"Our results and improved outlook reflect a strong commitment to growth, expanding margins and improving how we do business every day."

—Jim McNerney, Boeing chairman, president and CEO, about Boeing's financial performance in 2005, during a Feb. 1 conference call with financial analysts and reporters

"My thought process has been, 'How can we do even better?' I don't want to just evolve, but come up with something to keep us ahead of the curve."

—Jim Albaugh, president and CEO of Integrated Defense Systems, on the reorganization of IDS from seven units into three, in the Jan. 28 St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"You cannot have a great product without having great people."

—Mark Jenkins, vice president and general manager of the 737 program, at a ceremony last month commemorating the delivery of the 5,000th 737, in the Feb. 14 King County (Wash.) Journal