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Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

We have to ask ourselves, 'What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes artificial flavoring and sugar for apple juice? What kind of businesses have we created when we even lie to infants?'

If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and their own governments, then we can really transform the prospects of life on this planet. We can find ourselves living in a world that is more like the world that I think most of us want to be living in.

Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.

Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts.

Businesses should absolutely set aside funding in their budgets for security consultants. Unless there is an expert on staff, and there usually is not, it needs to be outsourced.

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.

I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.

When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.

We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.

As more and more Americans own shares of stock, more and more Americans understand that taxing businesses is taxing them. Regulating businesses is taxing them. They ought to be thinking long-term about their ownership, not just their income, and that they should pay taxes on capital, as well as taxes on labor.

I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.

We wouldn't have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons.

The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

I'm a creative guy. And I only do businesses as a result of like I've - I'm try to find what my gifts are and give them immediately. As soon as I get them and I understand, I give them back.

Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of increasing wellbeing.

I see a future where states compete with one another to see which can be the most efficient, and where businesses seek out efficient states in which to locate so they can reap the economic and environmental benefits for their businesses and employees.

Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.

Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism's creative destruction of slower industries.

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

To have transactions made on your web site via credit card, you must be PCI compliant. Businesses make the mistake of thinking that because you passed the requirements and are PCI certified, you are immune to attacks.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don't eat. And I like to eat.

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

The perception among C-suite executives that the global economy is getting stronger should be a hopeful indicator for global business. As optimism for the global economic climate improves, top executives are more apt to focus on improving their own businesses by spending for programs that might have been curtailed or postponed and by hiring new employees to carry out their growth plans.

The point of new venturing is to stimulate a range of ideas that build corporate resilience -- the ability to keep enriching core businesses by incorporating new modes (whether products, distribution channels, or markets) while discovering potential new directions that might not only be internal ventures but also an acquisition or an alliance.

Until businesses feel a real need for more hands-until productivity alone won't allow them to reach their earnings goals-they won't begin hiring.

We appreciate the concerns for adequate downtown parking. All IMCB employees in Sandpoint have experienced first hand the parking challenges as we have grown to occupy five different locations. Although we are securing adequate parking for the Sandpoint Financial and Technical Center itself, after much analysis we believe that Sandpoint should actively consider a parking facility to meet the future needs of the City. Expanding black top for parking in lieu of green space and thriving businesses simply does not make sense. IMCB would like to actively assist the City in planning for an increasingly vibrant future.

We are always pleased to see our customers finding success with our software. Entrepreneurs, by nature, are very brave people. Taking a business online has unique challenges, but our products and services continue to help thousands of small businesses successfully establish an online presence.

We are probably at the point where the trading cycle is slowing, at least in North America, and it's tough to say investment banking will get better. But the retail and asset management businesses look really good. That's what's exciting to investors.

We are poised to grow again, which is part of our long-term strategy. Ultimately, the baby boomer impact will come, and we have quite an array of businesses to capture that impact.

We are pleased with the continued improvement in the core business this quarter. Our growth businesses of Linux, Identity and Resource Management are performing well, and we believe we will continue to see growth throughout the fiscal year.

We are pleased to see that Maryland legislators stepped up and made a statement about what kind of businesses they want in their state. Marylanders deserve businesses that provide for their employees, pay a decent wage and provide affordable health care, not those that expect taxpayers to foot the bill for their bottom-line corporate profits. They get that with Fair Share Health Care.

We are pleased to have the space, bandwidth, and power to meet the increasing demand for The Planet's offerings. The additional data center space will allow The Planet to offer our customers the ability to scale with us as their businesses grow.

We are pleased to enter into the agreement with Nekoosa Coated Products, a company with a well-earned reputation in the industry. Also, the sale advances Nashua's strategy to exit non-strategic and mature businesses and focus on growth opportunities.

We've achieved a good profit outcome despite softness in some of our businesses and weak revenue growth. Our profit reflects the fact that we continue to tune our business models and cost structures.

There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.

There are some businesses that have weeds and grass growing in front of the lots, cars with flat tires and cars parked on the sidewalks. We want to encourage the owners of the property to take care of that and clean up in front of their places.

We stopped the source of the spill and have deployed approximately 8,000 feet of boom to contain it. Our main goals are to protect people and the environment, so we're focusing our efforts on safely recovering the oil and minimizing impact to the environment and other businesses in the area. We're responding as aggressively as the weather conditions safely permit. No one has been injured, and we certainly want to keep it that way.

