HEY, VISION-GUY - I THINK YOU'RE HALLUCINATING
"Unfortunately, as is often the case, hand-picked boards let self-proclaimed 'visionary' CEOs chase their vision indefinitely, even when years pass and their vision is clearly a delusion."
- In an open letter to Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. co-chairman and CEO Jon Feltheimer, activist investor Carl Icahn says the CEO and board who oppose his hostile takeover bid are a big part of the problem.
WE'VE HEARD OF CHEAP SUBSCRIPTIONS, BUT …
"This is a most satisfactory and positive outcome for the titles, their staff and for INM's shareholders."
- Independent News & Media PLC's CEO, Gavin O'Reilly, expresses his pleasure with the company's deal to sell its red-ink-bathed British flagship newspapers The Independent and The Independent on Sunday to Russian mogul Alexander Lebedev - for £1 ($1.52).
CLOSING THE BOOK, BUT STILL GIVING US THE FINGERS
"Let's recognize that the world has changed and that our logo is living in an environment that wasn't even contemplated."
- Yellow Pages Group CEO Marc Tellier explains the company's new logo - which looks a lot like the old one, except the familiar "walking fingers" no longer have the open pages of a book beneath them.
POWER FORWARD? NO, POWER SUIT!
"Right now, I'm concentrating on the internship this summer."
- Mark Coury, backup forward on the Cornell University basketball team, says he's more focused on his upcoming summer job at Goldman Sachs than on underdog Cornell's NCAA regional-semifinal game against heavily favoured Kentucky.
AND MAYBE YOU CAN GET SCHWARZENEGGER TO SAY IT INSTEAD OF GEITHNER
"If we don't label China a currency manipulator, we will look like the wimps of the Western world."
- Harvard University financial historian Niall Ferguson calls on the U.S. Treasury Department to toughen its rhetoric on China's cheap-yuan policies.
David Parkinson