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More than a quarter of new ACV from customer base expansions came from AI and expansion deals that included AI were over 50% larger on average. The pattern is consistent. Customers who adopt our AI…

Robert Enslin ·President & Chief Commercial Officer WDAY ·Jun 2026

We're proud that more than 11,500 customers around the world trust Workday with the most important parts of their business from payroll to closing the books. And as Anneil said, growing with our…

Robert Enslin ·President & Chief Commercial Officer WDAY ·Jun 2026

I love stats and I think I think stats and being able to have these analytics is is huge. Um, but you don't want to like have paralysis by analysis. You don't want you don't want to like lock…

Shoaib Makani ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

We got 4.7 billion impressions on social media just from that vest alone. And then the other one we did, we had the US Open, which was the American flag. We had an American flag short. We had 4.5…

Shoaib Makani ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

The only two real big stats that matter in golf is bogey avoidance and birdie average. If you can avoid bogeies and have the highest birdie average you're going to win.

Shoaib Makani ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

I played golf with a guy named Dick Ferrris and he was a old United CEO back in the day and I asked him a question. And I said, 'You know, if there's a piece of advice that you could give me, what…

Shoaib Makani ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

I'm Jason Day, but I'm running a small business. Nothing like what Motive is and what you're doing with Motive, but it's I'm trying to run a multi-million dollar business, but also play competitive…

Shoaib Makani ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

I told Carly when we signed him up to an 8 year deal that I expect three Stanley Cups during his during his contract and I I was with him on the ice we got our picture taken and I looked over at him…

William Foley ·Executive Chairman DNB ·Jun 2024

I'm very cognizant of not getting ahead of myself, not saying anything about who I've talked to or what I've done and because I as as most of you know, I'm I went to West Point. I was a plebe. You…

William Foley ·Executive Chairman DNB ·Jun 2024

I believe the NBA is coming here and I believe one of their one of their issues is going to be an arena. Um we're not we're in a kind of tough economic environment now so is another does another…

William Foley ·Executive Chairman DNB ·Jun 2024

When we spoke in January, at Davos, I mentioned how the setup was poor for credit and good for equities. Historically, when you've had stretched valuations, in a mid cycle where the economy is…

Steve Tananbaum ·Founder & CIO ·Jun 2026

We're seeing good value in some of the out of favor sectors, which is always the case. I mean, by definition, out of favor sectors are at discounts. But so, I'd say it's eclectic, but we certainly…

Steve Tananbaum ·Founder & CIO ·Jun 2026

Inflation is probably the biggest risk in the market, and it's impacted because it's impacted rates much more credit than it has equities, which I'm surprised at, but it just is what it is.

Steve Tananbaum ·Founder & CIO ·Jun 2026

There is an arms race going on. And the issue is, will the infrastructure investment be justified or will this be more like underwater cable, which was a good thing until it wasn't.

Steve Tananbaum ·Founder & CIO ·Jun 2026

There's a great temptation. If you have a great fund, you make the next one bigger because the higher the bigger the fund, the more your fees, the more your potential carried interest. Bruce's funds…

Howard Marks ·Co-Chairman ·Jun 2026

If you think about a balance sheet, a capital structure, like a tree, it dies from the bottom. So if there's a financial problem first the equity loses its money and then among the creditors the…

Howard Marks ·Co-Chairman ·Jun 2026

In our business, in the fund business, the norm is you raise a fund, you can't raise the next fund until that fund's normally 80% invested. So, we raised fund two, but we put in there language, we…

Howard Marks ·Co-Chairman ·Jun 2026

The focus is is generating an operating profit to begin with, and we're not there yet. So, first step is generating an operating profit, which we were on track to do this year until the war. Um, and…

Joanna Geraghty ·Chief Executive Officer & Director JBLU ·Jun 2026

If you look at what happened with Spirit, there were many things that went went sideways for them. You know, they had an engine issue, so at one point, you know, a third of their fleet was grounded.…

Joanna Geraghty ·Chief Executive Officer & Director JBLU ·Jun 2026

We're publicly traded company, so we're always going to do what's in the best interest of our shareholders. Um you know, with that said, um companies need to focus on the organic plan. And when we…

Joanna Geraghty ·Chief Executive Officer & Director JBLU ·Jun 2026

I think everybody understands given the current environment where fuel prices are that air fares are going to be a bit higher. Um, since 2019 before the fuel crisis, air fares, you know, really…

Joanna Geraghty ·Chief Executive Officer & Director JBLU ·Jun 2026

We're very pleased with the demand environment. Customers are still flying. I think it speaks to the importance of air travel and particularly going into the summertime, customers still want to have…

Joanna Geraghty ·Chief Executive Officer & Director JBLU ·Jun 2026

I want to end on an even higher note today I'm excited to announce that we have secured our first New Summit Global location and we are expanding to Paris more details to come on that in the fall…

Marc Holliday ·Interim President, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer ADC ·Jul 2024

Naysayers wrote off New York as a global destination but tourism is beating expectations again well over 60 million tourists expected this year in New York Hotel average daily rates up 3%…

Marc Holliday ·Interim President, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer ADC ·Jul 2024

Everyone wrote off retail in New York City but you saw our release yesterday and it very clearly is back retail is back. Yesterday we announced that one Madison retail is now 100% leased curated in a…

Marc Holliday ·Interim President, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer ADC ·Jul 2024

When others gave up on New York we believed people said that the financial sector was picking up and moving to Florida but what we've seen is significant sector growth right here in our hometown…

Marc Holliday ·Interim President, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer ADC ·Jul 2024

This year-to-date achievement illustrates something far greater than simply a market in recovery because we are vastly outperforming a still unsettled commercial real estate market. It is the result…

Marc Holliday ·Interim President, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer ADC ·Jul 2024

The bottom line is our deep customer relationships and our sustainable technology leadership support our confidence in continued share gains, durable growth, and increasing profitability over the…

Gary Smith ·Chief Executive Officer, President & Director CIEN ·Jun 2026

Given the priority to monetize somewhat constrained compute investments, we expect an increasingly larger proportion of that spend will be directed towards network infrastructure. Importantly,…

Gary Smith ·Chief Executive Officer, President & Director CIEN ·Jun 2026

I am pleased to announce that we've been awarded the industry's first multi-rail order from a leading hyperscaler, validating early market demand for our RLS hyper rail platform and cementing Ciena's…

Gary Smith ·Chief Executive Officer, President & Director CIEN ·Jun 2026