`A reputation is tough to build, easy to destroy. It takes more than one car more than one year.’
— Jim Hossack of consulting firm AutoPacific, discussing why Ford’s strong showing in a recent car-reliability study hasn’t led to more sales
`We certainly have a certain amount of trepidation about the merger. Competitively, we will do whatever we need to do to respond.’
— Rick Hans, director of finance for Walgreen Co., talking about CVS Corp.’s proposed $21 billion purchase of Caremark Rx Inc.
`United Airlines is the perfect merger partner on paper. The combination would be the largest airline in the world, with the best route structure.’
— Roger King of CreditSights, who believes United would be a better suitor for Delta than US Airways, which made an $8 billion hostile bid for the Atlanta-based carrier
`I would never be a caretaker. A caretaker is not what this company needs.’
— Cyrus Freidheim, 71, an outside director at Sun-Times Media Group Inc. who was named the company’s CEO
`He was the most influential economist of the 20th Century, and into the 21st Century. There was nobody close to him.’
— Nobel laureate Gary Becker, speaking of his former University of Chicago colleague Milton Friedman, who died at 94
`I’m one of dozens, or hundreds, of people who are thinking the same thing.’
— Local businessman Thomas Begel, who says he has 15 investors ready to make a competitive bid for the Cubs
