Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jared Bernstein

American companies really haven't been sinking much of their gains back into domestic investment.

also urge other company executives to talk up their companies regardless of their true state?

John Thompson

A lot of the tech companies that have done quite well and had higher multiples were ready to pullback.

A lot of these companies are sick. People are still enamored with the market leaders of two and three years ago.

Also there are issues to do with Zimbabwe's pariah status which have influenced especially companies from the West. Most of them will be taking a cue from their governments.

Jonah Peretti

A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.

They may have received signals that European and U.S. antitrust authorities would have made them make meaningful disposals, ... A number of large companies may have complained, as well.

Barry Ritholtz

You're talking about the best-run companies in the world. The economy is slowing, it's starting to show up in earnings and revenue, and this is going to be a tough year.

You've had a narrow group of tech companies that have been delivering positive and accelerating growth characteristics and money tends to get concentrated in those few companies that are doing that.

You should invest in companies you know -- companies whose products you use, ... So when you go into volatile times, you have the peace of mind to know these companies will be here when you leave this earth.

You see a real disparity out there. Some fund companies get it and some don't get it that the Web matters.

Robert Scoble

You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.

Your high-tech companies won't be hurt very much at all (by tighter credit) but your retail companies will be hurt.

You're going to see a lot of companies voluntarily take the smoke and mirrors out of their business, ... We shouldn't expect to see an immediate recovery, but eventually people will regain confidence.

You probably have companies that say, 'Gee, we better take the insurance proceeds and re-sell the license,

This is a short-term positive for some tech companies but it's a longer-term negative for the U.S. economy.

This is impersonation. These companies are engaged in an illegal activity. They're profiting from it, and they need to be prosecuted.

This is hugely positive for the market tomorrow -- two bellwether companies reporting big upside surprises in a market where people are heavily short and pessimistic.

This is good for the Internet, because it means more and more companies will have confidence that their content can be securely streamed to end-users.

This is a theme that I think investors are missing, because as tech and retail companies continue to warn about profit shortfalls, there are no revisions in the drug area.

This is a strong entry from F5, and it's a hot market, so other companies will move into this space.

This is the first time that the major printer manufacturers and print service providers have converged on a single printing protocol. From a help desk perspective, companies are going to be able to converge three or four or five protocols, which makes the support issue much easier.

This is the first time that media companies and media executives are part of the show.

They have been a good brand, but obviously their performance has not satisfied their customers. This gives new companies like H&M an opportunity to get a foothold in the marketplace and to satisfy the needs of the consumers.

They are reducing capacity, so that could be good news for some European companies and pretty much in line with our models.

Joe Moore

You don't have a lot of hardware companies making their numbers right now. The fact that they were able to be precise about a quarter that has still got two weeks to go has got to make people comfortable.

You don't fix something that's not broken. When you have competition and companies in the marketplace fighting every day, that puts customers in the driver's seat.

There was overreaction, but at the same hand there probably was an overreaction to the genomics companies over the past few months. These are very highly volatile stocks ... they are very, very sensitive to the stock market itself, and also to news.

There was only one game in town before, but now there are all these devices and hundreds more coming. Standardizing on one particular device is not something companies want to do anymore.

Ramalinga Raju

There was no dialogue. There is no intent, The question is, what companies are willing to be acquired?

David Rose

There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices.

There will always be a demand for the super-big and super-fast boxes. But slimmer, and smaller, and more efficient is what the PC companies are looking at right now.

There were a lot of companies that might have dreamed of a Monday like this one.