Famous Quotes & Sayings

Most companies are looking for a 12-month return on investment, or payback in the same fiscal year. It may be that the price point is too high.

Most companies are keeping all employee files online now.

Most high-tech companies have forecast a recovery in the second half, but that won't happen if the U.S. economy continues to falter.

Microsoft and Intel are the bellwethers of the technology sector. These are the companies that are really on the pulse of innovation.

Microsoft's 3.0 CRM release will become a prominent driving force toward hosted CRM products for small businesses. Workers in small companies are already familiar with the Office interface.

Microsoft is perhaps the most powerful company in the world. Companies have legitimate reasons to fear retribution for making their concerns known.

Neelie Kroes

Member states are sometimes tempted to seek to protect their industrial or financial crown jewels from takeovers by companies from other countries, ... We have seen such signals from France just recently.

Why would smaller companies outperform? ... it's difficult to see what the trigger for that could be.

Who is the program supposed to benefit, insurance companies or seniors? This is a big decision and seniors should have the time necessary to make the right decision for them.

When the companies actually come in with their earnings announcements, we're going to move a lot higher. I think when investors look through the rubble after the correction we've seen they are going to find some real good values.

John Wells

You can demonize Goldman Sachs all you want, and I'm sure there are reasons to do it. But the real pressure is all of us pressuring the companies for stock returns, and that leads to all kinds of decisions.

Floyd Abrams

will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in.

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.

The American Stock Exchange takes pleasure in welcoming India Globalization to our market. Numerous companies in the early stages of their growth have found our specialized services useful, and we expect that India Globalization will find value in all that we offer to our new issuers.

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.

Charles Schumer

The problem is not the expense of the drug but rather the shortage of supply, which would immediately be rectified if other companies were able to produce it,

The problem is many companies say they are doing it, but really are only giving it lip service and doing it incredibly badly,

We haven't gone up in decades. It's very important, not only to the companies but to the United States.

Ben Horowitz

Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.

Andrew Luck

My number one focus is and will always be football. I wanted to make sure that companies I partner with not only respect that, but also make sense and are quality products. I think Klipsch is synonymous with quality in the sound industry, so it was a natural partnership.

John Lasseter

The press always tends to say these companies are competitors. They are missing the point. As a fan, I want to help the industry. I would love for every studio to produce a blockbuster so we can get more talented people in the industry. Competition to us is when a family walks up to the multiplex and all those titles are up there. I want everyone to be successful.

The problem with GM is that once it goes down, it drags many other companies with it.

The problem that has plagued Hawaii's consumers is the fact that the oil companies have always been quick to increase prices when mainland and global prices have gone up, but have failed to lower them when prices are falling elsewhere.

Those companies will face the same issues that the music industry faces today: How do you protect content from being copied and distributed over the Internet?

Those companies are craftier than you. They're better at getting information.

Those companies are being run better than they ever have.

Those are not investments that Exxon Mobil and the other oil companies are ever going to make.

We are in the middle of a very important technology cycle, ... The companies who cut back on investment now, when the recovery comes, will be stuck with 8-inch capacity...compared to other players who moved to 12-inch.

We are hoping the golf tournament will give us a strong start to the 2005 campaign. To make it fun and ensure its success, we've had several companies and donors step up with prizes as well as help in underwriting the steak dinner that follows.

We know that as we start to measure health effects, that people who are stressed at work cost companies more money, have more problems with heart disease, we think, have more problems with increased injury risk, (and) other kinds of medical problems,

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We know it's important, and we know the consumer wants bundling, so what we try to do is work with other companies to provide the lowest price for our digital television.