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Tariffs are something we've managed for many years and we'll just continue to manage that. We've got a great team, we know how to do that. We can't predict what'll happen in the future but we can…

C. Mcmillon ·President, Chief Executive Officer & Director WMT ·Feb 2025

If I could change anything about how we're perceived today, it'd be that more people know about our breadth of assortment online and our increasing delivery speed.

C. Mcmillon ·President, Chief Executive Officer & Director WMT ·Feb 2025

We're growing profit faster than sales and we have runway to scale our higher margin businesses like membership, Marketplace, and advertising. We're mixing ourselves up while simultaneously investing…

C. Mcmillon ·President, Chief Executive Officer & Director WMT ·Feb 2025

I'd like to share the news that PhonePe, our fintech business, is making preparations for an IPO in India. Our PhonePe team has long aspired to be a public company and we're excited to be taking…

C. Mcmillon ·President, Chief Executive Officer & Director WMT ·Feb 2025

Cyber arc is our chance at follow to prove that we are capable of doing amazing large acquisitions. We're capable of integrating large teams and if I can prove that the market will give me the…

Nikesh Arora ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer PANW ·Jun 2026

If you thought that the terminal value of cyber security was gone like many SAS companies this terminal value is here to stay you actually just created a longer-term G in your model for long-term…

Nikesh Arora ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer PANW ·Jun 2026

Mark my words, methods have increased the terminal value of the entire cyber security industry. We are identifying several structural catalysts from the eye cycle driving growth across our platform.

Nikesh Arora ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer PANW ·Jun 2026

We have entered the era of truly cyber capable systems where models like missiles possess the autonomous capability to execute comprehensive attack campaigns from start to finish. This represents a…

Nikesh Arora ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer PANW ·Jun 2026

Politics as it is now is very very toxic and it doesn't seem like the kind of world I would want to spend my life in. I think that I can do more as a campaigner on the outside.

Greta Thunberg ·Swedish activist ·Feb 2023

Saving the climate is seen like an act of tree hugging. It's not being seen as a way to protect our civilization as we know it and to save countless of human lives. That is being put against jobs and…

Greta Thunberg ·Swedish activist ·Feb 2023

First of all those commitments need to be real and they need to be in line with science and not contain lots of loopholes as they might do today. Also we can't just continue to make promises far away…

Greta Thunberg ·Swedish activist ·Feb 2023

I wouldn't say in the way that it needs to. We might see some improvements in some areas but still the US is expanding fossil fuel infrastructure and to do that at a time right now where countless of…

Greta Thunberg ·Swedish activist ·Feb 2023

United and Delta and Southwest, by the way, are all three gonna be solidly profitable this year. My guess is at all 90 to a 110, like, everyone else is losing money, some a lot of money. That means…

J. Kirby ·Chief Executive Officer & Director UAL ·Jun 2026

I've thought for really since mid March that oil was gonna be higher for longer. I continue to think that at some point, I'll be wrong. It'll go down. But it's just hard for me to see any kind of…

J. Kirby ·Chief Executive Officer & Director UAL ·Jun 2026

I think they're gonna constrain supply around the globe for probably the next decade. There's not enough engine capacity. There's something like 900 aircraft around the globe that are grounded right…

J. Kirby ·Chief Executive Officer & Director UAL ·Jun 2026

Esses três anos curtos que eu passei em Harvard, mas que me fizeram conviver com as pessoas mais excelentes do mundo, eu acho que tiveram uma grande influência na minha escolha de gente, que foi uma…

Jorge Lemann ·Brazilian investment banker and businessman ·Sep 2013

Eu sempre digo que ter um sonho grande dá o mesmo trabalho que ter um sonho pequeno. Então eu passei a ter sonhos grandes, quer dizer, sempre pensei em coisas em fazer maior e melhor.

Jorge Lemann ·Brazilian investment banker and businessman ·Sep 2013

We actually pay the same salaries globally. So whether you're in California or Italy or Nigeria or wherever, we pay global salaries.

Matt Mullenweg ·CEO & Founder ·May 2026

WordPress.org has always been me personally. And I think because it's, you know, part of the reason we started there is .com was not available. So when we started so like that's why we started on the…

Matt Mullenweg ·CEO & Founder ·May 2026

In 2019, they got bought out by a private equity firm called Silverlake. And you know, anyone who follows business, you know, when private equity buys something, there's some good ones, but there's…

Matt Mullenweg ·CEO & Founder ·May 2026

Llama you can obviously download and run locally and all these sorts of things, right? However, there's a clause in it that says if you're above a certain threshold of monthly active users, I forget…

Matt Mullenweg ·CEO & Founder ·May 2026

I think if the founding fathers were around today I think they would be open source advocates. As you think about it as more and more of our lives are influenced and actually controlled by the…

Matt Mullenweg ·CEO & Founder ·May 2026

there was a huge correlation between diaper usage and the start of poverty and basically about a third of u.s families struggle to pay for diapers and if you think about the cost of a diaper diaper…

James Mckelvey ·Co-Founder & Director SQ ·Nov 2020

my probably best trick is energy management so i am super jealous about giving my energy to things so i don't do anything that i can avoid that drains me i'll give you an example i don't watch news…

James Mckelvey ·Co-Founder & Director SQ ·Nov 2020

the question that i've always focused on is what do you do when you don't know what to do in other words at the beginning until there was a formula until there are best practices you're in this world…

James Mckelvey ·Co-Founder & Director SQ ·Nov 2020

the definition that i needed to write the book so first of all i didn't even want to write a book i generally don't like business books and i didn't want to write another one but i found this thing…

James Mckelvey ·Co-Founder & Director SQ ·Nov 2020

one of the advantages that is happening right now is that because the world is in such chaos because we've got so few things that work like they used to our brains become way more receptive to new…

James Mckelvey ·Co-Founder & Director SQ ·Nov 2020

Volumes from China collapsed 60% down when on April 9th the day the duties hit stayed down for 5 weeks what and then as soon as he relaxed as soon as they the Trump administration relaxed the duties…

Ryan Petersen ·Founder & Executive Chairman ·Aug 2025

If they lose again, everybody gets a refund on all their duties, but it won't they won't just refund it. You're then going to have to file paperwork... When every single company in the country…

Ryan Petersen ·Founder & Executive Chairman ·Aug 2025

When tariffs were at 145 on China, we helped a lot of companies move into bonded warehouses cuz we all predicted that it would come down from there. So you're better off waiting and only enter the…

Ryan Petersen ·Founder & Executive Chairman ·Aug 2025