Famous Quotes & Sayings

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Other companies facing top line pressures are going to have to cut costs.

People do not typically leave companies if they are deliriously happy with their roles, but sometimes even people who are reasonably content with their jobs find better opportunities that come along.

The National Association of Broadcasters supports the concept of the telephone companies getting into video.

The Nasdaq fund tracks 76 companies that are directly related to curing human disease.

Harry Reid

oil companies need to make more money this year.

Jamie Court

Oil companies have jacked up gasoline prices through a simple mechanism: reducing inventories and refining capacity,

Oil companies are responsibly reflecting the public?s outcry at the pump over gas prices. We have not seen this phenomenon before -- prices dropping this rapidly.

Oil companies are doing well as oil prices are rising.

Dennis Hastert

Oil and gas companies are enjoying record profits. That is fine. This is America,

Oil and commodities will probably keep increasing producer prices at the current pace. Many companies are still struggling to pass on higher manufacturing costs to consumers as they haven't regained pricing power.

Michael Dell

During the first half of fiscal 1998, demand remained solid. The top companies have been consolidating their market shares during this period, and Dell has emerged from this environment as a leader in market share growth.

Robert Shapiro

During my undergraduate training at UCLA, I was studying finance and securities; my particular interest was with mutual funds. Wanting to get into a high position at some of the companies that were doing that, I knew that law would be useful.

Deloitte's sessions at Telecom NEXT really zero in on the issues of concern for companies trying to win in an evolving IP world.

Dell is the last of the big hardware companies to report, ... We expect them to deliver, but we view what they say as a non-event. There's a low probability that they'll talk about an industry-wide recovery.

Competition is getting tough, and Microsoft is evolving to become more nimble. It's doing what good companies do: evolve to meet new challenges.

Compared with previous quarters, which were heavily dominated by software and semiconductors, we're seeing a mix of companies receiving dollars. It's good to see diversity, because it means we're not relying too heavily on one sector.

Companies must value the older worker - not to be altruistic, but to keep their competitive edge.

Companies may do really well, and compensate fairly, and end up with a loss (because of option costs). Whether or not that's going to (hurt them) remains to be seen.

Companies may be paying more for raw materials and energy, but that is at least partially being offset by lower unit labor costs. That, I think, is likely to keep inflation contained.

Companies like Texas Instruments, companies like Cisco Systems in enterprise networking. Leaders in their space, bellwethers, big-cap liquid names that I think are going to be around for the long term, leaders in the up cycle, ... Companies that the institutional investor can get in and out of quickly and that tends to draw a larger portion of the money when we have these volatile times.

Companies like Softbank and KDDI are fighting for corporate clients.

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Warren Farrell

Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

Companies like Foundry create products like this on a much faster development cycle than Cisco and Juniper.

Companies like Eaton and Parker Hannifin are performing extremely well at the moment, they've got a lot of cash. They'd probably like to reduce their exposure to the dollar by expanding in Europe.

Kate Warne

companies like Ballard Power that have great growth potential but not much in the way of current earnings.

Companies just have to know that technically, they will be in violation of these edicts.

Companies in the eastern part of the United States are overburdened with their operating costs, and they're no longer competitive. It's a tragedy in the firearms industry.

Clayton Christensen

Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Companies have to learn to live with keeping their costs down. They're not going to get pricing power not in our lifetime, I'm afraid. The world is just much too competitive.

Companies have to invest in research and development, lest their competitors pass them by. And they have to spend money in sales and marketing to make sure their products are getting their due in terms of promotion. Right now, the environment is so competitive that it's impossible to shift the increase in costs to the consumer, and companies are getting their margins squeezed.