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We gained market dominance, and we've been able to maintain that through innovations.


Eric Collins

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CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustainin...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN We've been able to maintain that rate and hopefully, who knows, maybe in the future, if we keep grow...
GREG STEWART We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to los...
MATT STONE It's amazing to me the headline news we've had this year in a negative way and the market has been a...
ERIC THORNE Eric has been around this and knows the importance of it. He's seen the good teams that have come th...
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ANDY BRYANT But despite that, Mayor Campbell, through a tremendous amount of skill and dedication and heart, has...
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GREG MACK with likely upside in both cases, given a strong market opportunity and the company's growing domina...
LAURA CONIGLIARO It's a new market mix we haven't been able to chase before. We've had good response.
ROB VARLEY We've gone through spells like that and have been able to survive defensively.
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BEN BAJARIN We're quite confident that we'll be able to compete ... We have been gaining market share year over ...
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ALEXANDRE VASARHELYI Mike was outstanding. We asked him to do a lot, and he came through. He has been playing good hockey...
DON LOWE The focus of innovations and investments need to shift from slogging innovations like phone and, dro...
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GARY HERBERT We wanted to be able to provide the bundling of that together into very specific vertical market sol...
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BRYCE SWAFFORD We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; ...
PAUL HAWKEN We feel confident that we can continue to provide the services that weve provided in the past, ... A...
DAVID GLEASON It's been interesting, in a little bit less than nine months weve gone from trying to convince peopl...
JOHN HOGAN All our analytic applications can now take advantage of the innovations we're bringing to market in ...
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KHIL RAJ REGMI While we are continuing to invest in increased production to provide long term supply assurance to o...
PAUL SKINNER In the midst of a severe telecom industry re-set that is leaving no participant unscathed, Alcatel h...
SERGE TCHURUK Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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GRAHAM NASH Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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BRIAN HARRISON We've been able to work through that situation favorably for the county. We will continue to work on...
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GEOFF BROYLES If he's not that guy, he'll be close to the guy. It's amazing what he's been able to do as far as bl...
ERIC HICKS Our community has been ready to mobilize, though we have not been able to provide them with the stru...
JAIME CONTRERAS If we aren't able to improve the highway and transit systems and if we aren't able to get some more ...
BECKY MORGAN He comes to me and talks to me about everything because we were able to work at a young age to maint...
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LESLIE MOONVES We've come a long way since I've come on the board. We've improved the qualify of our school buildin...
GARY PATTON Weve talked in general about spin-offs and updating it - we dont have specific plans at this point. ...
BURT FEINTUCH We have been able to achieve a leading market share of 40 per cent in modern retail channel in a mat...
BUNYARIT CHANSUWAN President Bush spoke of the risks of economic isolation and the critical importance of American comp...
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GREG JOHNSON He's been outstanding. He has been able to guide us through our vision and has made the goals clear.
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KATHERINE MOWAT Greenspan continued to be the most influential committee member. However, his dominance was markedly...
BRIAN SACK Our stance is to maintain peace and stability, and to reach settlement through dialogue,
ZHANG QIYUE This Union Federal sale is a big deal because it will bring an invigorated competitor into the marke...
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GARY MUTO We haven't been able to create turnovers all season, and defensively we did that. We were able to ta...
CASEY CAVANAUGH We've been able to do some things because of them coming back. We went through those growing pains l...
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GORDON GETTY We were sick about that. Kerry Collins is not the fastest guy, first of all.
VONNIE HOLLIDAY I thought that over time, through the efforts of Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassley and others on the Hou...
DAVID HOCKENBROCHT True education is gained through the discipline of life. There
HENRY FORD We're absolutely thrilled and we really appreciate the community's support in this initiative. At th...
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EVA LANG Participants in the market continue to maintain doubts about the strength and durability of the euro...
BERNARD WALSCHOTS He seemed young and decisive, able to make the shift from guerrilla leader to political leader, rath...
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KELLY ROWLAND And if we are not able to achieve the market access, they cannot be supportive.
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SUZANNE COLLINS The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
SUZANNE COLLINS She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
SUZANNE COLLINS When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
SUZANNE COLLINS But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
SUZANNE COLLINS But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?"

"Yea...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.

"For what? Nothing's...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
SUZANNE COLLINS If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
SUZANNE COLLINS Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l...
SUZANNE COLLINS Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair
SUZANNE COLLINS I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f...
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."

Well, there's no good resp...
SUZANNE COLLINS Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept ...
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
SUZANNE COLLINS Do you find this...distracting?
SUZANNE COLLINS Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.
SUZANNE COLLINS And if we burn, you burn with us.
SUZANNE COLLINS My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
WILKIE COLLINS Destroying things is much easier than making them.
SUZANNE COLLINS Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be ha...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
SUZANNE COLLINS And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.
SUZANNE COLLINS Hope,” said Vikus. “There are times it will be very hard to find. Times when it will be much eas...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up
SUZANNE COLLINS