Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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.

The AOL unit is a critical piece of the puzzle.

The AOL Time Warner statement speaks for itself.

The AOL/Time Warner merger could really bring broadband from the cutting-edge, early adapter users to mass-market consumers, something AOL excels in,

The AOL division actually came in worse than expected.

The AOL business has been in terrible shape the last year and a half,

Richard Williams

That's what is behind Microsoft's interest in AOL. They are looking at combining MSN and AOL, two underperforming assets, cut the costs, and come up with a single productive asset. Both MSN IM and Yahoo IM are on the outs. AOL dominates that market. So this deal has the same idea behind it as MSN/AOL.

That's a tough thing to do, as we have seen with the AOL Time Warner merger. As a business operator, Roberts has cut costs and improved the company's profit and margins.

We are committed to our AOL Europe business.

On the surface, the only apparent antitrust problem appears to be the fact that AOL and Time Warner's Roadrunner might be seen as being competing Internet services. But Roadrunner is a pipsqueak of a player compared to AOL's service. It's conceivable they could force the divestiture of Roadrunner. But that's not a big deal.

An AOL counter-bid is not out of the question. The nice thing about a Cox deal is that it would be part of AOL and part of its revenue and cash flow .

Steve Case

Coca-Cola's legacy dates back more than a hundred years, whereas the AOL brand is barely a decade old, but today Coca-Cola and AOL are two of the most recognized and powerful consumer brands in the world, ... We look forward to helping Coca-Cola use the online medium to extend its legacy into this new Internet century.

AOL will feel pressure to implement whatever standard the IETF develops, ... there's so much more potential for instant messaging in the wireless world that AOL's installed base doesn't matter that much.

Adam Green

AOL was caught red-handed censoring e-mail, and now the public knows their credibility is gone.

AOL was a roller coaster ride. I was lucky and privileged to be a part of it, both the ups and the downs.

AOL was a little light on the top line but made it up on the cost line. There were no surprises based on what we heard on Jan. 7.

Rob Enderle

AOL was a company waiting to die, Suddenly, they had a strategy that wasn't just about putting them out of business. They washed the car and it got a lot more attractive.

AOL wants to be the CBS network of the Internet, ... They want to be a broadcaster. Two critical issues to them are offering compelling media content in an extremely convenient way.

AOL tries to be all things to all people. It's a known brand name, so AOL is in the best position to benefit from this method.

Jeff Davis

AOL Time Warner -- you've just had a major shakeout. AOL was just not worth the value they paid, and this whole Internet portal media strategy has altered, but it hasn't gone away, ... But something new is happening. You have a new chief executive officer and the stock has been toxic waste in portfolios. Everybody's dumped it and you're not at a valuation level. It's very interesting.

AOL Time Warner will be valued like a traditional media company with superior growth prospects,

AOL's best place is still inside of Time Warner. If Time Warner can make AOL work and keep it profitable, they've got a platform that can be powerful for promoting all their other media properties. I think Time Warner would rather not turn over full ownership of AOL. They're just looking for other opportunities.

AOL says people want a managed online experience, and the way to do that is through Java. And for Sun this would be a tremendous opportunity because it would the first time they'll be getting Java into the home.

AOL remains resolute in its pursuit of improving safety and security.

AOL proved they cannot be trusted to preserve the free and open Internet.

AOL opposes the concept of any kind of an e-mail tax. Certified e-mail is an additional, optional, voluntary way for large e-mail senders to deliver authenticated, legitimate, previously opted-in e-mail.

AOL members will be able to retrieve their e-mail by just continuing to use the AOL Mail button on aol.com and signing in with their regular screen name and password.

AOL looks to be slowing the bloodletting and this was a major factor in the aforementioned guidance upping,

Mark Thompson

AOL just zoomed by Prodigy, ... Prodigy has to differentiate itself to grab a piece of the market that it can own.

Richard Parsons

AOL is still the largest and most profitable online company in the world and we're confident it is going to regain its stride as we go on from here, ... Are we in Virginia? Somehow I feel like we're not in New York.