Famous Quotes & Sayings

Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.

Ellen Tauscher

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

Philip Green

They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is experience of the world of work. The more that businesses get involved with schools, the better, because businesses sometimes complain that students don't have what they require to succeed in work.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes.

This says businesses are gradually, grudgingly putting money to work. They're still being cautious, but not as cautious as the data before this morning would have suggested.

Anita Roddick

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

Kimora Lee Simmons

I have help, but I'm very hands-on in everything I do. I do normal stuff, I'm a normal mother and I'm a very hardworking woman and I have hundreds of products and many businesses that I do.

Though the prospect of Sino-US textile trade remains unclear, there is no evidence that these businesses will stop expanding production.

We're lucky to live here and have all these businesses and organization working to help students.

There are many businesses that are born and die. A university is supposed to live forever.

Vivek Wadhwa

I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.

We're excited to have them locate here, ... It's good for the community and the mall. Hopefully it will draw others to locate there. Businesses feed on each other. It should create a higher volume of traffic.

Western businesses have battened down the hatches -- I don't think their lives are going to be very easy.

Tom Mitchell

(We) would like to encourage local businesses as much as possible.

We probably will be into these businesses until well into the evening.

I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.

It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.

Timothy Geithner

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.

Alex Steffen

If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and their own governments, then we can really transform the prospects of life on this planet. We can find ourselves living in a world that is more like the world that I think most of us want to be living in.

David Blunkett

Businesses that fail to develop their staff are twice as likely to collapse. Firms seeking to reposition themselves for the economic upturn need to invest in their staff's flexibility, responsiveness and skills.

We have lots of opportunities, product launches are going super well, restructuring is delivering, market share trends in lots of businesses look good. Things look good.

Viviane Reding

RFID is very important to businesses and it is very important to citizens, but it also raises concerns about trust. If we don't remove the trust problem, well then the business won't fly.

Portions of this are somewhat vague. We would need to update daily what businesses had business with the city.

Ninety-five percent of the world?s consumers are outside of the U.S., and U.S. businesses need to think globally to expand their market share. The International Buyer Program can save U.S. firms valuable time and resources in meeting potential buyers.

On one hand you have very strong signals from businesses services, but on the other quite weak ones from the retail sector. That's going to drag overall services growth down.

Klaus Kleinfeld

Only successful businesses can secure and create jobs.

On the other hand, people are living longer now. That is kind of the negative side. If people are living longer, these businesses won't grow all that fast.

One of their fundamental strategies was the same as ours - to move into businesses that were fee-driven and not so capital-intensive, and that is managing hotels instead of owning them.

Chris Rice

Much like businesses prefer to use managed services, we think consumers will look for managed services, too.

Mayor Bloomberg has led the way for making New York City more business-friendly, and these grants are another great resource for the city's businesses and workers, ... Today, new technology can cause industries to change overnight. In order to stay competitive, businesses need highly-trained employees with a flexible skill set.

Lloyd Carr

One of the things that this guy Collins says is, he measured great organizations, great businesses ... they lasted,

One of the big concerns is that businesses will start to gear up too quickly in anticipation of a rebound in demand or even the rebound we've already seen. But if the demand is temporary, then they will be stuck with too many goods on their shelves, so there's reason to be cautious in coming months.

Mark Siegel

No one else is entitled to these records, the businesses who try to get them are committing a kind of identity theft which we're calling 'records rip-off'.