Famous Quotes & Sayings

What we were able to identify over five years is that hospitals that won more than once had a pure focus on continuous quality improvement. What the consumer can depend on with this list is that these hospitals are consistently good performers.

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

This will offer some partial restraint to consumer spending.

Gary Miller

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

Erin McKean

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

We are hitting the consumer with headwinds that we have not witnessed on record.

Eliot Spitzer

We are hearing from consumers who are saying 'I called in an order, I placed an order online, and it wasn't executed timely,' and as a result they lost money,

Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.

Loretta Napoleoni

As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation.

There is a lot of developer and consumer interest around these applications.

There is categorically no consumer harm being done right now.

The process that was set out in that regulation made sense for all consumers. We should make this regulation a consumer protection regulation rather than a senior protection regulation.

There is a risk consumers will take the president's remarks as an indication that the situation is more serious than expected.

Dan Glickman

There are plenty of ways to download movies legally online, which is good for consumers and good for the movie industry, ... We won't tolerate this scam premised on the illegal swapping of valuable movie content.

John Hall

We're able to monitor the customer interaction, what the consumer is looking for, ... We're able to monitor what our own agent's performance has been.

Ross Levinsohn

Yahoo is a battleship. If you've ever seen a battleship, they're gigantic, and Yahoo is gigantic in the terms of consumer Internet companies. To turn a battleship takes a long time, but once you turn that battle ship the right way, it's a battleship, and it can really inflict some damage on an enemy or competition.

We have reached a (price point) that is encouraging consumers to make much more digital prints, ... We already know that they are taking many more times the images than they were shooting on film. This will give them the opportunity to have them printed affordably.

We have a wonderful physical plant in place. The key is to focus on the consumer and what they want and not get enamored with the technology. If we focus on the consumer, we should see all the technologies as opportunities.

We've seen higher inflation in the course of this year than perhaps was anticipated last year when wage deals were negotiated, ... Consequently that's eroded household purchasing power, and we've actually seen very sluggish consumer demand - which has been a big surprise.

We've seen customers in our industry aggressively reducing inventory balances, so shipment, sales and profits were lower than would be suggested by improved consumer purchases of our products.

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

There are a lot of factors here, but more than anything else, we haven't had a full jobs recovery, and the consumer is waiting for that. These numbers reflect they're kind of running out of patience.

There are a lot of creative things you can do as a consumer to further maximize your rebate.

Until they're able to prove that consumers are going to respond to the changes, the Street is very nervous. It's a very big undertaking to convince the country that a national Macy's is better than regional department stores.

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

We're making a b-to-b play out of a very popular consumer brand.

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

We are getting the investment we need to see. It continues the theme of rebalancing in the economy: slowing consumer spending and housing being replaced with stronger exports and investment.

We are getting the investment we need to see, ... It continues the theme of rebalancing in the economy: slowing consumer spending and housing being replaced with stronger exports and investment.

Unless or until the revival in the housing market translates into higher consumer demand, it is the weakness of the latter that is of greater relevance to the inflation outlook -- and hence the policy decision.

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.