Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Berkley

Massive numbers of vaccines would be needed and companies are concerned, 'who's going to pay for that,'

lines corporate coffers for a select few, and too many innocent companies and workers end up paying the tab. We need to end this unfair subsidization as soon as possible.

I still see that companies went overboard in slashing their work force in an effort to cut costs and to eliminate the hiring excesses of the 1990s. I think we have a shortfall of about 1.8 million jobs to make up.

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.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that a handful of insurance companies with a stranglehold on the market can raise rates.

Sherrod Brown

It does not hold insurance companies accountable when they make medical decisions that harm people.

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.

Leroy Hood

I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the point of view of commercialisation.

John Stark

I don't feel we have excess risk from these companies at this point.

I'd like to see a summer rally. I guess there's no guarantee. But overall, I think we're still pretty bullish. The economy is still very strong, and global growth continues to be pretty solid, and the companies that we focus on I think can do well, even if we see some moderate slowdown in the economy,

Peter Thiel

Ideally, I want us to be working on things where if we're not working on them, they won't happen; companies where if we don't fund them they will not receive funding.

I am a little chagrined that other fund companies haven't followed suit.

IBM was one of many companies that were good at managing expectations in a period where investors were conditioned to expect earnings surprises.

IBM is taking the high ground and sitting it out while other companies slug it out. There is no company in a better position to do this.

IBM is benefiting from a growing tailwind. The confidence shown recently by companies in their IT plans augurs well.

Half the companies that raised venture money in 2005 won't be able to raise money in 2006.

There are so many companies that are public now that I can't see everybody making it. I don't think some of these new publicly traded companies are going to survive.

I can't figure out why people want to own unprofitable companies with no prospect of making money in the near future. That's just trading paper,

Casey Jones

I can tell you we educate our kids on it, and tell our parents, 'Tell your kids not to take it; we don't know what's in it,' ... They keep hammering high school coaches, but I wonder when they're going to step up and make GNC (General Nutrition Center) and these companies accountable. They're the ones making a ton of money off this stuff.

I can't imagine they really want to ostracize companies that use DRM. There are highly legitimate interests of copyright holders involved,

Steve Ballmer

Given the excitement and enthusiasm from many of the game developing companies here in Japan, I expect us to do quite well,