16 Quotes by Irwin Jacobs

We believe that the current reduction, combined with other cost-cutting measures, is necessary to assure our competitive position in the rapidly growing wireless communications market.

We believe that the availability of a wide variety of products and wireless data applications is critical for growing the worldwide market for CDMA,

But the greatest shortage that will slow us down is the lack of trained people. So we are putting resources in training.

Based on preliminary estimates, we expect strong revenue and earnings growth for fiscal 2002.

Global economic uncertainties have slowed the growth we were previously expecting, causing us to lower our expectations for CDMA handset sales to approximately 80 million units in 2001 versus the 90 million units on which we had previously planned.

Whatever we do has to be as good as any in the world,

There is a (better) safety factor because we are transmitting at such low power to a cell site right in the airplane.

This year we continued to focus on improving profitability while investing in areas of future growth. Central to our strategy is the belief that CDMA-based wireless data and Internet access applications will fuel industry growth for years to come,

We have to engage the world because for us we're either playing globally or not playing at all.