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We have recognized that small businesses are people businesses. The types of people we have to have employed here have to want to be a trusted advisor. They have to have a strong value culture around doing the right thing. Todd Croteau
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The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions. Dambisa Moyo
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There is a long history there, when new businesses look to relocate to Zanesville, (they) go through the chamber first, ... It just makes a lot of sense to have someone in the chamber be a part of the Port Authority.
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We use this less-conservative format to celebrate the successes and to thank businesses for their investment in the economic development of our community.
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Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of increasing wellbeing. Tom Rath
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This was a solid third quarter for Federated, propelled by strong sales and earnings in our department store segment and a level of performance in our direct-to-customer catalog and e-commerce businesses that was in line with what we had anticipated, ... We are entering the fourth quarter with our inventories in good shape, and we remain optimistic that it will be a good retail Christmas season.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world. Karen Mills
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We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.
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We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
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Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.
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We've seen, over the past seven months or so, orders stabilize or improve slightly, compared to a big decline last year. Orders are rising relative to inventories, and that's a positive sign for capital spending.
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The fact is that GE is a conglomerate financed by a money machine -- its subsidiary GE Capital -- but, unlike Berkshire Hathaway, its foundation is vulnerable because its survival depends upon the confidence of outside investors, Bill Gross
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The real indicator to me is what do you have coming up in the next five years in your capital plan.
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There is a limit to the negative effect on the yen of the capital outflows that have been driving it down for the last two months. Adam Cole
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Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.
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In 1998 I invested in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Uni and subsequently put more capital into enterprise education to try and help change the culture.
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Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression. Thomas Woods
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Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.
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The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated. Gary Miller
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Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!' Erin McKean
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We are hearing from consumers who are saying 'I called in an order, I placed an order online, and it wasn't executed timely,' and as a result they lost money, Eliot Spitzer
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Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.
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The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.
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We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.
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would be one of the greatest displacements of high-quality (cable) programming -- one of the rudest things I can ever, ever imagine for consumers in this country. Leo Hindery
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When the markets get frothy they can disappear. When the markets are frothy is exactly when consumers need them.
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Until they're able to prove that consumers are going to respond to the changes, the Street is very nervous. It's a very big undertaking to convince the country that a national Macy's is better than regional department stores.
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What these guys are saying effectively is that pricing is tough. There's not a lot of growth, so you've got to get your cost structure in line to be able to play.
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Whenever you do a revival it begs the question 'why now and why here?'. I can't think of a better place to do the show than London right now, and I can't think of a better theme to do than the cost of protecting the world. Rob Lowe
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We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.
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We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation. Andy Burnham
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We were tough tonight though, I don't want to make out we weren't. We battled and scrapped, but we also switched off, and that undid all the good work, and cost us two points, and that's why I'm frustrated. Alan Curbishley
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The extra cost is the major reason why the market is slow to react to the campaign. Zhang Jun
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The fact is, we are going to get it done sooner and it will cost customers less. Jim McDonald
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There are a lot of fixed costs that we are not able to control.
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The reality is that an Oracle deal would cost PeopleSoft customers. They have a vested interest in keeping PeopleSoft independent, Richard Williams
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We want him to throw quality strikes, not just hard strikes. He's going to be a contributor for us this year. Maybe not from day one, but at some point this season he'll be a factor for us. Mark Shapiro
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There are a lot of good factors out there.
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There are a lot of factors when it's been raining. You have to be a little cautious. Travis Buck
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There are a lot of factors to that. John Tait
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There are a lot of factors that already established suppliers would have to take into consideration. Kimberly Johnson
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It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an unbound book. Stefan Sagmeister
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This will not be a factor for Penn State medical students.
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We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.
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When you take over a company like GE, you think you're going to visit 100 businesses. You're going to go see the factories you haven't seen before. You're going to see a site in Texas and one in Canada and stuff like that. That has fallen by the wayside. Jeffrey R. Immelt
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We have no indication at the moment that anything went wrong during the production of the agent. Only an examination of the production process and the substance itself which was injected will provide final certainty.
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Whenever we talk about the Final Four, you have to mention us making it to the Final Four. This is history.
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When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him. Carlos Beltran
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We were a minute and a half away from the Finals -- big deal, ... It's about winning a championship. Pat Riley
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All partings foreshadow the great final one. Charles Dickens
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There are a lot of difficulties, but finally we will succeed.
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When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera,
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We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happiness, if we can only get enough of it. It is very intoxicating. Sharon Salzberg
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We're just too inconsistent right now. We're not ready for the playoffs. We're not playing like we should be in the playoffs. Our players need to do a little self-analyzing before our final three games.
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Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities. Don Cooper
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Please don't throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay. Liam Payne
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Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop. Benjamin Graham
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Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. Bruce Springsteen
selling assets process
I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others. Bernard Ebbers
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There is no new requirement to sell any water
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We've been able to sell more series than we had planned, but they take capital.
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We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them,
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Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living. Dennis Miller
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God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory? Charlotte Bronte
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I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory Wait God's will.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. Charles Caleb Colton
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When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.
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When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him. Charles Stanley
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Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.
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I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way. David Anders
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Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh? Darren Shan
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Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out." David Sedaris