Famous Quotes & Sayings

What we want is to improve the quality of life for everybody. We want to improve the standard of living. And the way we do that is by providing good-paying jobs, secure jobs, so that we know the companies are going to prosper and do well here and help expand our economy.

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

What we have here is a group of silicon companies who want to try to force the standard to be what they are already trying to build. We don't think that's in the interest of standards process or consumer.

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Here and there, we may have a ray of sunshine. Some companies may report better-than-expected earnings, ... But, on balance, in this climate, those reports are not likely to fuel markets to move much higher.

Having open source or proprietary companies that refuse to work with one another from a sense of purity is a real disservice to end users.

Gold Standard was one of the best-led small companies I've ever worked with. Russ Thomas is a visionary.

I think it's lucky for some of these small companies because they may get a better pop then they would normally get.

Peter Thiel

I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well.

I think it's going to keep getting bigger. I don't now how the phone companies are going to react. It doesn't make any sense for consumers to pay for something they can get for free,

I think the marketplace dictates what companies have to offer.

I think the key word is uncertainty. Until we find some direction you look for good companies or sectors that are growing at a reasonable price.

I think the index has failed to keep up with the times. There are too many companies missing.

I think the index can reach 5,000 points in the next 12 months if companies continue to perform well and we get new listings.

Salar Kamangar

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

Chris Davis

I think that gives companies some pause -- that the folks that might purchase their shares think this is an important issue of corporate management and governance.

I think you're going to see companies out-and-out failing this year,

I think the government is getting increasingly desperate. They're pushing the domestic media and outside companies to openly collaborate with them. They're summoning all their potential partners.

I think the concept is an interesting one, ... It allows these smaller companies to minimize their risk, which could spur some growth.

David Bradley

I think the companies are indicating a willingness to give strong wage increases. If they can cut five percent of the work force through attrition, they can give 4 percent wage gains annually and come out ahead.

David Sze

I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies and, you know, we have the - we have the opportunity to do that at different stages.

Christian Smith

There is a fraud going on in this country where offshore hedge funds dwelling in an unregulated environment are selling massive numbers of shares short and doing various schemes not to cover (their short positions), ... In the process, companies are getting destroyed, technology is getting destroyed, and hard working Americans are getting screwed.

Chuck D.

There is a distinct possibility you will see more very large tech companies paying a dividend. It's a reflection of the continued maturation of these companies,

There is a direct correlation between the companies that are known for good service and service training. There's a line that pulls it right from the top to the bottom.

There is no difficulty with that concept, but not all companies have received the same level of profit.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least some pressure from governments to do things that would potentially infringe on users' rights to free expression and privacy.

We try to pick companies that dominate their niche. So we think there are lots of opportunities to sort of identify pure plays,

We try to invest in companies that kids can easily understand and our educational material is targeted to about the 6th grade level. It's all in the presentation I think.

we've been trying to work with these companies for more than a year.

We're in the midst of the U.S. reporting season, which looks pretty good. Companies in Europe seem to have been publishing good numbers, so I think the fundamentals are still pretty positive.

We're obviously disappointed. The ruling allows insurance companies to mislead customers through contract language that ultimately limits their remedies when things go wrong.

What I saw in some of consumer companies was not good, ... All were nervous about business, trying to figure out what would happen.

With most insurance companies you can extend the limit of your liability depending on your own personal requirements.