Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think this will be more of a company-led expansion instead of one led by consumers.

Peter Fader

It is not spoken about much, but the dot-com failure was a result of throwing technology solutions at problems or industries that the company knew nothing about.

It isn't always about market share. You can always win market share by picking up customers that the number one company doesn't want. The question is can you make a living from that: picking up and servicing marginal users but at a profit. It is like running a delivery service, making sure you go to places that FedEx doesn't -- like Indian villages, hermits in cabins out in the woods.

I think that in general the company showed good results, and some financial figures (net profit, sales profit) even exceeded our targets.

I was wounded myself. I lost all the officers in my company,

I will not mortgage the future of the company.

Previously, when you called the electric company, the field guy would come out to connect or disconnect you, and then it would go out on a bill. Today that same transaction could touch up to a hundred systems.

Our outlook as a construction company for the next two years is very, very positive.

Carl Icahn

particularly important at Time Warner because of the difference of opinion between many large shareholders and management concerning the direction of the company and the lack of share price performance under current management.

Scott Weiss

Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you don't get to the right milestone before you run out, then the company goes under - it's over.

Bill Gates

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

Oracle still has not released an official patch, so it is still leaving its customers at risk. It is a trivial thing to fix. If the company is still working on it, I do not understand why.

Oracle says a company could, for example, take out its BI tool and replace it with a third-party app. The question is, how practical will that be for users?

Oracle has been and is a database company, and that's where the focus should stay for now.

Bob Geldof

What's the point in having a company of secretaries?

We'll be investigating the first profit statement put out by the company and any consequences to shareholders.

With XNAP One (Extended Network Application Platform), we have created a new market for the product since no other company offers a unified, low-cost solution that integrates all the elements of security like firewall, VPN, content filtering, email and storage.

Brad Anderson

With this new structure, we will not only focus accountability but focus our company, which will help us compete in a very dynamic marketplace.

would enjoy the company of persons at High Point University.

We're still looking at the lounge's potential, since that's the introduction method. This is a very new concept for the company and for the industry; we've got a lot more questions to answer.

We're still a growth company. We're talking of taking the company north of $250 million in three years and that requires infrastructure.

Typically a company will look at acquisition strategies when their growth starts to slow but there's no slowing down at Dell.

Today, things look much rosier for American Home. The degree of uncertainty at the company is much less today than it was four or five months ago.

Three entities would dominate three industries instead of one, ... The company seems to have developed that way over the years -- so someone must have seen this coming.

Today's rates decision is expected to set the tone for the rest of the week. Hints of future rate hikes won't be welcomed by the market as higher rates start cutting into company earnings.

Pierre Omidyar

You know, what we used to say around here was that it's a different company every three months. And that's really the Internet business. It's so fast moving that three years, it might as well be 30 years in any other industry. So it has been very, wild ride.

When I joined Ask, I thought there are only two places the company can go, it can go up or it can go out of business.

Charlie Daniels

We never envisioned this much stuff. I'm overwhelmed by the support out there for the troops, ... only one company that will remain nameless turned us down.

We need to work on things we have control over. We can't control what the power company does.

Michael Dell

We are now the largest direct company within the worldwide home and small-business market, and are significantly more profitable in that space than our nearest direct competitor. Our U.S. consumer shipments grew more than 100 percent in the quarter, and about one-half of those sales were generated online, through www.dell.com .

We are not used to looking at a company this good.

Peter Thiel

One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.

Richard Branson

We have always felt that a company with music at its core rather than technology could do so much better for music fans. It is so user friendly that even I could use it.