Richard Parsons
Richard Parsons
Richard Dean "Dick" Parsons, an American business executive, is the former chairman of Citigroup and the former chairman and CEO of Time Warner. He stepped down as CEO of Time Warner on December 31, 2007. He is currently the interim CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers NBA franchise...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusiness Executive
Date of Birth4 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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Jeff is smart, there's no question in anybody's mind. Everyone knows this man is the future for our company.
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I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.
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My daughter watches the news, ... I think kids today are pretty well-informed about what's going on in the world. Hopefully, they'll be a generation that's going to be more understanding, open and willing to cooperate to solve the problems we have.
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I do think that when clouds roll in, it takes a while for them to roll out of the sky even though a lot of good work has been done underneath, ... We're optimistic that, given time and the right type of exposure, the Street will begin to see real value there.
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The road back may not be as short as we wish, ... But there are solid reasons to feel confident about the future.
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The bottom line is we think we have a lot of ways to get home, ... We'll explore and exploit the ones that stand out to be the most beneficial to the company.
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While no one can stand here and say we're never going to make a mistake, we're not going to make a mistake out of aggressiveness,
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We're talking to different people about different things. Everyone brings something different to the party.
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We hope in the next several months that we'll be able to announce something positive there.
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We like the business, ... This is a superior platform for delivery of voice and data going forward. It protects and defends our content business. It doesn't mean we're going to go out and do something imprudent.
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While there are still challenges ahead, the steps we announced today will help to remove a cloud that has been hanging over the company for some time now,
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We're looking out a couple of quarters, to be honest with you.
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What we have here is the city selecting services that, for whatever reason, the city happens to like and directing those services to be put on.
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The real driver of enhanced valuation is going to be AOL in the near term and the long term,