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While fourth quarter revenue was below our expectations, we are very pleased with the customer, prod...
BILL CONNER The fourth quarter was an intensely competitive environment with general softness in the technology ...
GREG HAWKINS Part of our original criticism to the agreement was that it did not contain sufficient safeguards fo...
GRAHAM WATSON The strength is clearly in our digital signal processor business, which is our mainstream business f...
BILL AYLESWORTH![]()
The real highlight of our most recent quarter was the 57 percent growth in our applications business...
LARRY ELLISON Selling, general, and administrative expenses as a percent of net sales and operating revenues incre...
AUSTIN LIGON We believe our revenues will improve in the second fiscal quarter of 2002. In fact, we are seeing ea...
HENRY SCHACHT As mentioned in our third-quarter conference call, bookings started to soften at the end of the thir...
GREG WILLIAMS Our organic revenue growth was 2% in the quarter, which was a bit stronger than expected in Fire and...
ED BREEN While the near-term front-end order environment remains strong (December and March both likely up 25...
AVINASH KANT We believe that these initiatives, together with improved cash flow from business operations, have e...
KEN JOYCE While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimisti...
LARRY AUGUSTIN While we were profitable this quarter, we still have improvements to make in our business which will...
JACK MESSMAN While we remain optimistic about the long-term growth opportunities in the sector, we are disappoint...
ERIC BENHAMOU It was a good quarter for Magma in all aspects of our operation. We achieved record revenue again ? ...
RAJEEV MADHAVAN 2005 was another remarkable year for Adobe. We grew our business 18 percent, generated record profit...
BRUCE CHIZEN The fourth quarter was a strong quarter and 2005 was a watershed year for us in many respects. Durin...
J. BRETT HARVEY Despite our decrease in revenue and our increase in net loss incurred during the first quarter, the ...
DARL MCBRIDE Over the past couple of years, our consulting group was really targeted to increase revenue, but we ...
JIM SARGENT The original deadline was impossible to meet. We spoke to many firms that were still preparing their...
PIETER HINTJENS This was a tremendous quarter at the end of an outstanding year for Dow.
ANDREW LIVERIS While the advertising market remained challenging in the third quarter, our earnings were better tha...
JANET ROBINSON That was a disappointment, but we identified it, resolved it and we're putting it behind us. Our pro...
CYRIL MCGUIRE That was not part of our charge. Cost was not a driving factor in our decisions, but a general look ...
JAMES SATTERWHITE![]()
We think of Microsoft as our major competitor in the database business, not IBM,
LARRY ELLISON We started strong in the first quarter. In that last quarter, we could not make our free throws and ...
BILL BUTHORN![]()
We reiterate our 'hold' rating and note that the third quarter was supposed to mark the start of ver...
KEVIN MCCARTHY While our cost performance remains in line with the projections we announced in April; our significa...
JAMES GOODWIN IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.
DOUGLAS TRUMBULL That 3-pointer was a dagger in our hearts there at the end.
MACHELLE JOSEPH His comments suggest that the BOJ would not end its policy at the February meeting, but he did not d...
TAKUJI AIDA I am very disappointed in our fourth quarter performance. ... During the fourth quarter our manufact...
GREGG HAMMANN I knew that there was a lot of time left still in the fourth quarter when everyone was kind of relax...
JAMIE BRAUN For the year, sales to Dell were $782 million and represented 15 percent of our revenue. This compar...
PAUL CURLANDER While the stock has been strong year-to-date and expectations were for a strong quarter, our sense i...
EDWARD WOLFE I am compelled to make this proposal on behalf of the voters, who have spoken. While I believe in in...
DAVID NAPIERSKIE March 2006 was probably the one of the most difficult and challenging months in terms of performance...
STEVE SCHROEDER Our stance has been in big enterprise applications, it was obvious that people were buying ahead to ...
DAN NILES By successfully executing our strategy and effectively managing our business, we delivered record fi...
