Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Davis

People don't intentionally (expose their company to harm), but they become complacent.

People get so emotional with stocks, especially when they work for the company.

People felt that this is a very tightly controlled company with a lot of levers they can pull.

Operationally, this company is succeeding in a very difficult environment.

Often what makes the most sense, especially for people who've had home runs with their company stock, is to take enough off the table to live the life they want, no matter what happens.

After WorldCom, Qwest and everything else, the market is having a 'When will this end?' and 'Which company is next?' reaction, ... So even though this isn't exactly a surprise, it shakes investor confidence even more.

The name of the game is going to be improving horizontal capability, which in turn gives either company the space to dive more specifically into verticals, ... This is evidence of the continuing refinement of the product line.

The music division is now going to be doubled in size. They're going to be the leading music company in the world.

A deal like this could eliminate a big swing factor and make its earnings structure more stable. I could also make it easier for Sanyo to sell batteries, which is what I would like to see the company do -- focus more on its devices business.

During that period we greatly improved the financial health of the company by selling low-return businesses, reducing debt, stabilizing AOL, and made significant progress in resolving the company's legal challenges.

Deficit movements over the first three months of this year indicate how volatile company pension deficits can be.

Compaq has always had decent technology. Now they are focusing on customer service. If a company wants to upgrade their computers but they already have 1 million dollars worth of docking stations, they can use the old dock stations.

Despite the cost pressures currently being experienced throughout the sector, the company remains on track to deliver performance for the full year in line with our expectations.

Paul Thurrott

Despite my repeated efforts at getting Microsoft to speak on record about the events of last year, when the company halted development of Windows Vista--then codenamed Longhorn--so it could completely start over, from scratch, the software giant and its PR firm has consistently railroaded me and prevented me from sitting down with people who are knowledgeable about what happened, ... However, I had been briefed informally about these events, referred to internally as 'the reset.'

A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.

Any way you slice it this company did what they said they would do, and their major competitor, Intel, struggles vastly.

Any luxury company is susceptible to a slowdown in the U.S. or Japan. The macro issues are really more important for a luxury company.

Any litigation settlement is incremental good news for a company that has a lot of litigation outstanding. In the scheme of everything going on at Tenet, this is not a particularly major issue.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Apple's impressive security record is likely to be tarnished if the company continues to grow its market share while undervaluing security researchers and not properly auditing its code.

Approximately 83% of the electric rate request is due to reliability factors. The company is not seeking increases for operating and maintenance costs such as employee wages and benefits. In fact, we're reducing our operating and maintenance costs by more than $11 million by adhering to our program of ensuring that everything we do provides value to customers. The program is working -- higher rates notwithstanding.

An executive wants to know where the company is and where it's going. Tactically, they still need the important numbers so they can run the business, but in general they're looking for trending information that enables them to better understand the market their company services to better determine where they should make large, long-term investments in the sales department.

Ken Kutaragi

Sony was a very creative company when it was young,

Tech Data's IT expertise will enable our company to be a strong player in the IP surveillance market. Tech Data's move into security is in line with the ongoing convergence of the IT and security markets and will complement Axis' strength in traditional IT channels.

Ted Turner's legendary record as a media pioneer and executive at Turner Broadcasting and Time Warner speaks for itself. He is a visionary leader who has made an extraordinary contribution to this company and, indeed, to the world at large.

Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.

Russia's proposal is to set up a joint Iranian-Russian company to enrich uranium in Russian territory.

School Specialty is a smaller company. It's the largest distributor of educational products to schools. And simply put, this is a company with a terrific competitive position and a very strong management team that I think is very well positioned for growth over the next several years.

George Porter

Science and Literature are splendid, and it is really to science and literature themselves that this distinguished company pays its homage.

Schwartz has been at the company for a while.

Quite to the contrary, our Hawaiian company has been operating profitably." ()

Putting the dual-listing plan on hold will help speed up the overseas IPO, as the company probably wants to get the sale done sooner rather than later.

Rainbow Tribe is the complete opposite of the normal, cookie-cutter dance company that people are used to seeing.