Famous Quotes & Sayings

None of us were there. Only she knows what she dialed. And she can be real adamant. But then again, if you look at a phone book, there might be six or seven ticket companies all in a row.

None of these companies are essential in the mix. They're afterthoughts.

No one is talking about handing over the ports to foreigners. That is what's so astonishing about this. We've always had foreign companies that leased land.

One thing that will hurt international tech companies is that we don't expect the dollar to weaken much more so year-over-year revenue gains are going to be a lot tougher to come by.

Online gaming has a lot of parallels to online markets. It makes great sense for companies that have experience in this area. It's a natural extension of their product and their brand.

My expectation is the general trend of the next few quarters is for profit growth rates to come down, and it will start by having companies send out that message.

We did not become one of the most successful companies in the world by doing things the same way for 44 years. We have succeeded by sticking to our core values while always looking to improve.

Innovative companies have started to realize there are not enough 'green consumers' willing to pay more for something just because it's green.

What we need to do is help companies understand where their vulnerabilities are, what products are critical during a pandemic that we must have, such as medical supplies, and how are we going to respond to that?

What we need is to hear from companies that take the pulse of the consumer. Tech will be one of those groups. Retailers will be another.

What we need is a windfall profits tax on government. Government makes far more money per gallon than the oil companies do.

There are no domestic steel companies immune from takeover interest.

There are more interesting companies with . . . stronger insider (buying) patterns and frankly more exciting growth.

Scott McNealy

There are some sorts of things that individual companies or individuals can't handle, like national defense or the court system, or whatever. That's why we have the Sherman Antitrust and monopoly laws on the books, because the government has to step in when a company is not operating under market discipline.

There are some really cool companies in the world doing some really nifty things and he included us in that group of 14 companies, I think people feel that's pretty special.

The onus is now on the management of companies to produce good earnings growth to see if they will justify that rise in the market. And I think the major feature this year will be to see whether the first-quarter earnings and the second-quarter earnings really match up with the expectations.

Eric Roberts

There are fewer quality private companies that haven't gone public yet. As we get into fourth quarter, the number of well-developed private companies will be few and far between.

Certainly, content companies are taking that position now of, I'm not sure I want to license it to you. I may want to license it to somebody else, that's willing to pay me a better market or I have more freedom, or whatever it may be.

Business-to-business is a huge opportunity for them. Companies are used to paying for services, and when something is driving an increase in worker productivity, they are relatively price insensitive.

But after all the corporate governance issues, there's a tendency now of erring on the side of ultra-conservatism in terms of what companies say about future quarters and that's going to continue.

Basically, Viagra last year helped inflate expectations for the pharmaceutical group and it's made it more difficult for the drug companies this year to live up to expectations,

Basically, this is another example of a large company using a subsidiary to masquerade as a small business. I wouldn't be surprised if this leads to a domino effect. I've already turned in two other companies for the same claims.

Because of the declining numbers of students in computer science and engineering, companies are looking overseas for tech-savvy workers.

Brian Lee

Bartering is always a good way to preserve capital, enabling small companies to focus on growing their business.

Because some analysts were taken off and new analysts assigned, we are temporarily suspending coverage of some companies. We expect when new analysts begin, only a modest number of companies will not be covered.

Because of this, organizations are deploying tiered storage and sophisticated software tools to efficiently manage their data and resources. Policy-based movement of data throughout its lifecycle and off-site archiving can help companies improve performance while reducing operational and storage costs.

China's economy is expanding very rapidly and lots of companies are looking to hire lots of people very quickly.

My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic.

Multinational companies entering Japan often don't spend enough time to understand the nature of the competition here, which is usually fairly fierce, and the so-called unique needs of Japanese consumers.

More flexibility could help create employment in several sectors, especially for small companies for which it is difficult to grow.

More companies in the tech sector are instituting and raising dividends. That's good for investors who are value oriented and realize that a dividend is a piece of a return,

More companies are waking up to the fact that one of the most important touch points they have is when employees have contact with customers.

More tech companies ought to be paying dividends.