30 Quotes by Sidney Taurel

During his tenure, Charlie used his broad business experiences and sound judgment to help steer the company through many challenges over the past decade. Through Charlie's leadership, we have built a world-class financial organization and strengthened Lilly's reputation for sound financial operations, transparency in our financial reporting, and strong internal controls.

the right dose of the right drug to the right patient at the right time.

As our product line continues to become more diversified, we have become less dependent on Prozac performance. Major products introduced in the last five years accounted for fully one-third of our sales in 1999 and had a combined growth rate of 41 percent during the year.

As we see the cost-containment methods being used by the private sector being now applied now to this Medicare business, I think those plans will extract higher and higher discounts from the industry,

As we expected, the second half of 2005 is bringing stronger sales and earnings growth,

It looks very, very promising, ... We believe that if the Phase III trials confirm what we have seen so far, this would be a very successful product.

That means up to 10 products that will be launched between 2001 and 2004, which will help us weather the storm,

I hope they won't push too much farther. If they stopped right now, it'd be fine with me.

In a year of urgent needs, Lilly and its employees stepped forward with extraordinary efforts. To ease the suffering of hurricane and earthquake victims, we gave essential medicines, cash, and supplies. To ensure that seniors and low-income patients had affordable access to drugs, we offered six patient assistance programs. And to halt the spread of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, we partnered with the World Health Organizations and other groups to share expertise, improve treatment, and save lives.