Mark Thompson Quotes (75 Quotes)

I don't want them to be happy today. I want them to be happy a decade from now.

We've just got to wait and see what happens with his body, and it's certainly been a big week for him, it's been a big week in the media.

We've got the confidence that he'll get through the game.

The audiences of tomorrow currently get too little of real value from the BBC and the BBC needs to think how it engages them and reflect their lives better.

Documentary is quite good at putting on the clothes of other genres, ... But (we) still want a genre that is true to itself -- it takes a lot of will power to say 'that's enough, let's try something else.

They are small chances to play, but maybe they'll be better off if we keep them away for another week or two.

It's truly not what we expect of him and look if he plays he plays and hopefully comes through. He mightn't do all the sessions but we've got just to wait to see what happens with his body.

Bookings outpaced even our strong sales growth during the fourth quarter driven by a combination of broad end market demand and longer lead times. In addition to higher order rates for products supporting notebook and desktop applications, bookings for products serving the display end market increased significantly.

We need to reinvent (BBC Online), fill it with dynamic audio-visual content, personalize it, open it up to user-generated content.

My vision for the future of the BBC has three parts a bold new program and content strategy based above all around the idea of excellence a transformation of the BBC into a state-of-the art digital broadcaster and an irreversible shift in the culture of the BBC toward simplicity, opportunity and creativity,

There were a lot of things that happened in that sequence of play . . . the spotlight will probably go on Josh because it was his opponent that kicked the winning goal, but there were a lot of things that we can learn from that passage of play.

You add the cost of digital switchover and targeted help - these are very big commitments.

We remain committed to our gross margin improvement goals that have us reaching 30 percent in 2006 and mid-30 percent in 2007. Our focus in 2006 is on improving our product mix, delivering more new leadership analog and integrated power products while reducing our exposure to lower margin standard products.

Like we said ... he's got a bit of a sore knee and sore body basically.

As a club, I think we've gone from 15th in 2004 to about eighth or something in conversion from set shots.

I don't have much to do with it, ... Cam just places himself where he wants to go. We put him in the forward line and he was getting the ball all over the ground. He was second ruck to Steven today and they carried the ruck duties fairly well. I'm happy with his form.

It's a bonus if we win and if we lose it's not the end of the world but we will go there to enjoy the experience.

Some sides might have some really good strategies about defending it, so we just don't know what's going to happen, so it's hard to comment until we see it.

I think he's very upset with the injury that he caused to Jeff White but I think everyone's openly admitted it was an accident, and he had no intention at all to cause any damage to Jeff White. Probably the whole week now has got to be focused on him being able to go and play that competitive style of footy again, because he is upset about it,

We're very pleased that Mark is joining Fairchild's management team. His strong financial acumen will significantly contribute to the execution of our strategy. We had a strong finish to 2005 and enter 2006 with great momentum, focused on improving our gross margins and increasing the mix of higher-value new products. This is an exciting time for Fairchild, and we look forward to Mark's contributions as we continue to improve the quality of our business and drive stronger financial results.

The good thing is they came back the next day, faced up to it, copped their medicine and I don't think you'll see that happening again.

We would love to put (a trophy) in there. We played off for one a couple years ago. We played reasonable footy but we lost the game. We didn't handle the loss well.

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

It's a frightening thing. You don't know what's going to happen. You don't know anything will be resolved and you must prove that you are innocent. You are guilty - everyone treats you as if you have stolen all this money from them.

We weren't prepared to take the risk last week with David Johnson, in saying that he's had about two weeks of really solid training where we've really given him a huge amount of work, tried to put match conditioning into him to see if we got through last week, and we have to wait and see whether we choose to play him this week.