Ulysses Yannas Quotations

With the new technology, the images can be created using anybody's camera, and the cost to print the film is about the same as for 35 mm prints.

Many retailers have gone through the season constantly lowering prices. Sure, you create sales but at what cost?

Olympus has no printing capability. Opal and Onyx would give them the printing capability.

I suspect the scenario is they'll get themselves an extension.

It gives you the time to negotiate without a gun on your head in a more orderly fashion. Maybe they'll sell the company, or maybe they'll continue operating. I am convinced it can be operated profitably.

Some of us were looking for $175 million in digital earnings.

Who goes out now and pays $350 bucks for a Coach bag? In times like these, you don't really go for fashion, you go where you can get the necessities.

You first have to sell the digital cameras, the printers, the medical equipment for them to generate profits.

This news shouldn't come as a surprise. They deal with the lowest income customers, on average.

The stock, any way you slice it, is attractive at this stage,

No question this is a positive. Kodak's strengths include wide product range, ease of use and a brand name with high recognition.

No question this is a positive, ... Kodak's strengths include wide product range, ease of use and a brand name with high recognition.

The big thing for me is to get a better idea of what happened.

This is not good. It was a bad year, so they were . . . writing off everything they can.

They don't have a history as a digital company but they have the three requirements to support it: technology, management and ? more important probably than anything ? distribution. Their deliverance cannot happen in one quarter, in one year, but they have the best name in imaging and their quality continues to be proven out.

They're looking to cut their debt down to half. That's the long and the short of it.

It's good for Wal-Mart to get into California but it's not as if Wal-Mart's future depended on this vote, ... At the same time, what the Inglewood decision could have some effect on is Wal-Mart's attempts to get closer to metropolitan cities, especially if we see other cities around the country putting up similar opposition to having Wal-Mart in their neighborhood.

The banks will see this through the year's end, how fast this restructuring plan is taking hold,

They were trying to protect their turf in film when they could have been more forthcoming and aggressive in digital technology,

I don't think Wal-Mart will have as bad a year as everyone thinks they will right now.

The Eckerd sale is definitely good news for Penney on two fronts. They've generated substantial amount of money from the sale. Secondly, Eckerd was a continuing diversion of management's time. That also is resolved somewhat,