Richard Parsons
Richard Parsons
Richard Dean "Dick" Parsons, an American business executive, is the former chairman of Citigroup and the former chairman and CEO of Time Warner. He stepped down as CEO of Time Warner on December 31, 2007. He is currently the interim CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers NBA franchise...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusiness Executive
Date of Birth4 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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My daughter watches the news, ... I think kids today are pretty well-informed about what's going on in the world. Hopefully, they'll be a generation that's going to be more understanding, open and willing to cooperate to solve the problems we have.
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While I'm pleased with the first six months of 2003, I think it's fair to say we still have a lot of hard work in front of us,
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We're trying to actually accelerate the transition of our narrowband customers who are inclined to leave for broadband anyway. Keeping them in our house and in our network and in our universe from an advertising perspective makes sense.
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While there are still challenges ahead, the steps we announced today will help to remove a cloud that has been hanging over the company for some time now,
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While no one can stand here and say we're never going to make a mistake, we're not going to make a mistake out of aggressiveness,
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We like the business, ... This is a superior platform for delivery of voice and data going forward. It protects and defends our content business. It doesn't mean we're going to go out and do something imprudent.
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We will continue to explore ways to structure a combination that will make sense for the two companies and be acceptable to the commission,
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New Line is having such a blow out year in 2003 that it's impossible to repeat going forward,
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