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I think for a country you know we look at our company for example innovation is the lifeblood of our company we've been a company for over 105 years and if we weren't constantly innovating and…

Marillyn Hewson ·Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer LMT ·Mar 2017

I do think that you know that there is a very complex and dynamic threat environment that all of us operate in around the world and so the first order for any country is to have national security to…

Marillyn Hewson ·Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer LMT ·Mar 2017

I think he's just to step back and understand you know what I believe that President Trump is trying to communicate he is going to spend more on defense in the United States the f-35 is the largest…

Marillyn Hewson ·Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer LMT ·Mar 2017

If we only obsess about the present, we will fail to prepare for the future, and we must keep our eye firmly on that future that we can all see is coming. And we need to prepare ourselves for it. So…

Richard Fain ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer RCL ·Jul 2021

In the end, we were betting on ourselves and on our people. And in our people, we knew we had the winning hand. We were also betting on you. You've kept your businesses going through these tough…

Richard Fain ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer RCL ·Jul 2021

We bet that we could put in place healthy and safety procedures that would satisfy the CDC. We bet that we could vaccinate 100% of our crew. We bet that our protocols would be so well designed that…

Richard Fain ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer RCL ·Jul 2021

The answer is simple: we believed in our people and we believed in the science. We prepared. We started preparing early because we knew what was happening and because we wanted to get the flywheel of…

Richard Fain ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer RCL ·Jul 2021

The second issue with it moving algorithms is our rhythms today can't necessarily explain the decision-making criteria that they use so they can't explain in the way that you make a decision you…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Mar 2019

There's two fields of research within artificial intelligence that are rather new but I think really impactful for our industry. One is fairness in ML so awareness and what fairness and machine…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Mar 2019

I'm really worried about what regulation will look like because I think the government is going to you know screw everything up but I think there's going to be a recoil of first I think the…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Mar 2019

I don't believe that should be our goal is to hold off regulation. I believe we should be we should participate like any other citizen whether the corporate citizen or individual citizen in helping…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Mar 2019

I want legislation to have incorporated the moderates of both houses so they could sustain themselves for more than one [cycle].

Lloyd Blankfein ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GS ·Apr 2018

We haven't lost our minds moving to a consumer business that we weren't in historically. The consumer business has moved to us. If you're lending to 50 million people, it's math, it's algorithms.…

Lloyd Blankfein ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GS ·Apr 2018

We're more in the contingency planning business than the forecasting business. But the conditions that prevail were not top decile or top quartile positions conditions in the world, so yes, they're…

Lloyd Blankfein ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GS ·Apr 2018

Not only is it recoverable, it has to recover. We're the two biggest economies in the world. There is no path forward if we disagree or disagreeable with each other over the long term. We need to…

Lloyd Blankfein ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GS ·Apr 2018

I think we didn't really have to do too much because eventually people realize that anti-American sentiment does not make it good better.

Muhtar Kent ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer KO ·Jun 2014

My advice to all of you is you be afraid of where you want to go, dream big and go and always you know it's sure that you have fun in what you're doing. If I had not had fun in what I'm doing for the…

Muhtar Kent ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer KO ·Jun 2014

I am so proud that there is now another Fortune 500 CEO, you protect of Western Union who I have mentored for many years. I am so proud that we have one of the finest entrepreneurs in America in…

Muhtar Kent ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer KO ·Jun 2014

We bought Red Hat in order to be the hybrid multi cloud platform out there because that's the reality for companies like many others in the fortune 500 fortune 1000 like AT&T.

Virginia Rometty ·Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer IBM ·Jul 2019

This is all about IBM becoming the primary partner for both the development modernization of the apps and moving them to the IBM cloud for AT&T business and then AT&T and IBM together will be…

Virginia Rometty ·Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer IBM ·Jul 2019

Our team made a fast decision. The enforcement action however of blocking URLs both in tweets and in direct messages we believe was incorrect and we changed it today.

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Oct 2020

We had a hack materials policy. The policy is around limiting the spread of materials that are hacked. We didn't want Twitter to be a distributor for hack materials. We found that the New York Post…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Oct 2020

We have policies that are focused on making sure that more voices on the platform are possible. We see a lot of abuse and harassment which ends up silencing people and having them leave from the…

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Oct 2020

No, we are one part of a spectrum of communication challenges that people have.

Jack Dorsey ·Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman XYZ ·Oct 2020

We are committed to have a combined dividend no less than the pre-spin dividend, and at IBM we are committed to a sustainable and growing dividend policy over time, which has been consistent with our…

Virginia Rometty ·Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer IBM ·Jun 2021

IBM is a digital transformation company, application modernization, and you think about this, the new, new company, new Co to have a name at a later date is a $19 billion great company on…

Virginia Rometty ·Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer IBM ·Jun 2021

IBM is the hybrid Cloud company, the AI company is really, really there. And so with that confidence, that gives me this great, really great confidence now.

Virginia Rometty ·Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer IBM ·Jun 2021

The environment is fluid. It's difficult at this stage to say exactly how it's going to play out. As highlighted in our script, it's right now we estimate it's manageable at the company level given…

John Murphy ·President & CFO KO ·Apr 2026

All in, we now expect comparable earnings per share growth of 8% to 9% versus $3 in 2025, which This increase from our prior estimate of 7 to 8% due to the lower effective tax rate.

John Murphy ·President & CFO KO ·Apr 2026

We now expect growth in comparable currency neutral earnings per share excluding acquisitions and divestitures of 6% to 7%. Notwithstanding volatility in certain commodities like tea and coffee, we…

John Murphy ·President & CFO KO ·Apr 2026