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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.

My understanding (of state law) is these are public companies and the amount of shares I owned were insignificant, and I didn't see any conflict.

Porsche told us that they were going to invest back into the company rather than pay higher dividends. Now they're investing in one of the least profitable car companies in Europe.

Portals do drive e-commerce, ... But I think some e-commerce companies overpaid and expected too much. As e-commerce companies build their own stream of traffic, they'll need to depend on portals less and less.

One of the most vexing issues in most companies is the duplex mismatching problem.

One of the reasons shares of traditional media companies have underperformed so much is the fear that they would not adapt to the new technologies and that they would not grow as much. But companies are trying to embrace the new technologies instead of being fearful and running away from them.

One of the keys to success in the corporate world is companies need to leverage those differences in the work place.

One of the main drivers for the Dow and S&P has been the price of oil; that's been dragging on the companies that are especially dependent on lower oil prices,

One of the main focus of course, is earnings, and it never helps when companies are warning about declining profits.

One of the biggest parts of my job is to figure out where the company is going. What are the opportunities? So I stay very immersed and very up-to-date on what new companies are being started, what new technologies are emerging, what new ideas are getting floated in business plans, and things like that. I see a lot of product ideas and a lot of new technologies.

One of the big issues for companies now is, do you tell someone they're considered a high-potential? If you do, the person may get their hopes up and be disappointed later. But if you tell them they're not, they may quit.

On my recent trip around the world, I bought shares of companies in places like China and Chile, countries I feel have great potential.

On the other level, it communicates to companies directly that this is something that matters, and they need to have policies on point. They need to decide for themselves that we only share data subject to legitimate legal processes, and we don't share data informally, and we defend the privacy of our customers.

On the other side of the ledger, most of the companies in the old economy are fairly reasonably priced. So, a couple of weeks ago we started to see a shift. First, the energy stocks did somewhat better. Then, the pharmaceutical stocks had quite a run. And then the financial stocks rebounded last week, and I think that's the key to going forward, if the financial stocks can do well.

On the import side, the strength is from a rebuilding of inventories from companies and a general expansion of the U.S. economy. Petroleum imports increased, adding to the import bills.

On the basis of assessments (Indian and Chinese) companies will make, we will cooperate and we will compete. Hopefully we will cooperate more than we compete.

On the commercial side, clearly all of the three major types of companies -- traditional pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies and medical device companies -- view health and medicine as a growing market,

On the earnings front, it would seem that companies have fared a little worse than the market had hoped. Annual growth has come in around 14.5 percent this season and analysts were hoping to see 16.6 percent.

I was positively surprised that they maintained guidance in the light of major geopolitical situations while other companies have been missing numbers and guiding low, ... insignificant.

I would have expected a much more inclusive process. If they are relying on inviting companies to participate in the process, how much diversity of opinion are they likely to achieve?

I would encourage you to look at TIPS or other ways of owning companies that are pricing power beneficiaries, or at least neutral and able to pass on cost increases.

I would estimate that in the first half of this year as much as 40 percent of the increase in the total profits of companies came from the weakness in the dollar.

I would focus on very high-quality companies in this environment. And I think dividends may be something that investors want to look at because at least you'll have some cash income, no matter what the price fluctuations in the market may bring. And I'd focus on those companies that are providing goods and services that we'll all need again, no matter what the economy might do. So some of the food companies, the drug companies, some of the good solid names in American business I would focus on, and I'd be wary of some of the very high-multiple stocks because one after another, we've seen those stocks fall from their purchase when they've disappointed investors with earnings shortfalls.

I was raised with American values, that good companies take care of workers. Wal-Mart is changing the rules. We're at a crucial point where society needs to decide whether we're going to follow them on this race to the bottom, or not.

I was surprised that a few companies did as well as they did, ... I was also surprised there were 10 companies that actively invite e-mail questions on their Web site and just don't bother to answer them.

I was surprised to see the number of people involved in it, ... Air carriers and other companies that operate internationally must be aware of their vulnerabilities and take steps to protect against them.

If we don't effectively address the problem immediately, a large number of companies will go bankrupt and many people will lose their jobs.

Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of the media is left of center. There are two companies doing truly balanced news today: Sinclair and Fox.

Nintendo has strong views on how we should run our company. We consider ourselves, above all else, as a gaming company. We believe other companies (in the console marketplace) see themselves primarily as technology companies.

Nobody is one asking Western companies to go and lobby the Chinese government to change its behavior. That's not possible. But what we are asking companies to do is change the way in which they respond to Chinese government behavior and the way in which they interact with it, and that they can control.

Nobody knows the full extent of the damage, ... The speculation is that it will be worse than Ivan, but we won't really know for days, until oil companies get personnel out there and survey the damage.

