"You are a conservative bunch of people. Does anyone's blood pulse through their veins with an entrepreneurial bent?" --Bill Smead, CEO, Smead Capital Management, based in Seattle, and an investor in Kroger, about the company's challenges in rivaling Amazon in e-commerce, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2019
"I need Intel to think about taking that $20 billion [planned chip-making] facility in Ohio and making it a $100 billion facility ... That's the whole game here." --U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimon
' ... and go back even 18 months, I would say that the simplest way to build a profitable company isn't to come up with amazing ideas for new ways to delight a customer. It is to stop doing stupid stu
" ... his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out." --Bette Middler, commenting on the vote by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin against Build Back Better