Famous Quotes & Sayings

We spend about half our day on the phone with insurance companies. We've been on hold so far up to 3 1/2 hours with insurance companies trying to resolve issues.

Too many companies had perverse incentive systems that rewarded hot short-term performance and didn't provide any penalties for long-term problems.

Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.

Tony Ridder inherited a company that had a lot of newspaper companies that are not in growing markets and would never be in growing markets. That's what he inherited, and that's what he had to work with.

We've been talking to energy companies who are unwilling to make investments that require current oil prices to support them. They don't think prices will remain at this level.

What's happening is we own very little generation; the utility companies own very little generation. As a result we have to go out for power when the current contract expires, which happens at the end of 2006. If you think of natural gas and the way it operates now, that will be the way we will operate after 2006.

The fact that two leading companies in the industry may take part in mergers is sending a positive message. This is a market that can be sustained by M&A.

When there's a disaster, insurance companies practice a form of triage and go to the worst damages first.

David Allen

We want to be sure we have it all right. Reconciling all the various salaries between the two companies was more complicated than expected. We didn't want to put it in place before it was ready.

The fact that AMD has served a subpoena on another company isn't that new, given the fact that they've served subpoenas on roughly 50 companies in conjunction with the antitrust suit.

What I think a lot of companies are looking for is a multipurpose LAN device like Cisco's ISR. This is a relatively small deal. It won't turn Nortel around, but it does give them a legitimate end-to-end WAN play.

Rebecca MacKinnon

What were the exact terms of the deals? Who made them? In what context did these conversations take place? I expect the revelations won't be too flattering for the companies concerned.

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,

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We know it's important, and we know the consumer wants bundling, so what we try to do is work with other companies to provide the lowest price for our digital television.

We'll enable companies to black- and white-list specific applications.

Russ Feingold

Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don't have anything to do with health care.

Let's put it bluntly. If rail would be profitable, private companies would be doing it already.

Let's wait and see how the two companies mesh. They can learn from each other, if they're smart.