We started back then and then worked on getting the support of the city council. The most important fact was that the businesses in downtown supported us. Out of the 24 businesses in downtown, 22 supported us.

There is no one-size-fits-all approach, because all businesses are not set up to run the same way.

There is no market failure. Most small businesses can get access to capital loans. Yes, there are people who do not have access to capital, but it's mostly because they have a bad idea.

There is no longer any excuse for not adopting corporate IM. But businesses should establish policies for connecting with external parties, to ensure public IM services are used for real business purposes.

We?d like to be able to implement different ways of looking at the service that we need, but the truth is, if the businesses that do this are not yet prepared to bid on those methods, when the industry has not reached the point you?re at yet, we have little choice.

Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.

We've approached a few of the other businesses in this area and had a very positive response,

When we were thinking this through, the emphasis was on what solutions we could enable that would allow us to provide our customers with greater convenience and greater comfort when they?re shopping our stores. We spent a lot of time working with the various businesses before we even touched the technology because I felt it was important not to get confused by any preconceived limitations of what technology can do.

We remain focused on building on the momentum in all of our businesses to produce strong quarterly results, and I am confident that we will meet our growth targets for this fiscal year.

What we're looking for is to have small businesses apply standards that are reasonable in light of the information that they're storing. There's no business around that would leave a stack of money on a table, for people to just walk in and take. What we're really saying is that information about consumers, about your customers, is the new currency.

What they say may have an impact tomorrow, but the dominant topic on investors' minds right now starts with an 'I' and it's not Intel. Both businesses and consumers are hesitant to make any moves until there's progress on Iraq.

When we got our students back, the population of New Orleans increased by 10 to 20 percent. A lot of businesses pegged their openings to the return of our students. We expect the students to be a big part of rebuilding.

When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.

We believe this will significantly increase our ability to attract new businesses to Tehama County.

We believe this will provide a way to market state businesses that are working toward leaving a smaller footprint on the land.

What little data I've seen suggests that only about 25 percent of businesses have taken deliberate, serious action. And certainly the larger corporations would be the ones that would begin the process. Let's face it, a small company probably would not have the capability of taking very dramatic action.

What's lacking is confidence, so businesses aren't spending the money they have, ... That's why I don't necessarily think it takes a huge fiscal stimulus package to get the economy moving.

We're going to have to have a massive program to get these people permanent housing, ideally near or in their former communities, to get them jobs, to help restart businesses and to provide transportation,

Universal City plays an important role in our company and in Los Angeles. Now is the time to shape a vision not only for the continued vitality of our studio and theme park businesses but for the property itself.

U.S. travel businesses and organizations must move quickly to realize the value of their industry-exclusive .travel Internet domain in the global context. Protecting our nation's valuable tourism assets can be done by simply registering them with their .travel domain names.

We're doing it at night because there are a lot of businesses on that road, and there are a lot of people who live on that road. We're going to try to be as courteous as we can be.

Working toward this goal of helping local businesses grow, I have been an ardent supporter of reducing the tax burden.

With the Internet being such an essential business communication tool, the NB750 provides small and medium businesses with a safety net that is simple and cost-effective to implement, helps save money and boost productivity.

With the high prices of gas and energy in general, it is becoming more important for families and businesses to save money where they can. A home energy audit is the first step to assess your home's energy diet and to evaluate what measures can be made to make your home more energy efficient. An audit will show you problems that, when corrected, save significant amounts of money over time.

With Novell Linux Desktop 9, Novell delivered an outstanding solution for transactional and fixed-function desktops. With its successor, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, we are now positioned to serve the sweet spot of the market, the general office worker. This desktop is already generating great interest in businesses of all sizes, and it represents a tremendous new opportunity for Novell.

We're expecting a solid year for equipment and software spending. Businesses seem to have very optimistic plans for investment in 2006.

We're focusing on markets where we have established a leadership position. We're transitioning out of businesses that are no longer strategic to 3Com's future.

We're hoping the snow level falls and the situation doesn't turn out as bad as projected. But there are businesses sandbagging right now to prepare for the worst.

We're hopeful this turns into something that becomes a standard for performance in terms of how you treat your workers and train them. For businesses making decisions, we don't want Florida farms left out because of labor practices.

Through my 'Grow Wisconsin' initiative, we are supporting entrepreneurs as they develop new high-tech businesses that create good paying jobs for our state, ... These types of companies help move Wisconsin's economy to the high end.

