Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walden Bello

The text is a failure for development and a victory for corporate globalization.

Craig Venter

I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level.

Sometimes you listen to the employees but can't give them everything they want. At our corporate office, we have a farmers market twice a month. Our employees like it so much they want it here every day, but that's just not possible.

Teams would respond, probably by increasing the perks that go with corporate season ticket holders, or there might be moderate reduction in price of those prime tickets to try to fill the corporate seats. Even if they kept the kept the corporate seats at same price, they might have less of them, and have more seats at a lower price.

The SEC doesn't have the resources to do its job. In 1980 the SEC reviewed all corporate financial statements every year. In 2000, they reviewed about 15 percent. Enron's statements hadn't been reviewed since 1997.

These shares have not been retired. They sit in the corporate treasury, where, subject to regulator timing, they can be reissued at the discretion of the company.

The state can be inept, irrational and pursue strange interests, but those interests were always seen as in the national interest. What I could not foresee was that state interests could evolve into corporate and private interests to such an extent.

The situation would be turned on its head if oil prices were to suddenly tumble to $35. You'd see a stronger economy, higher corporate profits and higher stock prices.

The situation in Japan is not going to help sentiment, but people are nervous at the start of the corporate earnings season in the US.

The strength of the GDP report, the better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings, are all reinforcing the idea that the economy and corporate profits are showing strong growth, and you are seeing stocks respond,

The story from the corporate sector is still fairly positive in terms of earnings and at the moment interest rates going up is more of a fear than a reality.

The snail's pace at which women are making their way into corporate boardrooms is simply not acceptable.

The speed limit will be 22 miles per hour, day-to-day, and 28 (mph) for corporate outings and go-cart clubs. At 22 mph, you'll think you're flying.

As investors this year, we have to focus on the durability of corporate profit growth. Within that you can find a lot of opportunities in the stock market.

We give him great credit for raising the priority for education and training. On the other hand, he really did so many things to stick it in the corporate eye, whether or not it was downsizing or siding with the unions in the last two years of the administration.

You had a pop on all this news over the weekend, but then the ISM comes in and there's no sustain. There could always be pieces of corporate or economic news that could turn things in the next few weeks, but right now there's nothing evident.

We've received many e-mails from people saying that no one in a corporate environment will find using an unofficial patch acceptable.

What can help Intel is a corporate PC upgrade cycle. People have been expecting one for some time but it is yet to happen.

There's going to be a realization that corporate profits will be improving.

There's no doubt we are seeing a string of nothing but miserable corporate news.

Nancy Greene

There's more pressure because of the corporate sponsorship and worrying about having to live up to the expectations of sponsors.

I've been somewhat surprised by the weakness of investment levels in the U.K., particularly given the strong position the U.K. corporate sector has been in.

What that suggests is that the recovery in corporate profits may not be as strong as expected.

We will see nervous trading ahead, as we have seen from Cisco that the worst is not yet over for corporate earnings.

The Intel revenue warning provided further evidence of slowing growth in corporate earnings. Given that the market has already priced in this slow growth. downside from here should be pretty well muted for U.S. equities.

The corporate tax cuts may not have an economic impact until months later.

The corporate sector -- the guys who are supposedly in the know -- they're all selling.

The corporate sector is highly leveraged, unprofitable and has excess capacity. Those are not the ingredients to produce a great deal of growth.

The corporate players that pulled their horns in on travel back in 2002 and 2003 are getting back out on the road pretty significantly.

The corporate PC upgrade cycle hasn't really started yet.

The corporate PC market is increasingly mature, and Microsoft has a dominant share of that market, so they are running out of room to grow faster than the market.

In creating those sponsorship levels it really has helped make the tournament more viable. It puts a major emphasis on some of our corporate sponsors.

I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table.