a business or law school degree was not an easy sell.

Stronger ties between China and Nigeria are long overdue. Many Chinese do business there and contribute a lot to the regional development.

The B-2-C market in many respects people are looking at as something of a flash in the pan. But this B-2-B market is enormous. Ninety percent of business transactions today are still done on carbon paper and fax. So this is real. This stuff is real and these companies are here for a while,

The automotive components business is consolidating, and we see participants as needing to grow significantly or to consider other options, including divestiture.

Tom Tancredo

The administration's continued kowtowing to big business defies political sense,

The administration needs to run the city like a business. We're a $35 million corporation ... and we need to have a mayor who's actually engaged in the business of the city, and we need a mayor who is working with the council, not in spite of them.

The administration has not requested disaster funding. We'll have to consider it in the regular process in the way in which Congress does business at this point.

The rest of the gaming industry is a constantly refreshing business. If you want to compete with the top players in the business you have to reinvest in a big way.

Boris Yeltsin

There still is a lot of tears and sweat to spend before we identify the forms of business cooperation which are worthy of the two great nations,

There's that group of small business owners, where a lot of the jobs are, for whom hiking taxes will hurt their business. They already face higher heating costs, insurance costs -- at some point, they may decide there are too many costs to run a business and decide it's not worth it any more.

There was another confrontation on the bus and the suspect pulled out the handgun and shot her once. She then walked off the bus.

There used to be a smaller business section and an independent business section but they closed down, which is generally perceived as not a good thing.

There used to be a lot more of the mom-and-pop stores downtown. Now there are only a couple left. The downtown has really changed. People want to be able to park in front of the business they are going to; they don't want to park on the next block, especially our older customers.

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

These places charge by the form, so a small-business owner filing a Schedule C probably pays $150 or so. The price goes up when the business is more complicated.

Brian Murphy

These ward meetings are a way to explain the concept firsthand to residents and business owners.

These unfavorable comparisons should not cloud the long-term strength of our business and our compelling industry position.

The settlement with the commission effectively resolves Xerox's outstanding issues with the SEC, ... Xerox today is a stronger company with a new management team that has taken all the right steps to turn our business around.

These teams are playing killer schedules. But we won't even talk about the other teams. We don't look and see who's playing who. People get lost in that. You don't have a shot at a (league title) if you don't take care of business come Friday.

Steve Ballmer

This is a very large business that still has incredible possibilities.

This is a very important moment for the government's economic policies. Measures are needed that will ensure economic stability over the next few years and not undermine business growth,

This is a very difficult thing thing to do, but it's necessary given the current business conditions.

This is a very challenging time, and these are very difficult decisions for the company. It's all about aligning the work force with our business needs.

This is a very big increase, ... It demonstrates the concerns that have been expressed by the prime minister that we face new challenges and vast new opportunities. If (Canadian companies) don't remain globally competitive they will not be in business very long.

Paul Saffo

This is a unique conference. It is a forum for the AMD community to consider not just immediate technology trends and their business impacts, but also to explore the larger, longer-term surprises that technological innovation presents for society at large.