Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chad Brown

That's when the harshness of the business in this sport comes into play,

That usually takes nine months to a year from the time of the suspension, and by that time the business is gone.

That one, they gave to us for free. This time, they came in here to play a three-game series for first place. They're here for business right now. They're not going to give us anything for free now.

Harry S Truman

A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics.

You're talking about a lot of pet stores that primarily sell dogs that would be out of business overnight.

Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat.

You've Only Got 3 Seconds: How to Make the Right Impression in Your Business and Social Life.

You shouldn't be broadcasting what you see in an e-mail unless you have really legitimate business reasons for doing it.

Martin Bashir

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.

You sacrifice everything to start a new business. To have the thought of that taken away with no or minimal compensation is very frightening as a business owner.

Your union has been planning for all contingencies while trying to remain realistic about a very difficult business environment.

Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But you can have metrics that measure employee happiness and the morale. You can also do direct customer surveys; you can track it over time. You can do supplier satisfaction scores as well.

Your task is to create a vision and put together your land (for a business park). There are people out there who will partner with you. We will.

You take care of your business and don't look over your shoulder. We need to play the first possession at Tulane like it's our last. Then we need to play the second the same way. We have some great senior leaders and they should help us maintain our focus.

Your personal business is your personal business, and we all recognize that. That's what my parents told me.

Rick Scott

You're not going to build private-sector jobs if you don't like business people.

You're going to see some down days here and there, but what the market is telling you overall is that business is going to improve later in the year, ... The market's not always right, but often it is. I think it is now.

You're constantly coming up with services to help citizens, and then you have to modify your business processes and your internal applications to continue to support it and make it possible.

You might have your theft that might not be too involved in it and just do it on the side. And you have those who make it their day-to-day business are the ones that do it as business are going to be the better.

You need to be able to make a business case for why it's important to focus on women.

Francis Bacon

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

Your business could be in a radically different place 18 months from now. But first you have to be ready for that to happen.

You put it all together and what it tells me is they're losing more business than they're selling. And that's a worrisome sign.

This is causing losses at all sorts of levels, losses in business and losses in production that cannot be denied. If it persists then it will be negative for investment.

This is business that is permanently lost. This is business that has gone to competitors, that has gone elsewhere and through the signing of contracts and other deals that our customers and former customers have established with competitors.

This project continues the revitalization of a very important part of the San Diego waterfront and central business district area. The new hotel and the surrounding grounds will provide first-class accommodations to Convention Center guests and to the City of San Diego. We are delighted to have the opportunity to participate.

Charles M. Schwab

I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Karen Mills

As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.

We want the business people to know there are a lot of people like us, who are very worried about the negative impact of illegal immigration and who spend money at their business.

We've seen an industry-wide slower start to the tax filing season than in previous years. Early season operating challenges experienced in our tax business further hurt our January comparative results.

Component costs fell at an unprecedented rate last year, and we gained significant new business from passing those declines to customers more rapidly than anyone.

Do they want to keep it simple and fun or complicated and not so much fun. The lodging business is a whole different business. Farmers and ranchers are good with the public but they have probably never been in the customer service business.

John Roberts

Dow has an automotive materials business like BASF, and is diversified like BASF, so that it could use all the pieces. Dow is also a chemical catalyst customer of Engelhard.