Lewis Platt Quotations

If there's any change taking place, it's due to macroeconomic conditions, not changes in technology,

We can't control economic environments, ... But we are doing everything possible to stay close to our customers, drive down expense growth and continue to create the kinds of products and solutions that will benefit our customers and shareholders for the long term.

We've achieved a good profit outcome despite softness in some of our businesses and weak revenue growth. Our profit reflects the fact that we continue to tune our business models and cost structures.

The board appreciates that Phil acted with characteristic dignity and selflessness in recognizing that his resignation was for the good of the company.

Phil made the offer to the board. This was not a question of the board coming to the Phil and saying, 'Phil, it's time,' ... That was not an offer we jumped at. But over the course of many, many board discussions, we decided we would accept Phil's offer as a way to get this behind us.

The benefits for our customers will be cost savings and the simplicity of unified communications and IT applications.

Our results this quarter were mixed. We're disappointed with our profit outcome.

With two months' results in, it appears that our third-quarter performance won't match analysts' expectations, ... We've done a much better job of managing expenses this quarter. But expense management can't compensate fully for struggling economies in Asia-Pacific and new signs of economic uncertainty elsewhere.

We had solid net earnings in PCs, strong profit performance in printing and imaging, and significant profit improvement in our measurement business. Clearly, our challenge is to convert order growth into stronger growth in revenue.

We're integrating voice and data services on one platform -- with a single management interface and a single link to the Internet,