Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

This is a unique circumstance. This is not like a business in the private sector or even other departments in the federal government. It's a unique department with a great sense of urgency for fulfilling its responsibility.

This is a typical 'Merging Business 101' tactic: prevent your adversaries from getting their foot in the door and a leg up on you by any means necessary.

This is just plumbing. It's really of no value to end users, no value to business people.

This is just a marvelous business opportunity. We need a Northeast facility, close to refineries here.

I want to heal that perceived gap between business people and non-business people. The reality is that one group cannot exist without the other, and the vast majority of business owners are residents as well.

I want to have more of a modest scale, not fancy, business trade show in central Tokyo for maybe two or three days.

Once upon a time, business solved its problems by raising prices. Now, they solve their problems by cutting costs and getting better productivity. It reflects that productivity but doesn't force pricing, doesn't constrict profit margins. It's what an economy's supposed to do.

Once (travelers have) gone private aviation, they can't go back. The convenience, the sense of security, the time.... I'm in the business of selling time, and these are time machines. Time is the ultimate commodity that all of us treasure, and to the folks that have the means this represents a very real value.

Once (the women) get the business going, they can sell lambs for $25 apiece. Their health and their families' health profits from eating good protein. The extended family profits. Everyone profits.

On Business 20 between Odessa and Midland, there were lots of vacant buildings, weeds growing up in the parking lots and things like that.

Ed Martin

Once an initial group of fans who want to see a particular show and have not been able to do so tap into online viewing and get their fill, can this continue to be a viable business model? I can see this generating a lot of interest up front but I'm not sure if there is any longevity.

On balance, today's announcement is in line with our expectations, and shows commitment to fixing this once high-flying business going forward,

Alan Greenspan

On balance, the recovery in spending on business fixed investment is likely to be only gradual; in particular, its growth will doubtless be less frenetic than in 1999 and early 2000,

Michael Scott

On a ten-hour bus ride, or in your hotel room, you have a chance to grow very, very deep and strong with the Lord.

On a stand-alone basis, Sears Canada's retail business faces an increasingly competitive retail environment in Canada, and the principal factor that will determine the value of this business is the prospects for its retail operations.

Once technology started to be viewed as something that could give a competitive advantage, it had to be closer to the business units to understand priorities.

Once in a while one of them does very well, but for the most part you need foot traffic in your business. If you're the type of business that's going to draw, oh, say 100 people a day, chances are you're not going to keep up.

Not only is this anticompetitive -- it's illegal. It's illegal because a monopoly, under antitrust law, is prohibited from engaging in anticompetitive -- not to mention anti-consumer -- business practices designed to maintain their monopoly position.

Not only have we created a successful business, but we've become part of the community.

Not only do we think the state would be liable, we think it would be a horrible business practice for the state to decide they would like to go back on promises made in contracts with private individuals.

Noting that this management team has a long history together, we think it will be business as usual for the foreseeable future.

Pat Brown

The new logo reflects all the good things about us but looks to the future. We're contemporary, smart, fast, fresh, high tech, innovative. We're capable of competing and connecting around the world. We needed logo that reflected that and yet continue the tradition known for us - a reliable, friendly company to do business with.

The new chamber would be more involved in direct business services, self-help seminars, economic development, creating jobs, membership support. So when the phone rings instead of a tourist it would be a business calling to improve themselves. We wouldn't completely get out of the tourist business.

The negative business outlooks by Texas Instruments and Intel will definitely hurt sentiment for technology shares in the short term.

It's a very good day for students, and from the students' perspective they just wanted the Loop. They didn't care if the bus was white or blue.

It's been a good location. We will keep our other two stores operational. It's business as usual for them.

G. H. Hardy

It's been 15 months we've been negotiating. At this point, I think teachers are really fed up with the stalling that's been happening and are eager to settle the contract and get back to the business of the classroom.

Chris Carpenter

It's tough to see the guys that aren't going to be back go. But that's the business of the game and I'm sure when we get to spring training we'll be ready to go.

Mario Monti

Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation.

Dolby has the characteristics of a long-term winner. It's a question of when, not if, the business accelerates.

Jason Calacanis

Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.

Doing Business in 2006. The fewer regulations, the higher the ranking.