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Our upstream business -- exploration and production -- continues to be the major contributor to overall profits, ... However, the improvement in earnings from the year-ago quarter was largely driven by our U.S. downstream operations -- refining, marketing and transportation.
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Our understanding is that the (tantalum) business is likely to continue for some time in the current form.
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Our underlying business performance has been good, ... We have taken a number of steps to sharpen our focus on improving shareholder value.
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Our typical customers are small businesses and business professionals.
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Our transition to Intel processors is going very well, and our music business just experienced another quarter of outstanding growth. Steve Jobs
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Our trading and underwriting business were down from record first-half levels in an increasingly difficult environment. John Thain
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Our whole private equity business has been aimed at what I would call a real economy -- businesses that are pretty stable, having good cash flows and businesses that are not buffeted by changes in economic conditions.
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Outbound protection requires a fairly high level of sophistication to engage, and reports indicate that Microsoft expects that functionality to be used by IT professionals in a business networking environment.
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Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' cases hereafter, some of them in hell
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I'm here to pass the baton, so to speak, to some of these new inductees, many of which are guys that I respect in the business as being truly revolutionary. Nolan Bushnell
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I'm here pretty much every day. I do sometimes leave town deliberately because I need a break. We felt like the community needed a gathering place. I never knew how difficult the business would be, how much work, how unpredictable it would be. Nancy Davis
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I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion. Michael Keaton
businesses growing
Most of these businesses are growing between 8 and 15 percent.
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Most retailers are busy putting out fires all day. They have to spend their time working in their business, rather than on their business.
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We've talked over the past couple of months about a company like Dell and WorldCom. These are companies with very good business plans, ... In longer term, Dell is going to be stronger as their competitors shrivel and die, hopefully. Jeff Davis
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We need their business. For that three, four months they're down, it's real busy and it's a lot of fun. (Winter Texans) are vital. They're vital to the economy.
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We need some leadership in Washington to recognize the pending threat of PTSD to veterans and our country as a whole. George Bush doesn't talk about mental health and he doesn't talk about veterans. Veterans' issues are not a big priority for him. Paul Rieckhoff
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We need somebody of such professional skills. For business to be successful, you need a conducive environment, which can only be facilitated by good policies that don't contradict each other.
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We need partners with the necessary infrastructure and product knowledge to enable us to react quickly to business demands.
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We now have to play three games in 24 hours with two tomorrow. This is exactly where we wanted to be and now we just have to take care of business first thing in the morning. Hopefully we will get in the finals.
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We now have to get into the mortuary business pretty soon too, Steve Buyer
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We now have approximately 30 states where there are 40 different proposals on limiting greenhouse-gas emissions. The worst thing in the world for business in this country is a patchwork quilt of regulations and standards. They want one standard. That's when they can make the kind of investment that will get us where we need to be. Christine Whitman
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We never wanted to do any business with the Soviet 'evil empire. We embargo Cuba, we don't trade with North Korea, but with China it's O.K. I just always argue, why is it? Why do we single out China?
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We need a Connecticut business year or a Connecticut business decade.
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We'll be able to go business as usual. Some teams may not be able to do that because of their salary cap situation. Jerry Angelo
business
Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that. Jeffrey Skilling
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Well, a lot of people are excited when they call. We bust a lot of bubbles.
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Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business.
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Let's face it: Most companies in most industries have a kind of tunnel vision. They chase the same opportunities that everyone else is chasing, they miss the same opportunities that everyone else is missing. It's the companies that see a different game that win big. The most important question for innovators today is: What do you see that the competition doesn't see? Bill Taylor
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So little done, so much to do.. Cecil Rhodes
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It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard. Carl Rogers
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I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide. Bernard Arnault
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I think they are very close to the edge with the banks. If the business plays out the way I think it will play out, they won't trip the covenants. I think they are not giving themselves enough cushion to weather a downturn and it makes me hesitate in recommending the stock.