Christopher Galvin
Christopher Galvin
Christopher B. Galvinis an American businessman. He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Motorola from 1997 to 2003...
benefit continued economies execution expected focus given global improving intend next profitable strength year
Given the expected strength of global economies over the next year or so, we intend that Motorola shareholders will benefit from our continued focus on crisp execution and improving profitable growth.
direction discussed far issues
It's far from over, but I think they're working in the right direction. The fundamental issues haven't really been discussed or resolved.
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At this stage, it appears that the momentum from our accelerated profit improvement effort will continue in the second quarter.
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We have been assessing the impact these factors have had on us, as well as on other companies, particularly in the last 30 days. We have begun to take additional actions to streamline our portfolio and reduce the cost of our operations.
ideas innovation world
When does your next idea come? You don't really know yet, and therefore there's a lot of uncertainty associated with innovation companies. Most often, the true innovators have to stand all by themselves at the beginning and predict that the world will be different.
jobs giving credit
You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.
lonely innovation way
Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way."
wall people way
The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular and they don't like to be the nail that sticks up, as they say.