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Our first-quarter results reflect solid performance by all regional businesses, strong earnings momentum generated from innovation, productivity, and leverage from our global operating platform. These results reflect the 19th consecutive quarter of year-over-year sales improvement and each of our four regional businesses delivered higher operating income during the quarter.
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Our first goal is to get a good business manager. It's impossible to say how much that person would make.
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Our first goal is to be number one in our region. We have to take care of business there before we can focus on anything else.
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Our fate is going to be determined in the next three to five years on getting this business in the U.S. turned around and profitable,
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Our fans do a great job of making this a tough place to play, and it's just so important that you take care of business at home. Winning at home is extra important in the Big Ten, because everywhere we go it seems like it's very difficult to get road wins.
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Our gaming and magazine businesses continue to perform very well whilst the television business is working its way through a difficult period, James Packer
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Our fourth quarter results reflect the extraordinarily difficult business environment in which Goldman Sachs operated this Fall, John Thain
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Our fourth-quarter results capped off an outstanding year. We have excellent momentum going into 2002 and feel confident with our long-term strategy, ongoing execution and the inherent strength of our business mode. Meg Whitman
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Our credit business contributed very strong growth in operating income, ... We are pleased with the quality of our credit portfolio and our ongoing productivity improvements.
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Our cost structure will improve as we progress through 2006 and increasingly thereafter, and we'll return to profitability in our North American automotive business no later than 2008.
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Our core business is healthy and continues to grow, as evidenced by our top line,
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Our core business has been really strong. That's to say, just our retail stores grew at 6 percent year over year. And again, this was a depressed quarter. We've actually been 7 percent or more in most quarters and we expect it to be that way during the fall period. That's one of the strongest performances in all of retailing. So our core retailing business remains exceptionally strong.
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Our core business continues to expand at double-digit rates as equity options and other derivative products are increasingly embraced by investors as integral components of their investment and risk management strategies.
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Our core beverages, coupled with a strong holiday promotion, drove results in our retail stores, while solid growth in licensed locations led to the increase in our specialty business revenues. Howard Schultz
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Overall, new business profits may disappoint when reported at the (first half) results.
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Overall inflation remains quite benign. Companies selling to consumers and businesses have limited pricing power.
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Overall the recovery in business investment has proved disappointing, despite companies being cash rich. John Butler
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Overall I am pleased with the quarter. All of our core businesses performed well, our key development projects are on track and our marketing group enjoyed another great quarter.
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Our view is that the old consensus of $4 per share, which reflects analysts' current estimates of our entire business before the second-quarter action, is about the right estimate for our new continuing operations, excluding the special charges. James Joyce
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Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode. Ted Sarandos
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Our upstream business -- exploration and production -- continues to be the major contributor to overall profits, ... However, the improvement in earnings from the year-ago quarter was largely driven by our U.S. downstream operations -- refining, marketing and transportation.
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Our understanding is that the (tantalum) business is likely to continue for some time in the current form.
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Our underlying business performance has been good, ... We have taken a number of steps to sharpen our focus on improving shareholder value.
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Our typical customers are small businesses and business professionals.
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Our transition to Intel processors is going very well, and our music business just experienced another quarter of outstanding growth. Steve Jobs
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Our trading and underwriting business were down from record first-half levels in an increasingly difficult environment.
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Our whole private equity business has been aimed at what I would call a real economy -- businesses that are pretty stable, having good cash flows and businesses that are not buffeted by changes in economic conditions.
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Outbound protection requires a fairly high level of sophistication to engage, and reports indicate that Microsoft expects that functionality to be used by IT professionals in a business networking environment.
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I'm here to pass the baton, so to speak, to some of these new inductees, many of which are guys that I respect in the business as being truly revolutionary. Nolan Bushnell
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I'm here pretty much every day. I do sometimes leave town deliberately because I need a break. We felt like the community needed a gathering place. I never knew how difficult the business would be, how much work, how unpredictable it would be. Nancy Davis
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I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion. Michael Keaton
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Most of these businesses are growing between 8 and 15 percent.
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We've talked over the past couple of months about a company like Dell and WorldCom. These are companies with very good business plans, ... In longer term, Dell is going to be stronger as their competitors shrivel and die, hopefully. Jeff Davis