Famous Quotes & Sayings

We own L-3 because it's a good solid stock as opposed to being part of an industry theme play, ... The defense industry has the wind at its back now but most companies don't have the earnings consistency we're looking for.

We own a lot of content companies, companies like Walt Disney ( DIS : Research , Estimates ).

Bill Gates

While our companies will continue to compete, I'm pleased that we've been able to resolve our prior dispute, and I'm excited about the opportunity to work together collaboratively to make the digital decade a reality,

With a later Easter, a lot of companies missed expectations -- no one knew exactly how to model the Easter shift.

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.

Robin Wright

Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are illicit; they're dirty.

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army.

Faced with an extremely high euro and high wage costs, the companies stepped up their restructuring. When the euro declined last year, they suddenly found they could take on the world quite easily.

But the lead will be short-lived as the Korean companies will be able to make panels at lower costs in their new factories after output increases in the second half of this year.

Jeff Goodell

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.

Alex Berenson

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

Alex Berenson

In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

Alex Berenson

To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies to cover their costs and earn a guaranteed profit for their investors. But in a deregulated market, prices should vary with demand and supply.

Alex Berenson

Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one of those games involves popular offerings.

Peter Blair Henry

Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.

Barack Obama

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Jim Clark

The governor has decided at the request of the most senior management of the three companies with whom we're dealing to provide them the courtesy of a meeting before we roll out the bill.

The government is now doing what private companies have been doing to make sure the software packages are secure and reliable for widespread deployment.

The government is encouraging quality companies to list domestically to increase the attractiveness of the market.

The good news is that after seeing very significant reduced spending overall, companies are projecting a slight recovery for 2003.

Alex Gibney

Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further, when they pay hospitals 115% of what it should cost to care for a patient, they are paying for inefficiency that can be dangerous.

Paul Foster

We're talking to and working with some very significant companies right now. ... We expect (company location) announcements to pick up. ... Some (company relocations) take two to three years to cultivate.

John Armstrong

We're talking about consolidation. How many companies will be involved, I don't know. We're in talks with more than one integrated steel company. Our talks with National are just further down the pike.

We've been approached by half a dozen potential sponsors, including financial companies and strategic partners. It's one of the options we have, including restructuring the company ourselves.

Kevin Martin

We need to have a regulatory environment that allows companies to invest in their networks.

Andrew Mason

The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.

Arlo Guthrie

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.

Irving Kirsch

One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.

Imogen Heap

Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

Ha-Joon Chang

Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

With a market as nasty and negative as it is at the moment, there's little room for error. The Nasdaq has contracted very sharply in a short period of time. Its drop in a year is approximately 60 percent, but this is not representative of all companies that are publicly traded.

There are rules and ethics that companies have to follow and should not breach.

Charles Phillips

There are probably way too many integration specialists from the software perspective -- but as in most markets, about three companies are getting 70 percent of the market. So the market will start to consolidate if not through acquisition then through de facto market share gains.