81 Quotes by Mark Thompson

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    Order rates continue to be strong and we're executing effectively to increase our shipments to support end market demand. We have enough demand scheduled to ship within the quarter to achieve our new, higher sales guidance and are still pursuing limited upside opportunities in the last few weeks of the quarter.

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    My son's (Michael and Peter) play for H-F. But I still help out at Marian Catholic. Just trying to promote the sport.

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    My vision for the future of the BBC has three parts: a bold new program and content strategy based above all around the idea of excellence; a transformation of the BBC into a state-of-the art digital broadcaster; and an irreversible shift in the culture of the BBC toward simplicity, opportunity and creativity,

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    I think he's very upset with the injury that he caused to Jeff White but I think everyone's openly admitted it was an accident, and he had no intention at all to cause any damage to Jeff White. Probably the whole week now has got to be focused on him being able to go and play that competitive style of footy again, because he is upset about it,

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    That's them, it's not me. I didn't make them go out there again. It's a good sign that they want to stay and work.

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    We need to reinvent (BBC Online), fill it with dynamic audio-visual content, personalize it, open it up to user-generated content.

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    You know if you want to win and want to compete in this competition, this is what you have to do in the finals.

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    We effectively managed our distribution channel to closely match our shipments in with distributor sales out. Channel re-sales were seasonally down about 3% during the first quarter but were more than 17% higher than a year ago. We managed our sales into the channel to this level of re-sales, resulting in a slight decrease in absolute inventory levels for approximately flat weeks of supply in the channel compared to the prior quarter.

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