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I think the only thing that could be an issue here is some of our businesses are finding that it's difficult to find people. You know, there is still an extra bump in the unemployment that is out…

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

We saw the largest one month jump in eight years in the Paychex Small Business Index led by leisure and hospitality. It's across most regions, most states. I think we're seeing the use of the…

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

I think we're at the beginning of a pretty strong acceleration, reacceleration, I should say, in job growth. Our call for today's 765 that is the strongest job growth we've seen since August of last…

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

I consistently said that over the next I prior to this virus that over the next five to six years you would retail is going to go through a monumental change and in two areas consolidation at the…

Emanuel Chirico ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer PVH ·Apr 2020

Where the government could really help is on the liquidity side in one area that just seems so obvious to me is on the deferral of duties. I'm not talking about the political issue about does it make…

Emanuel Chirico ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer PVH ·Apr 2020

Retail companies are not built to have their stores closed for extended periods of time and unfortunately we need to really plan for the worst and hope for the best. So you know we clearly have a…

Emanuel Chirico ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer PVH ·Apr 2020

The deep and sacred ties between Europe and the United States transcend the here and there here and now dollars and cents and the news of the day. These bonds were consecrated by the heroes that lie…

Frederick Smith ·Former Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer FDX ·Apr 2019

We believe the relationship between the democracies of North America and the democracies of Europe is key in turn to a stable and prosperous relationship with China and the rest of the world.

Frederick Smith ·Former Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer FDX ·Apr 2019

China's economic growth has been unprecedented in the history of the world since the financial crisis of 2008 and 9 China has significantly changed its posture from a purely commercial orientation to…

Frederick Smith ·Former Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer FDX ·Apr 2019

We at FedEx were profoundly disappointed that the US administration ended our country's involvement with the trans-pacific partnership or TPP which was recently consummated by the eleven other…

Frederick Smith ·Former Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer FDX ·Apr 2019

The reluctance of Australians to change the Constitution is exceeded only by their reluctance to read it and people should it is it's very technical that's right so people should ask themselves do I…

Brendan Nelson ·Senior Vice President; President, Boeing Global BA ·May 2023

The advice I give to all ministers gratuitous advice and certainly to defense ministers is to follow your instincts and you are there to exercise judgment and you've got all this expertise you've got…

Brendan Nelson ·Senior Vice President; President, Boeing Global BA ·May 2023

I learned that liberalism is absorbed through reality with the idealism and hard work of the everyday Australian. Ours is a movement that's not nor should be dominated by people that are wealthy and…

Brendan Nelson ·Senior Vice President; President, Boeing Global BA ·May 2023

I came to realize that if you really care for working people you have to give people incentives to get out of bed to work hard to take a risk to create wealth for themselves their families and the…

Brendan Nelson ·Senior Vice President; President, Boeing Global BA ·May 2023

We have a new project in Grand Bahama with a new destination that we've signed an agreement with the government and we're going to move forward full steam with that, as well as a second one on our…

Arnold Donald ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer CCL ·Sep 2019

We sent containers right away, we needed to... donation along with the Micky and Mallory Arison Fund, they match the donation as a corporation, so a couple of million bucks went in. And right now we…

Arnold Donald ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer CCL ·Sep 2019

We have 108 ships, we go to 700 ports around the world, the most beautiful places in the world. We have the best chefs, the best entertainment... it's a great way to travel to see the world, a great…

Arnold Donald ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer CCL ·Sep 2019

We have ten ships ordered that are LNG, the cleanest burning fossil fuel, so we pioneered that in the cruise industry using liquefied natural gas.

Arnold Donald ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer CCL ·Sep 2019

The number one thing we hire for now is propensity to learn because it does not matter about age it is about if you think of it now in tech the half-life of a skills less than five years so if I hire…

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

We've also started something called new collar and we're working 500 companies around the world think of it as a six year high school four years high school two-year Community College you get your…

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

The part I worry the most about is this can't be a world cannot where it all goes to the few people where the benefits do and that you have to have a college degree or a PhD. Now I have an entire…

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

There is no doubt in my mind that this technology will change a hundred percent of jobs. Now I said change hundred because there's a lot of people that want to talk about this job will go away that…

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

A multitude of fuels with policy that doesn't necessarily pick winners and losers, but drives for efficiency and real incentives to get new technology into the market, into the grid. That's where the…

Jeffrey Immelt ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GE ·May 2015

Energy is just so dog on hard. It is a real... you know it's part public policy, part innovation. There's no country in the world that's happy with their energy policy today. No matter where I go,…

Jeffrey Immelt ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GE ·May 2015

If you sit back and believe that software companies are going to drive this growth, you're wrong. This is going to be driven by industrial companies. It can be driven from Europe.

Jeffrey Immelt ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GE ·May 2015

We live in a slow growth and volatile world. It's the same basic economy we've lived in since the financial crisis. Growth is not exactly what we want to see. It's not as fast as we like to see in…

Jeffrey Immelt ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GE ·May 2015

As I've said before, we expect to grow the top line first and then earnings will follow.

Brian Niccol ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer SBUX ·Oct 2025

I already have the biggest drive-through coffee chain in America. I already have the biggest mobile order and digital coffee business in America. And I also have the biggest cafe coffee business in…

Brian Niccol ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer SBUX ·Oct 2025

Back to Starbucks is not a slogan. It is it's a it's an enduring model for growth that frankly is centered on customers and it's going to be driven by our partners and our stores and it's for every…

Brian Niccol ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer SBUX ·Oct 2025

We set a plan. We're working the plan and the plan is working. We have more work to do, but we're building momentum. Regardless of the headwinds and tailwinds we may encounter, I'm confident we have…

Brian Niccol ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer SBUX ·Oct 2025