Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Peck

What you have is a payoff when there's poor performance. But that's the nature of contracts. There's such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.

Charles Peck

What you have is a payoff when there's poor performance, ... But that's the nature of contracts. There's such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.

Carlos Cardoso

I think that an effective CEO is a generalist in many waysone that can represent the company well to the customers, to the investors, to the community. You also have to represent yourself well as a leader at all levels of the organization. One of the things I have learned since my younger days is that everyone in the organization counts.

Sam Bodman

I hope the CEOs of the energy companies use that (hearing) as an opportunity to make their case, tell the story of just what it is they are planning on reinvesting in this sector,

Britt Beemer

It's interesting they flipped the jobs. They want the future CEO to have experience on the domestic and international side equally. It may be that Wal-Mart looks at the international side as equal to the U.S.

Eric Schmidt

It's a sale out of weakness. There are internal disagreements, and the CEO changes tell you that they realize the world is going to get a lot more competitive for them. In my view, they're in trouble.

Jacob Frenkel

For a CEO to be told when to get up, when to eat, where to stand and what to wear, this is a significant punishment,

Kevin Calabrese

This is without a doubt the most withholding of support for a CEO of a major company that I have ever seen. It's really an expression of dissatisfaction,

Scott Weiss

Most companies don't have a good mechanism to give the CEO real, honest feedback.

Bruce Lanni

Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices will remain high and that supply and demand will remain tight.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Michael Farr

I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.

Wade Jones

What we want is to improve the quality of life for everybody. We want to improve the standard of living. And the way we do that is by providing good-paying jobs, secure jobs, so that we know the companies are going to prosper and do well here and help expand our economy.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Alan Foreman

Here and there, we may have a ray of sunshine. Some companies may report better-than-expected earnings, ... But, on balance, in this climate, those reports are not likely to fuel markets to move much higher.

Salar Kamangar

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

Bill Xia

I think the government is getting increasingly desperate. They're pushing the domestic media and outside companies to openly collaborate with them. They're summoning all their potential partners.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

John Robertson

The mechanism is relating the wrong things. The scarcity problem is not being addressed.

Felix Rohatyn

The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.

Kenneth Langone

Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.