Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Armstrong

Think of any news site on the web that sells subscriptions; AOL has four times as many people as the largest subscription service. We have people who pay to use our products and services, and they are heavily engaged in our content.

Tim Armstrong

What's happening internally is eventually what will take AOL back to being a growth company.

Tim Armstrong

Until the company believes in itself, AOL didn't have its own space and identity in the marketplace. The opportunity is to get out from under the negative history and figure out the value AOL offers for consumers and for publishers and advertisers.

Tim Armstrong

AOL, I think, represented an opportunity for a few things. One is I'm a big believer in the AOL brand, and I think AOL as a brand has touched hundreds of millions of people around the world. Reigniting that brand is a very exciting challenge and a big opportunity.

Tim Armstrong

I think if the average person that uses AOL can't physically see the changes in the company, we've failed.

Tim Armstrong

A big part of fixing AOL is getting AOL to believe in itself.

Tim Armstrong

One of AOL's biggest assets is its brand. For people over 30 and, due to AOL Instant Messenger, even a lot of people under 30, AOL was their first real interaction with technology in a positive way.

Nancy Jo Sales

Social media is not the same in 2013 as it was in 2003 - or even 2008 or 2011. You didn't carry around AOL chat in your pocket or look at it when you were in class.

I think AOL took these guys to the cleaners,

James Goss

I think AOL Time Warner is worth a lot more than it's trading for,

I think AOL has been hammered a lot because of concerns about free (Internet) service, about their slowing growth internationally and a few other issues including broadband, ... But you can't argue with 18 million customers. And of course their customer turnover rate has never been (lower). So, the company is holding to their customers longer, they have a much larger base. I think (Chief Executive Officer) Steve Case will find a way to make it through these issues.

We are glad to see solid operational performance even though a much larger-than-expected goodwill write down was taken for the AOL and cable divisions, about $45 billion in total.

Henry Blodget

We contend AOL Time Warner is powerful enough that it won't go gently into the night (unlike Novell, WordPerfect, Lotus, Netscape, et al). We do believe, however, that developments between the two companies over the next year or two will have significant bearing on the long-term direction of the industry.

Jonathan Sacks

This will be AOL's first multi-bandwidth and multi-device client. AOL is about convenience and applications. And those applications should be ubiquitous.

With AOL likely switching to Navigator, the pendulum will swing heavily back to Navigator.

Fred Wilson

Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.

Unlike Amazon, AOL does not have to worry about shipping (or similar logistics). They have a lot of success shuffling people to sites and they'll get a cut of the transaction or they'll just get rental fees. Either way, they'll benefit from e-commerce with high margins in the big picture.

Microsoft wants to own the real estate even of the AOL members,

We wanted to make a statement. The new AOL is optimized for today's high-speed (Internet) user.

Jim Chapman

We've got prototypes in our labs right now and we're working with Gateway and AOL to bring them to the market. We have booked substantial production orders for those devices.

James Fisher

We don't do a lot of outgoing telemarketing anyway. We now sell our products as bundles through our business ventures with AOL and through our partnerships with airlines. Direct mail and Internet marketing isn't really our main focus.

Michael Barrett

We are thrilled to have Alvin join the AOL Media Networks team. We feel confident that through his tremendous experience, Alvin will prove invaluable as AOL Media Networks works toward tapping the full potential of the African-American market.

We are committed to our AOL Europe business.

Right now dial-up is the only game in town. There is not a big difference between AOL and the mom-and-pop ISP.

Right now AOL is currently integrated into our operations, ... But if it gets to the point where consolidation is happening in the Internet space and, in order to play most efficiently, we need...our own currency, the possibility (of an IPO) is out there.

One of the most exciting things about this transaction related to the music business, ... Through AOL and through the Internet, you have a worldwide opportunity to promote. The music business is built on signing new acts, and this new society has a vast field of which to choose. Also, music lends itself to the digital downloading and more efficient delivery of music.

We have already told AOL that it's likely we will need to do that discovery if the government relies on information provided by AOL regarding its search engine. And we've also so informed Microsoft.

Michael Arrington

More than once at TechCrunch, we made AOL extremely uncomfortable with things that we wrote. But they never ordered us to write or not write about something because they understood that not only would we not comply, we'd write a post about the whole thing.

I remember when AOL was small and they were growing like mad. Consumers were coming on in droves because they made it easy to connect to the Internet. That was the single biggest innovation of AOL; when grandmas were signing up, AOL had arrived.

Our groundbreaking partnership with CBS brings together two industry leaders to better serve both AOL members and viewers of CBS News programs. CBS's unparalleled tradition of news leadership promises a new landmark in innovative online news programming for our members. And AOL's integration into CBS News programs will provide their audiences with a fresh, interactive dimension to the viewing experience.

Mel Karmazin

Over the next 12 months, AOL members will view half a billion pages with the CBS News logo framing our editorial content, ... That's a tremendous number of impressions, in a medium that augments our more traditional television and radio audience.

The fact that AOL and Microsoft are moving in the same direction is good for everybody.

Windows XP is designed to bring more choice and options to consumers, not fewer, in stark contrast to AOL Time Warner's closed, proprietary strategy.