1,712 Quotes About Companies

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.

I have friends who run big companies and they talk about very disturbing things at times,

This (fuel) price shock is real, ... Wal-Mart recognized it before Katrina. They were one of the few companies that made the announcement that these gas prices are hurting us.

Inventory levels are lean, meaning companies will need to pick up production.

The utility companies are very good at not shutting people off during the winter, but we're seeing that people are going to be facing huge debt at the end of the winter.

Companies should educate their users to practice safe computing - that includes never opening unsolicited email attachments and discouraging the sending and receiving of joke files, pornography and screensavers. This worm feeds on people's willingness to receive salacious content on their desktop computer, but they could be putting their entire company's data at risk.

Companies should educate their users to practice safe computing.

Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

It is ironic because lower raw material prices and particularly lower oil costs is pretty good news for the global economy, but not very good news for the indices when so many of the companies are making such a big proportion of their profits from them.