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The long-term constraint is in wireless. Where does the bandwidth come from? Its airwaves, its spectrum, and there's a limited supply of this spectrum.

Randall Stephenson ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer T ·Aug 2010

The companies that will win are the companies that can do it all. They can bring the wireless, have the spectrum position, the capabilities of wireless as well as the fixed line infrastructure to…

Randall Stephenson ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer T ·Aug 2010

The more mobile you become, the more wireless you become, the more wireline centric we become. You think about here in New York City, what has been the biggest obstacle to getting the bandwidth…

Randall Stephenson ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer T ·Aug 2010

We're in the connectivity business. I mean we like to say that we connect people to their world. That is basically what we do. And so our objective is to make sure that you're connected to your…

Randall Stephenson ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer T ·Aug 2010

I think what Twitter is for me right now and I'm really really proud of the technology and how it's developed and how it's really matured is it is the entire world in your pocket. I mean you can…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Jun 2011

We started Square and there's no better time to start a company than in a depression or a recession because the slates have been cleaned and we took advantage of all the chaos going on in the market…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Jun 2011

We think Square will have a dramatic impact on the economy in the positive because it allows it enables more and more people to participate in the economy in an economy that was out of reach to them…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Jun 2011

I think the important thing for me about technology is that it has those moments where we can create a broader understanding of what's happening in the world and if we have a broader understanding we…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Jun 2011

First quarter was when the banks really took a long look at their oil and gas books and including their natural gas books and we built our provision to 8% against our oil and gas loans in the first…

Beth Mooney ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer KEY ·Jul 2016

We did have strong loan growth of 5.5% but it was really driven by a 12% increase in our commercial lending book. It was broad-based, it was across our geographies and we had particularly strong…

Beth Mooney ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer KEY ·Jul 2016

It is true that banks saw some level of margin pressure this quarter with the lower longer interest rate environment, but you're right, ours was largely driven by excess liquidity as we get ready for…

Beth Mooney ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer KEY ·Jul 2016

It will be a 40% increase in the size of our bank and we will become the 13th largest bank in the United States headquartered right here in Cleveland, Ohio. And it is going to be a solid return for…

Beth Mooney ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer KEY ·Jul 2016

I think personally we get to AGI like some are saying before this now, but I think in the next two to four years we're in AGI. I think in the next four years we're at quantum. Um we're already…

Daniel Schulman ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PYPL ·Jun 2026

For sure you're going to see um disruption in um with AI in certain job functions. I I I don't see how that's not possible. Um and I don't see how anybody can look people in the eye and and say…

Daniel Schulman ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PYPL ·Jun 2026

It's clear to me that whatever we have right now, these are the worst models that we will ever have in our lifetime because... Open AI is going to release four models, new models between now and the…

Daniel Schulman ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PYPL ·Jun 2026

We had lost market share for five straight years. We had gone from being number one in market cap to being last. Our forward PE was last in the market and terrible.

Daniel Schulman ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PYPL ·Jun 2026

I say inside the company right now anytime the pace of change outside is greater than the pace of change inside we're falling behind. And uh that's a that's a really high bar uh to get over.

Daniel Schulman ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PYPL ·Jun 2026

We are definitely seeing smaller businesses, mid-sized businesses that are starting to even waive some of the drug testing requirements because they are having so much difficulty getting certain…

Martin Mucci ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PAYX ·Oct 2018

We really don't see it as that big of a competitor. Certainly they have good competitive products in the payment processing business, but you know on the payroll side it's really not a full-featured…

Martin Mucci ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PAYX ·Oct 2018

We're still not seeing the biggest wage increases this month, we're around two point three percent overall over last year, still seems a little bit on the low side. But I do think large employees are…

Martin Mucci ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PAYX ·Oct 2018

I agree Jim, it's really has come together. This has been a solid first quarter, nine percent top-line revenue, sixteen percent on that income, certainly benefiting from tax reform as well. And we…

Martin Mucci ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PAYX ·Oct 2018

I think it's a failure if I have to make a decision. There's something wrong with the organization that we need to fix whether it be the people, the context, the organization, the problem we're…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Jun 2018

Regulation isn't always a negative and we also have to realize that regulation evolves and a big part of our role is to help educate the right way regulation might evolve and what we've learned and…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Jun 2018

We didn't want to force people to go through a FICO score, a credit check to start accepting credit cards. It didn't make sense to us, it didn't make sense to them. So we changed that model and we…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Jun 2018

I think the Bitcoin white paper is one of the most seminal works in the past 20 years in computer science. I think it has impact far beyond currency. I think has impact on trust as impact on identity…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Jun 2018

I think you are seeing elevated minimum starting rates, you know, even the front line service positions up 17, 18, sometimes $20 an hour where they were less than 15.

Martin Mucci ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PAYX ·Jul 2021

What we're hearing from clients is it's a combination of many things that's making it tough to hire. It is the unemployment being higher than normal, that's definitely in most areas. It's going to be…

Martin Mucci ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PAYX ·Jul 2021

We had a record-breaking fourth quarter. We had the best sales results in a fourth quarter, best revenue as well as operating income and we are forecasting to take our industry-leading operating…

Martin Mucci ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PAYX ·Jul 2021

We helped our clients get over $65 billion in PPP loans as well as turn them into grants with the forgiveness. We are now on a mission to help them with the employee retention tax credit, one of the…

Martin Mucci ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PAYX ·Jul 2021

I think everybody in the long-term relationships go through those waves, and it's hard to find yourself like find yourself and then find your way back to your person. And like life just gets there's…

Hilary Duff ·Chief Mom Officer CRI ·Feb 2026