CRAIG JOFFE We lost our composure a lit bit in the third quarter and that was probably the difference in the bal...
NATHAN WELLS The amount of revenue collected in March was slightly above target.
DR OMAR DAVIES![]()
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN We are pleased with the results of the quarter, particularly our ability to achieve revenue growth i...
DONNA DUBINSKY While masked by the high cost of fuel, our restructuring initiatives have begun to produce tangible ...
EDWARD BASTIAN Being at home, they came out hard in the first quarter. We were a lot more relaxed in the second qua...
DAVID PATRICK We came in the huddle at the end of the third quarter. There is still one more quarter. Our seniors,...
NATE NYGREN The revenue guidance for this quarter going forward was unimpressive. That's surprising people espec...
MICHAEL COHEN The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER We're working with Goldman to find some kind of strategic alternative for the business, but we've st...
GARY GERDEMANN![]()
On the positive side, our services revenue grew by nearly $1 billion and this business made a major ...
LOUIS GERSTNER While it's imprecise to extrapolate trends from a single distribution center, in our view the activi...
JAMIE KIGGEN This is our business, ... At the end of the day, these are our kids.
CHARLES RANGEL We'll probably be here until the end of our shift at 8 in the morning. The original crew is still he...
CAPT. DAN WARNER License and revenue growth was driven by the success and momentum of System 9, which generated more ...
GODFREY SULLIVAN For the third consecutive quarter, our year-over-year license revenue growth rate accelerated. We be...
ALFRED CHUANG While we still expect additional Warlock orders, continued delays in the receipt of such orders limi...
JAMES SMITH Our performance during the second quarter illustrates our ability to successfully execute our busine...
BOB YOUNG The market for many of our products and services, particularly our traditional printed products, rem...
DENNIS REDIKER![]()
The third quarter is looking great. We will hit our numbers. We are continuing to have strong growth...
KENNETH LAY I was a little nervous there for a while, but I always believed we would win this game. I told my gu...
LAVERNE KNOX![]()
your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI![]()
The third quarter is going great and there is no change in our outlook from what we said at the end ...
MICHAEL DELL Although this was a difficult quarter for CA, we have not changed our view of the long-term prospect...
CHARLES WANG After a slip up in the fourth quarter, database license revenue jumped through the roof, while appli...
NEIL HERMAN With cool spring weather retailers were unable to sell much seasonable merchandise in March. Easter ...
DAN POPOWICS At the beginning of the competition, they measured how much power was in our house. At the end of th...
ALEX JAMES We are making adjustments in the first quarter of this year because of changes in our military suppo...
DEREK MCLUCKEY The (EU) member states agreed in March at the European summit in Brussels that this should be part o...
ULRICH WILHELM The first quarter marked our second straight quarter of organic revenue growth of approximately 10 p...
CHRIS KEARNEY It was a great quarter for the company. Revenue growth was much stronger than anticipated.
ANDREA WILLIAMS We're not in a position to give you specific information on that. I would encourage you not to look ...
ERIC BENHAMOU The upside was due to a strong pickup in industrial demand late in the quarter and solid pricing gai...
DAVID BEGLEITER Due primarily to continued robust demand from our customers, our fourth quarter business exceeded ou...
LORA HO Our projected results for the current quarter reflect short-term competitive inventory pressures, si...
DONNA DUBINSKY There were a lot of jitters in the first quarter. Our defense shut them down in the second quarter a...
JASON BUMBLIS While 2005 was a tough period, we strongly believe the business outlook will get better in 2006. Our...
BRIAN TEMPEST It was a good discussion, but in the end, I think the general sentiment was that there was not enoug...
BLAKE RESS While our financial results are disappointing, 1998 was a year in which we took critical actions to ...
ARNOLD G. LANGBO I believe this company is able to get back a couple of billion dollars in revenue, and business inte...
GEORGE SHAHEEN Growth in specialty advertising was a little lower than expected but subscriber revenue growth outpe...
ANDREA HORAN The business and industry environment during the quarter was generally favorable. Our sales results ...
