Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Jackson

You want to know what the company said before the market opens in the morning.

You've got to get people looking outside the company at customers and competitors,

You've got obligations, not quite on the same level as the CFO going to jail if they run afoul of Sarbanes-Oxley. But if you are not complying with some of the data privacy regulations these days, the company is potentially going to get fined. It's going be very negative for PR and company branding.

All we do is mortgages. We are a very large, well-funded company.

Steve Winwood

All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.

Steve Wozniak

All of a sudden, we needed something like $250,000, so we had to go out and pursue the company in a whole different aspect, and we found somebody who was willing to put their money in.

Tom Carroll

(The earnings) were pretty much in line with what the company said they would do.

The Dutch company was pushed out of the top 10 for only the fifth time in the last 25 years.

Jeff Bezos

The earth's most customer-centric company is figuring out what the customer wants and how to give it to them, ... By offering a universal selection of products, we can do something online that you could never do in the physical world.

These problems were identified back in the 1980s and 1990s, when customer information files (CIF) and ERP were being put into place, but they didn't solve the problem they were implemented to solve. At the high end of the spectrum, with SAP and similar solutions, a company like Unilever or Phillips might have dozens of separate SAP implementations within its organizational structure.

Tom Price

This is not a bailout, ... This is not taxpayer money. This is providing the company the flexibility they need to meet their obligations and therefore protect the taxpayers.

This is a low-cost way to play the eventual turnaround in technology, ... They're a very strong distributor of hardware and software products and it's gaining market share on its competitors. The stock is $25 on $2.35 of earnings and you're not taking product risk -- you're 11 times earnings on Tech Data for the company that's got a 20 percent long-term growth rate.

This is a company with a rich history that is synonymous with application development, and has a strong vision for the future of software delivery.

This is a company with a lot of operational issues going forward.

This is a company where cashiers can retire as millionaires.

This is a company that's entering the sweet spot of their restructuring savings. I don't think people are going to find too much to pick at about this result.

This is a company that hasn't done many big acquisitions before, so there's some risk of the costs of integrating being higher than expected.

This is a company that has gotten stronger under Jung.

This is a company that has consistently delivered strong results, one quarter after another, and over the last year they haven't gotten credit for it.

John Wilson

This is a company that dominates their part of the industry, ... Everybody that has a computer probably has an Adobe product on it, and the stock has done well and has held up nicely.

This is a company in turnaround mode, but we would have liked to have seen more progress. There wasn't anything that even hinted at a major rebound.

All in all, the union has a good working relationship with the company.

All employees, regardless of what company they work for, deserve an environment where they are treated with respect and dignity.

A key issue for customers migrating from Gen 1 to Gen 2 protocols will be how the reader performs near multiple readers, ... As a leading company putting RFID to work in the marketplace, Symbol is proud to offer customers the promise of minimal interference and investment protection with the multi-protocol XR400 reader.

The Home Depot intends to defend itself vigorously in the lawsuit. The company is proud of its longstanding history of providing safe products for its customers.

The focus is on Vista and when they get that rolled out. Obviously, they need to keep to their schedule and get that out in the first quarter, but that means any ramp in revenue growth for this company is not going to come until the first quarter of next year.

You can see what kind of a major influence this company has,

You'd be hard pressed to find another company that serves-up that many API calls.

Andrew Johnson

You could take your old phone number, leave the phone company and save 20 to 25 percent, but still have the full features.

Bill Gates

You could say this is a bet-the-company kind of thing,

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's fourth-quarter performance is indicative of a new vitality at the company and the major strides we have made in 1997.

Rob Enderle

Users need to have a contingency plan, regardless of the outcome of the merger. In the current environment, we're dealing with a risk-averse audience, and they don't want to put their jobs on the line for a company that may not be able to execute.

You give up about one-third of the company by doing it,