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The pandemic hit black and brown people and poor people worse than anyone else death rates economic impact everything also the requirement that they work these brown and black people and…

Ursula Burns ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer XRX ·Jul 2020

The good the bad news about racism is that it is everywhere it shows itself fairly consistently the methods that it presents itself are fairly consistent so you know black lives matter police…

Ursula Burns ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer XRX ·Jul 2020

We are reiterating the annual guidance we provided on our Q4 call. We are confident about our business both because of our Q1 results and our strategies for the balance of 2026.

Laura Alber ·President, CEO & Director WSM ·Jun 2026

We don't just compete on price. We're competing on the whole, which is the product itself, and where it sits in the market versus other similar products. And we have incredible finishes and product…

Laura Alber ·President, CEO & Director WSM ·Jun 2026

We continue to outperform on both top and bottom lines in this uncertain environment which includes but is certainly not limited to war trade policy including tariffs and interest rates. We are…

Laura Alber ·President, CEO & Director WSM ·Jun 2026

We are not raising guidance as it is early in the year and there's a lot of uncertainty in the external environment. We are not building in on meaningful housing recovery and we are assuming…

Laura Alber ·President, CEO & Director WSM ·Jun 2026

We delivered an operating margin of 16.2% ahead of expectations. We delivered this operating margin even while absorbing tariffs and higher fuel costs. Earnings per share was $1.93 up from $185 last…

Laura Alber ·President, CEO & Director WSM ·Jun 2026

This is a defining time for financial markets and with it comes the opportunity for us to truly distinguish ourselves.

Lloyd Blankfein ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GS ·Jun 2026

I wanted this book to be relatable. I'm no genius. I worked hard. I got smart enough. But opportunities came my way. I was working on Wall Street in a period where markets were trending higher. A lot…

Lloyd Blankfein ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GS ·Jun 2026

I was advised to conduct myself so that if I were to have an obituary of say nine paragraphs, no more than three of them would refer to Goldman. The idea was that you should have some balance in your…

Lloyd Blankfein ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GS ·Jun 2026

What Goldman Sachs does, it's a wholesale firm. It largely deals with big institutions, big companies that need money, governments, very big large-scale transactions, a wholesale market. It plays a…

Lloyd Blankfein ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GS ·Jun 2026

I labeled the first part of it advantages, not disadvantages. And I think there a lot of advantages come from that as long as you end up in the right place afterwards, which is, by the way, no…

Lloyd Blankfein ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GS ·Jun 2026

America is over-stored, there's too much physical retail in America. I've seen this for five years and Macy's actually took a position to make some aggressive changes in that regard and reducing…

Terry Lundgren ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer M ·Aug 2020

I think it's going to take a while for consumers to feel confident about returning to an enclosed environment to do shopping for just for discretionary purchases. So I think it's going to take some…

Terry Lundgren ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer M ·Aug 2020

Fashion apparel in particular Sarah is all about events and an event is going back to school, an event is going out on date night, an event is going to a concert. None of those appear to be happening…

Terry Lundgren ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer M ·Aug 2020

The standouts to me were clearly had to say Target of all of them and I think Lowe's surprised me on the upside as well. I think those two are doing what the other guys Walmart and Home Depot have…

Terry Lundgren ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer M ·Aug 2020

to build an inclusive workforce and particularly to increase black latinx you must do this because there is not enough time to wait college degrees increases for the black community has not gone up…

Virginia Rometty ·Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer IBM ·Sep 2020

we top to bottom went through every job posting and said do you have to have a four-year degree to get started and today 43 of our job positions do no longer require a four-year bachelor degree to…

Virginia Rometty ·Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer IBM ·Sep 2020

there's this tension between people want to see an equality of of outcome but you know largely in a capitalist system we don't guarantee that but we really can focus on equality of opportunity

Virginia Rometty ·Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer IBM ·Sep 2020

we are at we were at 220 schools around the world a pipeline of about 150 000 kids but we now in that 220 we're taking the number of u.s schools doubling them so we'll be at 300 schools around the…

Virginia Rometty ·Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer IBM ·Sep 2020

iPad with its unique versatility it moves around the home or the office transitioning between those roles becoming exactly what you need it to be for each of th in each of those moments for each of…

Craig Federighi ·SVP Software Engineering AAPL ·Jun 2025

with iPad we've seen uh we took away all those those barriers you didn't have to learn anything and that's why we see everyone from whether it's their their first computer at at age you know one or…

Craig Federighi ·SVP Software Engineering AAPL ·Jun 2025

the iPad experience is and I I think well always be uh touch Centric right iPad is a touch first experience and that it's a something you can hold in your hands and interact with directly but it…

Craig Federighi ·SVP Software Engineering AAPL ·Jun 2025

the iPad is a different device it has a different feel it has a different set of user expectations it has a different app ecosystem that that is fundamentally oriented around touch so how do you…

Craig Federighi ·SVP Software Engineering AAPL ·Jun 2025

we see iPad as really our our most versatile device. I think you know from the moment we released it it was in our minds this magical piece of glass right this thing that could truly become whatever…

Craig Federighi ·SVP Software Engineering AAPL ·Jun 2025

I think size is one of the most important things in private markets, and this is something that I think you will see develop over the next decade is you will have niche specialists that do one thing…

Michael Arougheti ·Co-Founder, CEO & Director ARES ·Jun 2026

In a world today where we should all expect higher rates for longer because of some of these geopolitical and fiscal themes that we referenced earlier, alpha generation is going to be first and…

Michael Arougheti ·Co-Founder, CEO & Director ARES ·Jun 2026

The private markets, by design and by structure, are unlevered. And to the extent that they take on leverage, that leverage is fairly de minimis, and it's matched to the duration of the asset and so…

Michael Arougheti ·Co-Founder, CEO & Director ARES ·Jun 2026

There's nothing that we see in the private credit market that looks risky relative to prior vintages. In fact, I think the quality of the companies that are accessing the private markets are…

Michael Arougheti ·Co-Founder, CEO & Director ARES ·Jun 2026

We bought his company, paid two billion dollars for this spectrum two years ago, maybe close to three now, for spectrum that we knew we would not be able to deploy for probably four years. And then…

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