Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christine Quinn

These businesses puff up their profits by not offering benefits, ... And at lunch, they give their workers an extra half hour to register on a public health insurance program.

These businesses fit a lifestyle that's growing. You don't see many 60-year-olds in there.

These businesses are in their early stages in China. Search, e-commerce and wireless are relatively nascent industries.

John W. Snow

These results are disappointing. Our rail and container-shipping businesses are taking steps to regain earnings momentum by lowering costs and improving efficiency,

Jim Norton

These models save businesses a lot of money, but when something goes wrong there is no slack in the system to handle it. Businesses should be investing some of their savings from e-business models into contingency planning.

Jim Shaw

The smaller shopping centers, the leases were too long and way too expensive and pretty much ironclad. The mall offered a short-term six-month lease, and were very willing to work with new businesses to help us get up and get going. That was really a determining factor for locating here. Plus, there's more exposure and longer hours.

The success and even survival of many businesses today rests squarely on the security and reliability of their technology systems.

Andrea Tantaros

The Spitzer ticket misses the point. The way to create jobs and improve the climate for businesses is to cut taxes and control spending.

The businesses to be divested are very good, ... We expect strong interest from trade and equity buyers.

The businesses that work with us understand that they are hiring someone who can do the job they need done - they aren't just giving some 'poor disabled' person something to do. We work with Hormel so well that we have received their Partner in Quality award.

The businesses that don't check forms of ID ... are the ones that end up getting hit the hardest.

The businesses have changed over the years they are much more sophisticated now.

Paul Leary

The businesses don't seem to be overly concerned about it. Many businesses already have good grease removal systems. The ordinance should not cost them a lot of money. I'm sure we will get some people from the establishments at the public hearing. I intend to read the ordinance and Paul Marino will read the proposed regulations aloud.

As long as it creates a level playing field for all businesses and bars, it is worth going for.

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

As in much of the region, weather played an important role in pushing the state's index higher. Businesses in South Dakota reported undertaking and completing construction projects for the month that would ordinarily have been sidelined until spring.

That's nonsense. American businesses need to wake up to the reality that there is a merger review process in Europe ... that is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Charlene Li

That's not to be underplayed. At some point, you'll want a personal experience, and you can't get that online. ... There's still an opportunity online for small and midsize businesses to drive traffic to their offline stores, and that offers a way for them to differentiate themselves. It is pretty dismal when you look at the numbers, but there is that silver lining in the dark clouds.

We had to hide when we started our car. That is something you leave to other businesses in the country. We are not a mob-related business.

This technology is the heart of the next wave of innovation. The leaders that do this well are able to rapidly change the way their current businesses work to meet the ever-changing demands of their customers.

We want to give it back to the people that paid it, businesses and individuals, and help seniors having trouble staying in their homes.

We just don't have that many businesses in town to make that worthwhile. I don't think we're ever going to have a big commercial base. There just aren't that many places to solicit people into.

John Gay

It would impose fines of up to $25,000 for paperwork violations. How many businesses could withstand one or two or three $25,000 fines for checking the wrong box?

It wouldn't be strange to see them continue to fall but they could also rise, and that would be because more people are willing to take risks and start up new businesses on the back of a better economy.

Gary Gordon

I understand that the businesses are open again. So presumably the problem is taken care of.

Mark Zandi

The work force is growing not because employers are hiring a lot of new workers to staff expanding operations. The economy, in other words, is not being driven by businesses out there scouring for opportunity and revenue growth and pushing up wages as they compete to hire more workers.

These are the kinds of plans we?re hoping that businesses and communities and schools and others will undertake.

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.

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.

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

Ted Turner

When you lose small businesses, you lose big ideas. People who own their own businesses are their own bosses. They are independent thinkers. They know they can't compete by imitating the big guys; they have to innovate. So they are less obsessed with earnings than they are with ideas.

Keith Baker

We tend to think of emerging markets as small countries with small companies. But there are some world-class businesses that just happen to be registered in emerging markets.

Karen Mills

We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.