28 Quotes by Tony Ridder

There were things Gannett wanted to do and things Knight Ridder wanted to do, ... We decided if we could develop an exit strategy that would leave us whole, it would be a positive thing for both parties.

As promised, we delivered a very strong earnings-per-share (excluding nonrecurring items) performance in 1998. We did this in a year where not everything was going our way, which demonstrates our ability-and commitment-to tight management despite soft revenues in key markets.

The newspaper business is strong in most markets, and we continue to restructure culturally to take advantage of it,

The newspaper business is a great business, ... We've just made the biggest acquisition in the history of our industry when we bought four newspapers from Disney ( DIS ). We think the newspaper business in print form . . . is a very, very good business.

That level of cost increase will not be repeated in the fourth quarter,

In all of the cities where we have newspapers, we run the business.

I honestly do not know who is the likely buyer.

Although business started to revive a couple of weeks after the terrorist attack, the initiation of bombing in Afghanistan caused another slowdown, ... Our ultimate performance will be contingent upon resumption of more normal business patterns.

a nationally read paper capable of being leveraged in the online market.