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ABB Group - ABB serves customers in power transmission and power distribution; automation; oil, gas and petrochemicals; building technologies. - Shares part of SMI.
Adecco - Adecco provides personnel related services - Shares part of SMI.
Credit Suisse Group - Credit Suisse Group is an international financial services group. - Shares part of SMI.
Baloise Holding - Baloise Holding is a insurance and financial services provider. - Shares part of SMI.
Ciba Specialty Chemicals - Ciba SC manufacturers speciality chemicals - Shares part of SMI.
Clariant International Ltd - Clariant International Ltd is specialty chemicals company - Shares part of SMI.
Swatch Group Ltd. - Swatch Group Ltd. is today the largest manufacturer of finished watches in the world. It produces watches, movements and stepping motors. Microelectronics and micromechanics represent another important part of its operation. - Shares part of SMI.
Ems Chemie - Ems Chemie is specialised in the production of customized polyamides. - Shares part of SMI.
Holderbank - Holderbank Group is a supplier of cement, aggregates and concrete worldwide. - Shares part of SMI.
Lonza Group - Lonza Group is specialised in chemicals for the life sciences industry. - Shares part of SMI.
Nestlé S.A. - Nestlé S.A. is a global food company. - Shares part of SMI.
Novartis - Manufactures pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and life sciences products. - Shares part of SMI.
Swiss Re - Swiss Re is a reinsurance and financial services group. - Shares part of SMI.
Swiss Life - Swiss Life / Rentenanstalt is a life insurance and financial services group. - Shares part of SMI.
Roche - Roche is a manufacturer of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, vitamins, fragrances and flavors. - Shares part of SMI.
SGS Société Générale de Surveillance Holding SA - SGS Group of companies is the leader in verification, testing and certification. It operates in more than 140 countries through its network of subsidiaries and laboratories. - Shares part of SMI.
Sulzer - Sulzer is a Swiss Technology Corporation globally active in the following markets: medical technology, the oil, gas and chemical industries, in selected markets for mechanical engineering, weaving machinery and building services. - Shares part of SMI.
Swisscom - Swisscom is a telecommunication services company. - Shares part of SMI.
UBS - UBS is a banking and financial services group. - Shares part of SMI.
Zurich Allied - Zurich Allied provides insurance and financial services globally. - Shares part of SMI.
Givaudan Roure - Industrial group, producer of fragrances and flavours. - Shares part of SMI.
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Quoted SWX "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Quoted SWX "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Quoted SWX Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Quoted SWX Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Quoted SWX Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Quoted SWX "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Quoted SWX "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Quoted SWX "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Quoted SWX Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso Quoted SWX "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Quoted SWX Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Quoted SWX >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Quoted SWX Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Quoted SWX "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Quoted SWX "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Quoted SWX There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Quoted SWX Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi Quoted SWX It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Quoted SWX "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Quoted SWX Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Quoted SWX Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Quoted SWX
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