Famous Quotes & Sayings

Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.

This would be statistically more significant if the company had flat revenues.

Peter Thiel

One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.

Richard Parsons

We are not able to predict what the outcome will be or when it will come, ... have progressed significantly enough to give the company some visibility into the (potential) costs.

We are moving the company away from its traditional mentality and approach.

The data show that the company embraces the concept of reward for performance.

Today, things look much rosier for American Home. The degree of uncertainty at the company is much less today than it was four or five months ago.

Three entities would dominate three industries instead of one, ... The company seems to have developed that way over the years -- so someone must have seen this coming.

Charlie Daniels

We never envisioned this much stuff. I'm overwhelmed by the support out there for the troops, ... only one company that will remain nameless turned us down.

We need to work on things we have control over. We can't control what the power company does.

We're not a technology company -- we're an asset-management company. That may be why we've been so successful at deploying RFID: We're starting with the end-use in mind, not the technology.

We're working to narrow the gap and we hope the company is serious. We're serious. We want to make a quick resolution and the quicker it's settled, the better.

We're very positive. The company has made good inroads into the networking industry.

VW is a possible partner for further projects. The times in which a company could face an industry on its own are over.

We're really looking for an international company recognized around the world who would do it every year.

With crude oil staying high, gas company shares are going to gain. Growth is also going to be fueled by the current economic expansion.

While it may not be possible to eliminate the risk of fraud altogether, a company can at least identify it early and minimize its damage with proper planning, policies and procedures.

Without question, Mississippi is going to come back stronger than it was before. It's a proven market, it's a friendly tax rate, and any company that has the means to go back, has to go back. We were at a disadvantage from a marketing standpoint before. This will widen that gap.

We've owned the stock for over six years. It's a really great company and we love it a lot.

We want to unlock significant shareholder value. What we're trying to do is help the company reconfigure itself.

Expansion via debt is a good move for Chocolates, which has zero debt now. It may put the company on peoples' radar screens more and help its shares gain more value.

Jon Katz

When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book signings.

We like the company, and like its assets, and like the opportunities in front of it.

Dada Vaswani

Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

Arun Sarin

Falling margins, which is really investment in customers, is very much a part of turning the company around,

Arun Sarin

Falling margins are very much part of turning the company around. You can't turn around without investing in customers.

Anne Wojcicki

I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.

We're the largest portable toilet company operating in Lee County. We have a little over 8,000 of them and I don't have any inventory of any kind.

We're the largest investor-owned health-care company in the country. We feel like it's incumbent on us to participate.

We're talking about customers rather than the company and what the company has done. Putting ourselves in the forefront wouldn't have been appropriate.

We had a company put together this program for us after coordinating with all of the county service agencies.

You have my personal guarantee that all the resources of Ford Motor Company are directed to resolve this situation. I want all of our owners to know that there are two things that we never take lightly. Your safety and your trust.

Ginni Rometty

I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients.