Famous Quotes and Proverbs

«Mainly replacing bad management with good management. We replaced the entire management. We brought American methods to Germany that could work or not work. It all depended on execution, and it was done.»

«Have you lost it, as they say? Yesterday Amikam Cohen delivered a highly persuasive speech about how expensive regulation is, and I agreed with most of what he had to say. It is also bad for the consumer. From the perspective of regulation, we are the worst country in the West. It's a disaster. [Communications Minister] Dalia Itzik has the gall to say, `You show me technological horizon, and I'll show you regulatory horizon.' But the technology advances all the time. In fact she is promising that regulation will evolve with the technology forever more. In effect she was promising that regulation would continue.»

«How do I know? I haven't even been let into the building yet. I went there and the guard at the door told me open your briefcase, go here go there - I had to ask where the bathroom was.»

«In respect to peer companies, yes. There is room for rebuilding, but it is too soon to say in what manner. There is management, and there are consultancies for that.»

«I ate lunch with [chairman] Shlomo Kfir and five other people. I told them to bring hummus and masbacha. We ate and talked. They wanted to be more in the picture, and I told them not to believe what's written in the paper. When privatization happened, they'd be addressed practically.»

«We're open [to suggestions]. We won't be leaping at just any opportunity, but if regulation can be reduced, we'd look at it favorably.»

«Is Mr. Gusinsky still here? Buying Yedioth is impossible, so maybe Maariv.»

«Sergei Brin will tell you that there's $12-$14 billion to be made. I wasn't wrong, and I don't look back.»

«Yes. I won't be giving them to the children, but back to society. Don't get me wrong, the children will get something, but we received from society, and will give it back.»

«Fear of being poor. It is terrifying.»