Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Investors are anticipating measurably slower profits growth, ... As a result, they're valuing companies that can produce good, solid earnings in an environment where earnings are going to be harder to come by.

Investors are anticipating measurably slower profits growth. As a result, they're valuing companies that can produce good, solid earnings in an environment where earnings are going to be harder to come by.

Competition is getting tough, and Microsoft is evolving to become more nimble. It's doing what good companies do: evolve to meet new challenges.

What I saw in some of consumer companies was not good, ... All were nervous about business, trying to figure out what would happen.

There are some really cool companies in the world doing some really nifty things and he included us in that group of 14 companies, I think people feel that's pretty special.

The threshold will keep about 90 percent of the mainland's 2,000-plus direct sale companies out of business, and they will have to turn to other business.

We've got good companies with good leadership, and that's a good selling point, too. They are people who don't just maintain the status quo but want to do something themselves, to create, innovate. Having those kinds of companies here makes a difference, too.

Overall, companies have been reporting better results and at the company level there are many good earnings stories.

Our No. 1 competition is not other companies but counterfeiters. We want to work with governments to stop this.