Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vivek Wadhwa

I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.

The overriding consideration on everyone's mind was to get the Certificate of Occupancy. It was issued on the first inspection by the fire inspector, which was an extremely important goal because you can have all the businesses open, but if you can't park anywhere, it's not going to do you any good.

Barack Obama

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

Barack Obama

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

Marsha Blackburn

We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.

We have very good relationships with our suppliers, working side-by-side to grow our businesses together and provide quality and value to our customers,

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

Marco Rubio

We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.

Karen Mills

We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small businesses get out of this recession and into recovery.

John Ross

We've learned that most businesses have not said that, and we're trying to work some ideas out.

We have been working with them. They had some great suggestions about ways we could deal with the very few businesses and people that don't seem to want to engage in good business practices. The majority are trying very hard to treat their customers and their consumers fairly, so we don't want to be punitive to those in business that are doing well, but we need to get this information out.

Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.

With the economy the way it is, a lot of the smaller businesses don't have the money to put into advertising, so these signs with their specials are how a lot of them are making money,

John Barth

We're really in a unique position with three very strong businesses that complement each other. It's about growth.

Ryan Holmes

As social is where consumers' eyeballs are, businesses must take ownership of their online company profiles. By providing their customers with a place to share content, social media managers can monitor and track content which directly relates to their brand.

Danny Miller

Most of the executives of publicly held companies are on the job for five years and these companies are more concerned with quarterly earnings. However, family-owned businesses are in there for the long run. It might even take decades for some of their ventures to pay off,

Most of our businesses performed exceptionally well in spite of higher raw material costs and weak European currencies, with 11 of 18 strategic business units delivering double digit earnings growth,

Most economic development in the past has been about recruiting businesses to a region. But we are entering new territory - where we will have to recruit people instead.

Most businesses will need to take some action.

Paul Leary

Most businesses seem to have some type of grease trap. But some of them don't maintain them properly.

Jim Allchin

Microsoft will release some versions of the new operating system for big businesses in November as planned, but the consumer version will be postponed until January.

Michael Eisner

We intend to make our businesses more efficient, increase our cash flow, and position ourselves to better capitalize on the long-term growth potential of our brands,

Windows Vista is going to be a significant release for all Windows customers, including enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses as well as consumers.

Wilson Industrial Park is nice for businesses that like to be tucked away and out of view. We've had some companies who really like the visibility and accessibility Nelson County Industrial Park has to the parkway.

While we respect that businesses want to find ways to lower their normal costs of doing business, merchants have many options to improve their economics that do not include costly and time-consuming litigation.

I think looking at restoration from a purely (environmental) standpoint may mean tearing people's houses and businesses down. We have to look at a financial impact; when we look at environment only, where we've been for the last 20 years, it doesn't necessarily work.

It is clear to us that China is making huge strides to become the dominant economy in the Pacific Rim, and we thought this trip would be a good opportunity for Whatcom County businesses to network with similar Chinese companies.

Jennifer Morrison

I'm sure businesses have been affected, but they are very positive and very patient.

Most of these businesses are growing between 8 and 15 percent.

We get to make connections with health care businesses and things like that.

We are now going to businesses to collect the funds to secure some space on the billboard. We need to get about 30 businesses signed on.

Hamdi Ulukaya

There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.

Grover Norquist

As more and more Americans own shares of stock, more and more Americans understand that taxing businesses is taxing them. Regulating businesses is taxing them. They ought to be thinking long-term about their ownership, not just their income, and that they should pay taxes on capital, as well as taxes on labor.