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I think RIM has a similar future as a lot of other once-dominant companies that Microsoft eyed. You might survive, but you're diminished.

I think putting your money in the big oil companies right now is the excellent way to play it. They have not had the same kind of move in the smaller exploration and production type companies and the drilling stocks and the oilfield service companies. Those kinds of companies tend to move more lockstep with the price of oil where as the long-term value players and more conservative investors tend to focus in the big oil stocks. So since they haven't made the move it's a great value opportunity.

I think most of the concerns for this industry have been factored into these stocks already as power prices have come down. But as you look longer-term...growth for these companies will be slowing.

Dan Rosensweig

I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

I think fund companies figured out after Peter Lynch and Michael Price retired that there's a downside to creating star managers, ... It needs to be about the firm, not about managers.

It allows FedEx and some of their top technology people to mingle with other people involved in the leading edge of IT. The majority of companies in there are in technology, and all of the companies there use leading-edge technology.

It depends upon how the oil companies and distributors determine the price that they think the market will bear. So it's a very market driven competitive type of situation.

It did send a message to a number of companies of how serious we are. We would prefer not to go the litigation route, but will do so if necessary.

I think more companies will increase guidance and the rally will continue.

Frank Stronach

I think maybe there is a small tech startup companies out there where perhaps maybe the owner has horses and I think something like that would be an ideal person.

I think many of the companies that have tried to create social worlds have failed because they approached it strictly from an opportunistic perspective.

It has nothing to do with the economy. It was in the private equity unit where they tried to help fledgling tech companies get started.

I think the story is going to be the same going forward. We're going to see the tech companies reporting well. But the high interest rates we've seen so far have undermined some of the financial stocks and drug stocks.

It is critical that media companies gain a greater understanding of technology and the impact it may have on their businesses. No company understands technology and the consumer better than Apple.

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.

Bob Harris

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

Hugh Johnson

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

Recently we've de-emphasized the large multinational drug companies because of the headwinds they've faced because of patent expirations and no big product approvals,

Our recommendation would be to go for companies that are seen benefiting most from the likely end-result of all these developments -- lower interest rates and improving consumption.

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Tim Bajarin

PC companies do not want to have more than six weeks of inventory, and most of them try to live within three- and four-week turns, ... We're hearing about inventory build-ups in some companies that are as much as 13 weeks.

Our No. 1 competition is not other companies but counterfeiters. We want to work with governments to stop this.

Adrian Gonzalez

Order-to-delivery times are shrinking and companies are heavily outsourced, which means reliability and consistency of performance are more critical than ever. Companies are striving to meet service levels at the lowest possible cost and are turning to carrier- and vendor-performance metrics to do that.

Oracle's success hinges on retaining its customer base, including ones it inherited from the companies it bought.