“Over the 12 years between the end of the French and Indian War and the outbreak of fighting at Lexington and Concord, the colonists clarified their beliefs and articulated them in language that was meant to build a broad base of support for opposition to the authority of the king, ... It took nothing less than a year of civil war to convince most colonists that they were in fact not Britons, but Americans.”
“Our goal for fiscal 1998 is to continue to reduce Apple's break-even point through a combination of further expense reductions and gross margin improvements,”
“We still have a couple thousand people split between hardware and software. When you look back at the people that originally created the operating system, it was a small team. We've done creative things at Apple typically in small teams.”
“Apple has been cleaning up the way it does business and that's good, but ultimately we need to begin growing this business. We need to make sure we have competitive cost structures so we can grow.”
“We continue to look toward the December quarter as our first opportunity for year-over-year (revenue) growth which we expect to turn into unit growth,”
“With our product transitions during the September quarter behind us, and an order backlog of over $700 million, we're poised for a very strong December quarter,”
“Strong demand for our professional products combined with superb operational efficiency resulted in very strong earnings. Apple finished the quarter with $3.6 billion in cash and short-term investments.”
