Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think the concept is an interesting one, ... It allows these smaller companies to minimize their risk, which could spur some growth.

David Bradley

I think the companies are indicating a willingness to give strong wage increases. If they can cut five percent of the work force through attrition, they can give 4 percent wage gains annually and come out ahead.

David Sze

I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies and, you know, we have the - we have the opportunity to do that at different stages.

Christian Smith

There is a fraud going on in this country where offshore hedge funds dwelling in an unregulated environment are selling massive numbers of shares short and doing various schemes not to cover (their short positions), ... In the process, companies are getting destroyed, technology is getting destroyed, and hard working Americans are getting screwed.

Chuck D.

There is a distinct possibility you will see more very large tech companies paying a dividend. It's a reflection of the continued maturation of these companies,

There is a direct correlation between the companies that are known for good service and service training. There's a line that pulls it right from the top to the bottom.

There is no difficulty with that concept, but not all companies have received the same level of profit.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least some pressure from governments to do things that would potentially infringe on users' rights to free expression and privacy.

We try to pick companies that dominate their niche. So we think there are lots of opportunities to sort of identify pure plays,

We try to invest in companies that kids can easily understand and our educational material is targeted to about the 6th grade level. It's all in the presentation I think.

we've been trying to work with these companies for more than a year.

We're in the midst of the U.S. reporting season, which looks pretty good. Companies in Europe seem to have been publishing good numbers, so I think the fundamentals are still pretty positive.

We're obviously disappointed. The ruling allows insurance companies to mislead customers through contract language that ultimately limits their remedies when things go wrong.

What I saw in some of consumer companies was not good, ... All were nervous about business, trying to figure out what would happen.

With most insurance companies you can extend the limit of your liability depending on your own personal requirements.

We, the investing public, are pretty confident about the economy and we wanted to see it in the numbers. It's the 'show me' market and today, some companies showed us.

We are extremely pleased. Taking product companies as hostages has never been a solution. I am glad to see that things are getting back to normal.

Bernard Ebbers

We are exploring opportunities to separate portions of our switched voice operations into separate companies or tracking stocks,

To figure out how to keep these companies strong, how to work with them in a way that keeps them viable.

To compete in a specialist market like marine when you've got a high exchange rate is exceptionally difficult. Companies have got to be very smart and have a particular niche where they excel.

What you see at the top of our list is that the companies have roughly a 65/35 ratio of white workers to workers of color. That far outweighs the labor pool in this country.

What you see are companies on the rise.

Frank Williams

I think we might want to make some small adjustments, and maybe the television companies can think of ways to improve it.

Kate Warne

I think we will see companies report their quarterly earnings in line with expectations and that will give the market a boost.