Patrick Anderson Quotations

We're battling an issue that we have no legal control over. This is a county issue. I understand that this is an unsafe road. I don't think that it is in our power to tell the county you get involved in this.

We're battling an issue that we have no legal control over,

Sharon's Management has helped take our market research and analysis practice to a national level. We're excited to have her as a Principal in our firm.

Right now he's just taking it one pitch at a time and trying to get good pitches to hit. He's been working his tail off. I've been real happy for him the last week or so.

Most businesspeople are properly skeptical of government programs labeled 'streamlined,' ... I'm skeptical of the burden this is placing on some smaller businesses. I'm skeptical of government's efforts to force retailers to charge taxes for an incredible number of municipalities around the country.

you can even look at the hot-selling Mustang as kind of a glorified economy car.

We don't want to put conditions, because we can't put conditions, but lets put a feel-good statement out there that has no meaning. We were told we can't make all these warm fuzzy good motions. If it's in the city then that's an issue. The Community Development Commission isn't in charge of making everybody feel good.

The only sliver of a silver lining is that the tourism industry has held its own.

The fact that an offer of this magnitude wasn't enough to keep one Ford factory here underlines how bad Michigan's business climate is and how difficult times are for our domestic automakers.

There comes a point in labor-management negotiations when you have to think about the survival of your bargaining partner, and we are well past that point. The Delphi bankruptcy put a flamethrower on a grim reality that's been evident for some time.

Everyone thought I was the underdog, but we showed them.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. It should give people, institutions and politicians the necessary courage to implement change.

No two ways about it, the July report is bad news. We will have the highest (jobless) rate in the country, or be darn near it.

Delphi can survive. But it will be a much different Delphi.

This is a powerful message to Delphi and its unions. Any deal that keeps people working is better than having the plants closing and everybody losing their jobs.

It's not so much a rah?rah type of thing. It's just going after it every day. It's 140 games. When we were going well, 11?game winning streak, little things were happening. Balls were falling in. Guys were just competing. We have to do the same thing when we're struggling. These kids compete every day.

It's mostly concentration, being consistent every day with his early work and preparing himself for a game. When he watches the ball all the way through and gets good pitches to hit, he has a chance. You start getting frustrated and when you get frustrated you get in a slump, so to speak. You're overdoing things. You're trying to do too much. That's what he got into.

It was possible for people with a high school education to get a job that paid $75,000 to $100,000 and six weeks of paid vacation. Those jobs are disappearing. The ... low-skill, upper-middle-class way of life is in danger.

It's wrong to think of the automobile industry as a dinosaur. The automobile industry is the cornerstone of the high-tech industry in Michigan.

In order to be a first-class state, you have to have a first-class airport and convenient air travel, and Northwest's connections to Japan and China and Europe have been very important to Michigan.

I can't think of a clearer signal to investors to stay away from Michigan than that. It's one of the most dangerous initiatives for the Michigan economy in years.

Health care costs are one area where local governments have as much trouble as anybody else, with very little control. You can do some things to control health care costs, but they're painful.