“This is a decisive move that accelerates our strategy and positions us to win by offering even greater value to our customers and partners. In addition to the clear strategic benefits of combining two highly complementary organizations and product families, we can create substantial shareowner value through significant cost-structure improvements and access to new growth opportunities.”
Carly Fiorina
“The response to Opera's free offer was probably a catalyst in this position. It may have confirmed a strategy that the Opera folks were already thinking about.”
Joe Wilcox
“The eminent strategy had won yesterday, but defeat will be felt by enemy tomorrow.”
Toba Beta
“Win, lose or draw, this strategy is already on the map for the other side. They're not going to slow down. ... This train has left the station for 2006.”
Kristina Wilfore
“Our strategy, as we have navigated these market conditions, has been to use locally crafted strategies in a measured and orderly fashion to keep inventory levels very low while keeping our home-building machine working.”
Stuart Miller
“You've been around Grady a lot. He doesn't talk a lot of strategy. He was coming off a 100-win year in Greenville.”
Terry Francona
“IBM is positioning itself to be the vendor of choice when the open-standards strategy manifests itself and Massachusetts divests itself of closed-standard technologies, ... Microsoft now has viable competition on the end user's desktop, whatever that desktop looks like over the next few years. IBM has served notice that it won't go down without a fight.”
Carmi Levy
