24 Quotes by Pete Peterson

First the noise is incredible. Then there was a lull while (attackers) tried to hear you, then the bombs came down again. I would crouch and think that, if I ever got out of this alive, I'd never let the small problems of life bother me.

The thing we're going to want to know is where do unit sales go moving forward, ... We'd like to see plans for unit growth to continue along with margin growth.

Qualcomm will still get royalties, because they have key intellectual property rights for using CDMA in mobile telephony, ... What is a little more at risk is what it means for Qualcomm in terms of their chipset business.

Qualcomm's strength was in selling chipsets into its own technology. Inasmuch as China does not, on a dominant scale, deploy Qualcomm's technology, the prospects for their chip business are changed.

Qualcomm's strength was in selling chipsets into its own technology, ... Inasmuch as China does not, on a dominant scale, deploy Qualcomm's technology, the prospects for their chip business are changed.

Now it looks like the pie is going to have a significant portion of WCDMA in it, and the investment community has not developed a comfortable consensus on what that means. That's why we're seeing the fluctuation.

This is still a work in progress. Any changes will require a change in people's paradigms. This is just the first step.

They showed some improvement on operating margins in handsets, which is what everybody was looking at.

(That relationship would) bring stability to a region and to a country that has been obviously destabilized for decades and decades.