Richard Aboulafia Quotes
14 Richard Aboulafia quotes:
"The one thing that gives (the union) that power is that outsourcing jobs takes a lot of time, but if you make life very difficult for the manufacturer these jobs are leaving,"
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"It's more about service, information and customer relations than metal- bending. It's also a fragmented market, ripe for consolidation."
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"It's a relatively inconsequential cost increase from the corporate perspective. From the union side, they got better than Boeing's best offer."
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"The money makes no material difference to either side -- there is no reason for this strike to be happening."
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"This is a good way to address the shrinking number of dollars out there in the defense business. The defense game is definitely changing."
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"Keeping costs down and getting close to the customer makes an awful lot of sense when the revenue environment is flattening."
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"Basically, we're going to either have a hollow force or a truncated force structure -- the message here is that we couldn't really afford Iraq and our current military. If Boeing and Lockheed Martin aren't thinking like that in public, they are in private."
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"If Airbus can't get a key A340 victory soon, there will be serious questions about that program."
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"Not to say, 'Hurray, we all win!' but both sides can claim victory."
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"These guys are basically taking oil money and trying to convert it into a long-term value-added business. That's not dumb."
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"The devil will be in the details."
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"Both sides can claim victory. It looks like a reasonable compromise."
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"No one was told that there was a choice between Iraq and recapitalizing the nation's military."
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"The fact that the Chinese government is placing these orders shows how close they are."
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