Quotes about Owned

The thing I like about these kinds of boats is that you can get them in extremely shallow water, which is a big plus when you're going out to the islands around here. And the maneuverability is a big plus. It handles like a big Jet Ski. I've lived in Florida since I was 3 and owned a lot of boats, but this is one of the best to have in this part of Florida.

Scott Ellis

The congressman knows by its very nature that the port is an arena of international trade. There is a difference in these companies having an involvement at our ports and having a state-owned company manage the ports.

Michael Connolly

She wasn't the least bit depressed. She was talking about going to Mexico. She had a Mexican boyfriend at the time. I forget his name. This was the first house she ever owned. She was going to buy some furniture. She was in very good spirits that day — of course, the champagne and vodka helped.

James Bacon

Even some employers who have called us, like one construction company owned by a Latino businessman, gave the day off to 150 workers.

Maria Jimenez

Independently owned businesses drive Charlotte's economy. And for too long this so-called small-business sector has been an afterthought in the financial scheme of things. The needs of independently owned companies and professional firms are at the heart of everything we do.

Wes Sturges

I saw one at a Lakeland Fun 'N' Sun fly-in. At the time, I owned a Cessna 170, but decided I wanted one of these.

Douglas Fulton

I think the state-owned casino proponents look at both Cherokee and Crawford counties as potentially lucrative markets.

Whitney Damron

Physician-owned, free-standing centers like this are the new wave of health care in the outpatient setting.

David Ireland

This storm wasn't spectacular like Andrew. But a lot of people lost everything they owned and to them, it doesn't matter if it was a Category 1 or 5, they still lost everything.

Bobby Lee

Owned it for some time. We've liked Bank One ( ONE ) for some time. They've been kind of murky in terms of guidance. Management has made some analysts nervous. But we think that the values are certainly there. Earnings growth is there. So, Bank One would be one of ours, too.

Michael Farr

And there was nothing happening in Texaco, Exxon, Mobil, Royal Dutch and Shell. If you owned those so-called great companies, you weren't too happy.

Jeff Matthews

Corpus Christi is a notable example of the business efficiency enhancements, return on investment and positive community impact resulting from implementation of a city-owned wireless network.

Hugh Taylor

She confronted an issue and owned up to it and took a lot of flak, and there was a lot of flak to take. But her strength is something that is aspired to by lots and lots of people in the U.K.

James Kydd

Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to the point where they may lose family control of the business.

Leo Apotheker

Baltus Roll, the gentleman who owned the land and died on the land, is where the name comes from.

Roger Warren

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

Bobby Jones

Ever since the young men have owned motorcycles, incest has been dying out.

Max Frisch

An increasing number of Chinese pharmaceutical companies, in particular privately-owned firms in coastal areas, are eyeing the international market.

Cui Bin

Eighty one out of the 99 lots are owned by the project.

Daniel Stone

They say it feels like a dream because some have never owned a suit. The clients are really appreciative. It puts their life in perspective.

Katy Zane

They said that (trucking company) Alia was part-owned by the government of Iraq.

Andrew Lindberg

The Ford is just a fun car and I've owned it for about three years.

Larry Richmond

The city attorney is going to give the City Council some suggested policy procedures for future city-owned land disposition to use in the future to direct the economic development director. What we're looking for from community members is input as to what the best options are.

John Rader

He's really the first good horse I owned. So I'll remember every one of his races.

Bob Bone

It is physician-owned, and all the board members are physicians.

Barry Baker

It was her last event of the day at 8:30 or 9, and it was kind of her hometown area. She owned up to it and apologized right away.

Roger Germann

The big reason is because being independently owned and operated gives us a lot more flexibility, from everything to fee splits to equity opportunities in the firm for our brokers.

Chris Fox

Business Wire is one of the few independently owned companies and one of the biggest in the public relations industry.

Richard Weiner

We owned them up front, both on offense and defense. We thought, from watching film on them, that we could dominate on the line so our game plan was to run the ball.

