Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Comey

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

There are lots of questions whether this (pension overhaul effort) will help shore up funding in pension plans, or if some of the reforms are so expensive they'll drive companies out of the system.

J. Paul Getty

The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.

We're going after companies like ADP, EDS, Boeing and others I can't mention yet to help young people make a decision whether to stay or leave.

Sam Altman

All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.

Sam Altman

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

Kevin Mitnick

A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people.

Right now I think the expectation is that a lot of these companies are meeting muted estimates. I think you'll see earnings guided higher, but that outlooks will be tempered.

Rich media and multimedia content are much more popular, ... Media companies are more willing to put in the money to produce it. They recognize that people can now use it.

People were giving money to companies who weren't worth anything. It was just absurd.

Paul Ford

People want to put their money in companies with strong earnings, and many of these companies are expected to deliver that.

Philip Morris is one of the most powerful consumer product companies in the world. They have a lot of irons in the fire.

Pervasive is an innovative solution for enabling CDI projects, and allows companies to successfully integrate key customer information from salesforce.com with back office data from SAP.

Perception is often the reason why companies prevaricate doing a risk assessment.

Policy-makers have been worried that rising energy costs could lead to higher prices for other things including higher wages and compensation, but it looks like companies are keeping their employment costs in check.

Pocatello is benefiting from the growth of high-technology companies ... including AMI Semiconductor, which is the largest high-tech employer.

Only four or five companies can do this in the world, and Halliburton is one. This has nothing to do with Dick Cheney.

Nobody knows the full extent of the damage. The speculation is that it will be worse than Ivan, but we won't really know for days, until oil companies get personnel out there and survey the damage.

Nobody knows the full extent of the damage, ... The speculation is that it will be worse than Ivan, but we won't really know for days, until oil companies get personnel out there and survey the damage.

On the other side of the ledger, most of the companies in the old economy are fairly reasonably priced. So, a couple of weeks ago we started to see a shift. First, the energy stocks did somewhat better. Then, the pharmaceutical stocks had quite a run. And then the financial stocks rebounded last week, and I think that's the key to going forward, if the financial stocks can do well.

On the other level, it communicates to companies directly that this is something that matters, and they need to have policies on point. They need to decide for themselves that we only share data subject to legitimate legal processes, and we don't share data informally, and we defend the privacy of our customers.

One of the big issues for companies now is, do you tell someone they're considered a high-potential? If you do, the person may get their hopes up and be disappointed later. But if you tell them they're not, they may quit.

One of the main focus of course, is earnings, and it never helps when companies are warning about declining profits.

One of the main drivers for the Dow and S&P has been the price of oil; that's been dragging on the companies that are especially dependent on lower oil prices,

One of the keys to success in the corporate world is companies need to leverage those differences in the work place.

Ben Horowitz

One of the most vexing issues in most companies is the duplex mismatching problem.

One of the problems is the fact that solving Y2K may be a multicompany problem. Diagnosing that when three companies are struggling will be tough.

Michael Jordan

one of the finest media companies in the world.

There are very few companies in the U.S. that do these operations.

The psychology of it -- $100 -- it seems like a lot. That's a nice problem to have. So few companies are doing very, very well.

The profit margins of these companies are utterly unsustainable. And this should be the inflection year for the Indian firms.

The profit factor that oil companies have -- that figures into things, certainly.

We've seen a lot of pharmaceutical companies move out of their non-core businesses. It's a pretty good move.