Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Chirac

is a state-owned company and will stay that way no matter what.

Open source is not just about software. It's also going to be about hardware, and we're going to be the company that's driving it.

People aren't focused very much on this company anymore. The (market) space now is dominated by the larger players.

I don't think it would cripple them. Boeing is looking to reduce production. It's a more ideal time for the company to take a strike than for the union to go out on one.

Given the sensitive regulatory position that Microsoft will still be facing, the company will not make a major series of acquisitions, which reduces the need for cash.

GM's new products are just not getting the job done and the company is losing market share, ... It's really a combination of three things going on. There's lower sales mixed with falling prices and higher input costs.

GM is such a bellwether, major company in the United States, and if they filed for bankruptcy, that just wouldn't be a good indication as to market conditions.

Seth Godin

Give up control and give it away, ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

We no longer operate the company on a day-to-day basis.

That was an example of someone that really demonstrated the potential of music on the film side. They utilized Louisiana music from a record company out of New Orleans.

I was out there about six weeks ago, and the president of the company was just as enthusiastic.

I would love for DIVA to become a nationwide company within the next five years and then definitely a global company within the next 10.

Philip Green

Most of the people in the company are happy.

Most of the employees have been with the company for a long time and most of them use the insurance.

Most every company has a Web presence these days. Primarily they are using it to trace and track freight.

Microsoft is a very good software company. They are not a distribution company or a content-creation company. NBC is better at television.

John Taylor

Microsoft is a technology company with resources that are the envy of other companies. They're definitely going to make some waves, but its not going to be easy.

Larry Ellison

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth, but you ain't seen nothing yet,

Microsoft has missed an opportunity to show leadership in mobile security and have the market declare that the company has made Windows Mobile 5.0 secure.

Microsoft has designed a client-server system to run on the infrastructure of numerous vendors. This is something that the company has mastered in the PC world.

Microsoft doesn't seem to be that accomplished at spotting threats. The routine of the last few years has been, if a company spots a virus, they let Microsoft know and the company takes its 'own sweet time,' as it's been put to me, in dealing with that.

Microsoft will more aggressively compete with longstanding partners because the company is at a crisis point. It has to find new reasons that'll convince customers to upgrade.

Peter Greene

Microsoft is the second-largest company in the world, so when its shares are seeing that kind of surge, it's going to spill over into all kinds of other companies.

Willamette is a very proud company and wants to remain independent,

While the executives played around with the notion of safer cigarettes, the lawyers in the company said, 'Listen, if you make a safer cigarette, you'll indict all the rest of our cigarettes'

While the end markets Motorola serves continue to be weak, the company is making good progress in improving its strategic focus and in reducing its cost structure.

When the company is in a turnaround is not the optimum time to put the company up for sale.

When the company first got started, we were in my mom and dad's house, in 1973, and the office was in my bedroom. My dad started teaching me about statistics when I was in fourth grade, things I wouldn't see in school until college. I've always found this stuff fascinating.

When the company does well, the shareholders and employees should do well, and when the company does poorly, then the shareholders and employees should do poorly. The facts are that when prices of oil collapsed, the incentive program went down, substantially.

I think Microsoft is doing what any company in its position or in a similar position would do; when seeing competition, you are going to react to it. But I don't think Microsoft is running scared. They are running smart, and they are right to be concerned.

I think they're in trouble. The SEC is going to force her out of the company. That would be very damaging.

Jonathan has been a star of the company for a generation and we are all thrilled that he will remain at Covent Garden.

Joint-stock reform is not the final goal and the establishment of the stock company is merely a start,