QUOTES

“Our customers are thinking about growing their business again, rather than being focused on survival. There’s a spring in their step that I didn’t hear earlier in the year.” — Halliburton CEO Dave Lesar after reporting 5,000 more layoffs and a $3.2 billion quarterly loss

“We have significant redundancies built into our mission-critical systems, and those redundancies did not work. We need to understand why and make sure that that doesn’t happen again.” — Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly after a massive computer outage canceled hundreds of flights

“We’ve got some sectors that have been coughing and wheezing — they’re a little sick – and some that are doing just fine.” — Mark Taylor, senior managing director of CBRE, on Houston’s commercial real estate market