Ritchie Bros Auctioneers (RBA) Senior Vice President Doug Olive said their’s excess equipment out in the marketplace “I mean, we did see an overall decline of pricing in the construction assets alone of about 6% in Q2. And on top … Continued
Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) CEO Bruce Flatt said there are only a few places for rational capital deployment in a world of negative yielding sovereign bonds “in essence there are only four places globally for this money to go and … Continued
Yelp (YELP) CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said they’re spending some of their marketing budget on old school TV advertising “To drive broader awareness of Yelp, we’re investing in TV and online video advertising, as well as direct marketing. As we typically … Continued
Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook on the purpose of the company “The DNA of the company is really what I was talking about there. The North Star has always been the same, which for us, is about making insanely great … Continued
Wendy’s (WEN) CEO Todd Penegor highlighted the cost advantage of consumers eating at home more rather than going out “The continued gap in the cost of eating at home and dining out is at the widest point since the recession.”
Apple (AAPL) Senior Vice President Eddy Cue on focusing “I love Facebook. We can’t be everything. One of the reasons we’ve been highly successful is that we focus. We can’t be great at everything; nobody’s great at everything. I mean, come … Continued
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) CEO Warren Buffett on American productivity “If you don’t improve productivity, you don’t go anyplace. And fortunately, we have a system — we’re in the early innings of it, but we have a system where lots and … Continued
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty on what it was like when she joined IBM 35 years ago “What struck me was the seriousness of the kind of things we did. We were building complex back-office banking systems. We were rolling out … Continued
MarketAxess Holdings (MKTX) CEO Rich McVey on how the ECB bond buying program is affecting trading “The ECB, as you know has been active over the last two or three months in their Corporate bond purchase program, as part of … Continued
Sun Hydraulics (SNHY) CEO Wolfgang Dangel said sales in North America were the laggard during the quarter “Second quarter demand was slightly better than anticipated, gross profitability remained in line with company estimates. Regionally, Europe and Asia were each down only … Continued