“It's a timing issue for us as much as anything. We just needed a cash infusion to pay our bills immediately. We intend to pay everybody.”
Dan Packer
“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
“They're in crisis mode. They were paying cash before and then want Medicare to pay for it. It's been a real shock, to say the least.”
Warren Hernand
“We just ran into a critical cash-flow problem, ... We needed protection to buy some time to make us whole.”
Carl Johnson
“I am so confident, in fact that I have asked the Compensation Committee of our board to pay my cash incentive bonus in GE performance shares for 2005.”
Jeff Immelt
“Continued job and real wage growth is needed to increase a household's pool of cash and to strengthen discount retailers' sales, ... An improved labor market would make consumer spending more self-reinforcing and less dependent on tax and interest rate-related stimulus.”
Carl Steidtmann
“Having more cash in your pocket and spending it are two different issues, and that is the crux of the current problem. We can cut taxes, for households or businesses, but if the willingness to spend is not there, then the cash will just pile up.”
Joel Naroff
