Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Perez

To realize President Obama's vision of opportunity for all, it's all about making the right match. The way we do that is through job-driven training - connecting ready-to-work Americans with ready to be-filled jobs. It helps more people secure a foothold in the middle class and helps businesses to profit and grow.

Rick Perry

Coastal Texans should not wait until late Thursday or early Friday to leave. Homes and businesses can be rebuilt. Lives cannot.

A recent national survey shows that 80 percent of American businesses want their employees to have post-high school education, yet in Tennessee less than half of our students are actually getting it.

As happens probably dozens of times a week in businesses in New York, the partners have a variety of disputes. And these disputes will work their way out. At the end of the day, Dr. Straus will be found to be a highly skilled, highly competent, highly professional, highly ethical doctor.

As far as notifications, we think there are certain instances where businesses might want to notify consumers and certain instances where they might not to inform them.

Jim Gerlach

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

Our customers down there are seeing their businesses expand and our opportunities are growing in the region.

Our customers are dramatically impacting their businesses through supplier and customer data management. In general, the marketplace is learning to leverage data more effectively. The results can be translated directly into savings, lower risks, improved revenue and profitability -- all the result of better business decisions.

People said things like public transport will not cope, London will become a ghost town, businesses will be driven out and nobody will come to central London to shop any more. None of that has turned out to be true.

People can get hurt. Businesses can be ruined.

Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.

North Dakotans are hard workers. Looks to me like the low crime rate and lack of commuting problems should be effective in getting businesses to come into the state.

Avi Arad

The movies are there to support the core businesses of toys, licensing, video games and publishing. Each of these titles is meant to be a franchise.

Steve Sanders

A firm like J.C. Flowers buys businesses at a low price, fixes them up and sells them off a few years later for a much higher price. We're interested in running a futures business and we have expertise in this.

After many years of decline, I am pleased to tell you we are starting to see volume improvement in lending and deposits. Our businesses are continuing to perform as expected.

Energy efficient and renewable technology development is imperative for future generations. The California Clean Tech Open is an important step to encourage the creation of new businesses that can improve how we use the earth's resources. I look forward to serving our customers with energy-efficient and renewable-energy technologies like those this competition will produce.

Employment gains really haven't come from full-time workers. They're coming primarily from part-time, temporary help, ... Businesses are still trying to maintain flexibility by not hiring more expensive, full-time workers. That might be one of the reasons why we're seeing an increase in continued claims.

Entrepreneurs are not as optimistic as they were earlier in the year, which is an indication our economy may be leveling off to some extent, ... Certainly, small-business owners are experiencing more cost pressures than they were in the spring, and it is no secret small businesses are coping with rising gas prices.

Each year it has grown. The village, schools and businesses have been so great.

Each time it floods it costs millions of dollars in cleanup not only for the airports commission but also for the businesses that operate there.

Essentially, the company has decided to divest itself of its, by far, most successful and most prized business, and it's going to retain two businesses that I consider challenged at this point.

Essentially all of our businesses will be conducted in this fashion,

During the third quarter, particularly strong results in our tobacco businesses were partially offset by continuing challenges at Kraft.

During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is always a challenge.

There's still a lot of consumer demand out there, and as businesses try to restock their inventory levels they will increase demand, which will lead to stronger growth. That could be problematic for the Fed.

Sandy's unsurpassed experience working with governments, industries, and businesses worldwide clearly makes him an ideal choice to help us further expand the Lehman Brothers' footprint in the global marketplace,

SARS has not stopped factories from rolling out products in China, ... The only effect it's had on U.S. businesses is that it has led to fewer visits from buyers to the region. So there have been less face-to-face meetings between buyers and suppliers, but companies have gotten around that by teleconferencing.

SBA can help these small businesses overcome their economic injuries by offering these working capital loans, but the help cannot start until they apply.

Putting Gulf Coast businesses back to work, including the largest employer in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana, is an essential step in putting the region and its citizens' lives back together.

Quite frankly, I don't see any criminal intent. Businesses fail all the time.

Rather than viewing a contract simply as documenting a deal for the future, smart businesses use it as a source of information. Lawyers can set up incentives so that payments only get made if certain benchmarks are met.

Prices received rising so much is the first sign that businesses have increased power to pass on these energy-price increases. Energy will shortly be a major factor in the inflation equation, and this is what the Fed is worried about, so expect policy makers to keep pushing interest rates higher.

Daniel Burnham

Our defense businesses are hitting on all cylinders, having consistently met or exceeded targets for revenue, cash and margin.