Famous Quotes & Sayings

To pick a fiber optic company in the IPO market now is a safe bet.

John Ritter

Three's Company was originally called Three Companies, about a trio of pharmaceutical companies. It was 10 times funnier.

With these low fares, we can go a long time. Even if we fly empty, we could fly five years on the profits the rest of our company makes in one year.

John Battelle

When we see a remarkable new company that redefines the technology industry, we either fear it because of all the things it might do or we expect more from it than it can possibly deliver,

Craig Conway

We've never considered or thought we really needed a white knight. We're a very strong, powerful company and the end result is really assured.

We want to make sure we've got the managerial depth to drive the company forward,

We're serving as two masters here. We're the master of people who want to invest and the master of people who need investments. If we have an opportunity to invest in a company outside the Rochester region, we will take that opportunity.

Susan Smith

We're seeing this trend in the manufacturing industry as a whole. The steel industry, as far back in the process as you can go, was one of the first to feel the stress of all this. Heavy manufacturing continues to fall out throughout the country. This company is no exception.

We're looking at it as a positive thing. It'll be nice to be working with a company that's Vancouver-based.

We're concerned that McDonald's may not be able to sustain these levels of comparable sales gains over the next 8 to 9 months. We expect sales growth going forward to be in the mid single-digits of between 4 to 6 percent as the company enters a period of tougher comparisons from a year ago.

We're concerned about not only how Sam ran the company, but also how Harlan ran the company.

Reid Hoffman

The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively - I led the Series A financing for Friendster; I founded a company called Socialnet in 1997; I founded LinkedIn; and I was part of the first round of financing in Facebook - it sounds trivial, but people matter.

Robert Scoble

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

Make no mistake, we will be looking, as a matter of the utmost urgency, to explore with the company as well as with ministers ways to have this devastating decision reversed.

Make no mistake, INTL has been missing estimates recently as the company has missed the last four quarters,

Lucent will never be the company it once was.

Lucent got off track because we tried to grow our company faster than, in hindsight, we were able to,

Major Moves. I support it as long as this private company lets us in on the work.

Right now, e-commerce is a little stripling. But if you could pick up a small part of every transaction a company would be doing well.

Retirement - Because you've given so much of yourself to the company that you don't have anything left we can use.

Ed Slott

Retirees are much too loyal to the company that employed them, ... When it comes to retirement savings, your first loyalty must be to yourself.

Michael Eisner

Peter has delivered outstanding performances in every endeavor he has undertaken since joining the company in 1985,

Politicians can flip in no time, depending on where the political wind is blowing. The company is concerned and doing the right thing by educating the public.

Potentially, you're looking at a company that has very little revenue growth for the next few years because of patent expirations,

Only half goes directly from the manufacturers to the end users (such as pharmacies). The other half goes through a very complex distribution chain, from one company to another to another, two or three times, before it gets to the end user,

Nissan isn't the only company putting out conservative estimates.

Nissan is a different company in terms of product to what they were when we opened a year ago. There is real interest in the renewed line-up of Nissan products.

Nearly everyone I talk to thinks it's a good idea. The thing is that neither company needs to do a deal.

O. J. Simpson

NDS was a large company and our company is small and local. Their sales will run about $120 million a year total; our sales were probably between $3 (million) and $5 million per year.

Only the degree of severity of the decline will vary from one company to the next.

On the other hand, losing her would be costly. She's been very good for the company before all this began. She could be vital to rebuilding the brand.

One of the real risks with tech stocks is a company that doesn't recognize it's no longer a rapid-growth business. But many have recognized that and are being more share shareholder-friendly with their cash.

Claire Coffee

I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and since no one in my family was involved in the industry in any way shape or form, I think everyone thought I'd do a few plays and that would be it. But then I kept doing it.