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DAVID GLASS The sales momentum is clearly picking up, ... Calendar '06 is likely to be the best year that we've ...
WILLIAM HOLLAND
Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it&... GAIL COLLINS First, dealers are ignoring their best customers. They are spending 80 percent of their time on walk...
JEFF SACKS That means more disposable income, which results in more visits to restaurants and more restaurant s...
ALAN SIMPSON
I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDon... SHARON STONE We are very happy to be reporting that our pro-forma earnings passed the $1 billion mark for the fir...
JOHN CHAMBERS We are very happy to be reporting that our pro-forma earnings passed the $1 billion mark for the fir...
JOHN CHAMBERS Restaurant industry sales in 2011 are estimated to have reached a record high of $604 billion, up 3....
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AARON VANCE
I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of ne... DONALD TRUMP The Golden Gate Restaurant Association did a study, when the law first came out, the first quarter, ...
KATHLEEN HARRINGTON By contrast, dealers spend 20 percent of their time on referrals, be-backs, and repeats, which resul...
JEFF SACKS We know that the global problem is probably $600 billion or more in magnitude, of which China repres...
MYRON BRILLIANT We are opportunistic. We have a very significant war chest. Our net debt is around $3 billion. It's ...
ANDREI GAIDAMAKA This year we have hit record highs for consolidated net sales, consolidated operating income and con...
KOJI KOBAYASHI As a result of a rising interest rate environment which is a positive for a bank like Frost with ...
DICK EVANS
Net income for the first three quarters of 2005 is nearly equal to all of 2004, MICHAEL EISNER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college ...
MIKE HUCKABEE The current global market for weather products is estimated at over $16 billion, while the potential...
BRADLEY HOGGATT I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is...
BERNARD LIAUTAUD We go through almost a case a week of Maker's Mark, which for a restaurant that is not a steakhouse,...
DUGGAN MCDONNELL The merger strategically makes sense, given the complimentary product lines that Aspect offers, but ...
BEN ROSE The merger strategically makes sense, given the complimentary product lines that Aspect offers, but ...
BEN ROSE
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very in... HENRY FLYNT We had sales of over NZ$1 billion for the last quarter -- the result of developing new businesses, m...
CHRIS LIDDELL Already they are making a difference in parliament. For the first time in years, the [ruling] Nation...
DIAA RASHWAN A surge of some 20 percent in exports in February reflects the booming global economy, one example o...
KOJI KOBAYASHI We've had very strong sales recently, and we have our fingers crossed for the holiday season.
JOAN KANER We're expecting operating profits to increase by 20% [to $4.4 billion] for the quarter, aided by str...
TSUYOSHI MOCHIMARU
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL There are fewer and fewer smokers every year. Also, studies show that as the prices of cigarettes go...
DERYK PARKER While growth in sales of mobile devices are likely to slow, we expect TV sales to increase by more t...
EIICHI KATAYAMA Our survey also found that slightly larger businesses -- those with 20 to 100 employees -- have offi...
GARY CHEN
It appears that the threshold has been reached where consumers are feeling the pinch of higher gas p... RON PAUL The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY
In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit o... BERNIE SANDERS No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year i...
CALVIN KLEIN I saw my potential as artistic director, which is very different from designer. Fashion companies mi...
JASON WU Our performance in both the quarter and for the year demonstrates that our business model is solid a...
MAXINE CLARK The sales people can spend 100 percent of their time with customers on the sales floor. This system ...
DEBORAH WEINSWIG
And tonight, for the first time in thirteen years, Lord Voldemort’s mark had appeared in the sky. ... J.K. ROWLING
While the Internet is important for us, India is also necessary for the Internet with its 1.2 billio... KAPIL SIBAL We think the $9.5 billion number implies a net revenue number of about $6.5 billion, which is roughl...
BEN SCHACHTER Basically, taxpayers would pay $2.4 billion in higher taxes to get four percent more of our kids int...
LARRY MCCARTHY Molson Coors' third-quarter results were driven primarily by a very favorable effective tax rate of ...
