David Cole Quotes (100 Quotes)

The great thing about Nintendo's games is they're very short, and it takes someone like my son no time to get the thing going.

I'm certainly not shocked, ... because the reality of the business world today is that anything can happen, everyone is talking to everyone else.

This will not be the only company where you're going to see this kind of comment.

The wild card is whether consumers are really going to come out in the holidays for the Xbox 360 or just wait for Sony next year.

It's just an extension of the brand. And branding your product with music makes it look cool to the gamer.

It's a big high-stakes craps game we're in and the outcome is very much unknown.

One thing about Jerry -- you have got to pay attention to him.

It seems as if GM and Ford are in a real horse race to marry cars and technology,

Windows Live is our strategic bet to change the game and win.

The plan will include a great deal of white-collar job cuts. Ford's white-collar employment is similar to GM's, meaning it's disproportionately high.

If you've got a customer in a car dealership, you don't want them to walk out without buying something.

Labor's only hope is to become a collaborative partner with management. They used to have a choice between gold and silver, and they got gold every time. Now, it's between silver and lead.

Chrysler has developed a reputation for flair and design that originated with Tom. But he's been a lot more than a designer the last few years. He's been much more of an executive. I can't help but feel he's sick of it.

A strike is always a threat in bankruptcy. A strike would certainly have an impact on clients. If there were a strike in a critical part of the company, it would bring everyone down.

The new players have a cost structure that is on the average of about 2,500 dollars less a vehicle. That's a killer number when you're trying to get competitive. It's a lot easier to add costs than to take out costs.

It's a very competitive labor environment today. That's not going to change.

People are going to look at this and say this is pretty rich wage increases for people who already make a lot of money. But the opportunities to improve productivity are still pretty high. A few years ago, 30 to 35 hours a vehicle was what was accepted as best practice. Now it's close to 20. The goal is now around 10.

If you can save 5 on a transaction that used to cost 10, you'll do it, even if your competitor is going to make 1.

It's almost sort of a wave let's jump on the wave of sourcing things in China, or India, or Indonesia, or the Philippines, ... In some cases, it makes sense in other areas, it doesn't make sense at all.

This is a major restructuring. The people inside of Ford basically believe they are betting their company on this restructuring.

I have talked to the GM people and they feel they have come to a point where they can put an agreement together. I think both sides expect they will have something, and the target is the announcement of earnings.

Now they're in the serious business of putting together a three-way deal. This is exactly how this thing needs to be settled.

I think it's probably a good move. One of the subtle dimensions of this is that when you move like that, not everybody moves. That's an automatic opportunity to significantly restructure.

The Klan, like everyone else, can pick up garbage on the highway, ... They can't be penalized because they discriminate. Lots of groups discriminate. The Boy Scouts discriminate against gays. But when and if they Ku Klux Klan engage in criminal conduct or violence, the state should go after them.

I don't think a great many people really believed that (the Delphi bankruptcy) was going to happen.

What they're really doing is taking their divisions and shrinking their number in a de facto way.

Each cycle of console launches, the companies have a fresh start. Microsoft will likely do better with the Xbox 360.

I think the Moraine plant is probably going to continue, and get considerable investment.

It's matter of very high urgency that they do this. They desperately need to contract the size of the company.

The approach is basically to target the Muslim and Arab community with a kind of zero-tolerance immigration policy. No other community in the U. S. is treated to zero-tolerance enforcement.

It's a crime to conduct electronic surveillance without authorization in two places in the statute.

A weak GM gave everybody an ability to do things without having to worry as much, ... As GM gets stronger, it's going to put more heat on people like DaimlerChrysler.

You have to surround yourself with people who know the other parts of the company. Rick has done that. That's one of his strengths.

A community center is only in the long run a tool for being the center of the community.

I thought that was an appropriate phase. They have to change pretty substantially.

It's reflective of the sense of urgency both sides felt. The U.A.W. saw the handwriting on the wall. They feared a nuclear option, like killing health care benefits for retirees.

I find it shocking that in the United States of America in 1999 people can be locked up for years at a time without having the most basic opportunity to confront the evidence against him.

He has tremendous leadership skills. He's not afraid to tackle tough things. Jerry is an impatient investor. That just adds to the incentive for labor to do what they can to try to accelerate the restructuring.

There's the thought that if this is going to be so hot, why not price it higher But if you do, maybe you lose volume and it doesn't stay hot as long, or you have to move to incentives and price cuts sooner, or you give a competitor a chance to enter the field sooner. The dealers certainly are making money. But the factory doesn't benefit from that.

It is defining a new segment, and it'll do it big time, ... It's not a low volume segment. It could be as big as minivans. My belief is it'll reshape our whole idea of how we think about a small car.

Details are still being worked out, but the point is that we're turning this disappointing situation into a positive new program that will benefit Rutgers as a whole. We hope that by setting up a committee of members of the University community who would interview potential nominees for the Rutgers Board of Governors and advise the governor on which candidates are most friendly to Rutgers, we can encourage greater communication between the state and Rutgers.

Over the years it had a checkered history. It became more like a college fraternity thing.

No one at these brands in their wildest imaginations thought they would be building SUVs 10 years ago,

The upcoming console transition period is a time when a struggling company can either make a turnaround or plummet to the point of no return.

More than anything it tells the UAW that their bargaining power is gone, ... The market is defining wages and benefits of the future and the best they can hope for is to work collaboratively with the companies to survive.

It wouldn't surprise me, ... We've seen some definite refocusing away from California.

It may have been no big thing for Sony to give Microsoft one holiday period on the shelves to itself. But you're going to be sorely testing that loyal hardcore audience if it goes to two.

There's a much higher level of urgency. I think they realize that they're betting the company on this. Our sense is this is being viewed as this is a change-or-die kind of thing.

It's clear that the Delphi bankruptcy really precipitated a sense of urgency,

We're just in experimental phase right now. As long as we're in that type of phase, it's a crazy time. You know we'll get there (profitability) and get there fast. But the ideas that are not out there yet, and the companies that will be behind them, might be the real winners.