Famous Quotes & Sayings

To drive a bus a mile, it costs us more than a dollar. That's a big increase - that's over a 100-percent increase from 45-cents to a dollar, but some neighboring parishes are going up as high as a dollar and a half.

Cliff Stearns

Today, counterfeiters have become just another competitor for legitimate U.S. businesses in the high-stakes world of global commerce.

Brad Anderson

To date, the increasing affordability of our key product categories and the strength of our retail team have enabled us to grow our business despite macro-economic factors such as rising gas prices,

Samuel Johnson

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Mark Williams

What you see here is a clear trend. FPL's business is about 80-90 per cent regulated, and Constellation's is about 75 per cent unregulated.

What you're discussing today could be a perfect complement not only to the proposed energy school but also to the Ruckelshaus Institute and Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, and other ongoing university initiatives, by linking the College of Business and high-level business executives.

What you pay for in one business can help you make money in another business. They clearly do have their hands in everything.

Rick Barnes

What you like about opening the tournament in Dallas is the travel. Everyone's had to do a lot of traveling at this point of the year. It's nice to just take a bus trip up I-35.

What we weren't counting on was the rapid progress of the Open Invention Network, which serves a similar purpose for businesses in a much more compelling way.

John Davidson

What we've seen has really been priced into the market. At this point we need to see evidence of rising spending on capital and businesses hiring employees.

What we've offering our colleagues in the flu business is to now mine that data themselves and to conduct experiments that are suggested by our results.

What we've had is hand outs to business like this one, but that can't compensate for poor economic policy.

What we have discovered is that it is very hard to survive as a little Mom and Pop winery. And we knew we had to come up with a lot of different ideas to make the business successful. You had to get bigger.

What we have been seeing is a change in the composition of growth, with businesses rather than households now the main drivers of growth in domestic spending.

What we find is that at the traditional small business, the individual who is our primary contact at that small business is usually not very technical.

What we do see as key are Microsoft's improving business fundamentals, specifically ... Windows 2000 and the Internet.

What we don't like is private developers... seeking to get for free what small businesses in New Jersey have had to pay for.

Aaron Patzer

The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.

Charles M. Schwab

Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

Here's an appointment where Bush really can't make a mistake,

have started to grow at a rate faster than our business can support.

John Peel

Haven't played in a game since. These last two seasons have been a bust for me.

Gary Sinise

Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

Karen Finney

Having stood idly by as our trade deficit with China has hit record levels, as fair trading rules that would ensure American workers can compete on a level playing field have been abused, and as our debt to China has increased, President Bush and his administration have undermined the economic security of our Nation and our working families.

Having said that, Roman has a reasonably long-term view ? and the business plan that was put together was a five-year business plan. We are doing a lot of things to make the club more efficient and towards profit-making in five years' time.

Hard to make a business on less than 10 per cent,

Hard-core surfer guys will be out there and their families will be out. It will pick up business with a lot of people looking.

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Skeet Ulrich

Having people in the business say, You do good work, is part of it, and so is knowing that it's true in my head, that I do good work.

Having now tried retirement briefly, I find that I like being involved in leading change and driving the business more directly.

He's a great doctor and has a very busy practice. He has a staff and patients that depend on him.

David Healy

Hertz has become less and less important as an outlet for Ford cars as Ford has pared back sales to Hertz and other daily rental companies. It's really a noncore business right now.