Michael Allen Quotes (29 Quotes)

In other words, business travelers are behaving like leisure travelers to qualify for a better price. That puts the airlines, particularly the ailing network airlines, in a tight spot. Profits are elusive, ... Airlines either need to raise fares, or the price of oil has to come down.

The airlines really focused on creating a business model where the front of the plane paid for the back of the plane. It certainly allowed the big carriers to make more profit in the 1990s than they had before, but it invited the competition to come in.

For at least 20 years we've been talking about consolidation, but it never quite evolves the way anyone expects.

We plan it into our vacation every year now. I play a little more to the middle of the greens, a little more conservative. I don't really know why I do well, but I guess I know I'm playing for pure survival.

A lot of schools are looking at open source budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big chunk out of schools budgets. The biggest issue is cost, basically.

Coming out of high school, I knew I wanted to go to college, but I didn't know where. I didn't want to go to a small school because I like the big atmosphere. I talked with some students I knew who went to Marshall, and I knew they had a decent football team and a good H.E.L.P. program to help students, so I decided to come to Marshall.

People at the upper end of the income distribution have done very well and continue to do well. People in the middle are growing, but they're not growing all that much. Wage increases have been muted and that certainly affects people in the middle and at the bottom. Add in rising energy costs and those people are really being constrained right at the moment in their ability to go out and purchase items and that's certainly affecting the sales tax.

I'm ahead. I don't know what my lead is on the number that matters, but we all have three tough days left. That's the hard thing right now for me. It's the Tour school. That's why they call it that -- to learn how to deal with this is a little bit better.

It was an emotional roller-coaster all day long. I did not play well at all for most of the day, but I was able to get it together at the end. Making three (birdies) in a row to finish the round at least makes you feel like you had a good day. I got in my own way today, and I've got to figure out a way to rectify that before tomorrow.

In theory, it can all be done at the (same) site once we get the logistics worked out. We've made great strides, but we still have more work to do.

None of these people are lazy, ... Why wouldn't you want to help somebody like that All they needed was a jump-start.

They have to have sufficient detail in their plan to both satisfy the court and get the funds they need to exit bankruptcy. They need to show that they have a plan that will function properly for the longer term.

It may help me set up a golf course, the drainage and that stuff.

Wilson's cousins, Michael Allen and Johnny Allen, live in an apartment upstairs from him and are among five evacuees who have enrolled in classes at the University of Texas at El Paso. I didn't want to lose out on a whole semester, ... They made it real easy for us to enroll in school.

In normal downturns, you lose some big players. This industry was not built for 62 a barrel oil.

college coaches can get athletic programs placed on probation by violating rules, yet they can bounce to another job while their former school is put on probation and the athletes left behind are reprimanded. It seems the NCAA should wise up and ... ban them from being hired by another school.

International markets have had far better pricing power than domestic markets.

We seem to be an outlier in sales tax with this weak growth, ... We anticipate with the home heating oil season coming back, it's going to be bad. The sales tax will probably take a hit in the final quarter of this calendar year and through first quarter unless prices all of a sudden correct themselves and come back down.

In some cases, the airlines were buying one of just about everything, because they thought they had an application for everything. It turns out they were wrong.

There's more price sensitivity among business travelers than ever.

I don't think what happened here today is going to have too much impact on the Revenue Forecasting Committee, ... I think a lot of the decisions there are going to center around the impact of energy prices on consumer expenditures.

Not a lot of people know about that. I was majoring in business, but the teachers wouldn't let me out for golf. But I've always been interested in growing things, not that I have a green thumb or anything, but I dig around in my yard at home.

The pricing is something that has been a problem for quite some time, when the front of the plane was basically subsidizing the back of the plane. The very small number of people who were paying for the very high fares were resentful.

Given that many of us work more than eight hours a day and five days a week, that free time is precious.

Our goal is to bring the community together on May 19-20 to celebrate.

They need to have sustained growth, so they can't concentrate only on the high-density market. What they've done for the most part is go into very big destination markets like New York to Southern Florida.

Even without a liquidation, the low-cost carriers have a lot of capacity coming in, ... It (liquidation) is not going to be a picnic in terms of fare raising.

In many cases, the walk-ups were placed at such a level that people were willing to make adjustments like driving to alternate airports.

The only thing I can say and I can implore to everyone in our community, is to look at the case, look at the facts when it comes to trial. And I will say, that I think the grand jury made the right call in this case,