Paul Campbell Quotations

No doubt it would increase our tax base, assess the valuation somewhat, increased revenues from the buildings that he would put up and the animals he would have in those facilities,

State of Illinois employees responded in overwhelming numbers to our call for help, and our volunteers set a tremendously inspiring example by working in rough conditions to provide Hurricane Katrina's victims access to the services they need to rebuild their lives,

We came up with certain objectives and in order to drive those critical success factors, we decided we needed to raise the level of administration to take the JCA to be a more efficient and professional unit, ... we have always employed a CEO based on cricket knowledge and not business knowledge. We decided to shift the focus of who ran the business side of the game.

We heard from many small-business owners, and (for) all of them it was difficult for them to compete with larger, even global firms.

There are a lot of guys that look up to us. We knew that they would follow our lead.

Whether or not a land is for sale weighs in hugely for criteria.

Do people put disclaimers on films when there are terrorists, and the terrorists happen to have a certain nationality? It's a film. That's all it is.

The Gourmet Burger Kitchen business is performing strongly across its eight existing restaurants and our pipeline of new sites is developing well.

Fair and equal treatment is going to be the way things are, ... Nothing illegal will be tolerated.

When she retired, the new buyers had to start from scratch.

trying to get a feel for each establishment.

This is a case of applying best business practices. We're fully utilizing our assets.

Before we had this, our buyers were at the mercy of the vendors.

By launching our Knowledge Management platform, the state of Illinois has revolutionized its procurement process because our purchasing experts can better negotiate and reduce costs by making informed decisions. Knowledge Management could enhance procurement in government nationwide because it helps to deliver better contracts, stronger negotiating strategies and real-time pricing information that ultimately achieves the best value that taxpayers expect.

It was heavy going and right outside my door. There's still burned-out cars all over the place,

And there are some of them that we don't have. We have made stride, but as I said, 'getting to the stage where we want to, we have to add', and we are adding.

It really expanded opportunities for small businesses. Once the law took effect, we began to heavily market the program across the state.

It was our intent to inform the public of what we were doing. We wanted input from the public. We wanted to make sure that we as a commission made our decisions with sound based on not only the guidelines and the ordinance, but also the wishes of the people,

For other states to really understand and take advantage of what we learned in Illinois, we realized that we'd have to 'walk them' through our process--which led us to the workshop idea.