Famous Quotes & Sayings

The sale of gasoline usually doesn't make retailers enough to cover their expenses, ... To stay in business they must have something else going, a car wash or convenience store with a soda fountain, something that will make them a little money.

The runway shows can really put a financial strain on a new business. Every year, there's always someone who has gone out of business who was showing the year before. People see the glamour, but it's a business. Fashion is a tough business.

The school bus is one of the places where unkind things can happen. If kids are upset about something that happens on the school bus, then they are going to carry it with them, possibly throughout the entire day.

The rules of the telecom business are changing.

(The RTA) is going for a referendum, and until then, we've got to show people every penny is being spent wisely, ... We've got to concentrate on the buses which get people to work and to the doctor before the trolleys.

The route between the Isle of Man and Southampton is a key business link for many finance companies, and we are pleased to offer this service to our passengers.

The roof was leaking and half of the lights were turned off. Because the business was poor, the owner didn't want to spend more money on it.

The role we're trying to play in the ASP world is principally selling to companies that want to be ASPs. We'll sell hardware, software and services expertise to help make businesses successful.

Hu Jintao

I've told President Bush that the Chinese side will intensify the efforts to protect intellectual property rights and crack down on infringement. We are ready to strengthen cooperation with the United States in this regard,

Taylor Hawkins

I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.

I've seen wonders. It's gone from bust to boom.

Mike Mularkey

I've taken business as usual like I'm going into the season as head coach. There's more question out there than there was in here, especially with me. I've approached it full speed.

I've never seen (my team) more excited than they were today on the bus (after the meet). It's sure fun to watch the kids win and see how excited they get.

Janet Yellen

Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning.

Uncertainties over how Toshiba will run the nuclear power business and its financing scheme for the acquisition prompted investors to sell.

Twenty-five years from now, we'll have an opportunity to see whether Superstition Vistas turned out to be business as usual, or something very, very special.

Tweeter has been losing market share to the big guys. It served a higher-end customer, and historically it differentiated itself with home audio, but that business has fallen off a cliff. No one buys stereos anymore. They buy MP3 players, and you don't need the same kind of service to sell these lower priced, lower margin products.

We don't see any impact. We are busily preparing for trial.

We don't really know how business is. There is nothing to gauge it against, there is no one out there doing what we are doing.

You have two things going on right now. You have doubts about the course that President Bush has set in Iraq, and you have what seems to be even larger doubts about whether John Kerry can do better.

To its huge credit, GUS has moved from being a rag-tag of businesses with a reliance on a declining home shopping market to a very focused retail group.

Harry Reid

to investigate whether Bush administration officials misused intelligence.

To have such a strong Thanksgiving and the second-best ever business in what has overall been a down year is pretty impressive. Thank goodness for Harry Potter . It has reinvigorated a lot of people to go to the movies.

Mike Epps

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

Tom Sherak

You have to pay attention. I'm not quite sure it's a good thing for the business as we know it, but the business changes every 20 seconds now.

You have to learn to overcome those feelings when somebody is negative about a production you love or if that production doesn't do well commercially. After 'Gone With the Wind', I felt older. I even thought about quitting the business.

You have to have money to bus your kids for high school. It would be like going to Cedar Rapids for high school.

You have a risk of problems occurring just by virtue of having people involved in the real estate brokerage business inside or outside the city. They may have to deal with brokers who are doing work inside the city.

You may have your routes being longer, which means kids would have to get on the bus a little earlier in the day, ... People get pretty upset if their kid has to get out there at the bus stop too early in the morning.

Jamais Cascio

With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.

With profit warnings averaging 92 per quarter in the 12 months to the third quarter, businesses are clearly finding it difficult to forecast.

James Worthy

You have to totally drop your ego and start from scratch, and learn a new business,

You have to get the engine room of the business right so you can make money delivering that proposition.