Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Davis

We continue to be confounded by the lack of investor interest in one of the largest and most respected (and feared) companies in the world.

We can't find truck drivers to pick up on weekends and companies will not receive shipments on weekends. (The rail lines) don't give us a break; it's unfair.

It did send a message to a number of companies of how serious we are. We would prefer not to go the litigation route, but will do so if necessary.

I think more companies will increase guidance and the rally will continue.

Frank Stronach

I think maybe there is a small tech startup companies out there where perhaps maybe the owner has horses and I think something like that would be an ideal person.

I think many of the companies that have tried to create social worlds have failed because they approached it strictly from an opportunistic perspective.

It has nothing to do with the economy. It was in the private equity unit where they tried to help fledgling tech companies get started.

I think the story is going to be the same going forward. We're going to see the tech companies reporting well. But the high interest rates we've seen so far have undermined some of the financial stocks and drug stocks.

It is critical that media companies gain a greater understanding of technology and the impact it may have on their businesses. No company understands technology and the consumer better than Apple.

We get press releases from PR companies and celebrities, tips to cover events. We get cleared. We're invited in.

We get most of our supplies here from the Rocky Mountains and the Williston Basin, and so we're insulated from the Gulf problems, however, companies that get their gas from the Gulf could also seek gas from the Rockies and that could drive up our prices.

We (Camp Barnabas) will have a watch party at 5 p.m., Sunday, where PB2 Companies of Rogers, Ark., will show us a slide show of some of the work. Then about 300 people will be watching the debut on TV with us. This is the first time that we will get to see how they did it all.

We are observing a definite trend of hundreds of terabytes of tape library being replaced with disk, ... These companies were permanently replacing, not augmenting tape.

We are now seeing consumer-driven plans are where companies are going.

Charles Schumer

The problem is not the expense of the drug but rather the shortage of supply, which would immediately be rectified if other companies were able to produce it,

The problem is many companies say they are doing it, but really are only giving it lip service and doing it incredibly badly,

We haven't gone up in decades. It's very important, not only to the companies but to the United States.

Ben Horowitz

Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.

Andrew Luck

My number one focus is and will always be football. I wanted to make sure that companies I partner with not only respect that, but also make sense and are quality products. I think Klipsch is synonymous with quality in the sound industry, so it was a natural partnership.

John Lasseter

The press always tends to say these companies are competitors. They are missing the point. As a fan, I want to help the industry. I would love for every studio to produce a blockbuster so we can get more talented people in the industry. Competition to us is when a family walks up to the multiplex and all those titles are up there. I want everyone to be successful.

The problem with GM is that once it goes down, it drags many other companies with it.

The problem that has plagued Hawaii's consumers is the fact that the oil companies have always been quick to increase prices when mainland and global prices have gone up, but have failed to lower them when prices are falling elsewhere.

Those companies will face the same issues that the music industry faces today: How do you protect content from being copied and distributed over the Internet?

Those companies typically have small IT staffs and they typically haven't made a lot of investment in management tools.

Those companies are craftier than you. They're better at getting information.

Those companies are being run better than they ever have.

Those are not investments that Exxon Mobil and the other oil companies are ever going to make.

We are in the middle of a very important technology cycle, ... The companies who cut back on investment now, when the recovery comes, will be stuck with 8-inch capacity...compared to other players who moved to 12-inch.

We are hoping the golf tournament will give us a strong start to the 2005 campaign. To make it fun and ensure its success, we've had several companies and donors step up with prizes as well as help in underwriting the steak dinner that follows.

We know that as we start to measure health effects, that people who are stressed at work cost companies more money, have more problems with heart disease, we think, have more problems with increased injury risk, (and) other kinds of medical problems,

I still see that companies went overboard in slashing their work force in an effort to cut costs and to eliminate the hiring excesses of the 1990s. I think we have a shortfall of about 1.8 million jobs to make up.

I think RIM has a similar future as a lot of other once-dominant companies that Microsoft eyed. You might survive, but you're diminished.

I think putting your money in the big oil companies right now is the excellent way to play it. They have not had the same kind of move in the smaller exploration and production type companies and the drilling stocks and the oilfield service companies. Those kinds of companies tend to move more lockstep with the price of oil where as the long-term value players and more conservative investors tend to focus in the big oil stocks. So since they haven't made the move it's a great value opportunity.