GIDEON ARGOV Despite a weak economy, order patterns held until the end of the quarter, and demand was better than...
ANDY BRYANT Our revenue grew 7 percent on an organic basis this quarter, ... We are confident EDS' revenue perfo...
DICK BROWN![]()
The results for the third quarter (October-December) signal the next phase of growth. Revenue from I...
AZIM PREMJI The results for the third quarter (October-December) signal the next phase of growth. Revenue from I...
AZIM H. PREMJI![]()
Growing our total online services and technology revenues by 8% from the third quarter to the fourth...
PETER JACKSON![]()
[IBM itself is very positive about the recent quarter.] We achieved good earnings results despite a ...
LOUIS GERSTNER As a result of our new Voodoo5 products not being available worldwide until late in the quarter, we ...
ALEX LEUPP![]()
Usage statistics are a leading indicator of our business growth. On January 2, 2006, there were 65,0...
DAVID RYAN During the fourth quarter we successfully increased production in our existing factories as well as ...
JAMES KIM This strength could result in orders coming in as high as $1.4 billion, above our original $1.2 bill...
BRETT HODESS I think expectations got a little bit ahead of themselves after they had a blowout quarter in March....
GREG VOGEL The results for the quarter as a whole were below our expectations; however, our results began to im...
LOU MANCINI Basically I think it's the fact that the devices are still selling. (Given) the fact that they were ...
BENJAMIN BOLLIN While Maria was eager to remain in the show and perform as much as her health allowed, we prevailed ...
BOB BOYETT The long-awaited bounce in economic activity has finally arrived. While we had forecast a pickup in ...
ROSALIND WELLS We did not see that as we checked on April performance, and our recent checks suggest that the first...
GARY HELMIG Other than a couple of concentration lapses at the end of each quarter, it was a really nice game fo...
MICKEY MALA We still missed some free throws, but not at the end. It helps to make baskets in the fourth quarter...
MIKE MONTGOMERY We remain concerned that continued declines in PC pricing will continue to make PC revenue growth ha...
BILL FEARNLEY
BILL CONNER The fourth quarter was an intensely competitive environment with general softness in the technology ...
GREG HAWKINS Part of our original criticism to the agreement was that it did not contain sufficient safeguards fo...
GRAHAM WATSON The strength is clearly in our digital signal processor business, which is our mainstream business f...
BILL AYLESWORTH
The real highlight of our most recent quarter was the 57 percent growth in our applications business... LARRY ELLISON Selling, general, and administrative expenses as a percent of net sales and operating revenues incre...
AUSTIN LIGON We believe our revenues will improve in the second fiscal quarter of 2002. In fact, we are seeing ea...
HENRY SCHACHT As mentioned in our third-quarter conference call, bookings started to soften at the end of the thir...
GREG WILLIAMS Our organic revenue growth was 2% in the quarter, which was a bit stronger than expected in Fire and...
ED BREEN While the near-term front-end order environment remains strong (December and March both likely up 25...
AVINASH KANT We believe that these initiatives, together with improved cash flow from business operations, have e...
KEN JOYCE While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimisti...
LARRY AUGUSTIN While we were profitable this quarter, we still have improvements to make in our business which will...
JACK MESSMAN While we remain optimistic about the long-term growth opportunities in the sector, we are disappoint...
ERIC BENHAMOU It was a good quarter for Magma in all aspects of our operation. We achieved record revenue again ? ...
RAJEEV MADHAVAN 2005 was another remarkable year for Adobe. We grew our business 18 percent, generated record profit...
BRUCE CHIZEN The fourth quarter was a strong quarter and 2005 was a watershed year for us in many respects. Durin...
J. BRETT HARVEY Despite our decrease in revenue and our increase in net loss incurred during the first quarter, the ...
DARL MCBRIDE Over the past couple of years, our consulting group was really targeted to increase revenue, but we ...
JIM SARGENT The original deadline was impossible to meet. We spoke to many firms that were still preparing their...
