Michael Hawley Quotations

Gillette remains confident that the continued strength of its core businesses, benefits from its reorganization and its optimization of trade inventories, coupled with an improvement in international economies, bode well for a return to its historic high growth rates in the near future,

Instead of guiding up other people, they are climbing for science. This year, there's going to be a tremendous gush of data coming off the mountain.

Turns out that no one has measured the wind speed at the summit,

The problem is you've got to build something that's absolutely bombproof,

In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’

We made substantial progress on several fronts during the first quarter. We generated good sales growth, as double-digit gains for blades and razors and Braun more than offset softness in certain battery markets and a significant unfavorable exchange effect.

People will jump on it like ants on a muffin,

With exceptionally strong business fundamentals, an outstanding new product platform and gradually improving global conditions, we look for a return to our more traditional sales and earnings performance levels in the second half of the year.