Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Tressel

When you're at Ohio State or Texas, the expectations can't go any higher. There is an immediate flurry of business commitments you have to fulfill, but things pretty much stay the same.

When the economy is growing faster and businesses want to replenish inventories and make the kind of capital expenditures, mergers and acquisitions that outstrip their internal financing, then they will turn to banks.

When the Disney machine gets cranked up, you know what they can do. We have to make documentaries that people will watch. It's about moving that Nielsen needle. There are solid business underpinnings to this initiative.

When we walked to the bus stop at the top of the street, Troy heard a fire alarm. I walked to the Dunn house and smelled smoke near the garage.

When Western residents wake up to the fact that the Bush administration has a ... scheme to divest the public of its lands, I don't think people are going to like that very much.

When we started with Manchester United Vodafone was still largely a UK-based business with a growing set of international interests. Manchester United fitted very well at that point as a very big sporting brand, a UK-based team with quite a good international fan base. It fitted us at that point of time. It is part of the evolution from a UK-based business to a multi-national one.

We will have trucks traveling around providing coverage of state arts, culture, business and healthcare events.

We will have some new businesses opening shops there and all of those should be ready by mid- to-late summer.

We will have oxygen on the side of the stage, ... We don't look our age. I think music keeps us young. Not the music business -- it's the music that keeps us young.

We will have more investment and business growth, which leads to lower prices, because more people will be coming to the marketplace with similar products.

We've just really been busy with phone calls.

We've only been in business for a year and a half, so (the fund-raiser) helps for people to know we're here.

We welcome their entry as a major operator into the rail line-haul business ... I think it's a good move for them and probably good for the industry.

Ian Brown

We welcome anything which is going to tighten up the obligations of the lending industry. By this we mean high-street lenders, not just back-street businesses who lend with very little thought to the consequences.

John Piper

We want to warn boaters that they are not licensed in the state of Oregon to do business in the state of Oregon.

We wanted to finally bust out and score some goals, and we did that, but ultimately I think the key was that we wore them down a bit.

We had struck out at several businesses because we couldn't operate them.

We have 160 jitneys that can carry 13 passengers each. School buses are in our plans ... and five trains in the railroad system with the capability of moving 500 to 1,000 people.

We are exiting three businesses that were not delivering growth and financial returns.

Kathleen Brown

We are excited to be working with an organization that shares our goal of financially empowering women business owners,

Bob Richards

We are excited about the opportunity and look forward to serving all the people in Orangeburg and Orangeburg County with great service and a great automobile, ... We like it (Orangeburg) because it is not too far from Augusta. We enjoy doing business in South Carolina.

We are excited about Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising and about our relationship with the talented people at Perpetual. Our relationship with Perpetual Entertainment is an important element of the overall business strategy of Platform Publishing.

We are evolving into a company with multiple platforms for growth. Over time, we expect an increasing penetration of our businesses in the professional contractor space. Consistent with our growth strategy, you shouldn't be surprised when we make strategic acquisitions like National Waterworks.

We are evaluating our financial prospects in light of current and anticipated business conditions and are withdrawing our prior guidance.

We are evaluating our financial prospects for 2006 and 2007 in light of current and anticipated business conditions and are withdrawing our prior guidance for those years,

The president's detractors should know when to throw in the towel so that we can already get on with the real business of the people.

Unfortunately, in the music business everything changes. You'd like to stay at the same label, with the same manager, the same crew and have everything stay the same like Elvis did.

Kerry Stokes

Unfortunately if you want to protect your interests there is sometimes no other way of doing business with Telstra.

Unfortunately, I don't think this is an empty threat. The problem for Philips is they are in such commodity businesses at the moment and production costs are much lower in Asia.

Unfortunately, I can't talk about any legal business.

Two tankers we wanted to use from Oklahoma were busy so we're having to move helicopters from (a fire near Childress) to fight it.

Two income families, busier lifestyles and a greater desire for personal amenities are driving the demand for more services to make life less hectic and improve mental as well as physical health. Franchising companies are fulfilling that demand.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.