Famous Quotes & Sayings

A lot of the businesses here are in the intensive care. We need the government to unleash some of that money right away, so that we can pull ourselves up.

A lot of smaller businesses are going to get washed out. The market is going to get tighter going forward.

This conference is a great opportunity to help small businesses prevent job injuries and protect their workers.

This committee stresses the significance of being connected within the community in business. Many of today's businesses have community relations departments and do charitable work. This is great preparation for students planning to work in business, as it helps them to realize other business activities.

This event has been great for the local economy. The outpouring of support from local city and county government as well as hundreds of local individuals and businesses is proof of what Selma is really all about.

They seem very interested, and we are trying to figure out what they are looking for with regard to small businesses and (plan to) put together a collaborative team to support the initiative.

This is a challenge for other companies to get involved, as we have gotten involved. This is an important event in town, and other businesses need to step up to the plate.

It's not illegal for businesses to ask. But in the end, it's between the individual and the provider of service.

For a little place like ours, it exposes us to stuff we might not have had a chance to see, ... It's great for small businesses like ours. And the candy they're giving out is good, too.

The number of small businesses are phenomenal and we recognize that. And we are dedicated to creating resources to help small business grow and be successful.

Chris Carney

Its one of the worst businesses we could have come to the region. We have the third worst traffic in the nation, and the trucks have no transportation reason to be on the road. I would hope that motorists would be irate.

It's one of the most paranoid businesses that I've been in in my life.

It's one way of unlocking value on a lot of disparate businesses that somehow got glued together over the last 10 or 15 years. I think it'll be pretty good for shareholders.

The year is turning out as planned, ... As expected, the ramp-down of our turbine shipments in the first half created earnings pressure. However, we are executing with broad-based strength to generate significant growth in the second half. We see nine of 13 businesses growing in double digits and more favorable comparisons in power systems and insurance.

They are picking up better businesses than what they've sold,

You can't legislate away the demand that this country has for immigrant workers. Too many businesses in too many industries have become dependent on this source of labor.

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.

This merger combines two high quality businesses and will change the face of Russian retailing.

This means that we can now offer flexible, scalable, reliable and cost-effective connectivity solutions (from fractional T-1s, all the way up to DS-3 circuits at 45 Mbps) to the 135,000 businesses within our footprint. In addition, from our newest tower site on Santiago Peak (at 5,687 feet, it is the highest point in Orange County), we are now in a position to further extend our footprint to every major city within Southern California.

There will be a concern if we see an increase in businesses selling PCs without Windows and piracy goes into the sky.

Robert Boyle

There really isn't any clear evidence that very small micro- businesses -- mom and pop operations -- will benefit.

Richard Gephardt

The Republicans say the government ought to be run like a business, ... How many businesses give dividends without knowing their profits?

Tony Perkins

The Republicans have a very cozy relationship with gambling. I do not see gambling as just any other business. Other businesses do not leave destroyed families in their wake.

Bob Burns

It's a good way to chase businesses out of the county.

It's a different, more dangerous world. Technology is more sophisticated, but so are the software pirates. Consumers or businesses that deploy counterfeit software put their PCs and networks at peril for encountering tampered code, viruses and even credit card theft. In the end, the consumer and the corporation may suffer just as much, if not more, harm than the software vendors.

Jim Talent

It's a question of fairness, ... Small and family businesses deserve to have the same deduction for health-care costs as Fortune 500 companies.

It really turned out great, we had such great response from businesses and people showing up.

It's aimed at helping businesses cover their operating expenses had the disaster not occurred.

This is where the company takes place. Isn't that where all businesses get started?

They're doing a good job moving toward the higher-growth businesses in terms of wireless and high-speed access, and they've shown a very respectable outcome.

Jerry Yang

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

There's a pre-filing notification in these particular cases so that businesses will be put on notice that the system's not working, and they're given 30 days to reply if they can cure it and then given 60 days to cure it. You want these problems solved. This is the way to do it, not just filing a protracted lawsuit and going straight to court.

Ellen Tauscher

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.