Famous Quotes & Sayings

We still see more downside than upside risk to 2007 consensus earnings.

David Douglass

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

While management will likely continue to guide conservatively, we expect 2006 outlook will be at least in-line with (analysts' consensus estimate of) $4.18. JC Penney's stepped up branding campaign, which kicks off March 2 and includes a temporary NY store, should drive some sales and more importantly position them for market share gains as industry rationalization frees up share.

Hugo Chavez

What a great truth and how good it is that in Mar del Plata President Kirchner has come to say it to millions: the Washington consensus is broken; we are looking for a new model,

Leonard Susskind

Why is there space rather than no space? Why is space three-dimensional? Why is space big? We have a lot of room to move around in. How come it's not tiny? We have no consensus about these things. We're still exploring them.

Burt Rutan

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

Alan Dershowitz

President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.

Samir Geagea

Lebanon is the true land of consensus par excellence,

Natan Sharansky

The prime minister is traveling without trying to make consensus here. I prefer to be with the majority.

We share the wish for a national consensus for peace as a passport for the reconstruction of our country.

Given the current outlook, we expect to modestly exceed the first quarter consensus estimate of $0.75 per share,

Getting a global consensus, it turns out, is not that easy. We're hoping we're going to get widespread support so we can stand up and say to the U.S. government that this is a true consensus document.

I would say the consensus is that the Fed goes to a neutral position on inflation.

I think there is finally a consensus that we need to be securing these facilities.

I think there's a whole wealth of information suggesting that things are on the mend... I don't think this is really going to disturb market consensus that the German economy will continue throughout the course of this year.

Joe Moore

I think there was a pretty good recognition that the consensus number was too high and that some of the estimates out there were stale.

Jim Cooper

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

When Howard signed a Sirius deal in October 2004, we had 660,000 subscribers. Analysts' consensus predicted 2 million by 2005, but we are already at 3.3 million. Clearly, this jump can be attributable to Howard.

When interest rates go up, the utilities don't do so well, and I think there's a developing consensus that they've gone awfully far.

Jonathan Joseph

Given the weaker outlook, we expect the 2001 consensus estimate of $1.76 to come down substantially.

We may have a greater consensus on this matter in German society than we thought.

Olympia Snowe

I think we have to look at, you know, many issues. And first of all, we have to reach a consensus on the level of urgency and the magnitude of the problem before we develop a long-term solution.

John White

He is a consensus builder. He really likes the merits and science of these issues. I'm missing him already.

He doesn't want to err on the side of conservatism. The consensus is that he will do one more cut and then that might be the end of it for some time.

There is no consensus in the Republican Party.

There is no consensus in NATO today for a ground invasion force.

Howard Schultz

There is more of a consensus than I saw in the past in terms of how people see things,

Greenspan is an orthodox thinker in most ways, but you have give him credit for questioning consensus thinking.

Michael McDonald

People are really optimistic about first-quarter earnings numbers. Consensus is also that large-cap stocks are what's going to move this market and they are strong today.

John Bolton

Our hope is to have a strong consensus document for the high-level event, ... We're working on that and we're making our views known as are other governments.

Part of our task is to let a consensus emerge.

Mitch Daniels

I think this is a matter for local decision-making and local consensus and that seems to be what is happening,

National consensus is being eroded grossly. The government should really reverse course and embark on national reconciliation and reinstitute institutions without militias ... this is the only way forward,