Owner Quotations

Don Chew is the owner of the Orange County Badminton Club, the location where I train. He played badminton when he was young and always had the passion for it. He never made it at the international level, but he wanted to give back to the sport. The majority of the elite players train at Orange County Badminton Club.

It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream.

Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question - 'Now what?' Often this question is followed by a - deer in the headlights - response, which is then followed by stagnation. Following stagnation comes fear.

As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?

Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.

Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, I'm as near to being the perfect dog owner as it is possible to be.

My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

Yes, I have a website that puts out conservative news. Yes, I am part owner of a gun company. Yes, I'm a Republican who was cast into the limelight for having the temerity to confront Barack Obama on the question of redistributing wealth... But I'm a working man, and I'm working.

The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.

When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn't even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo had never seen so many white people coming uptown.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

I've got more stuff asked of me every week. But I drive a race car for a living. My car owner lets me race as many sprint car races as I want to run.

During one of his uncannily well-timed impromptu visits to my restaurant, Union Square Cafe, Pat Cetta taught me how to manage people. Pat was the owner of a storied New York City steakhouse called Sparks, and by that time, he was an old pro at running a fine restaurant.

An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen seated by his goods, absorbed in the morning paper - probably balancing himself on one leg of his chair, with a spittoon by his side.

To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.

I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist's attorneys. I'd say, 'This is Jay-Z's attorney, we need to speak with Craig Kallman,' you know, owner of Atlantic, and they'd say, 'Right away,' and then I'd be like, 'Please just listen to my demo tape!'

Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.

I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.

English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.

I was sympathetic to the guy; he's a small business owner like myself. But I heard nothing that was going to change my mind.

When the new owner comes in and makes the decision on me, then I'll answer questions after that. At this point, it would be inappropriate. I can tell you this: I have really enjoyed working with Tony Tavares and Frank Robinson.

When I bought him, he worked an eighth of a mile in 102/5. That was the criteria my owner wanted: a well-bred horse that worked in 10 and change and didn't cost a couple hundred thousand. We would have given a lot more for him.

My father felt he had no choice. I felt that given time, something could have been worked out and that was my goal all along. But I was not the owner of the team.

On a family vacation this summer we needed to get access. I said, 'O.K., let's drive around the beach with the window open.' We found a signal, and the owner of the network was none the wiser. It took about five minutes.

One of our agents went inside and met with the prostitute where she wanted money for sex. An investigation revealed the owner of the business was procuring money for prostitution.

One out of every 100 family's in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's.

One owner pays seven times more than another might pay.

One of the benefits of that car is that it's a much cheaper car to build for the car owner and it's built with much better chance of each car on the track being competitive. (Dodge) had an uphill battle to try to make (the Intrepid) perform and make it match its cousin on the street.

One of our biggest risks is to hand over our brand name to a company or owner and hope they carry the torch, ... Our customers look at us as a chain ? as if we had complete control of hiring, firing and standards ? all things that make a brand. (Superior Air) was an easy fit in that their attitudes, beliefs system and values are equal to what we believe.

Now that you have a new owner and effectively a whole new philosophy behind the team, this could be a way to adopt a new identity.

Obviously George Steinbrenner is a huge fan of Bernie Williams and appreciates everything he's done for this franchise and what we've all done together. Our owner knows that all the way down to a Yankee fan who only attends one game a year. The entire franchise knows what Bernie Williams is and what he's meant to this place.

If the right situation came up at the right time, I'd consider it, ... But I'm focused on my job here with the Rangers. I have a great relationship with our owner and am excited about helping the organization.

I don't know anybody else who lives 1,000 miles away from their job and gets to commute back and forth. The owner said, 'You can live in your beloved Swifton, but don't you dare miss a game.' I had a few close calls, but I didn't miss any.

If we can't have a great team and a winning team, then I will not be an N.B.A. owner very long.

When we adopt them out, we will do it with the understanding that if the owner comes forward, they will be returned.

