Kodak Quotes

The Drive for Diversity program has proven very beneficial for Kodak, which has a strong corporate commitment to diversity and inclusion. Joe Henderson III has been an excellent competitor and a fine ambassador of our brand. Our participation in this program helps us connect with regional racing fans, and dovetails with our participation in NASCAR NEXTEL Cup racing. We look forward to continuing our participation in Drive for Diversity.

1998 was a year of excellent progress for Kodak, despite continuing intense competition, the issues with the Office Imaging business, and on-going challenges in emerging markets. On the competitive front, we arrested our share loss in the U.S., closing out the year with a share increase for the consumer film in that market.

Kodak plans to achieve top-line growth of 8 to 12 percent by 2004, ... That`s an important part of achieving our average annual earnings per share growth target of at least 10 percent, over time.

In less than a year, roughly one third of our senior management team has changed, we are taking large amounts of cost out of the company, faster than ever in the history of Kodak.

Kodak did two things: The one that was good was the investment in digital technology. What they didn`t do well, is they didn`t commercialize it.

Can any of the classical digital guys compete with Kodak in understanding how to make ink and how to make media? I would question that.

When Mr. Fisher joined Eastman Kodak, I was a shareholder with great anticipation that he would take a technological problem and make it into a technological opportunity, ... Lou Gerstner did that at IBM. I thought there was a possibility, actually a probability, that we`d get that out of George Fisher. Unfortunately it hasn`t happened yet.

I had to figure it out for myself, so I started reading Kodak books, ... I really enjoyed it when I finally discovered what I was doing.