Famous Quotes & Sayings

The economy has a lot of momentum. The consumer continues to do well because of the improving labor market, and businesses have a lot of cash and are getting more confident about deploying it.

The economy of the state has changed dramatically. The changing face of agriculture drove out farmers and farm families, which drove off businesses that rely on farm families.

The DTP is the latest privileges that the DCCI offers to its members as it opens for them a gate into the world to help develop their businesses through obtaining some trade and investment opportunities all over the world. The DTP also helps introduce the buyer to the seller and the businessmen to their counterparts in other countries.

Michael Birch

The fundamentals are still sound but the stock has been priced for all their businesses to perform perfectly and we didn't see a lot more upside.

The county's concern is moving traffic, but the city and the residents and the businesses want a chance to enhance the community.

The country is entering a period of debt deflation, where households and businesses are forced to move funds from spending to debt repayment. This forces down economic growth and reduces inflationary pressures and long-term interest rates.

This is Microsoft talking to businesses about why it's a good IT vendor and particularly why its different from IBM.

This is all about runaway litigation and trial lawyers forcing businesses to make unfortunate decisions for fear of lawsuits.

Jay Sidhu

We're not getting into new businesses that we don't understand.

Luis Rodriguez

It's not a difficult thing to fix, but if it's ignored it can cause real damage. Small businesses are especially susceptible, since their IT staffs are typically very small and are more likely to be focused on the here and now, as opposed to something that's a year away.

Byron Dorgan

Everyone expects American businesses to make a profit and I don't begrudge them that, ... But the big oil companies are now reaping an unbelievable windfall, and it's time for Congress to help consumers.

Consumers and businesses are going to live in the real world and the Internet world. The lesson is: Traditional companies that are tied into the Internet ought to have more growth and Internet companies that are tied into more traditional companies should have more profitability and stability.

The notoriety of that type of company and the spin-off potential of the businesses that follow them is a great thing.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

Bill Taylor

That's one of the reasons (why) our Chamber of Commerce has decided to take this issue on. If small businesses don't have advocates - and they don't - what chance do they have?

That (pulling back on lending) is a lot of what you're seeing now. Then you exacerbate the situation by having skyrocketing energy and health care costs, and you start to see why businesses may not be investing as much as we originally thought they would.

David Lang

It's sold more businesses than it has managed to buy.

Zach Nelson

Taking products designed for large companies and then retrofitting them to work for smaller businesses is a recipe for failure. It would be like a bus manufacturer changing the color of the bus from yellow to black, and then calling it a car.

Supervisor Gross has done an excellent job engaging businesses and the community in conversation about the issue.

It's a major problem when workers don't show up. There's not a lot of 'fluff' in many businesses any more. Products aren't made, products aren't shipped, projects aren't done. It's a big problem for businesses.

It's time. As many of the physical hazards as possible have been removed from the streets. Businesses that can open need that opportunity and residents need to feel like they can get out and about and live as normally as possible.

It will separate legitimate online businesses from those who aren't. The company that is in business by selling personal information will soon be out of business because they'll be red-flagged tomorrow.

Kenneth Fisher

The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.

The vast majority of small businesses already provide flexibility and time off to deal with personal issues.

The vast majority are high school students or college students, working part-time. So when you talk to businesses with full-time employees, most pay more than minimum wage. The data we have shows it generally takes three years before any effects show up in other states that have set a higher minimum wage.

They've talked about the impact on their businesses from not being able to smoke and it's been a large impact. Most people, if they're out drinking they want to smoke.

They have really made a nice comeback in handsets but other businesses are pulling the stock down.

They'll be doing a lot of interviews with city officials, businesses that have located there and even businesses that have looked at Franklin and passed for whatever reason. All that goes into a model to slice and dice it and come up with target industries that would make sense.

It's always been the case of something you suspect but have never been able to prove. Earnings seem improbably smooth when you look at the businesses of the company.

As we sell these assets, we will scale back our related corporate and shared services infrastructure to ensure that it is the right size for our businesses going forward. We expect a number of people directly involved in these operations to be employed by the new owners or offered other jobs within ConAgra Foods.

Paul Taylor

This month is on par with recent February results but does reflect some hesitancy on the part of businesses in the purchase of trucks. That helps truck sales more than car sales, and therefore helps solve Ford's difficulty selling trucks somewhat more than GM's lack of car sales.

We've got hopefully a couple of new businesses that will be in the mall by early spring.

We'll see small businesses growing around all of this.