Famous Quotes & Sayings

IBM was one of many companies that were good at managing expectations in a period where investors were conditioned to expect earnings surprises.

IBM is taking the high ground and sitting it out while other companies slug it out. There is no company in a better position to do this.

IBM is benefiting from a growing tailwind. The confidence shown recently by companies in their IT plans augurs well.

The psychology of it -- $100 -- it seems like a lot. That's a nice problem to have. So few companies are doing very, very well.

The profit margins of these companies are utterly unsustainable. And this should be the inflection year for the Indian firms.

The profit factor that oil companies have -- that figures into things, certainly.

We've seen a lot of pharmaceutical companies move out of their non-core businesses. It's a pretty good move.

We used to file all sorts of complaints with the government. Sometimes we'd get a response, but usually nothing happened. Now, when we have told companies that we're going to sue them, they show up in our offices the next week.

Wall Street-type companies have done this sort of interoperability but typically under controlled conditions, ... What may look easy to Dean Witter may not look so easy to others, especially smaller companies.

Larry Sabato

Wall Street people are noted for making early investments, whether for companies or for politicians.

Brian Behlendorf

So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in it too.

Brian Behlendorf

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.

The fact that two leading companies in the industry may take part in mergers is sending a positive message. This is a market that can be sustained by M&A.

The fact that companies monitor e-mail is not a secret.

The fact that AMD has served a subpoena on another company isn't that new, given the fact that they've served subpoenas on roughly 50 companies in conjunction with the antitrust suit.

What I think a lot of companies are looking for is a multipurpose LAN device like Cisco's ISR. This is a relatively small deal. It won't turn Nortel around, but it does give them a legitimate end-to-end WAN play.

Rebecca MacKinnon

What were the exact terms of the deals? Who made them? In what context did these conversations take place? I expect the revelations won't be too flattering for the companies concerned.

Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices will remain high and that supply and demand will remain tight.

Kimberly did not miss, so we expect investors will gain more faith that other companies yet to announce, such as P&G, Colgate and Alberto-Culver, will also have some more optimistic news to share with the market.

Steven Hall

Know the market, know what other people are offering for your job position. Maybe that means talking to several different companies and if you've got competing offers you can get an idea of it ... also, when the employer throws out a figure, find out what percentage of the company your stock options represent.

I would say it's a dueling trend that retail mutual fund companies are starting hedge fund like vehicles to retain that talent. That is a weapon in a fund company's arsenal.

Job satisfaction levels have improved significantly compared to this time last year as employers step up employee retention efforts in the face of an increasingly competitive labor market. However, nearly three-in-ten workers still say they plan to look for new opportunities in 2006 and 41 percent plan to leave the companies by the end of 2007.

ISYS has been an integral part of the knowledge management industry for a number of years. The company continues to demonstrate its relevance and success in enterprise search software, despite formidable competition from large, well-known companies. For these reasons, we continue to recognize ISYS as one of the 100 companies that matter.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.

Half the companies that raised venture money in 2005 won't be able to raise money in 2006.

There are so many companies that are public now that I can't see everybody making it. I don't think some of these new publicly traded companies are going to survive.

Bernard Ebbers

We are exploring opportunities to separate portions of our switched voice operations into separate companies or tracking stocks,

To figure out how to keep these companies strong, how to work with them in a way that keeps them viable.

To compete in a specialist market like marine when you've got a high exchange rate is exceptionally difficult. Companies have got to be very smart and have a particular niche where they excel.

What you see at the top of our list is that the companies have roughly a 65/35 ratio of white workers to workers of color. That far outweighs the labor pool in this country.

What you see are companies on the rise.