Famous Quotes & Sayings

They'll be doing a lot of interviews with city officials, businesses that have located there and even businesses that have looked at Franklin and passed for whatever reason. All that goes into a model to slice and dice it and come up with target industries that would make sense.

None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.

Henry Paulson

Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers.

John Grahame

Not all businesses with fewer than 500 employees are truly small. Some may in fact be dominant in their industry.

It may be the technological equivalent to the shot heard 'round the world. If Massachusetts follows through with this plan, it will be a radical departure from how Microsoft and other businesses work with state governments.

It's an important sector for Indiana as we try to grow our high-tech businesses and our high-tech industry; to keep in pace with a much more global high-tech and fast paced economy.

Walter Isaacson

It's like when FEMA wasn't really that creative, and the water was rising and people were stranded, ... Once again, people are being stranded and businesses are starting to die.

Charles Snyder

It's good to let businesses see us express our professional side; we're really not selling anything,

It's going slow at this point. We're hopeful more businesses will sign up and become involved in the program.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that ING is interested in buying the financial services and international business. I think the surprising thing is that Aetna would consider selling the financial services and international businesses because it generates a huge tax liability for them, whereas they could have done a deal two months ago that was tax positive.

It shouldn't be up to somebody else you know. The President, the government, the township or whatever that change their businesses because they're not the ones in the business.

Investors know that Maytag is going to have to shed some of the businesses in order for the deal to go through.

Investors want a piece of the integrated European economy and the pound is proving to be a way in. Weakness in the U.K. economy is being offset by the willingness of investors to invest in the country's businesses and buy bonds.

Inventories are going to be largely neutral for economic growth in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, as businesses ramp up production to rebuild inventories, that will mean more hiring, more production and a stronger economic environment.

Inventories are at rock-bottom levels -- even if economic growth slows in the fourth quarter, those inventories will have to be rebuilt, otherwise businesses risk losing business.

In the midst of the mania there were a whole lot of companies that went public that were just pure plays on the willingness of businesses to throw money at new projects, ... Now that a lot of these companies have had difficult times, it makes sense that there would be consolidation.

It's time. As many of the physical hazards as possible have been removed from the streets. Businesses that can open need that opportunity and residents need to feel like they can get out and about and live as normally as possible.

I want to give the small businesses and local merchants better business strategies by teaching their workers how to improve customer service and promote a positive image in the workplace. By having the luncheon business owners and their employees won't lose a whole day of work.

Governor Schwarzenegger made the right decision to sign into law significant improvements to a significant civil rights law, the Unruh Act, making clear for businesses and customers that discrimination in any form is unacceptable,

Governments and businesses shouldn't have to litigate cases all the way to the Supreme Court in order to find out whether or not a tax incentive is constitutional,

For the most part, we are still a service economy. But I see a lot of new businesses with a need for higher skills moving into the market, and I think that will naturally spill over into other applications and create more need for skilled workers.

If half the businesses here got knocked out, in 30 days they'd be back in operation. The only investment we need to keep this place operational is a highway.

Steve Shaw

I don't think there's any doubt what an institution like CU does for business, ... I'd love to challenge other local businesses to step up and support the school.

I do think, however, that it is very important that we, as individuals, protect ourselves; that businesses make contingency plans; and that governments at all levels ? public health officials everywhere ? do what is necessary to minimize the danger of a potential pandemic.

I don't think businesses will hire more people in anticipation of higher demand. They want to see demand first. They feel they have the flexibility to increase production without hiring people.

Kevin Cameron

I am pleased with the progress we have made in light of the challenges we faced in the second half of 2005. During 2005, we improved our operations, introduced enhanced products and extended the value proposition we offer our customers. Our businesses are well positioned to grow as we facilitate improved revenue cycle management, the capturing and sharing of clinical information and the empowerment of the patient.

The challenge is how willing are the businesses to put up the money.

The first is that states that have right-to-work laws are more amenable to businesses - so businesses are more likely to locate in those states.

The company clearly benefited from the sale of the handset and infrastructure businesses in 1999. The remaining segments offer much better profitability.

The communities that don't have fiber are falling behind. Fiber to the doorstep of homes and businesses is where we are headed.

The end of the strike in New York City is, obviously, a positive. It was slowing things down in terms of businesses and spending in a very important time of the year.

David Green

The Health and Human Services preventive services mandate forces businesses to provide the morning-after and the week-after pills in our health insurance plans.

The high margins meant selling cars was one of the most glamorous businesses to be in during the 1950s and '60s,