Shane Quilling

There will be cutting and assembly, but not by us. The cutting and sewing people will be owned by separate companies, our traditional customers.

Wilbur Ross

I really believed in the stocks in this book -- I own more of these stocks than I've ever owned in any other book I've written.

Gene Walden

That would not have gotten people out of harm's way. His position was that it's expensive to even move people to other homes he owned. But when it comes to patient safety, it's nonnegotiable.

Alan Levine

The growth we see in Hispanic-owned businesses illustrates the changing fabric of American's business and industry. With Hispanic businesses among the fastest growing segments of our economy, this is a good indicator of how competitiveness is driving the American economy.

Louis Kincannon

This gives the veteran-owned businesses a way to reach federal agencies and vice versa.

Chris Hale

The obvious conflict is the interest of the business over the interest of the patient. A doctor should not be owned by a corporation that can dictate the standards by which he practices. He is making decisions about your health and needs free rein to make the best choices for you.

Robert S. McNamara

I guess I was so busy building my business that I really never gave it much thought until now. We've obviously always been a woman-owned business -- I just wanted to make it official.

Connie Jones

When somebody calls, we treat this like any other park in our inventory. If you didn't know the city owned this, they would be invisible. You deal with me; we basically do the rest of the work.

Art Gonzalez

We kept our finger firmly planted in the eye of the establishment when Murdoch owned us, ... It's part of our genetic makeup.

David Schneiderman

If we transform health insurance to a market where small employers and family-owned businesses can demand better benefits at better prices, insurance companies would be forced either to keep up with the competition, or lose their market share.

Mike Enzi

Our land is not in public trust. It's privately owned land. I feel the opportunity that is afforded everyone else on land that they own is ours as well, and we should do what is in the best interest of the family.

Perry White

Sounds French, it is known to be British, but in fact it is 100 percent owned by McDonald's.

Simon Anholt

I think just having a good, consistent product and being locally owned has helped.

Jesse Johnson

None of the alternatives we are exploring would involve selling control of our U.S. operations to a company owned by a foreign government.

Bob Watters

Gap owned the white-wall-and-maple-floor look. But everyone caught up.

Jeff Henry

The impression from the audience standpoint is that she's crazy. She's never really faced her grief. She's never really owned it.

Rodger Smith

It's neat living downtown. I had built a house in Manitou, and I owned a couple fixer-uppers. I can see myself living here five or 10 years.

Jeff Myers

The company has historically owned a lot of land, which is now developed. We're looking at new projects we can work on.

Jud Honaker

People from town feel that something they owned should be shared.

Mary Phillips

These new revelations make it clear that the administration and the foreign government-owned company have not been forthcoming with the American people.

Luis Miranda

Value managers were selling it and a lot of growth managers already owned it, even though it wasn't labeled a growth stock.

John Waterman

China has a competitive edge in the labor-intensive shoe manufacturing industry. They have ignored the fact that 98 percent of the shoemakers in China are privately owned.

Chong Quan

I've never owned a pair and really wanted them.

Michelle Monaghan

The Silver Companies joins you and members of City Council in your efforts to protect city-owned river and riparian land.

Jud Honaker

He made one mistake, he knew it, he owned up to it. A young punter that may have affected him drastically. ... Tom erased it from his mind.

Bob Casullo

We don't want to act big. We like our stores to have that friendly feeling, like they're owned by a couple of guys from the neighborhood.

Todd Bezenah

During the treatment, we found out he owned a chicken coop and that some of his birds had died in recent days. We took samples from the man and he was isolated.

Ron Krumer

This would be the first state-owned (remote operation) effort.

Brett Wallace

We were here for a long weekend. We really liked the neighborhood and people who owned the building.

Andy Krochalk

We have restaurants in every category, and a lot of those do participate in the showcase, and a lot of them are locally owned and operated, as well.

Meghan Rogers

Our agencies are booking away whenever possible. In instances when they don't have a choice, they're booking on the airline through US Airways Vacations, which is a tour brand not owned by US Air.

