Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Keep all your records. By law, the credit-card company must investigate your dispute.

Gray Davis

Just the other day, we had to pay $1,900 for a megawatt hour, which a year ago would have cost us $30, ... And the reason this company named Reliant out of Texas gave us for charging us that much money was, they said, the state's credit isn't any good.

I think in time they will probably make an offer (for Western Areas). I can't see them taking a passive stake in the company like that.

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate. You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Susumu Tonegawa

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

There are studies that show participants in a 401(k) plans are less likely to leave the company and are better workers.

It is good for Continental and good for the flight attendants. Continental got the cost structure it needs. That is what the company needs to make it.

Last fall, I gave the company 18 months. They were about to become the next DEC.

Lasco Distributors Europe will continue to operate as a distribution company in order to satisfy the growing demand for our products by members of the Jamaican and West Indian Diaspora, as well as other consumers who have been enjoying the Lasco line of products.

We expect to put some senior managers in place by the end of next month and the first thing they need to do is look at the company and decide on the way forward in investments to increase market share and geographical coverage.

There is a fear of the unknown, ... I was the general manager for the chain, and it's one thing to manage someone else's company and another thing to be on your own.

The purpose of this generation of GE leaders is to make the company as good externally and commercially as it has always been operationally and financially.

We're positioning ourselves not so much as a wireless company but as a mobile media company, ... We really see ourselves as going after the high-tech consumer, someone who wants a lot of multimedia on their handsets.

Paul Walsh

We're positioning ourselves as a company with double-digit revenue growth and 20-percent operating margins.

We took a gamble on Johnson and he dogged it. We risked a lot of money to do it, and he didn't come through. But now Sam Peter is in that situation, too. We've got a lot of other good, young fighters. But Sam Peter is our franchise fighter, a guy who can really turn our company around, and this is the single most important fight we've had since Johnson-Ruiz.

We're not where we should be, but I'm satisfied with the progress we've made, and I'm really, really satisfied with the focus within the company on quality.

We feel it's what any company would do, that it's part of their business. In the event that there's a sale in the future, the customer records go with the company, as part of the company. We're being forthright in disclosing it, and we're getting criticism for being candid.

We've gone through a period where everything has gone right for company profits, but over the past 12 months some cracks have started to develop.

We've gone from being a big small company to a small big company,

We've fought this company for three months and this is definitely not a loss. We did get some improvement in our medical insurance and medical insurance is what this strike was all about.

We take the simple view that, whether they are set up as a trust or a company, it makes sense that they be governed the same way.

We take pleasure in welcoming Global Logistics Acquisition Corporation to the American Stock Exchange. We hope the company will utilize our unique services in order to further its goals in the marketplace.

We are gaining a premium company and valuable real estate that provides an immediate critical mass of stores that would have taken years to develop organically. These are successful stores.

Stockard Channing

We are five people who enjoy each other's company and we are all grown ups, ... That is the curious thing about us. There is not like, 'Here are the little kids, the teenagers and the adults.' I am not saying we are all one generation but, basically, we are five adults in New York and we are all single.

We are extremely pleased to be merging with Warner-Lambert, a company that like Pfizer has long been an innovator in our industry,

We are extremely excited about the early work on this next generation of search technology. Instead of having to waste time searching for news and other important information on the Internet, our customized SIMS portals search and retrieve exactly the information you and/or your company are interested in.

We are exploring strategic options for the whole company and we have no interest in selling individual newspapers or groups of newspapers.

Today, investors are tapping into hype. But there needs to be a viable company at the end of the day.

I thought she'd be small, but she was really big. She's beautiful. The nurses were wonderful. I can't say it was fun, but when you're in good company like this, it was easier.

I think we see the power of some of the decisions they've made to be a total liquid-refreshment company,

I think what the data will show, is that pay rose substantially, but maybe not quite as much in 2004. Executive pay goes up a lot when company performance goes up and that includes, but is not limited to, the stock price performance.

I think at first it was disbelief ? you've got to be kidding. But now that they've seen some of the legislative support we've put together, they see that the union is willing to put up some money, that the company is, that the state stepped right up ? they think there's a ray of hope.