Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ... will be high enough to be felt once companies start reporting third-quarter earnings.

There's no reason for these companies to even consider Sonoma County.

John Taylor

There's no question that in 2002 and 2003 that a lot of investment went to later-stage companies because they entailed much less risk.

Jeff Bingaman

There's no excuse for this much waste when leading companies in the U.S. energy-efficiency industry are willing to provide the money for improvements at no up-front cost to taxpayers.

Douglas Conant

There's no evidence that large, diversified food companies win over time.

There's lots of small and large opportunities. I don't think we're fully tapped it out, ... We are talking to video game companies about sports-content games. So far we haven't talked to video game companies yet about the swimsuit franchise, but I imagine it'll probably come up.

There's no trodden path here. We can't go back and look at what other companies have done because no other company has done this.

There's no top-line growth -- that's the problem. Companies are cutting costs and people to meet their targets, but there are only so many people they can cut.

There's nothing companies hate more than unpredictability. Injunctive relief poses a very disruptive force to our industry.

The trend toward project-based operations is gathering momentum. Since IFS is one of the few companies offering a comprehensive, completely integrated, project-based solution, the company is well positioned to support enterprises in their transition toward the Project Economy.

The trend toward consolidation is being driven by globalization, with mergers giving companies from all industries sufficient scale and a lower cost structure to enable them to compete in a global arena.

The trends are all the same here, that no matter how profitable these companies get, they still are trying to downgrade these jobs. That's what we are trying to draw the line against. And we hope that the public will understand.

The trend in economic reports from supply managers in our survey has been fairly positive since October of last year following some of the negative shipping impacts from Hurricane Katrina. Companies with strong ties to the state's growing ethanol industry reported solid growth for February but were very optimistic about future economic growth for this sector.

The travel industry is sitting on the last virgin territory in the entire world. Americans want to go there for the same reason that dozens of companies around the world have. There's money to be made.

The tobacco company can kill us. The package food companies can clog our arteries. The oil companies can provoke wars. But, apparently, there's no industry more despicable than the music industry. We are hated just because we refuse to acknowledge the public's God-given rights to steal music.

What happens is that companies usually don't plan succession,

What happened is we went through a long period that was very difficult for biotech companies to raise money. Once this window opened, a lot of people decided that they would go ahead.

What big companies want to do is share information with their customers and partners to increase profitability and shorten time to market.

What did these insurance companies think? It's not a . . . toothache where you can pull the tooth and be done with it.

What companies report now is less influential than what they say about future quarters.

We talked with companies that are in the process of setting up dedicated Medicare Part D teams to handle marketing to these customers, as new and unique product messaging will be required.

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 rely on email too much. Email is quite inefficient. People like to 'Reply To All' and send copies of attachments to each other, instead of doing what Notes does, which is to have a single copy on the server that everyone sees.

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.

What's happening is the traditional old line industrial companies are seeing their fundamentals erode as (interest) rates go higher.

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 companies monitor e-mail is not a secret.