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I highly doubt that somebody is going to come and put these companies out of business.

It's never come up actually and we're dealing with a lot of companies at the current time. It's not been an issue.

It's never a good sign to see fewer companies writing in New York. As the number of companies lessens, potentially the costs could go up.

A P/E is meaningless by itself. A P/E has to look at the price you're paying for earnings but you have to compare it relative to something, ... Companies with low P/E's also tend to be the companies that have the lowest prospects for growth.

Small companies are still seeing significant pay growth.

Slack demand and intense competition are preventing companies from raising prices.

Smart companies will create more telecommuters so people can work from home,

So at the worst case, companies lose a minute or two of data.

That's exactly what's going on. You've had three years of tremendous post-bubble growth. Now the companies have to reinvest.

That's exactly what's going on, ... You've had three years of tremendous post-bubble growth. Now the companies have to reinvest.

Ron Hill

That's another thing that helps these companies do well in this time period,

That's a lot of money that the record companies have wrongly taken from consumers.

With IBM gone, it won't be long before a lot of other companies follow suit.

With sales now, it's not a signal that tech companies are about to fall apart. Executives want to diversify away from having their money being tied up in one asset.

Bill Gurley

You have to be careful. I see what I would suggest are features being funded as companies right now.

You have to give severe damage and strong liability because doctors and insurance companies put up a big fight.

You have to give props to IBM. They have had the discipline and the resources to keep these programs in place and functioning when many other companies have long since let it go.

The pipeline companies are doing everything in their power to get the product flowing.

What happens is that companies usually don't plan succession,

What happened is we went through a long period that was very difficult for biotech companies to raise money. Once this window opened, a lot of people decided that they would go ahead.

What big companies want to do is share information with their customers and partners to increase profitability and shorten time to market.

What did these insurance companies think? It's not a . . . toothache where you can pull the tooth and be done with it.

What companies report now is less influential than what they say about future quarters.

We talked with companies that are in the process of setting up dedicated Medicare Part D teams to handle marketing to these customers, as new and unique product messaging will be required.

We spend about half our day on the phone with insurance companies. We've been on hold so far up to 3 1/2 hours with insurance companies trying to resolve issues.

Too many companies rely on email too much. Email is quite inefficient. People like to 'Reply To All' and send copies of attachments to each other, instead of doing what Notes does, which is to have a single copy on the server that everyone sees.

Too many companies had perverse incentive systems that rewarded hot short-term performance and didn't provide any penalties for long-term problems.

Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.

Tony Ridder inherited a company that had a lot of newspaper companies that are not in growing markets and would never be in growing markets. That's what he inherited, and that's what he had to work with.

We've been talking to energy companies who are unwilling to make investments that require current oil prices to support them. They don't think prices will remain at this level.

A lot of biotech companies end up partnering things for what look like good financial terms and then the product languishes somewhere on a shelf. So having a partner that's really dedicated to promoting the product is important.

A lot of the blockbuster products will lose their patents soon, so the companies are milking them for what it is worth. Of course everybody would rather have a young pipeline, but that is easier said than done.

A lot of stocks have been left in the dust, a lot of very good companies that should be looked at.