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I look at spare parts orders on a regular basis. We were up 30% in the first quarter. We've actually seen those spare parts growth rates increased to 40% year over year. We've seen retirements tick…

H. Culp ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GE ·Jun 2026

We'd be glad to, sir.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

I have a motto in life, no data, no opinion, but I will get back to you with an opinion.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

Congressman, the American people had the money. It was in the US Treasury. And it didn't take it away.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

The 2.6% GDP growth, exceptional job growth in the private that's the average since President Trump came into office, real wage increases every month except for April.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

22% of your purchasing power because that's what happened.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

Look, the the American people were torched under the Biden administration.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

Many many representatives, senators from the other side of the aisle have called me to ask for guidance on opportunity zones. I pointed out that they voted against them, but that is why I come in to…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

I have heard that Erie is a poster child in a great way for opportunity zones. So, I look forward to coming and visit, and I look forward to visiting the rural areas in your district.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

There are really two stories people can tell about this moment. One is that technology concentrates power, reduces human agency and leaves the society to absorb the consequences. The other is that we…

Satya Nadella ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer MSFT ·Jun 2026

We believe that time's come for every company to just move from consuming a frontier model to fully participating at the frontier and the frontier ecosystem. That's the transition. You can have your…

Satya Nadella ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer MSFT ·Jun 2026

Perhaps the most important design criteria for us is how do we earn the permission from the communities in which we're building these data centers? And that's where these principles ground us and…

Satya Nadella ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer MSFT ·Jun 2026

The driving equation for us remains the same which is tokens per dollar per watt. How do we optimize around this right so when we think about the systems problem we think about electrons coming on…

Satya Nadella ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer MSFT ·Jun 2026

How do you all participate fully in this frontier intelligence ecosystem? Right? It's not about any one piece of technology that you'll hear about or even the platform itself. It's about the value…

Satya Nadella ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer MSFT ·Jun 2026

the decision as to whether or not we will move with the digital euro will be taken by that organ the governing council it will so decide and that will be mid 21. we will soon be releasing the…

Christine Lagarde ·President ·Mar 2021

i think we have a broad enough and sufficiently well articulated mandate that we can take actually climate change into account in our activity. we have a primary mandate which is price stability and…

Christine Lagarde ·President ·Mar 2021

you know me francine i've always been of the view that the non-banking sector should be properly supervised should be duly regulated in particular if it exposes institutions like banks to possible…

Christine Lagarde ·President ·Mar 2021

when we looked at the whole situation this is what i have identified as a holistic assessment i know that people find this word very funny but it's deliberately intended to cover the entire financing…

Christine Lagarde ·President ·Mar 2021

what monetary policy has to do and what the ecb has to do is to provide as much certainty as possible and this is really the aim of the most recent monetary policy decisions we have taken clearly in…

Christine Lagarde ·President ·Mar 2021

We are increasing our full year revenue outlook for the core business by 200 million to reflect the strong performance and favorable impact from foreign exchange. We are however lowering the top end…

David Ricks ·Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & President LLY ·Aug 2021

Lastly on financials we returned approximately 1.3 billion dollars to shareholders via the dividend and share repurchases in the quarter and authorized the repurchase of up to five billion dollars in…

David Ricks ·Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & President LLY ·Aug 2021

We also continue to augment our pipeline with business development deals and announced the acquisition of Protomer Technologies. We welcome the Protomer team to Lilly and are excited to bring this…

David Ricks ·Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & President LLY ·Aug 2021

In the first half of 2021 we delivered 11% growth in our core business. This excludes COVID-19 antibody revenue. This was buoyed by strong volume-driven growth across key brands and major geographies…

David Ricks ·Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & President LLY ·Aug 2021

Q2 of last year was the peak of the pandemic's negative impact to our business and one year later I'm proud of the innovation and resilience displayed by my Lilly colleagues to deliver against our…

David Ricks ·Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & President LLY ·Aug 2021

I do see Amazon as a pretty good inspiration for us. Obviously there's many things that are different about everything than Amazon. We're a much more capital A business. Design is kind of very…

Brian Chesky ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Head of Community & Chairman of the Board ABNB ·Jun 2026

I think the ultimate like paradigm is not this tab versus comingle inventory. I believe that's a pre-I paradigm. I think a post an AI paradigm that we're moving towards and this relates in a second…

Brian Chesky ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Head of Community & Chairman of the Board ABNB ·Jun 2026

I've always believed the best loyalty program is people loving your product and coming back. That is the best loyalty program. That being said, it's pretty remarkable how successful Airbnb has become…

Brian Chesky ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Head of Community & Chairman of the Board ABNB ·Jun 2026

I do not think there's going to be as much of a role for pure people managers said differently 30,000 feet hands-off managers I think everyone's going to have to be much more hands-on much more in…

Brian Chesky ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Head of Community & Chairman of the Board ABNB ·Jun 2026

I think it's really really early and I think we're at the very very beginning of how AI is going to change how we all do our jobs. I will say though that one of my principles is that Airbnb has to…

Brian Chesky ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Head of Community & Chairman of the Board ABNB ·Jun 2026

We have over 80 GLP-1 biosimilar deals signed to be in our devices. And those are not just in our syringes, but they also could be deals that we've signed with our auto-injectors or with our pens,…

Thomas Polen ·President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman BDX ·Jun 2026