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I've never owned a retail business, but I put myself through graduate school by working in an office supply store. If you like what you have in your store, it sort of comes naturally.

I hope we'll see a nice pick-up in business as September gets underway.

As forecast at the beginning of the year, full service airlines have begun to look at new ways to encourage travel and provide good deals for their customers on both their long-haul and short-haul routes and these incentives are paying off for some of the carriers, possibly easing the strain of higher fuel costs on the industry.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.

That means I've got to go in there and win. Flat out. Not being cocky or anything, we've got to go in there and take care of business.

We told the kids it's life. Things always don't happen the way you want them to whether you're in business or playing sports.

The appeal of the rural companies is that they have a lot less competition, fewer unknowns in their business and that they have decided to opt into these high dividend strategies, ... There is less chance that management will use cash for a significant acquisition or invest in things that are away from the core business.

As a stand-alone company it can be a very successful business.

We had to take out an 800,000 tax anticipation loan last year when the taxes were not paid on time and we may have to do something like that again.

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry.

We will likely hold an international forum for representatives of business circles, civil society and government bodies in Moscow in September. It is our opinion that it is impossible to counter this evil effectively without the assistance of civil society. And we need the support of the business community to cut off international financial aid to terrorist organizations.

The goal of our corporate identity is to help project and maintain a clear, consistent and representative image of our Company, our core assets and our character. Our new name and logo accomplish that goal. Fleet started with pharmaceuticals and over-the-counter drug products, and we will always remain dedicated to serving the consumers who rely on us to assist them with their healthcare needs. This, coupled with the emergence of our personal care products business, indicates the overall strength of our Company through the breadth of products we market.

When we listened to the third-quarter earnings (report), their credit card business was performing above expectations and they felt that that was going to mitigate the negative impact they were experiencing from their retail operation,

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

Asking rents are going to continue rising in 2006 and beyond due to the increased cost of development. This is another example of a developer being required to shift design plans to meet the current economic conditions of the construction industry.

The wireless data market will die a thousand deaths in the business and consumer markets as service providers navigate their way through the quagmire that is legacy networks and technologies.

Maybe the shoe store is going to be hurt, but that's business.

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

With the number of labor-intensive acres going up in California, their behavior does not seem to suggest that they see a labor shortage, even if that's what they tell reporters. Farmers always think there's not enough labor. It's a very unpredictable business. You can't control the weather. The one thing you can push for is a lax immigration program, or a guest-worker program.

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

He's very excited about the announcement. Robin was pushing for this agreement for the benefit of the industry. If they're happy, he is.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

The refinancing boom and effects from the tax rebates are waning, so spending on big-ticket items such as cars may be slowing down, ... But spending on services, which is where the majority of the job creation occurs, has held on, and we expect it to pick up. Friday's payroll report should be a good indication of that.

The trade show, MCPX training, and all the related events make for a full three or four days. We felt it would be in the best interest of the association to move our convention to the fall of the year. Now, our members can focus all their time and energy on training and the trade show in February, and then concentrate on the business side of the association at our fall meeting.

My goal with this book is to help people turn their passions into successful businesses, as I did myself through many of the things I learned over the years,

This year we looked at our funds and we didn't need as much as we took in last year with the tax rate. We didn't need that same tax rate, so we reduced it a penny, which is a little bit below what the effective tax rate was. That's the way we always do our budgets.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

In total, there are 203 municipalities in the state of Wisconsin that have instituted some sort of room tax. We expect that number to continue to grow.

There are a lot of different companies driving the market. It's not just manufacturing but also distribution and trade, and I think that portends very well for the local economy.

These targeted actions are about running our business right, not just about belt tightening, ... They flow not only from lower membership levels and the sale of certain businesses, but also from re-engineering decisions that will make the company more disciplined and efficient.

I want to break ground because time costs money to us building the runways and to our passengers. What kind of value can you place on someone's time when you miss your son's Little League game because you are sitting in a plane on a runway waiting to take off That's the MasterCard commercial. Time is priceless. That's why we need to modernize O'Hare.

He was a pioneer in the business.

I like Boeing, which people forget is actually a defense stock, ... I think the defense industry in general is an industry that has gone through its boon, its bust, its consolidation, and there's an enormous amount of operating leverage now at the bottom line.

We look at the Web as another channel for us, we don't look at it as a business.

The priority is to get out of the offer period, so we can get on with running the business.

We were kind of reluctant to go with someone who ran a soup company or something like that, but he has wide exposure to us and our competitors, he knows the business and he knows what has to be done.

I don't believe in taxing the good people of Kansas, New Hampshire, and California 30 billion on the grounds that otherwise you'll tax them more later. If we actually had saved all the money that advocates of government spending had promised their programs would save, the federal budget would be negative by now.

Our praise goes to the business community for being willing to participate and make it such a positive day for our students.

Thanks to the business-friendly environment Mayor Daley has created, Chicago's business community is thriving. The Mayor's unique vision for the city has provided Chicago with the infrastructure, workforce and quality of life that are crucial to keeping existing companies here and bringing in new ones.

Our cost of debt will be lower than the return we expect from this business.

There's no evidence to suggest that cooling relations has dampened business.

Customizing is anything you do to a bike to make it your own. Some of it's done at the dealership using stock parts, and some of it's done by one-of-a-kind builders, who just do built-to-order bikes. That gets into the very high end of the business.

The Bluetooth SIG is dedicated to educating the industry and consumers about Bluetooth wireless technology and acting as a resource for the media that report for those audiences. As such, we want to be responsive and accommodating to journalists covering wireless communications and its effect on people's daily lives, so our multi-media content will now be available on demand from our website. Our organization represents 4,000 members who are leading the development of Bluetooth wireless technology in their products, which puts the SIG in a position to share a great deal of information in one spot.

For that reason, he thinks the record labels will continue to see declining sales. Ultimately the system has to blow up from top to bottom, ... The industry is going to get a lot worse and see a lot more pain before it gets better.

While the sector's had a great run, there are still a number of companies that are fundamentally undervalued. But as the industry continues to prosper, investors need to be extremely selective,

The corporate attitude is that they don't want to track newsgroups to solve technical problems the bulk of the industry simply wants to buy solutions, and so we're scaling up.

I'm in a whole different part of show business, ... I'm not even part of 'Shakespeare in Love.'

The more time customers stay on the premises, the more likely they are to buy. From a business perspective, it's a solid idea.

Business spending is the Achilles heel of the economy, ... The economic baton needs to pass from consumers to businesses.