The goal is to transform data into information, and information into insight

Information is money, but data is squat

Shareholders have every right to know the compensation of executives, ... But we cannot know information we have not yet decided.

I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

This is an important milestone because ISS is a truly independent expert ... they concluded after very comprehensive process that this deal makes sense on the strategic logic, on the economic logic, that we can execute it ... we feel good about it.