Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clayton Christensen

Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.

That's a group that no one is catering to. I'm not sure that Hollywood has considered it a very viable audience. But we do, and Tyler does, and obviously he has tapped into a real following.

Matt Flynn

The input from younger people is extremely important to us. We have heard some concerns that the city of Ames isn't appropriately catering to the 18- to 25-year-old group.

I knew when I started playing professionally that being an idol means catering for fans. Without them, there's no game. I don't mind signing autographs, but what I really want to give fans are lots of goals.

We want to highlight everything that is a part of the mountain culture - from culture, to environment, to adrenaline, to something humorous and quirky - and something to cater to the Fort Collins community.

This makes our garments too expensive, unless we are catering to the top end of the market.

They're going to resell each other's products, which is a sign of weakness. From Compaq's standpoint, that's an acknowledgement that they lack a high-end storage product. From IBM's standpoint, it's an acknowledgment that they've been unable to sell the Shark product outside of the very narrow mainframe market that they cater to.

Michael Hayes

If there's going to be a convention center, then we would have to cater our retail to tourists. If there's not going to be a convention center, the retail is going to be targeted to locals.

Chris Redfern

Instead of focusing on the real challenges facing real Ohioans, House Republicans are instead catering to the right wing on divisive social issues.

I know it's only cool if you rag on Nintendo for not catering to hardcore teenage males

Sathya Baba

Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.

A prolonged lack of catering would start to eat into premium. More important is the booking intentions of their best-paying passengers which is the premium cabins.

Josh Fox

A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.

They need to continue to do what they've done in the past, which is cater to children and cater to children well. I think they need to not lose sight of what their strengths are; not try to sort of diversify and suddenly come out with products that are chocolate.

This co-location increases our capacity, especially for catering special functions. Since the co-location, we have done simultaneous parties of up to 300 each and we've catered single functions for as many as 1,000.

I tried catering first and then I put money into the restaurant as I got it. I've cooked all my life, since I was 7. I don't know what the secret is - a gift from God.

You're most likely spending more on catering and photography than the dress, but it's a very emotional purchase.

This is a private event for those playing. Nancy loves The Villages, but she wants to cater to (tourney participants) on this day.

Andrew Martin

Completion of the sale enables us to focus on the core contract catering and support services business, and to exploit the significant organic growth opportunity from a strong financial base.

Don't settle and cater to the customer. We do anything and everything we can to make treats that the dogs like.

Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.

I wanted to be sensitive and cater to locals but also satisfy the wine-country traveler, and I think we've accomplished that.

Seth Numrich

I've gotten pretty good with a tray between acting jobs. In fact, when I got the TV show 'Gravity' I was still doing my catering work. I told my director I had to miss rehearsal because I had to work a party. He was like, 'You're on TV. You need to get over that.'

Mike Colter

The big budget films have money to do things that are not necessarily essential but sure are comforting. The catering is usually much better. And you have way more of anything you could possibly need. You definitely get a trailer. My shirt and suit for 'Million Dollar Baby' were tailor made.

It's important. We do have a catering vehicle (to transport people). It's not free, but it's there.

Gigi Hadid

It sounds really cheesy, but I've just really been so focused on making sure that I am nice to everyone that I work with and making the effort to get to know the people on set, whether it's the catering crew or the famous photographer.

Steve Erickson

Created by writer Beau Willimon, who's worked on several political campaigns, 'House of Cards' cannily exploits the current widespread cynicism for our politics, catering to a public scorn that's warranted and also glib in the sort of cheap pox-on-both-houses way that means not having to pay attention.

Does it help when we cater to service workers and a growing number of those jobs are taken by immigrants coming into the cities? Yes. That something we know all too well.

Sathya Baba

The newspapers have a great role to play; but they are content to cater to the vulgar tastes and become waste papers soon.

It's a very small company right now but its got the right idea of providing a one-stop shop for specialty products catering to expectant mothers and young children,

It's just really trying to cater to them specifically, trying to do something special for a special customer.

It's definitely going to be creative space. It will have a loft feel, with hardwood floors and high ceilings, catering to small creative firms that are being reborn downtown.

Carlos Ponce

I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.