Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Holmes

Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic.

Pierre Omidyar

Companies in Silicon Valley invest a lot in understanding their users and what drives user engagement.

It's not publicly known, but antivirus companies co-operate all the time. On the surface, antivirus vendors are direct competitors. And in fact, the competition is fierce on the sales and marketing side. But on the technical side, we're actually very friendly to each other. It seems that everyone knows everyone else.

Peter Orszag

The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.

We've issued subpoenas and we expect the companies to obey subpoenas.

We've identified those companies whose filings we think will require further review,

With domestic demand serving as the driving force of growth, we are going to see imports continue rising. Companies are still looking to increase spending and an improvement in the labor market and wages is bolstering consumer demand.

Scott McNealy

Without the dot it doesn't happen. We're the dot. We're the way you get on the Internet. I never really thought about it that much but the whole effort is to affiliate ourselves with companies that want to dot com their companies. We've kind of made a verb out of dot com.

William Perry

With special economic zones being set up in Russia, Western investors and companies can look forward to making money there.

Within the past year the mounting public pressure for companies to secure personal data and the corresponding increase in data protection regulation have forced organizations to re-evaluate the way data is handled. Our research shows that many more are deploying encryption as a protection mechanism.

We need to look at reality. These companies are not going to move in here if they are taxed at full value.

When we look back in three years, there's going to be a higher likelihood that those companies that repatriated substantial non-U.S. profits have done major transactions compared with companies that have not repatriated assets.

Rebecca MacKinnon

We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.

We are excited to see innovative companies such as Become.com join Shop.org and support the online and multi-channel retail community. We look forward to their contribution as a new member,

Unfortunately, guidance by the Office of Inspector General makes it very difficult for companies to continue providing free or discounted medicines to Medicare beneficiaries. ... The threat of anti-kickback violations has spooked a lot of people.

Unfairly targeting individual companies is simply not the answer, especially when it's a company like ours that provides health insurance to over one million Americans.

James T. Walsh

Under those circumstances, most major companies won't require that you sign anything other than endorsing the check.

Jimmy Johnson

Two to three years down the road, ... other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble.

Two of three people on the Internet today prefer our product. As a company that's three years old, we're proud of that. We've just started a program to distribute 120 million copies of our product, so there are ways we can hold on to market share. Most companies would be proud of a 67 percent market share.

Lynn Anderson

When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able to take shipments.

Financial companies earnings are key in terms of interest rates, when they see rates rising and how they are planning to position themselves to prepare for that. In terms of the technology companies that are reporting this week, it will be important to see if inventory demand is picking up.

Fifty-four percent more companies are looking at this region today than 14 months ago,

Figures like these are reassuring for the global companies here. Nothing about the U.S. is concerning for us on this side of the globe right now.

Expectations are just really high for companies now. It has more to do with psychology than Intel itself.

Expectations are fairly low, and these companies will deliver results that are in-line, or slightly better than expectations.

The real question is whether companies will squeeze their (profit) margins as costs increase or if they are going to increase prices. I think they will increase prices.

There are a lot of opportunities for investors -- a lot of companies out there looking for money.

There are a lot of market forces driving these companies to come up with a better alternative and something that's greener and cleaner.

There are many reasons to be optimistic -- corporate earnings have been strong, with more than 70 percent of companies in the first quarter exceeding estimates. The employment picture seems to be improving,

Chellie Pingree

When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies.

Clayton Christensen

The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.

Barton Gellman

Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.