Famous Quotes & Sayings

Retailers and construction companies just weren't hiring last month. Retailers did less hiring this holiday season.

Hugh Johnson

Really they're companies with consistent price performance, ... In other words, it's better than the S&P and consistent earnings performance.

Most of the risks lie with exporters right now. Companies say that the higher oil price is hurting demand.

We live in troubled times when companies forget their workforce is one of their greatest assets.

Bob Harris

I will personally encourage companies in the region to consider hiring these wonderful people.

Peter Forsberg

I think the tone is rather hopeful that we'll see companies come in with good numbers next week. There's money on the sidelines that's looking to be invested, and with positive results it will help the sentiment move forward.

I think the word got out and some companies got embarrassed.

It is a much more difficult global environment for companies like Gillette,

I think steel's going to recover to robust profitability for surviving companies for the most part due to reduction in supply.

Japan has one of the largest concentrations of multinational companies in the world. It's an extraordinary growth opportunity for all three companies and it is essential that the global venture have a strong distributor in this key market.

J.C. Flowers is very broadly involved with financial service companies of various types and is an entity with some knowledge of the market.

Charles Koch

Koch companies employ 60,000 Americans, who make many thousands of products that Americans want and need.

Larger companies are now seeing hosted CRM as a way to put the application in a single department to try it out, and then roll it out to the rest of the enterprise later.

Larger companies are doing well and are accordingly bidding up salaries in the hunt for talented workers.

John Meyers

Large corporations have a vested interest in keeping some things proprietary. Most companies will manage Web services internally.

Paul Cameron

Large and small companies can find ways to reduce their energy consumption, ... We'll work with everyone who wants to.

I think companies have gotten a little behind.

I think EDS and CSC are sort of a safe way of playing the tech area, because they're service companies and there is demand for their services.

Larry Klayman

The American people deserve full disclosure, and that way, they will be able to judge for themselves whether anything untoward was going on between these energy companies and the Bush-Cheney administration.

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That will be compelling for larger companies that want the total logistics solution offered to them all at once.

Gary Pruitt

The 11.5 times multiple -- which is two full turns higher than the 9.5 times multiple we paid for the whole of Knight Ridder -- demonstrates that these are strong newspapers with great value to companies whose strategies fit them.

Beanie Sigel

That was my time off right there, being in a box, ... It's time to go right back at it. I've got a lot of stuff to do. Not just this music, I've got companies to run.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

I think this notion that it's the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong.

I think that's why you're seeing some of the leading fortune 500 companies picking up on them.

I think some of the companies are trying to improve the situation. To be honest, if I can figure it out, I don't see why people who are leading some of the largest companies in the country shouldn't be able to figure it out as well.

I think some of the companies are trying to improve the situation.

I think Target's going to continue to take share even from companies like Kohl's and J.C. Penney.

I think that it's wise for media companies to be interested in electronic gaming. Gaming revenue should continue to grow at a faster rate than the overall market so I'd expect more consolidation online.

I think that is a very successful model for any of these companies to follow.

It is hard to find any reason to be sympathetic toward the oil companies today, but that doesn't make them evil.

It is ironic because lower raw material prices and particularly lower oil costs is pretty good news for the global economy, but not very good news for the indices when so many of the companies are making such a big proportion of their profits from them.

John Davidson

I think we're in a good earnings season. So far, of the S&P 500, 139 companies have reported. Over 60 percent have been upward surprises, only 8 percent of them have really been negative surprises. So we're in a strong earnings season. That's good for the stock market, ... I think the market's in a trading range right now. I don't think it's going straight up from here. I don't think necessarily we're going to get a big summer rally, but maybe a positive tone to the market.