Memorable bits from 2006
“My feeling is you can’t
win the lottery if you don’t buy a ticket.”
– Sumner Tilton,
director of Worcester law firm
Fletcher, Tilton and Whipple, about
his and other business leaders’ efforts to raise a million dollars and set up the
fledgling Choose Worcester organization
to proactively promote the city to
prospective corporate residents.
(See “An offer businesses aren’t refusing,” April 3.)
“People are worried more about the cost of fuel rather than avian flu. It’s one of those issues that, if it comes, we’ll deal with it.”
– Michael Lanava,
business resource manager for the Metrowest Chamber of Commerce.
(See “Much more than a fire drill,” June 26.)
“You spend most of your waking hours at work. If you don’t enjoy it, there’s something wrong.”
– Patty Bautz,
vice president of corporate employee
services at Natick-based Cognex Corp., about the need to create employee-
satisfaction programs in the workplace.
(See “Keeping workers happy,” March 20.)
“We’re not interested in reslicing the pie here. We want to bring in more pie.”
– William Morgan MD
of Fallon Clinic on plans to increase
the number of patients using the
clinic’s orthopedic unit.
(See “Fallon Clinic bets on bones,”
October 30.)
“God gave us two ears and one mouth, so listen twice as much as you speak.”
– Mike Cotoia,
40 under forty winner, on his philosophy. (See “40 under Forty,” Sept. 4.)
“It all depends on disposable income, and affordable is in the eye of the beholder.”
– Paul Wingle,
spokesman for the Massachusetts Hospital Association, on the state’s new health care law that requires affordable insurance for every bay state resident
(See “Health insurance: It’s the law.
Now what?” Nov. 27.)
“We’re losing people in Massachusetts at the point that they’re deciding where they’re going to make a life, and they’re choosing
other places.”
– Michael Goodman,
Donahue Institute, UMass.
(See “Long road back for Mass. economy,” March 6.)
“Owning 49 percent of
something really great is
better than owning 100
percent of nothing.”
– Pamela Norton
of IMS Management and consulting, at a WPI Venture Forum.
(See “Finneran on negotiation,” March 6.)
“I know the world is flat,
but it seems to go uphill
to here from Boston.”
– Jack Healy,
director of the Manufacturing Advancement Center in Worcester and a board member of the Providence and Worcester Railroad, on the difficulties of getting improved commuter rail service in Worcester’s Union Station.
(See “Twelve-train limit,” Nov 13.)