Nobody knows the full extent of the damage. The speculation is that it will be worse than Ivan, but we won't really know for days, until oil companies get personnel out there and survey the damage.

Nobody likes to fail in the fourth quarter. There are going to be companies that did well in the holiday season and they will be able to add to gains.

Nichols is attracting companies that want to establish a beachhead in western Maine as a way to test the waters.

I would be keen to meet with CEOs and other top executives of U.S.-based petroleum companies during this visit. I have separately requested the USIBC (U.S.-India Business Council) to organize an event, wherein this interaction could take place.

I would be very surprised if some of these companies that have stakes in these projects don't already have their lawyers working on lawsuits.

When the guidelines say 'moderate by local standards,' you know that's different from Billings, Montana, to New York City, so the companies do find room for interpretation. The menus haven't changed a great deal. It's just that wine and other alcoholic beverages aren't served, and the hors d'oeuvres are not as lavish. But these days that has as much to do with budgetary constraints as compliance issues.

When I came here in November 2002, DTAC was in a quite challenging situation. I remember the marketing research companies told us the DTAC brand looked like an old sick lady.

My guess is that they think companies are too busy to verify those things, and a lot of them are. If someone is successful in getting a job that way and they aren't caught, it is likely they will do it again.

My guess would be that the philosophies and cultures that are instilled in those companies are things that become business as usual. It's great to see that they keep coming up year after year because it says they practice what they preach.

Major U.S. companies do this and it is regarded as normal. So why should China not be entitled to do so?

LignUp is one of the players in an industry value chain that increasingly differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. By exhibiting a focus on a networking industry model, open interfaces, open standards, and an innovative Web services based architecture, LignUp has joined a circle of companies that represent the future of IP communications.

Like anything else in venture capital, you tend to allocate capital to those companies that can yield the highest returns. It would have been a mistake to invest substantially when it was apparent that we would not be receiving great returns.

Some of it is housing. But ... earnings and a couple of companies saying things are going to be a little better than expected are what's got this market trading higher.

So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less friendly to entrepreneurship, to innovation, to new ideas. Over time, the companies that become dominant take more out of the ecosystem than they put back in.

Some argue, 'No, don't change the land court,' but with sophistication of title and title insurance companies the land court may not have the importance it used to have.

Some communities and some companies still are deciding that they're going to wait and see (what happens when January 1, 2000 arrives) and we think that's a high risk roll of the dice.

Some companies are deciding it's cheap to invest in Russia.

Some companies are looking at this as a backup connection option.

Some companies are offering to provide key recovery services now, but we don't have any experience with such services. That's part of the problem.

Some companies are under fire because they're run by people who are running the companies like a business instead of like a brokerage firm, ... People on Wall Street and people in brokerage firms have a responsibility.

Some companies believe if they took over Knight Ridder, they could raise the margin, either by cutting costs or raising revenue.

Some companies do in fact retain their gains while others fail and fade like a fading rocket.

Some companies have a policy of currency hedging, and you have to factor that into the picture.

Some companies have beat, ... but earnings estimates have been lowered and comparisons are easy on a year-over-year basis, because last year was weak.

Some companies have given disappointing results. Their shares suffer in an environment with risks, including high oil prices and rising interest rates.

Some companies have really figured out how to take customer satisfaction to the next level, and the stakes just keep getting higher.

Some companies like managers who have their hands on everything, and some don't.

Some companies may charge for preparation but the filing is free, or vice versa.

Some companies now have their own codes of conduct against the use of child labour. The problem is monitoring their implementation.

Some companies that had been looking at the country probably decided not to explore here. This means Guatemala is losing millions of dollars of investment every year.

Some companies want background checks so quickly they tell you to call them as soon as you have the information. But they will have needed a warm body, so they'll have already hired the person, I've found murderers, rapists, anything imaginable.

Some companies want to take it at the U.S. subsidiary level, but this is the way the law was written.

Some companies were just assigning people a closing date.

Some companies will certainly take advantage of any reason to raise prices. However, when your business is dependent on fleet of vehicles, gas prices may become a legitimate reason for raising prices.

Some companies would rather not implement a system until they have their entire records management strategy identified, so they can apply different retention periods to different things, like a message from finance vs. a lunch invitation. Very few companies are prepared to roll out an enterprise-wide message categorization and retention program. Most companies realize that using an archive system doesn't lock them into anything, but it does give them the ability to see what they have.

Of all the companies I deal with worldwide, most have decided that they're going to go Java come hell or high water. But -- and this is a big but -- they don't know how they're going to do it.

Of all the Internet companies we're involved with, this one is by far the most technologically ambitious,

ODRM is becoming a critical component in the way companies reach customers and channels and educate their employees and strategic partners. These unique tool sets are replacing more costly, less convenient, and less effective forms of communication, and in many cases helping companies expand their reach in a way that was not previously feasible.

