Famous Quotes & Sayings

He was a natural leader who was enormously well-liked and made an enduring impression on those he encountered. The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.

He was always an exciting player to watch on the pitch, and great company off it.

He has a great knowledge of the company and has the personality needed for the role.

He has a real conviction as to how the telecom market and technology are going to evolve, and a real conviction on what his company needs to do to remain competitive.

Rob Enderle

He has to expand market share. It's one thing to get the company into fighting weight; it's another thing to get into the fight.

Jerry Jones

He is a Wall Street guy, not a real estate guy, not a hospitality guy, but a stock guy. The connection with Wall Street is important to the company. And the familiarity with the company is a real asset.

Having BP is going to open a lot more doors for them and this company is going to be a lot bigger. I won't sell my shares.

He loved it. He would umpire during the season and he would deliver fuel oil for my company during the winter.

Today, it's hard to find anything we do as a company that hasn't been influenced by the research group.

We expect to put some senior managers in place by the end of next month and the first thing they need to do is look at the company and decide on the way forward in investments to increase market share and geographical coverage.

There is a fear of the unknown, ... I was the general manager for the chain, and it's one thing to manage someone else's company and another thing to be on your own.

The purpose of this generation of GE leaders is to make the company as good externally and commercially as it has always been operationally and financially.

We're positioning ourselves not so much as a wireless company but as a mobile media company, ... We really see ourselves as going after the high-tech consumer, someone who wants a lot of multimedia on their handsets.

Paul Walsh

We're positioning ourselves as a company with double-digit revenue growth and 20-percent operating margins.

We took a gamble on Johnson and he dogged it. We risked a lot of money to do it, and he didn't come through. But now Sam Peter is in that situation, too. We've got a lot of other good, young fighters. But Sam Peter is our franchise fighter, a guy who can really turn our company around, and this is the single most important fight we've had since Johnson-Ruiz.

We're not where we should be, but I'm satisfied with the progress we've made, and I'm really, really satisfied with the focus within the company on quality.

When I look at the way the company's positioning itself . . . it's really turning more into a digital-entertainment company than anything.

Terry Semel

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network, ... We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

Alain de Botton

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

Motorola would have to give up 20 percent of their entire company to do it. I can't see that happening.

May we 'lead' in the company of kings and amass wealth by our efforts.

Eric Ross

Maybe you can make another 50 percent from here, but people are skittish, ... The problem in this market is that everyone's looking for the momentum play. Any sort of fear that a company isn't going to be able to sustain a momentum ends up a reason to dump shares.

Mendocino is definitely a company to watch. With an established pedigree of enterprise storage domain expertise, and a distribution model that delivers application and data recovery solutions to enterprises through trusted supplier partners, Mendocino is well positioned to provide solutions that can meet the most stringent recovery requirements.

Mendocino is definitely a company to watch, ... With an established pedigree of enterprise storage domain expertise, and a distribution model that delivers application and data recovery solutions to enterprises through trusted supplier partners, Mendocino is well positioned to provide solutions that can meet the most stringent recovery requirements.

My job is to reaffirm the core vision and values that have made this company great and resolve the issues that have recently come to light.

My initial reaction when I heard that Kent was hired, 'Thank God he's a company man,'

Ryan Holmes

My first real venture was a paintball company I started in Grade 10, when I was 16. After hearing about it from a friend, I realized my town didn't have a playing field. I did some research, spoke with other paintball company owners, and I started my own field the following summer.

One should always seek company of intelligent and the person with purity of thought.

One may view the past record very innocently -- as mistakes made, sloppiness, management problems on the part of the company, ... Or one may look take it much differently, and see a more sinister trend.

Samuel Barnett

Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.

Michael Eisner

Of course, economic downturns are never good news, but historically, our company has always emerged from them stronger than ever, ... With this in mind, we remain confident in meeting or exceeding our fiscal goals for this year and about the long-term prospects for The Walt Disney Company.

No one company can do it all by itself.

One thing the company loses by not being part of J&J is not having more money for market development education and training