Chris Gent Quotations

When I was an executive ... relationships within the company and at board level where characterized by openness and trust. We were mercifully free of company politics and blame culture.

We have no plans to sell Japan Telecom's fixed business for three billion or any other number.

We have a situation where no new gas is coming into the pipeline. We've never been in this situation before.

Basically, we average the last three months of what we paid for our fuel, and we gradually implement it into the bill. It's not one month we sock it to the customer.

Japan and China is where we should focus in Asia rather than fragment by going into some of the smaller countries that might come along as acquisition opportunities,

There are bargains about, share prices are low and there are not too many buyers about. We can expect more deals in the next 12 months.

(The deal) will cut our roaming costs and offer significant marketing synergies, which will enable us to improve the value we offer customers.

We are expecting an improvement in the second half over this very good first half. We do believe we're in pretty good shape over the next couple of years.

Spain is one of Europe's fastest-growing mobile markets.

This deal will further strengthen Vodafone's position in Japan and give us greater exposure to 3G,

a superb alliance of the two leading global mobile operators. We share a vision of mobile communications as the principal platform for voice and data communications into the next century, and have the people and assets to realize this vision.

They've told us it could be several weeks before they could use crews to restore power. They have to clear out the water first.

If there is a whispering campaign or conspiracy, which I very much doubt, then I am not party to it.