“From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word ''stammer'.' I can't say it myself.”
“We expect global demand for our products to remain strong, and our productivity and pricing initiatives to help offset raw material and energy cost pressure,”
“We are confident that our strong businesses, cash flow and balance sheet will allow us to easily support future pension funding needs without compromising our growth opportunities,”
“We work very hard to make sure the Nasdaq is the most transparent market anywhere. We feel that many times the futures market is not as indicative of what is really happening in the pre-opening session.”
“What we wanted to do was make sure we were doing the very best we could at providing indicative, realistic information to make sure that everybody understood what was happening before 9:30 in the morning. This was something we thought was beneficial to the public which was the real impetus to do this.”
“It is clear as to the next piece of the evolution of the company is that we do need to get our growth rate accelerated here a little bit. Finding somebody that has the attributes to continue driving productivity but also trying to get a little more acceleration of growth would probably be the right kind of candidate.”