Quotes about ramping (16 Quotes)



    We were hiring people as it went along, ... We were in the process of ramping up our staff. Some new people got a real indoctrination. We had to tell them it's not always like this.

    America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

    This year we are really ramping up the energy with a new ad campaign around Windows Mobile. We are launching new versions of Outlook and Exchange and one of the top priorities of our sales force will be to drive Windows Mobile into the enterprise to allow things to flourish.



    I still don't think we have the Fed out of the way, ... The Fed seemed to worry more on inflationary than longer-term risks to the economy, which was reacted to very quickly in the market yesterday. That story still lingers today, as well as another major hurricane that's ramping up energy costs.



    This potentially reminds of similar events two and half to three years ago when Intel was ramping its 90nm process, from the predecessor 130nm, and did not achieve efficiency previously taken for granted in process transitions, ... Here they are at 65nm our view is they cannot afford to repeat history now that AMD is about to ramp a large, modern production facility.


    It's very difficult to manage this kind of growth--they hired 800 people last quarter, and when you grow that fast, how do you know that all the people you've hired will be employed as efficiently Problems inevitably occur when you're ramping up at this rate.


    Business confidence remains very, very fragile, and we're still in an environment where businesses are more concerned with cutting costs than with ramping up investment projects,

    Mobile search is an area that, depending on who you read, is ramping up for imminent takeoff in the next year-and-a-half. We want to make sure we're there in advance of that. When our clients start asking us, 'What can you do for us on mobile' we want to make sure we're there with the carriers, partners and aggregators.


    We expect consumer sales to continue ramping up this quarter, but it is now obvious to us following the Thanksgiving weekend that they will not grow sufficiently to allow us to meet previous consensus for EPS and guidance for revenue,



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