PIETER HINTJENS This was a tremendous quarter at the end of an outstanding year for Dow.
ANDREW LIVERIS While the advertising market remained challenging in the third quarter, our earnings were better tha...
JANET ROBINSON That was a disappointment, but we identified it, resolved it and we're putting it behind us. Our pro...
CYRIL MCGUIRE That was not part of our charge. Cost was not a driving factor in our decisions, but a general look ...
JAMES SATTERWHITE
We think of Microsoft as our major competitor in the database business, not IBM, LARRY ELLISON We started strong in the first quarter. In that last quarter, we could not make our free throws and ...
BILL BUTHORN
We reiterate our 'hold' rating and note that the third quarter was supposed to mark the start of ver... KEVIN MCCARTHY While our cost performance remains in line with the projections we announced in April; our significa...
JAMES GOODWIN IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.
DOUGLAS TRUMBULL That 3-pointer was a dagger in our hearts there at the end.
MACHELLE JOSEPH His comments suggest that the BOJ would not end its policy at the February meeting, but he did not d...
TAKUJI AIDA I am very disappointed in our fourth quarter performance. ... During the fourth quarter our manufact...
GREGG HAMMANN I knew that there was a lot of time left still in the fourth quarter when everyone was kind of relax...
JAMIE BRAUN For the year, sales to Dell were $782 million and represented 15 percent of our revenue. This compar...
PAUL CURLANDER While the stock has been strong year-to-date and expectations were for a strong quarter, our sense i...
EDWARD WOLFE I am compelled to make this proposal on behalf of the voters, who have spoken. While I believe in in...
DAVID NAPIERSKIE March 2006 was probably the one of the most difficult and challenging months in terms of performance...
STEVE SCHROEDER Our stance has been in big enterprise applications, it was obvious that people were buying ahead to ...
DAN NILES By successfully executing our strategy and effectively managing our business, we delivered record fi...
CRAIG JOFFE We lost our composure a lit bit in the third quarter and that was probably the difference in the bal...
NATHAN WELLS The amount of revenue collected in March was slightly above target.
DR OMAR DAVIES
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN We are pleased with the results of the quarter, particularly our ability to achieve revenue growth i...
DONNA DUBINSKY While masked by the high cost of fuel, our restructuring initiatives have begun to produce tangible ...
EDWARD BASTIAN Being at home, they came out hard in the first quarter. We were a lot more relaxed in the second qua...
DAVID PATRICK We came in the huddle at the end of the third quarter. There is still one more quarter. Our seniors,...
NATE NYGREN The revenue guidance for this quarter going forward was unimpressive. That's surprising people espec...
MICHAEL COHEN The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER We're working with Goldman to find some kind of strategic alternative for the business, but we've st...
GARY GERDEMANN
On the positive side, our services revenue grew by nearly $1 billion and this business made a major ... LOUIS GERSTNER While it's imprecise to extrapolate trends from a single distribution center, in our view the activi...
JAMIE KIGGEN This is our business, ... At the end of the day, these are our kids.
CHARLES RANGEL We'll probably be here until the end of our shift at 8 in the morning. The original crew is still he...
CAPT. DAN WARNER License and revenue growth was driven by the success and momentum of System 9, which generated more ...
GODFREY SULLIVAN For the third consecutive quarter, our year-over-year license revenue growth rate accelerated. We be...
ALFRED CHUANG While we still expect additional Warlock orders, continued delays in the receipt of such orders limi...
JAMES SMITH Our performance during the second quarter illustrates our ability to successfully execute our busine...
BOB YOUNG The market for many of our products and services, particularly our traditional printed products, rem...
DENNIS REDIKER
The third quarter is looking great. We will hit our numbers. We are continuing to have strong growth... KENNETH LAY I was a little nervous there for a while, but I always believed we would win this game. I told my gu...
LAVERNE KNOX
your best men aredrunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The third quarter is going great and there is no change in our outlook from what we said at the end ... MICHAEL DELL Although this was a difficult quarter for CA, we have not changed our view of the long-term prospect...
