Famous Quotes & Sayings

Most oil companies will exceed estimates. If they don't, then there is probably a big problem underlying that. Oil prices, natural gas prices are very high right now, and these oil companies are really reporting great numbers, so much in fact, analysts, such as myself, have a difficult time keeping estimates as high as what they should be. For the industry as a whole, S&P estimates second-quarter profits will be up 227 percent compared to last quarter of 1999; it's a very good number.

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

Let's wait and see how the two companies mesh. They can learn from each other, if they're smart.

Libya has been a fairly easy place for these companies to deal with, and I think they welcome the opportunity to get back and be able to operate there again.

Lower quality companies are dramatically overstating their growth rates by using pro forma earnings.

Lots of companies talk about having a long-term focus. At Liberty, they really do.

Lot of technology companies in India are hoping for better relationship with the US.

Lots of money has moved to the sidelines, ... People are not comfortable with the uncertainty ahead, made up of the fact that many of the tech companies keep lowering their guidance.

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.

Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to the point where they may lose family control of the business.

Many of these are wonderful companies that we would like to have engineering relationships with. I think it would be only as a last resort that we dealt with litigation.

Many, many companies have failed, competing with or selling to the Bells.

Many Japanese companies are now much more focused on enhancing shareholder value, which is creating a lot of opportunities for M&A in general.

Sam Altman

Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.

Many on the professional Right owe their livelihoods to a large and growing network of nonprofit donor-funded groups and for-profit consulting and direct marketing companies hired by those groups.

Larry Johnson

Many companies still seem unwilling to report e-crime for fear of damaging their reputation,

Many companies have now had over two years of strong profitability. They haven't yet completely reinvested that in technology, but as they gain economic strength, they will.

Many companies don't exist after 25 years. It's a rarity. Or if they do exist, they're like IBM, with a totally changing personality.

Many companies are under pressure to keep their costs down, but they don't steal their office furniture off the truck, ... One of the reasons people steal software is that it's easy to do.

Many companies are still locked into the myths of the past.

Share prices of oil-service companies are at all-time highs.

Trevor Rabin

Several record companies had rejected my song 'Owner of A Lonely Heart' on the grounds it was 'too left field.' I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive's quarterly profit statement.

Several rail-served companies have been talking to us,

Second quarter earnings are very likely to be satisfactory in aggregate. A number of visible companies have warned of disappointments, but they are the exception rather than the rule. Earnings growth will probably be in the high-teens range when everything is tallied up.

Ed Rendell

Secondly, quality of life is always very high on the list of criteria for why companies or people or families locate or relocated in an area.

Security is a big issue. Most companies don't deal with security issues very well, and there are a lot of risks out there -- viruses, worms and hackers.

Sentiment remains fragile... We are still waiting for signs that companies are rebuilding margins and investing again.

So far the corporate profit outlook remains positive. I don't hear a lot of companies saying they're going to reduce their profit forecasts because of interest-rate concerns, and that's a positive for the market.

Software companies have sold off aggressively but some information technology managers have indicated a willingness to spend in that area.

Software companies all want to be able to offer more product and more value for the same price.

Daniel Boone

Solid tech companies are not overpriced at all,

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.