Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Semple

We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.

Steve Wynn

If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people.

Steve Wynn

I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs.

To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.

To me it looks like a seamless business transaction. What goes on in the port is controlled by us and will remain controlled by us.

We are very focused on the senior market. I don't think there is a business in here that is more mission critical.

This thing about races getting fixed ? I just don't buy into it. The business being what it is today ... nobody is trying to do anything but win races.

Robert Lloyd

We should be realizing that smart people exist all over the world. A business model that allows U.S. companies to collaborate with those workers, to shift decision making and change the customer experience is very hard.

We're determining if there is a business model that makes sense.

When Cook itself starts new companies, when they create new business ventures, Monroe County has a huge advantage. Having a world-class entrepreneur (like William Cook) in your community is huge.

We think that this year new business will probably be up 25 percent but I think the risk to that is on the upside, not the downside.

We think paraprofessionals are invaluable. It's just a case of doing business different. We're trying to do things gradually.

Paul Levine

We think local search is about much more than being able to find a business in your community. There is no question that local events are an important component, too.

There have been lots of signals that Dell's business was falling.

There have been less corporate tax returns this year. I don't know if that's because they have gone out of business or for some other reason.

Today's settlement . . . enables this management team to resolve past issues so that we can focus squarely on meeting our important housing mission, running the business well and serving the needs of our customers.

There has always been business continuity planning. We are taking it up a notch this year.

We are a major consumer of film and movie products. This will be in synergy with the business of Zee Music and Zee Cinema.

Mike Conway

We are watching the situation carefully, but as long as they run a viable business out of Detroit, we aren't concerned.

Ian Wright

We are viewing this expansion as a long-term strategy for business expansion in Eastern Europe, ... We are going to pursue sites in Russia and perhaps other locations as well.

We are very sure that there are donors or interests that are putting money illegally, laundering money, business money, exceeding the contribution, using fake names.

We are very pleased with our first-quarter results. All key elements of the business performed very well, and we were able to exceed our previous expectations.

We are very pleased with our business execution and financial results. We are particularly pleased with recent traction with our DC-powered offerings and with our storage offerings.

We are very pleased to partner with Mitchell. This will provide users with up-to-date, market reflective values and enable them to make the most educated business decisions possible.

James Moore

We are very pleased to have Diamond Castle in place as our new owner. The stronger capitalization will support our ongoing efforts to grow Catamount's wind energy business in the U.S. and the UK.

We are very keen to support GME as shows such as this give us a rare chance to meet potential new business partners and discuss opportunities. We will be showing off the many new titles joining our three labels and discussing forthcoming release, so the message is clear: make sure you drop by and see us.

We are supportive of the efforts of the business community to drive forward toward a community college.

We are striving for perfection, and that's our goal. In our business -- the luxury business -- if you are not 100 percent satisfied, we do not deserve your money.

We are strategically realigning our operations in response to global business realities, ... We are reducing costs.

We did a lot of research and pizza was the most popular food. It's also a good business decision, because your costs of making them are so low.

We had solid performance in systems, middleware and business transformation services, which grew over 25 percent for the year. Our cash position remains very strong, and we saw impressive growth in important parts of our business. We continued to make gains in emerging markets and in important sectors such as healthcare and transportation, and our microprocessors are powering the fast-growing home entertainment market.

We had really good momentum in short-term signings, and we think that will continue in the second quarter. Long-term signings as we exited 2005 were up 19 percent, and now long-term signings are up 20 percent. All of that bodes well for that business as we go forward.

Carly Fiorina

We had planned for single-digit growth in our PC business in the U.S.; we had planned for that in U.S. retail, ... Nevertheless, we did indicate that we saw less growth than anticipated even with that single-digit forecast. It is a relatively small part of our portfolio and it does not change our forecast.