Famous Quotes & Sayings

We, the investing public, are pretty confident about the economy and we wanted to see it in the numbers. It's the 'show me' market and today, some companies showed us.

We are extremely pleased. Taking product companies as hostages has never been a solution. I am glad to see that things are getting back to normal.

He's a Texan, and he's winning. He does what he has to do to make the deals and grow the company. He doesn't take no for an answer. And everybody wins. The companies he acquires, the stockholders.

The overwhelming key will be, as companies report, it won't be as much about what they report but what they have to say about the fourth quarter and 2001.

The rally had to do more with the overall market than individual fundamentals turning. The environment for technology companies continues to remain tough.

We may consider implementing this special tax from next year. The companies are enjoying record profits because of the oil they extracted from the country.

We make our living off of phone numbers that spell words, ... We've created companies like 1-800-FLY-CHEAP. We actually pioneered shared usage.

Keith Ellison

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.

He was familiar with my companies and writings and thought we shared a similar ideology.

Frank Williams

I think we might want to make some small adjustments, and maybe the television companies can think of ways to improve it.

Kate Warne

I think we will see companies report their quarterly earnings in line with expectations and that will give the market a boost.

I think we're seeing a sunny day that we haven't seen in a long time, but the real question is will we see back to back. What we've been waiting for is a big tech company come out and say either stability or better visibility and we got that. But we need to see more of that from other companies or over a longer period of time.

I think what you want to do is also focus on companies that are making the transition from old economy to new economy because they have 'old-economy' valuations, but are really joining the new economy and should have 'new economy' valuations.

I think a socially responsible response would be to list the names of the companies affected.

John Edward

He weakens clean-air laws because the energy companies want him to weaken clean-air laws, ... His economic policies are focused on people at the top of the economic spectrum, not something that lifts up all Americans.

Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and even Sony to some extent are the companies out there leading the convergence in the stores of computer products and consumer electronics products,

He has risk and he has edge, which some companies look for. Those that will look at him will be companies looking for publicity value, because he generates that.

He looks for companies that want to work with his foundation, with his charities, on issues that he's concerned about.

For the Serbian government this is a good sign and I hope that the other large companies will follow the example,

For those three, there is a disconnect between what the market is willing to pay and what the companies think they are worth over the long haul.

For whatever reason, the pricing departments at the headquarters of these oil companies felt like there was a profit-taking situation. More than likely, it's a temporary situation.

David Rusenko

For Web-based services, owning the .com is very important when considering search and discovery. But consider your channel. For companies playing in the mobile app space, the dot com may be less important - it's about status and searchability in the app store.

John Palfrey

For too long, unscrupulous companies have made millions of dollars infecting our computers with malicious software. This is so dangerous because there are intruders in your house, but you don't know that they are in there or how they got there.

John Palfrey

For too long, these companies have been able to hide in the shadows of the Internet. What we're after is a more accountable Internet.

Giving customers a view into the status of their dealings with you turns out to be the highest value, and in some ways it's not high risk, ... A lot of companies have problems with the transaction piece, doing that first. They wind up getting all tangled up in their underwear when it comes to security, order entry, and 'Are we doing a complete job?'

Given what goes on with stocks, it's understandable for companies to have to go back sometimes and restate earnings. What's important is operations.

Given the strong reports we've seen from many technology and industrial companies over the past several days, it's hard to make too much sense of today's GDP report.

Given the spike in oil during the third quarter, I think we're going to see higher oil costs in manufacturing companies and lower sales in consumer companies from oil squeezing out other purchases.

David Boies

Forming two companies versus three was one of the most difficult questions we faced.

David Perry

For me, writing is like gold. It saddens me a lot that many video game companies don't hire triple-A writers and that they use their game designers instead. That's why, when real writers look at video game stories, they kind of roll their eyes. But that's something that I see changing, I really do.

Linda Ronstadt

I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a kiss-and-tell book, which I specifically put in the contract. Just a book about my work and what I did.

If you are cooking at home, you are not processing your foods like the snack food companies are.

David Dreier

If we see three, four, five really good crackdowns on those employers, especially big companies out there, knowingly hiring people illegally, we're going to see -- sort of like compliance with the Internal Revenue Service. It's not just done out of patriotism. It's done because, you know, you might face a penalty. I think we'll see a diminution in the number of illegal hirings,