Steve Loucks

He didn't have 1,000 miles on that bike when he wrecked, ... That was the first bike he'd ever owned.

Larry Lang

We owned the rebounds in overtime.

Chris Scrimsher

We originally joined IPG for the same reasons all agencies join big holding companies: 'synergy,' mutual benefit to the agencies and the clients. We've largely missed any business benefits from being owned, and instead have maintained our own highly independent operating style. The lesson here is age-old: Be careful what you wish for.

Jim Holbrook

Most people like doing business with people that are from where they are from. The investors in this bank live in this neighborhood, live in Dallas and share in the belief that independent, locally owned banks can provide a benefit to the community.

Jack Seifrick

This proposal, as a locally owned amusement park, would make it very difficult to compete with corporate-owned amusement parks in Northern California because the playing field wouldn't be level.

Kris Reyes

They just owned us with their defense. They smothered us with their defensive pressure.

Jody Rhodes

We realized each studio had to be locally owned. We fell into franchising as the only way to maintain our standards.

Jim Evanger

In most instances, the retail location doesn't own the equipment that's operating there. That's owned by a retail operator and there are private contracts between those companies.

Mary Neubauer

The deal also paves the way for a merger with the smaller Allied Bank, which is also owned by the Lucio Tan group.

Lucio Tan

Since we've been doing it there have been less complaints about cats. Mainly what we do (is remove) previously owned cats that show up at somebody's house.

Jo Guertin

We're the largest investor-owned health-care company in the country. We feel like it's incumbent on us to participate.

Jeff Prescott

Alex owned Rockford Country Club.

Kay Rossmiller

The current status on lots owned by the city is that they are exempt from taxation.

Leo Dobrovolny

That access is owned by the public. It shouldn't be blocked.

Camden Smith

We?re still a small, family-owned company. We?re just growing every day.

Haila Williams

We are a snowboard shop, owned and operated by snowboarders, for snowboarders.

Dwayne Davis

There is general agreement on the direction of economic policy, anti-corruption, reform of state-owned enterprises.

Carl Thayer

Seattle is not a big enough city to support two separately owned and operated dailies indefinitely.

Stephen Lacy

Before anyone else, Macquarie saw the potential of the U.S. market. They have the most robust model of highways as a new utility that can be an investor-owned utility like gas and electric utilities.

Robert Poole

I knew that some of the major league teams that owned their minor league affiliates were doing quite well.

Jason Freier

Gold has had big moves but overall the outlook still looks favorable. It's an under-owned investment class and there is a lot of political instability that would fuel gold.

Todd Campbell

[Jeanette] was one of the four great black boxers of the early 1900s, and he owned a boxing gym on 26th Street and Summit Avenue. Jeanette Street between Summit Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard is named for him.

Kathie Pontus

It's not a good thing. This is an over-30-year business, and for the first time, I'm extremely concerned. I've worked very hard, put a lot of my own money into this building (which is owned by someone else), put in a lot of improvements myself, and we're very, very, very nervous about what could happen to us tomorrow.

Annette Johnson

Decisions on this matter should be made on the basis of the overall strategic and developmental objectives we want to attain through state-owned entities.

Kaizer Mohau

They pretty much did whatever they wanted to do. They owned us on the glass.

Todd Tate

We would like to expand our branch operations on a wholly owned basis. We're in constant dialogue with the insurance regulator, and I hope to visit him very soon in Beijing.

Martin Sullivan

They cut a deal with a company that is government-owned and is tied to a country with some links to 9-11.

Miguel Lopez

The easiest solution is to do like in France and Germany, where the central bank's capital is entirely owned by the state.

Roberto Maroni

[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business, ... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.

Elvis Costello

It was a neighborhood of working-class people, many who owned their own businesses, ... Even if it didn't cut through their home, if it forced their business to close or move, they usually had to move.

Ella Bell

[In the auto industry, for example,] There is no American car made that does not have parts made by African-American-owned businesses, ... is a proponent of doing business with African-Americans in particular and minorities in general.

Earl Graves