Famous Quotes & Sayings

The demographics are ideal, obviously, for sponsorship groups. And you're starting to see some of these companies realizing what the market is and getting involved.

The demand has been amazing--from large VARs and various ISVs to start-up-type companies, large software companies and systems integrators. The program has just been a runaway success.

Tim Jackson

Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability.

Tim O'Reilly

If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.

Vincent Tan

I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are also made through companies that I own.

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.

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?

One of the signs is that when companies do pre-announce, they haven't been hit as hard this time around, so that suggests the market is starting to look longer term and saying these values are not that unreasonable.

John Sculley

Of all the Internet companies we're involved with, this one is by far the most technologically ambitious,

Of all the companies I deal with worldwide, most have decided that they're going to go Java come hell or high water. But -- and this is a big but -- they don't know how they're going to do it.