16 Quotes by Irwin Jacobs

We wish we could go faster, but there are factors outside our control,

As expected, second quarter revenues reflected lower shipments in our chip business, ... However, we believe industry inventories have returned to normal levels and we expect a strong second half with record MSM chip shipments.

It's profitable in the sense that it's growing the boat business,

It's part of our strategy to move much more strongly into what we think is this new-coming trend, which is the wireless Internet, ... What we want to do is make sure there is a whole set of capabilities available.

I know what it is to be an owner. The more owners get, the more the players want. I don't want to see what happened to other sports happen to fishing,

Clearly it has made a difference in our sales. Carver doesn't sell hundreds of yachts in Japan, but I can tell you the number is significant enough that it makes a difference in our business.

The holiday quarter is always a very large quarter for the sale of phones, ... The following quarter is a little less.