I can understand how small sawmill operations have a difficult time competing with multinationals. Still, public lands belong to the public.
Quotes about multinationals (16 Quotes)
Terrorism is a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine ... The conflict is between great powers, not between demons and heroes. Unhappily, therefore, is the nation that finds the 'heroes' underfoot, especially if they still think in religious terms and involve the population in their bloody ascent to an uninhabited paradise.
I do not view the government as a hindrance at all, multinationals have a pretty good voice at various levels of the government,
Currency is overshadowing the multinationals, the tech multinationals, whether it's Cisco Systems or Oracle or Sun Microsystems or IBM. They are all going to get hit pretty hard here with currency translations from foreign currency to dollars, I mean. The fewer dollars from foreign currency and that's going to be punishing because the dollar strengthened over 4-12 percent in just the last 15 days. That's unheard of. That's a record, almost. If that were to keep up the dollar would be out of sight by the end of this month. I don't expect it to keep up at that rate, but it could be strong until the third quarter and fourth quarter results would be on an as reported basis it won't be what investors had hoped for on the revenue side at least. EPS will be protected to some degree. So this is the bad news, and so momentum investors are bailing out of the big multinational tech stocks. And where are they going to go That's the key question,
You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.
The world is a big place, and you have to have just the right footprint to win the biggest clients. It is a matter of opinion who you think can do the best job of offering a global service, but since 60 percent of multinationals are based in the U.S., ATT has a clear advantage. All of those companies are probably already ATT customers, and they are likely to think that as long as they use ATT domestically, they might as well do the same for their offices in Europe, Asia and the rest of the world.
The biggest fear is earnings going forward, ... All the consumer non-durable multinationals are going to have to warn about the ill effects of the strong dollar versus the weak euro, but that's cyclical.
Multinationals are much more likely to have business interests in the United States, ... Even if what they might contemplate doing in Cuba does not fall foul of the Helms-Burton law, nevertheless, they are very sensitive to public opinion.
Big companies are global, and they want to integrate their systems because it is cheaper to work with a single telecommunications company around the world. Our challenge is to globalize our U.S. base, which we are doing at a quick pace, and to help multinationals in Europe, Japan and the rest of Asia globalize their business.
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
If a large amount of profits and wealth falls into the hands of multinationals, even with a large GDP, our national interests could still be compromised ... and our nation's economic security and sovereignty could be threatened.
We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
They said all this (NAFTA) is really going to create jobs in the United States. Its not happened. It's not going to happen in China. Why give away our control hoping that something like that happens ...They've (U.S. companies) continued to do business over there. Has it created more jobs in the U.S. No. Has it made more money for the multinationals Yes.
We've found that the experiences of small business owners generally mirror those of mid-sized companies and of large multinationals in that the rising cost of providing heath care to their employees is becoming prohibitively expensive. Overall though, California's small business owners paint an optimistic picture for 2006 about business conditions, the economy and their ability to handle persistent issues with the high cost of benefits.
I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything.
If China lets multinationals' malicious mergers and acquisitions go ahead freely, China can only act as labor in the global supply chain.