Famous Quotes & Sayings

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

We've seen hazelnut prices peak at $11-12 a kilo (9-10 euros), from $2-3 a kilo. That's not an evolution, that's a revolution, and for companies producing products with high hazelnut content, that's a real disaster.

We've seen companies reduce their pollution because of this.

We have had a lot of offers from record companies to go into the studio, but they wanted us to cross over. We turned them down. Instead, we are taking the cross with us.

The fact that price pressures are muted suggests that earnings growth of Indian companies will continue to be driven by volume growth, not by pricing power.

The fact that oil companies are enjoying record profits when consumers are paying record high prices does not sit well with people.

... The fact that middle managers think their companies are mismanaged is particularly alarming.

The creation of these sites is akin to the government aiding and abetting an illegal underground economy that puts legitimate companies out of business.

The fact is, most garment manufacturing is geared toward a race to the bottom, ... Most of the companies that compete directly with Levi Strauss either haven't manufactured garments here for years or have never manufactured in North America?Clearly, Levi Strauss & Co. is under enormous pressure, but we are saddened by their decision to join the race to the bottom.

Kunal Kapoor

There are a lot of good companies outside the U.S. and it's good to have exposure to them,

Mike Williams

There are a lot of different companies driving the market. It's not just manufacturing but also distribution and trade, and I think that portends very well for the local economy.

There are a lot of companies that go through seasonally strong and weak periods, but (their stocks) don't necessarily perform better or worse during these peaks and valleys.

There is a long queue of companies waiting to undergo the same certification process. Then, they can proceed to 'wave 2', covering security and quality-of-service, and when they too are certified, we can expect to see larger numbers of products actually reaching the market.

There is no doubt about it that the work being done at some of the Indian subsidiaries of multinational technology companies is innovation.

When India was the new trend, companies had a gold-rush mentality. Now companies are taking a more mature, sober attitude.

Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.

Thomas Middleditch

You get a lot of apps and companies that are trying to sell you on something that's totally useless or potentially unhealthy. Only occasionally does something really worthwhile really come out.

The outlook for technology companies remains strong and demand for shares in the sector helped lift stock indexes late this afternoon.

The outlook for most of the major gold mining companies is for static to lower production for 2006. With the new project pipeline in gold relatively empty and few major discoveries of gold made in the past decade, we do not expect this picture to change.

We know as much about running a retail store as brick-and-mortar companies know about running a Web site.

Vermont companies should have a fair playing field.

Bill Gates

U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

We did not become one of the most successful companies in the world by doing things the same way for 44 years. We have succeeded by sticking to our core values while always looking to improve.

Innovative companies have started to realize there are not enough 'green consumers' willing to pay more for something just because it's green.

We want to see what he was thinking at the time. He's the one who received the employment. Was it something that he sought? Was it something that the companies offered to him?

There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.

Michael Specter

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.

John Nolan

The other thing the Internet and overall technology are enabling us to do, quite honestly, is streamline our internal costs, and that's a big deal. We're using the Internet just like a lot of companies to try and drive down costs administratively and then leverage that infrastructure to enhance our core products and offer Internet-related products outside our mainstream.

The Post Office and the other companies can't manage the volume, ... They shouldn't be dictating; they should be negotiating.

We are pleased to join the global companies listed on the world's most prestigious stock exchange, ... Our NYSE listing marks an important milestone for 7-Eleven and will raise our visibility with the financial community.

There are companies that will rent furniture for houses on sale.

There are companies that in my mind are obvious takeover candidates,