Ted's annual State of the Firm remarks are legendary, delivered in Ted's unique style, with his galloping prose, impeccable timing, alliterative charms and inimitable wit.
KABUL, Afghanistan — In unusually firm remarks, the chief of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said there was an "urgent need to review" the Special Operations forces here.
In an analysis for the American Bankruptcy Institute, Mark Berman of Nixon Peabody, a law firm, remarks: "An observer has opined that the first- and second lien-holders took out their guns and shot each other.
One hopes that they had better reasons, and, as the director of a West Berlin publishing firm remarked to me when the subject was referred to one day at lunch, it is quite possible that they did have.
As for the decanter of wine in the bedroom and the rose petals on the bathroom floor, Lauren Brady-Russell, the owner of LBR Design Collaborative in Deer Park, N.Y., an interior design firm, remarked, "Doesn't everyone live that way?" Perhaps not in real life, she conceded, but most home buyers at least like to dream about living the way the models depict life.
"There have always been new firms," remarked Knopf Sr, "and I guess this will be a good one".
"Investors are paying a lofty premium for a company whose investment cycle is going to extend a decade and which offers limited visibility," says Colin Gillis of BGC Partners, a brokerage firm.Such remarks do nothing to sway Mr Bezos, who is convinced that rapid technological change creates huge opportunities for companies bold enough to seize them.
For a depressing example of how members of Congress can be spoon-fed the views and even the exact words of high-powered lobbying firms, consider remarks inserted into the Congressional Record after the debate and vote on health care reform in the House.
While careful not to identify individual firms, his remarks come at a time when the 185-year-old Cadbury, where a majority of the shares are held by non-UK investors, is trying to fend off the unwanted advances of US rival Kraft.
He noted that a senior technology executive at another firm recently remarked that his favorite iPhone app is now the Microsoft Outlook email app.
The head of one of Britain's big six energy firms made his remarks on BBC Radio 4's Today programme after Ofgem criticised npower for publishing a "misleading" report, which claimed that energy suppliers made small profits and had little influence on energy bills.