One of my frustrations is that we in society generally have this bifurcation in how we see the world. That's probably a little less true with business audiences, but in general, there tends to be this view that for-profit companies are greedy, and nonprofits are noble. It's absolutely more complicated than that.

One needs to remember that production disruption insurance usually doesn't start until 90 days elapse from outage, so some companies could stand to lose meaningful cash flow if their facilities are affected.

One of the things people can do ahead of time is to check with their insurance company. Touch base with them and make sure you have the coverage that you think you have. So many people find out they are not covered when it is too late. Insurance companies may require a waiting period, so don't wait.

One size does not fit all in any regulation. When it is clear that the smaller companies are bearing a larger part of the burden, then it really has to be addressed. I don't think that was the intent of the legislation.

One surprise in 2005 will be that business capital spending will be back in a big way especially as cash is at record levels on balance sheets and as companies ensure that they stay competitive.

One temporary agency was up 9 percent and one up about 17 percent. But I don?t know what companies were using their help.

One positive is that S&P earnings so far have looked better than the year-earlier period. Granted, comparisons are a lot easier as companies take less write-offs, but it's still something that's encouraging. I don't think we're going to have a big profit recovery, but we'll have the appearance of improvement.

One reason that people in their early twenties aren't really entering real careers is that the companies don't want them yet; they want people who are a little bit more mature, more settled down, ... Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood.

One of the threats to PC companies is how the demographics and behaviors of users are changing, ... People are half as likely to use a spreadsheet as they were a few years ago, half as likely to use financial management software, and about two-thirds as likely to use a word processor. The PC is becoming very much an entertainment device.

One thing that will hurt international tech companies is that we don't expect the dollar to weaken much more so year-over-year revenue gains are going to be a lot tougher to come by.

One thing to remember is the sheer strength of inertia of investment that is in place -- aided in many cities by insurance companies and financial institutions, ... The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster.

One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models.

Online search is an area where advertisers are moving. Big media companies need to be there. They must have a more significant presence or they risk out losing on a big growth opportunity.

Online thieves who steal merchandise that companies work hard to produce and protect might think that cyberspace cloaks them in anonymity and makes them invulnerable to prosecution but we have the ability to infiltrate their secret networks and hold them accountable for their criminal conduct.

Online usability of financial disclosures is essential for investors to easily stay informed about their investments in public company securities, particularly as companies begin to replace printed reports with Web versions. Yet the vast majority of these mega-cap companies are failing to meet an acceptable usability standard.

Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel.

No one could have imagined 30 years ago that vehicles categorized as trucks would be the most common passenger vehicles on the road today. It's amazing what the auto companies can do. They have found lots of innovative ways of meeting the letter, but beating the spirit, of regulations.

No, no, companies don't do that. It's theoretically possible, but you'd look far and wide to find a serious business decision that went from litigation into mediation.

One of his biggest (business) areas is in consumer electronics. He is invested in a lot of technology companies that will help him keep ahead in his consumer electronics business.

One of the best classes I ever took was entrepreneurship in my freshman year at Indiana University. It really motivated me. There is much more to starting a business than just understanding finance, accounting, and marketing. Teaching kids what has worked with startup companies and learning about experiences that others have had could really make a difference. I know it did for me.

One of the big challenges of family companies is attracting outside talent.

One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.

One can argue that the market might've gotten ahead of itself, and might have pushed up prices of some of these companies a bit too high. But the recent drop is an overreaction. I see this as a buying opportunity. Prospects for the sector are still extremely positive.

One might expect that bank financing would play a big role for these companies of extraordinary potential, but why go there and incur the cost if there are other options? Today, most are able to self-finance their expansion thanks to their healthy gross margins. But how long this can continue, given escalating energy costs, is anybody's guess.

One misconception is that we work for insurance companies or the Division of Worker's Compensation. We're doctors who take care of patients the same as anyone.

One of the signs is that when companies do pre-announce, they haven't been hit as hard this time around, so that suggests the market is starting to look longer term and saying these values are not that unreasonable.

One of the things that I like to say about the names that I choose is that the strong will get stronger, ... Those are the kinds of companies that we buy in our fund, and I think that as we move into a growth slowdown, the kinds of companies that are reliable in their earnings and revenue growth rates, will become more dear, and investors will be willing to pay up.

Mortgage brokers have been burned by lead generation companies that don't live up to their promises regarding the quality of leads delivered. Our goal in creating the Quality Assurance Program is to meet broker demand for valid names and numbers from people who have truly expressed interest in a loan product.

Money is gathering into the real-estate business. The trend will help boost profits of property companies and banks.

Money talks and the phone companies know that.

More than anything it tells the UAW that their bargaining power is gone, ... The market is defining wages and benefits of the future and the best they can hope for is to work collaboratively with the companies to survive.