My kids bathed him all the time, and we know the owner since we moved here, four years, and he's a great person and we're friends with him. We never thought that the dog would attack Danny and we never thought that they would do what they did to him,

Most of the time they can get the loan, but it's not 100 percent. The owner usually has to come up with 35 to 40 percent of the money.

We had been talking to the previous owner on and off for a while, trying to figure out a way to save these prints. He said that at some point he wanted to try to catalog everything, but it's kind of an enormous task.

Many small companies simply don't want to get bigger. We did a case study on one company in which the owner had a chance to buy out a competitor and decided against it. He told me, 'I'd rather pack my kids' lunch and walk them to school.' He just felt his life was a lot better if he stayed small.

Software patents are a mess, ... Even if you don't believe in abolishing them entirely, there have been far too many examples of patents being granted even in light of overwhelming evidence of prior art and of dusty old patents on their third owner suddenly being used for a form of blackmail.

Search streams - the logs in which the contents of users' search requests are recorded - are a wealth of data about what people want and how they express their desires. The owner of such a search stream possesses a powerful asset, once user attributes may be calculated to determine how they relate to the target market.

She's a January foal, and came around early, so the owner asked if we could take a shot and get her ready to win early. Since she's come in, she's done everything right. I didn't push her. She took it upon herself to be quick. We weren't pointing at the very first 2-year-old race of the meet, but there's no reason not to go.

I was like, 'What, we signed a free agent?' ... It's big. I think the owner (Jim Irsay) really sees the opportunity to move forward here and make that push.

I would take stern action against the factory owner for this accident.

He (Lakers owner Jerry Buss) knew what he was trying to get accomplished, but still in all, it never quite seems to match up.

There are so many different fees it is difficult for the average business owner to sort it all out and determine exactly what they are paying and whether they may be paying too much. The merchant account companies purposely make their statements and fees difficult to understand, and that makes it hard for the average person to figure out if they can save money with a different company.

There are so many fees associated with credit card processing that it is very difficult for any business owner or manager to understand how much it is costing and whether or not there is any waste. I created the web site to help people become better informed.

This was a goal of mine for a long time. To come over here and win a Fair race. My owner gives us what we need and this is how we should be running all the time.

He is the owner and editor of (a prominent) investment magazine, ... Staying in the race would not be a good investment.

From this line one could consider if the business could, in the future, be sold or run by non-owner management for the benefit of the owner for retirement purposes or other.

From my understanding, the owner is in the hospital at this time.

From a professional's perspective, I am most excited about Renallo's wonderful setting for a business lunch. It has a comfortable upscale atmosphere where the person sitting at the next table doesn't overhear a business discussion. You get a professional, yet friendly, dining experience from the staff and owner at Renallo's.

I feel responsible. What could I have done? There's plenty I could have done. I have to ask myself, maybe, if I'm not fit to be principal owner of the Boston Red Sox.

if a bar owner doesn't want smoking in his establishment, that's completely up to them. There are a lot of non smoking bars out there, and they do very well, but I just think it should be an individual choice.

If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

If any other big development were planned for that parcel, the community would go berserk. And if I were a downtown business owner I would be screaming my head off. The students can't just run downtown if the campus is four miles away, it just shackles us to the automobile.

From there, we'll make attempts to contact the driver or owner of the vehicle. We can run the registration and find who the car is registered to. We're mostly giving warnings and giving them one chance and asking them to move it. Most people are very cooperative, and we usually have no trouble.

From the air as a cottage owner it's heart-wrenching.

If a dog owner can buy himself a sweater for $600, he can certainly afford an expensive wardrobe for his pet.

I hate to see the individual property owner get hurt. People had certain rights when they bought their homes and I don't think we can take those away.

CDC is made up of Pivotal, IMI, which is a supply chain player, and Ross, which is an ERP player. CDC has integrated none of these into a suite. This new entity was going to be made up of all these new pieces, plus Onyx. Our shareholders were going to walk away being a small, minority owner in CDC, as opposed to being 100 percent owners in Onyx, a company that is doing very well right now.

