We're moving toward being a billion-dollar company, and we needed to formalize our development like other large companies do and not rely on the on-the-job training I had. These are things that are critical to running our business but aren't things you naturally learn in law school.
Quotes about billion-dollar (16 Quotes)
It's been interpreted as one of (Bush) coming to Ohio to try and pressure me to support 550 (billion-dollar tax cut) when he knows that I'm locked in at 350 (billion dollars), ... I think the timing of it made it look bad, in terms of his trying to put some pressure on me. I don't believe that's what he had in mind, but it certainly has been interpreted that way in our state.
In 1998, the handheld computer market crossed the important billion-dollar sales threshold and is well on the way to reaching critical mass,
You can do some kind of planning, but the future is something you'll never be able to predict. If anybody had told me when I was in high school or when I was in college that I would be running a billion-dollar company, I would have told them, You're crazy. First of all, I had no interest in business. No interest, none whatsoever. I never took a course in business.
Either you are a billion-dollar business, or a really smart company, or you're up for grabs.
One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
We've been predicting this will overtake print books in about 10 years. In the first six months it will be a very small part of Steve's business. But three to five years out we see a billion-dollar marketplace.
Online pornography is a billion-dollar per year industry. And e-mail is becoming the delivery system of choice for porn purveyors.
We're trying to build a solid, sound base on which to grow long term. Our goal is a billion-dollar institution in eight years or less and a 3 billion bank beyond. We have a long-term, long-range vision and goal and we're just executing to get there.
We wanted to make sure that we separated daytime Martha -- the warm and friendly person -- from Martha the businesswoman, who built a billion-dollar business. And so all the promotion certainly does not have her being mean but on the other hand has her being strong. We did not want anyone to be confused that this is warm and fuzzy.
Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
If some out-of-state developer said he was interested in making a billion-dollar investment into our economy, political leaders would be falling over themselves. Because of the stadium, people are frozen. They don't know what to do. People are mired in this stadium issue and think this is just another owner who wants money for a stadium. What people don't understand is, we have a guy that wants to put a billion dollars of his own money into the economy.
The demand is high in every market. (The omega-3 functional food segment) is still in its infancy -- our technology has only been out for a year. But the rate of product introduction globally will increase over the next five years. Nobody knows how big the category will be but there's no reason it should not be a billion-dollar business.
You can understand George's position. He's basically got 50 million worth of players there. You tell me what billion-dollar corporation would want 50 million of its assets out somewhere with no guarantees if they get hurt.
it feels like back-of-the-envelope policy at a billion-dollar scale.
Until a one billion-dollar fund exists, the chaotic passing of the begging bowl will go on and people who survived disaster will continue to die while they wait for aid.