Managements Quotes

We need a reality check. Japan has still got a challenging demographic profile, managements that are less than dynamic and a government that is still very bureaucratic. - Mark Headley

Watch out for managements that ask investors to take a lot on faith without providing a lot of detail. - Mark Roberts

The managements at Delta and Northwest are going to be very aggressive about cutting costs. It's going to be tougher for other legacy carriers like American and Continental to compete against all these bankrupt carriers. - Ray Neidl

Sometime managements are the ones that make the mistake and think they're the ones that are going to survive... They have no perspective and don't understand that sooner or later they're going to go away. - Hugh Johnson

Outside of Wal-Mart, we expect the retailers under our coverage to hit the middle to upper end of the planned range laid out by managements. - Emme Kozloff

Managements in the U.S. have led the way and now we see are starting to see it around the world, BP et al are starting to show that they understand the importance of getting leaner and stronger and better... And we continue to have greater and greater productivity. - Michael Holland

I've never felt the company run so well. I've never felt the divisions work together so well... These guys really are inspirational leaders. They really have built a fantastic organization. There used to be a lot of divisiveness. In past managements it was sometimes very hard to get things done. Now these guys are just fantastic and they make it an incredible place. - Joel Silver

It's a good way of rationalizing the marketplace, so it's good in the long run. It puts weak companies in the hands of stronger managements, so that's good in the long run, too. - Jeff Matthews

Investors and company managements will likely focus on the benefits of restructuring and the improving new product flow for late 2006. - Barbara Ryan

I think the message here is, pick your targets wisely, and do not pick on managements or boards unless they are demonstrably inept and the management structures are demonstrably bloated and ineffective. I don't think that's a conclusion you draw from the Time Warner experience. - Fred Lane