I don't care what people think of us. The only thing that matters is what the guys in this room believe. The guys that have that black cat on their heads, the coaches, the owner . . . we don't worry about what people say. All that's going to handle itself on the field.

Businesses make business decisions for business reasons. Obviously, the new owner has a different vision. We would certainly be willing to do whatever we can to assist in any transition if that's appropriate.

But that's why, ... when you say 'baseball' you put the word 'team' right after it. In my opinion, I have the best team in this league - from the owner right down to the bat boys.

Because we are using Master Well Owner volunteers trained through Cooperative Extension, we can do this research project for a greatly reduced cost. There has been much debate about the cause of high contamination rates among private water systems in the state.

Having an active, involved owner with the stature of Deion would be a huge asset to this team.

What is a dividend but your payment as an owner of the company? If you don't get that, then the only way you can profit from your investment is to sell all of it or part of it.

We support the democratic will of the people. It won't affect our business. I'd say 20 to 30 percent of our clientele smokes. But an owner should have the right to be a smoking place. Maybe they should have licenses where you get to be a smoking bar. We have three filters and huge industrial exhaust fans anyway. We wouldn't have to worry about that anymore.

We're pleased to have the resources and the kind of owner that can help us do the projects that we think are good for us and our customers.

I always feel that with a president, an owner - it depends on the structure of the club and the country - the players generally like to see him.

He wants to get to the Super Bowl quick, and he wants to get to the Derby quick. That's the kind of owner we need. Someone who wants to do it quick.

He was so much more than the owner of Smarty Jones.

I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.

If the dog has the temperament, and the owner has the drive, then those are the starting blocks.

If the government takes a person's land to build a highway, the property owner is compensated. If the government takes the use of a person's land to protect a rare species, however, the property owner is not compensated. This inequity must be addressed.

If the gun is not registered to the parent, then it would be up to the investigators to determine whether to charge the gun owner or the parent or both.

If the council says no, the owner will look at different options. But it's difficult for me to think the council will say no.

He was a solid, down-to-earth person, ... If you didn't know that he was the owner of an NFL team, you couldn't tell by his actions. He had no ego about him.

If someone told me, 'Hey Jag, you want to buy an airport for $3 million?' I would jump all over it. There's several ways the city could pay for it - through (federal aviation) bonds or owner financing. It could be a cash-less option. If someone offered me that, I'd take it.

He has his own feelings. You've got to understand his feelings. He's the owner of the team. He doesn't want anybody to get hurt. He's entitled to his opinion. He's the boss. He's always had his own opinion and he always will.

There is an absence of educated, common-sense, experienced people that a business owner can chat with about all kinds of issues.

The owner always has the final say. You have to decide who is going to be the best fit for the organization.

The owner calls every Monday 9 a.m. sharp. The cafeteria closes for lunch at 2. The washroom is down the hall to the left. And, oh yeah, Vince Carter wants to be traded.

The owner came in the door very shortly after and was able to say where they dropped it when they were doing the business banking,

The owner decided to offer more upscale bicycles of $500 or more. He changed his product line and did very well. That's how he reacted and he did well.

The owner had many animals and gradually became overwhelmed, eventually keeping them all in closed crates and small rooms as his illness progressed.

The owner is offering another half a percent.

The Owner Occupied Building Incentive Grant works much like the existing Rent Grant, however, we want to promote building ownership and this Grant does just that.

The owner of the car had gotten out and left the child in the car with the engine running. The child got out of the car seat and put the car in gear and ran over the owner of the car. She was pinned between the bumper of her car and Acceptance Insurance.

The owner of the car truly owns that data, not just the bits and bites inside the black box but what those bits and bites mean.

The owner of the front house was surprised to hear so many people lived there.

The owner of the van moved to Nebraska, and he's supposed to be visiting here so we can finish shooting the shots where we need the van.

The owner tends to source these things separately,

The owner was sitting up in the stands watching. I'm guessing he thought I brought you in on a two-day waiver to try out.