There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
Andy Grove
I had the feeling my career was going to decline back in `68. I`d just had a big hit with The Green Berets (1968), but I wasn`t getting any younger and I knew Hellfighters (1968) wasn`t going to set the box office on fire. Then I read a script for a film ...
John Wayne
[criticizing the decline in quality of "The Simpsons" (1989)] I rate the last three seasons as among the worst, so Season 4 looks very good to me now.
Harry Shearer
It just never really gelled and then the September 11th attacks happened and the idea of a domestic comedy adventure film about an anti-terrorism unit just didn`t seem all that funny to me anymore. - [about his reason to decline True Lies 2]
James Cameron
You need only drive around some of our communities to see over the last several years, the last several decades, some of our communities have been in decline. The perception out there is that he`s not actively involved in rebuilding communities and doing ...
Austin Imamura
Without [revenue growth from its] power systems [unit], there would have been no growth, and the question is, as it peaks, how fast will the other businesses rebound and make up for the power systems decline? ... It`s going to make double-digit earnings g...
Armando Zamora
Without [revenue growth from its] power systems [unit], there would have been no growth, and the question is, as it peaks, how fast will the other businesses rebound and make up for the power systems decline? ... It`s going to make double-digit earnings g...
Edward Jones
When antiques started to decline, I shifted more of my square footage over to new furniture and decor, ... The antique mall is now 30 percent of the square footage where at one point it was 100 percent.
Annie Dennis
We`ve seen a steady, quite dramatic decline in a lot of runs, including ones we`ve had counters on and anecdotal information from towns. Over the past several years there has been a sharp drop. There`s always fluctuation but it`s been more dramatic than u...
Phil Brady
We`re past the peak and on the way down, but how far down we don`t know. However, the kiwi`s fall is helping and it will offset some of the decline in prices.
Steve Edwards
We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.
Aissatou Ba
We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.
Amy Drake
We had a change in personnel in our placement office. We had been placing in the 90-plus percent range and I think we dropped into the 80s. It was a decline we need to try to overcome because we want to help our students get jobs as much as we can.
Richard Morgan
We expect second-quarter earnings to approach those of the second quarter of 1997, if Asian markets do not decline further and other markets remain strong.
Arnold Zetcher
We basically had fairly steady decline in corporate profit growth for the last six quarters or so. I think people are starting to get worried about that now.
Melissa Brown
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.
Alan Phillips
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.
Alan Phillips
Third quarter results continued our strong operating performance trend, ... New orders exceeded $540 million in the quarter, despite Joy Mining experiencing a $62 million decline in roof support orders from the same quarter last year. Revenues exceeded $5...
Angie Watson
These changes seem suspect because manufacturers adopted aggressive discounting programs during July, programs that were evident in the 1 percent decline in vehicle prices in the CPI,
Michael Moran
There`s a risk of weakness in the Australian dollar in the next couple of days. Any decline in commodity prices is bearish for the Australian dollar.
Art Sherman
The aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the ascent. And we will take over.
Paul Neild
