Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harvey Fierstein

I didn't want to be part of a touring company they dropped off.

I didn't get one bung. I didn't give one bung. I am a public company. Come and have a look.

I'd look for it to happen this summer. In terms of the way the company functions, it's been splitting for the last year.

I'd invest in any company she'd be running.

I don't know of any other seed company that has grown so fast.

I don't know of any biotech company that's so politically well-connected.

I don't know of a company that didn't look at reformulation.

I credit the whole company for this success. They did a good job in Europe of keeping it a premium brand, and the U.S. followed suit. That drove this phenomenon.

Steve Ballmer

IBM is increasingly a services company ... and we are, at the end of the day, a software company.

IBM is a much more pervasive company. I'm going to be very interested in how they've done in software and global services. That is a very strong snapshot as to what final demand is for corporate information technology spending.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Having a full-blown company is just something that I don't have the time for now, ... I was just starting to feel really depleted, and the kids are getting older and the demands are different now.

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate. You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate, ... You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Dusty Baker

Harold Reynolds told me that maybe he should have gotten a Gold Glove over Bret Boone. That's pretty good company right there.

Harold feels the company needed to set up an escrow reserve with a local roofing company to cover the normal percentage of defective roof warranties they issued while they were in Jackson.

George Packer

Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.

Susumu Tonegawa

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

There are studies that show participants in a 401(k) plans are less likely to leave the company and are better workers.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.

I can't disclose the name of the company yet, but if all goes to plan it hopes to be up and running by the end of March. We have identified a site fairly close to the fish docks.

Richard Williams

If Oracle continues to fight, this stops being an economic decision for the company and looks more and more like an emotional decision.

Frankly, there are lots of other places in the company to trim expenses before you would turn to the sales force.

France has a tradition in the fight between David and Goliath of protecting the little guy. France is focusing on the user rather than on the company that is providing service.

Robert Hoffman

Freedom is not free' is a phrase we hear every day, but few of us understand what it means. Justin and the Lima Company understood. They gave up their lives for it.

Kyle Petty

From a company standpoint, the 43 is important. It has to win. That's who we are. That's who we'll always be. For longevity and for what we need, we need the 43 to win.

From a company perspective, India is a very important market for us.

From our point of view, if you have a company which is uniquely tied up with one personality, and something happens to it where that personality is not going to be effective, the reason to own the stock is strongly diminished.

For several years now, we've been pursuing a product diversification strategy. To increase company value, we've tried to diversify our product line.

For quite a while I think we had the wind in our face. Where the company is positioned today, we have the wind at our back.

Bill Ford

From this point forward, innovation will be the compass by which the company sets its direction,

Knowing this is critical because in that relaxed setting of a meal, the true personality of a person comes out. Employers need to know how the person handles themselves in a social situation. Do they let their hair down too much? Will they represent the company well with a client?

Anthony Davis

KeyCorp's management team has made much progress over the last three years in refocusing the company on profitable revenue growth.

I would not want to see them sell at this price, ... I would want to see them get the company turned around then look at if you want to go private.