Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hubert H. Humphrey

We're going to expose what the tobacco companies knew and when they knew it. The American public is going to know how the tobacco industry manipulated kids, manipulated nicotine and manipulated public policy. Congress and the Department of Justice are going to know the pervasiveness of the fraud,

What we're really good at is what's called the 'last mile.' We can help companies with everything they need as far as documents go, getting them through customs, making sure their stuff is going to get moved to where it will be inspected.

Tim Stevens

When we first looked at fully guaranteed services, we looked at the price and said 'no way,' ... Fortunately, all of these companies were eager to negotiate a better price.

We'll see some companies taking the pinch from rising costs such as fuel. Some industries will be reporting lackluster earnings because of this.

Larry Wall

The refineries aren't going anywhere. There is too much invested in them here and companies wouldn't be working this hard to rebuild if they were thinking of moving.

She's a great tennis player, has a great look, and has global appeal. Those are the combination of characteristics companies look for when they're looking to partner with athletes.

Most pipelines are operating at pressures of 1,000 to 1,200 psig. But some companies are planning new pipelines at pressures up to 2,500 psig to transmit more gas in a given diameter. The DATUM-C will be able to meet those requirements, as well.

Most pharmaceutical companies have approached us and many are using the data.

Most tech companies are excited about the opportunities in front of them, maybe more excited than they should be. It's more likely that tech companies paying dividends already may increase them as opposed to many tech companies paying new dividends.

Most shipping companies see RFID as a tax.

Most of the smuggling incidents of fuel take place through the river routes and the government should direct the distributing companies to stop supplying the items through these routes.

Most of those trucks were sitting idle. Large amounts of money were paid to those companies for nothing.

Most oil companies will exceed estimates. If they don't, then there is probably a big problem underlying that. Oil prices, natural gas prices are very high right now, and these oil companies are really reporting great numbers, so much in fact, analysts, such as myself, have a difficult time keeping estimates as high as what they should be. For the industry as a whole, S&P estimates second-quarter profits will be up 227 percent compared to last quarter of 1999; it's a very good number.

Much of the panic selling is over. People are cooling off and realized that the fundamentals of the economy and companies are still solid.

Much of the intent here is to satisfy political pressure. At the same time, the companies don't want to lose much revenue.

Medicaid programs and medicare consumers who must pay a 20% being grossly over-charged while the drug companies increase market share and reap huge profits.

Media companies need to look more to the Internet but the question is how much you pay for that?

The only option for these companies is to merge and seek yet more job cuts and savings.

The price of diesel has doubled, water rates have doubled, and electric and council tax have gone up. People think farmers are rich, but I wish I could say to people like these companies do: 'I regret to inform you the price of this heifer has gone up due to an increase in production costs.' We're on the open market.

Let's put it bluntly. If rail would be profitable, private companies would be doing it already.

Let's wait and see how the two companies mesh. They can learn from each other, if they're smart.

Libya has been a fairly easy place for these companies to deal with, and I think they welcome the opportunity to get back and be able to operate there again.

Lower quality companies are dramatically overstating their growth rates by using pro forma earnings.

Lots of companies talk about having a long-term focus. At Liberty, they really do.

Lot of technology companies in India are hoping for better relationship with the US.

Lots of money has moved to the sidelines, ... People are not comfortable with the uncertainty ahead, made up of the fact that many of the tech companies keep lowering their guidance.

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.

Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to the point where they may lose family control of the business.

Many of these are wonderful companies that we would like to have engineering relationships with. I think it would be only as a last resort that we dealt with litigation.

Many, many companies have failed, competing with or selling to the Bells.

Many Japanese companies are now much more focused on enhancing shareholder value, which is creating a lot of opportunities for M&A in general.

Sam Altman

Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.

Many on the professional Right owe their livelihoods to a large and growing network of nonprofit donor-funded groups and for-profit consulting and direct marketing companies hired by those groups.