CHARLES WANG After a slip up in the fourth quarter, database license revenue jumped through the roof, while appli...
NEIL HERMAN With cool spring weather retailers were unable to sell much seasonable merchandise in March. Easter ...
DAN POPOWICS At the beginning of the competition, they measured how much power was in our house. At the end of th...
ALEX JAMES We are making adjustments in the first quarter of this year because of changes in our military suppo...
DEREK MCLUCKEY The (EU) member states agreed in March at the European summit in Brussels that this should be part o...
ULRICH WILHELM The first quarter marked our second straight quarter of organic revenue growth of approximately 10 p...
CHRIS KEARNEY It was a great quarter for the company. Revenue growth was much stronger than anticipated.
ANDREA WILLIAMS We're not in a position to give you specific information on that. I would encourage you not to look ...
ERIC BENHAMOU The upside was due to a strong pickup in industrial demand late in the quarter and solid pricing gai...
DAVID BEGLEITER Due primarily to continued robust demand from our customers, our fourth quarter business exceeded ou...
LORA HO Our projected results for the current quarter reflect short-term competitive inventory pressures, si...
DONNA DUBINSKY There were a lot of jitters in the first quarter. Our defense shut them down in the second quarter a...
JASON BUMBLIS While 2005 was a tough period, we strongly believe the business outlook will get better in 2006. Our...
BRIAN TEMPEST It was a good discussion, but in the end, I think the general sentiment was that there was not enoug...
BLAKE RESS While our financial results are disappointing, 1998 was a year in which we took critical actions to ...
ARNOLD G. LANGBO I believe this company is able to get back a couple of billion dollars in revenue, and business inte...
GEORGE SHAHEEN Growth in specialty advertising was a little lower than expected but subscriber revenue growth outpe...
ANDREA HORAN The business and industry environment during the quarter was generally favorable. Our sales results ...
GIDEON ARGOV Despite a weak economy, order patterns held until the end of the quarter, and demand was better than...
ANDY BRYANT Our revenue grew 7 percent on an organic basis this quarter, ... We are confident EDS' revenue perfo...
DICK BROWN
The results for the third quarter (October-December) signal the next phase of growth. Revenue from I... AZIM PREMJI The results for the third quarter (October-December) signal the next phase of growth. Revenue from I...
AZIM H. PREMJI
Growing our total online services and technology revenues by 8% from the third quarter to the fourth... PETER JACKSON
[IBM itself is very positive about the recent quarter.] We achieved good earnings results despite a ... LOUIS GERSTNER As a result of our new Voodoo5 products not being available worldwide until late in the quarter, we ...
ALEX LEUPP
Usage statistics are a leading indicator of our business growth. On January 2, 2006, there were 65,0... DAVID RYAN During the fourth quarter we successfully increased production in our existing factories as well as ...
JAMES KIM This strength could result in orders coming in as high as $1.4 billion, above our original $1.2 bill...
BRETT HODESS I think expectations got a little bit ahead of themselves after they had a blowout quarter in March....
GREG VOGEL The results for the quarter as a whole were below our expectations; however, our results began to im...
LOU MANCINI Basically I think it's the fact that the devices are still selling. (Given) the fact that they were ...
BENJAMIN BOLLIN While Maria was eager to remain in the show and perform as much as her health allowed, we prevailed ...
BOB BOYETT The long-awaited bounce in economic activity has finally arrived. While we had forecast a pickup in ...
ROSALIND WELLS We did not see that as we checked on April performance, and our recent checks suggest that the first...
GARY HELMIG Other than a couple of concentration lapses at the end of each quarter, it was a really nice game fo...
MICKEY MALA We still missed some free throws, but not at the end. It helps to make baskets in the fourth quarter...
MIKE MONTGOMERY We remain concerned that continued declines in PC pricing will continue to make PC revenue growth ha...
BILL FEARNLEY
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