BONNIE HERZOG
Customer discovery is the process of translating a founder's vision for the company into hypothe... STEVE BLANK The November performance of the Restaurant Performance Index is a positive sign for the restaurant i...
HUDSON RIEHLE My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London's Lexington Street. It's a little ...
DAVID WALLIAMS Our research shows that as much as 15 percent of Sears store sales are influenced by customer resear...
BILL BASS I expect it will cut my truck sales 30 percent. Next January my diesel sales will be 10 percent, the...
BARRY LEHMER While breaking the $4 billion mark is noteworthy, 2005 can best be described as a good but not neces...
LARRY BURT I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company,...
ROSE GEORGE Our 3 percent increase in net income was driven by strong loan growth, an improved net interest marg...
ROBERT GRISWOLD It's not unheard of, in certain developing countries, for people to pay up to 20 percent of their ye...
ALAN NOGEE
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JACK ROUSH
Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes! DEYTH BANGER You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.
EIKE BATISTA We had strong sales across the company and ended the year with the lowest net debt in 10 years.
BILL SWANSON This distinction is a reflection of our continued achievements, which, this year, include $9.44 bill...
BRUCE KARATZ Individual income tax is due on April 15, filing and payment. The real property tax deadline is Febr...
ART ILAGAN
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, e...
GLENN HUBBARD We abandoned what worked in the first period. We wanted to pass the puck into the net, not shoot it....
TRENT YAWNEY
Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net,
leaves it in the water for a time;... IVAN TURGENEV We're now close to $1 billion in aggregate sales proceeds while we continue to evaluate alternatives...
JEFF SMULYAN Every year we see our prescription sales increase ... up to 63 percent of our sales now. At the same...
CAROL HIVELY About 95 percent of the time, weather is an unrealistic excuse, ... Less than 5 percent of the time,...
BURT FLICKINGER We certainly did a good job for the first 20 minutes, but for whatever reason we just didn't play we...
DAN TOBIAS We actually are pegging LCD-TV sales at about 27 percent of the global market in 2007.
DAVID NARANJO A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.
ARI FLEISCHER We just feel fortunate to have those people in the organization. There are a great many city employe...
MARK NOBLE But ironically, this is going to turn the shortage into a surplus in a very short period of time. Th...
DREW PECK I think we did great. We made a lot of history. That was the first time our school has ever had two ...
DOMENIC LORE In the first program, vendors had to be persuaded to participate. This time, many volunteered. Fifty...
BEN SOPPITT
Bill Gates is worth $97 billion. Ninety-seven billion, that is equal to the net worth of 120 million... MICHAEL MOORE
These facilities were relatively rustic even for this area of the world. Other inns at least had ind... ASHIM SHANKER History teachers help children climb mountains.
JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Cable is not really growing at all, ... It's seeing roughly 15 to 20 percent growth in terms of upgr...
MIKE PAXTON The strong second half in 2005 is feeding through into 2006. The consensus wisdom for industry growt...
MALCOLM PENN
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LISA KLEYPAS We just worked the ball better. We had 21 assists, and it's been awhile since we crossed the 20-assi...
JOANNE P. MCCALLIE
The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company.... LAPO ELKANN Intel's 75 percent increase in capital spending to $6 billion in 2000 is finally paying dividends. W...
DANIEL NILES
Global Crossing's success in the execution of its strategy demonstrates the importance of a finely t... LUCY LIU As the company founder, I have a tremendous amount of pride in the company we have built in the last...
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JACK WARD
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C.
If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps... JACK WELCH
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA This was our best year ever for the generation of net income.
JAMES ROGERS
You’ve crossed into Death, into the other side, and returned. Do you think something like that doe... RICHELLE MEAD We expect increased net sales and profitability for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006, when compared...
GARY LARSON Two thousand and five was the year of the emerging market. Booming demand in the Southern Hemisphere...
NEIL MAWSTON In a challenging retail environment, I am pleased to report our first year with net earnings in exce...
LEE SCOTT
We had some really powerful technology - Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were v... NOLAN BUSHNELL
Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in pr... BERNIE SANDERS
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