Bob Greene Quotes (22 Quotes)

Movies have always been sold in a subscription environment, starting all the way back with premium television. Music tends to be in the background, where movies are different You stop and watch them.

It's the energy costs. A year ago, it would have been the steel going to China, but today it's definitely the energy costs.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

It's just more validation of the value of taking video content with you, and we were very happy to see it come out.

Give me a hug, old woman.

Certainly, content companies are taking that position now of, I'm not sure I want to license it to you. I may want to license it to somebody else, that's willing to pay me a better market or I have more freedom, or whatever it may be.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

We worked closely with Microsoft over the last year to get next-generation devices that satisfied the consumer.

As long-term users of Rhapsody, MULTI, and INTEGRITY, we are encouraged by this strategic partnership, ... With this tightly integrated solution we now have a single cohesive development environment that enables us to analyze, model, design, implement and test our embedded software applications. The strengthening of the relationship and the continued enhancement to the integration of these tools should help to improve our workflow and the productivity of our staff.

It's a startup business. We're in it for the long haul.

We had made this decision well over a year ago. We believed in portable video back then.

Any new thing -- as long as it is safe and sound and provides results -- I think it's good, because we always need to change things up and make it interesting.

Her meter is triggered when the gain creeps into the teens or worse.

We were made to exercise. We feel better.

The crux of the discussion is who owns the rights and who can give the rights. Cable operators don't have the rights. Content companies have to get compensated or they'll find a way to get compensated.

Take advantage of this wonderful new platform that you're selling and tie it back to the incumbent platform.

A lot of would-be competitors thought, 'Oh, we'll wait ... and then we'll just outbid you for the rights. Well, if you're willing to pony up 750 million, you can probably get in the game. But you probably need about 1 billion to get in the game.

There isn't one solution for every piece of content. There are some movies worth renting, and others worth buying and keeping.

The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.

The obvious market size is 40 million households. There's probably a sweet spot of 20 to 25 of that today that are the demographics you're looking for.