This suggests that businesses do expect trade activity to improve further on a buoyant 2005.

Yahoo is not planning to require payments for businesses or organizations to send e-mail to Yahoo users. Companies can continue to send e-mail to Yahoo e-mail users at no cost in exactly the same way they always have.

We're puzzled because the president has made a major part of his economic program an ownership society. What we are doing every day is helping people open businesses and grow their businesses.

With the pace of things, sometimes those things don't get the full hearing they deserve. We didn't get the chance to offer up public comment because there were no public hearings on it. So now we've got to make certain we have a clear understanding of what the Legislature meant so the affected businesses know where they stand. We want to establish a comfort level rather than creating more confusion.

We knew we would need a two-pronged approach to force the government to deal with this issue. Now we want to videotape, expose and embarrass the businesses breaking the law.

We know a number of businesses are hurting on both sides of the slide and in 1998 there were a number of businesses involved in this. I think the longer this goes on the more likely businesses will take advantage of something like this.

Ultimately, retaining and attracting businesses means saving and creating jobs. That's good for our customers and the Southern California economy.

Ultimately, public-safety concerns will determine when businesses can reopen and residents are allowed to return, even in areas that appear to be undamaged.

Ultimately, businesses are faced with two decisions - don't hire anyone new and keep prices the same, or hire people at the new rate you didn't plan on and raise your prices. It is an artificial raise in (business) cost ... when the market forces aren't dictating that they need to do that.

With this transaction behind us, we can sharpen our focus on our other improvement priorities, such as streamlining our operations and expanding our core businesses in advanced water treatment, water and wastewater solutions, space, defense electronics and leisure marine in order to provide greater potential for growth and profitability. We will continue operating our portfolio toward achieving premier multi-industry performance, with an improved growth profile, increased margins and a more efficient use of capital.

work closely with other arts organizations, civic and community groups, and local businesses to form alliances and supportive networks.

We're still here. It hasn't been easy and we seem to get a new surprise every day but we're here ... Tell people there is plenty of parking ? just about all of the other businesses have moved out.

We're starting to see more employers introduce flexibility into their workplace. The workplace is starting to look a little different. Businesses are finding they need to do it to retain the workers they have.

We've got hopefully a couple of new businesses that will be in the mall by early spring.

We've got businesses on the North Shore who have seen 30 per cent property tax increases on top of 40 per cent the year before and 30 per cent the year before that, then you're hitting them with another basically property tax. . . . It's just the straw that broke the camel's back, it's too much.

We want to provide very significant tax incentives for businesses to locate there, incentives for housing, and attempt to minimize as much of the red tape as possible by creating one central clearing house for government programs,

We have no layoff targets and no company-wide numbers. We never announce overall layoffs because we don't plan for them across GE. We leave it up to individual businesses to decide what actions are necessary to meet their objectives. However, it's clear we'll need fewer jobs at GE because of redundancies from the Honeywell acquisition, the Montgomery Ward bankruptcy, modest volume-related reductions and GE's digitization activities.

What the town agreed to do, was share 45% of the sales tax revenue generated by the businesses there, with the developer, for about 14 years.

We want to stay here. We love this city. We raised our kids here. We built our businesses here and we're being forced to accept a set of circumstances that are not acceptable. We can't continue to lose this kind of money.

We'll be looking at issues including Mandate Light, which gives consumers the opportunity to chose what type of (medical) benefits they want and also at possibly doing a health insurance voucher for the uninsured, including businesses that do not currently offer health insurance, as well as individuals who do not have health insurance.

We'll be counting on the continued generosity of businesses and individuals to hit our fundraising goals, but we can sure promise them a priceless entertainment experience and opportunity to help the community in this time of need.

We'll see small businesses growing around all of this.

We are also very interested in her ideas on immigration and her concept of possible employer sanctions. The Arizona Chamber is supporting measures to help small businesses comply with confusing federal immigration rules. We are opposed to new state-level sanctions that would further complicate the bewildering mess of current immigration laws.

Therefore we believe there is really no basis for the continued perception in the minds of the public that an unreasonable request will be made on businesses around Sabina Park to take down their business signs.

Women-owned businesses do not seem to grow because funds tend to be diverted towards the household. Women's primary role is to take care of the family and the household. This compounds the problem of not having access to credit for their businesses do not show any growth.