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We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

The original impetus was that these companies got contracts to work on Y2K. The good companies were able to transform themselves to provide services in the Internet area.

We've held out that, as you move through the third-quarter earnings, the companies that report will show strong growth, ... Stock prices have been so compressed that it give investors reason to step in and pick up stocks at depressed prices.

Two companies have benefited from the time-to-market advantage: Yahoo! and Amazon. Those are the single success stories. Every single day, it gets more and more competitive.

This week, we were supposed to be ordering her graduation announcements and sending her resume to companies in Houston and L.A.. I told her Friday night that she didn't know what path God wanted her to walk and that perhaps she should expand her job search past New York.

We expect the sum of the two companies to be worth meaningfully more than the current price.

We don't think oil prices are going to rebound sharply. I think the deal that Mobil's doing is suggesting just that. I think most companies are hunkering down and they expect that prices are going to remain low for the next possibly one to three years. In this event, you may start to see more mergers occur.

We think investors should own companies like Wal-Mart, like Alberto-Culver and Neighbors Industries because they have good fundamental prospects in a recovering economy,

We're going to be a virtual network of companies existing primarily in cyberspace.

We're very encouraged that there is this much interest. Normally, these companies don't even consider a project that's less than $500 million.

Michael Dell

We see a healthy industry in the year ahead, ... Major demand drivers, including processor transitions and component cost reductions, remain solid, and consolidation is separating top companies such as Dell from the rest of the field.

John Bruton

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

John Bruton

U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

February is going to be an extremely weak month. But some of the companies that go out are going to be a lot more interesting and a lot more valuable.

Few companies are pounding the table and saying things are terrific so there's not the wild enthusiasm you would expect with a good earnings season,

There's seven or eight companies fighting for 20 percent of the market.

There's probably only a handful of companies we could imagine doing something like this with and Target is at the very top of the list,

There's isolated incidents of companies (warning) because of patent expiration or pipeline problems or both, but they are very isolated.

Richard Smith

There simply aren't hundreds of derelict companies out there. It could happen on an isolated basis, but the mechanics don't exist for this to happen every 15 minutes.

There's going to be pockets of technology that do incredibly well, ... But the valuation is still being the core of the very large companies are quite high, especially if they're really cyclical in nature.

There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ... will be high enough to be felt once companies start reporting third-quarter earnings.

John Taylor

There's no question that in 2002 and 2003 that a lot of investment went to later-stage companies because they entailed much less risk.

There's no trodden path here. We can't go back and look at what other companies have done because no other company has done this.

There's nothing companies hate more than unpredictability. Injunctive relief poses a very disruptive force to our industry.

The trend toward consolidation is being driven by globalization, with mergers giving companies from all industries sufficient scale and a lower cost structure to enable them to compete in a global arena.

The trends are all the same here, that no matter how profitable these companies get, they still are trying to downgrade these jobs. That's what we are trying to draw the line against. And we hope that the public will understand.

The trend in economic reports from supply managers in our survey has been fairly positive since October of last year following some of the negative shipping impacts from Hurricane Katrina. Companies with strong ties to the state's growing ethanol industry reported solid growth for February but were very optimistic about future economic growth for this sector.

The travel industry is sitting on the last virgin territory in the entire world. Americans want to go there for the same reason that dozens of companies around the world have. There's money to be made.

The tobacco company can kill us. The package food companies can clog our arteries. The oil companies can provoke wars. But, apparently, there's no industry more despicable than the music industry. We are hated just because we refuse to acknowledge the public's God-given rights to steal music.

What happens is that companies usually don't plan succession,

What happened is we went through a long period that was very difficult for biotech companies to raise money. Once this window opened, a lot of people decided that they would go ahead.

What did these insurance companies think? It's not a . . . toothache where you can pull the tooth and be done with it.

We talked with companies that are in the process of setting up dedicated Medicare Part D teams to handle marketing to these customers, as new and unique product messaging will be required.