23 Quotes by Charles Holliday

This transformation plan is designed not only to improve the short-term health of these businesses but also to ensure a future of sustainable, profitable growth.

The pervasive impact of e-commerce dominates the discussion,

We expect the challenges we faced in the second quarter to continue, exacerbated by slowing volumes from the growing effects of the General Motors strike and the Asian financial crisis.

Ed Jefferson exemplified the importance our company places on science. His leadership and insights throughout his career at DuPont helped shape the direction our company is taking today.

These difficult but necessary actions will enable the crop protection business to provide an even stronger base in support of the other parts of our agricultural enterprise.

Our earnings this quarter are unacceptable and I have begun putting in place specific actions to improve second-half performance.

Although the polyester industry and U.S. agriculture markets remain weak, most of our other businesses began to see some volume improvement,

This is very early in this industry, ... It's like that first telephone call -- try to imagine the cell phones (of) today. We don't know exactly how it will play out, but we know the technology is powerful.

Accelerating the growth in life sciences is key to our strategy to becoming a faster-growing, more profitable, less cyclical company,