Richard Williams
Richard Williams
Animator who won a 1989 Academy Award for his work on the live action/animation hybrid film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." "The Thief and the Cobbler" became his unfinished masterpiece.
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
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The average retail investor can't be as nimble as institutions. If you buy right now, you might be sitting on a loss for months.
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It's going to be a feeding frenzy, ... Anyone with a low stock price and poor results is vulnerable.
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It's a big challenge for new management to have to come in and handle the crisis. They now have 28 days to certify all the data. It's not clear they can get everything done that they have to get done.
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Symantec cannot grow as rapidly as it has done in the past.
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The reality is that an Oracle deal would cost PeopleSoft customers. They have a vested interest in keeping PeopleSoft independent,
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This program is a blessing. If I didn't have this program, I would probably be dead by now. When I got here, I was slowly dying. They provided me with a doctor, and everything turned around.
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We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous.
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We want them to have a real-world experience, which means working with people from other schools and cultures, which gives them an experience of diversity. Some students never would have considered a career in international business and exportation without this kind of exposure.
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Where the heck is the good news?. So far, there have not been concrete signs of a recovery.
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The fact that the EU is showing its teeth is very significant. Microsoft kind of got away with things in the U.S.
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There is a very real risk to Oracle. All of the enterprise software companies are making a major push down market.
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This strikes me as a trial balloon, ... Management may be getting tired of the harping on the dividend so if they give investors a quarter of the cash to shut people up, then the company can get back to business.
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Also, they're halfway through their quarter. In the software business, usually the last month represents 70 to 80 percent of their business and the last week it's sometimes 50 percent of that. So, six weeks in, unless you're having a total disaster, it's unlikely that this is the issue.
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At best it will be another year of sluggish growth for Microsoft,