Famous Quotes & Sayings

I know we've seen relatively strong announcements of GDP growth in the U.S., but as far as I can tell, that hasn't translated into corporate profitability or corporate IT investment growth, ... I wish I had something better to tell you.

Richard Williams

It's premature to be able to gauge what's really happening with corporate demand. Long-term investors need to wait and get more data before making any decisions about these stocks.

Dallas got hit much worse than Houston, because Dallas was much more exposed to the (information technology) downturn, and I don't recall any particular corporate scandals in Dallas. The scandal for Dallas was the high-tech bubble.

Domestic demand is leading growth and will keep driving the expansion. With the end of deflation on the horizon, corporate spending is going to accelerate.

The news makes people nervous about corporate management.

The No. 1 driver for equities is corporate profit growth. Inflation is subdued, which suggests higher energy prices are not trickling through.

Stocks are stuck in a hiatus between the performance of corporate profits and the hoped-for economic recovery.

Sure, all the kids in town mean the economics we're talking about are at the lower end rather than the higher end. But let's not kid ourselves - there's a huge corporate presence here, a lot of sponsorship dollars. Just look at all the private parties.

Supposedly a corporate order went through the market this morning. It squeezed a couple of guys who were sitting short dollars and triggered a few stops and the rand popped up to the top (weakened).

It's not country anymore. It's not really the artists' fault; there's so much pressure (from corporate interests).

Merton Miller

For me, as an economist, it was frustrating to have no sense of a theory of corporate finance to tie all this material together.

Inflation in the U.S. remains virtually non-existent, as does corporate pricing power.

Gary Roberts

Everyone knows New Orleans was a marginal major league market. More and more, the NFL has come to rely on corporate dollars and New Orleans doesn't have a very large corporate base.

Everyone at Progress Energy is focused on meeting the needs of our customers to provide them with reliable power today and in the future. Our corporate giving reflects the same dedication and pursuit of excellence.

There's a huge problem with odometer tampering, but you usually don't find it with reputable rental or corporate fleet cars,

Kofi Annan

This is truly a moving experience. It's also a moving expression of global solidarity and corporate citizenship.

This jurisdiction has been viewed as one of the toughest jurisdictions for corporate defendants in the country. It will place a premium on very good jury selection skills by Merck.

This is why we need ethics reform now. Rick Perry is trying to sell a school finance plan that has no new money for schools, and he's raising corporate money to do it.

They're perhaps encouraged by the improved measures of corporate financial health. We've had relatively brisk growth by profitability ever since early 2002.

They're corporate and they're transnational and they're aggressive.

Patrick Leahy

They have squandered the surpluses ... the public's trust in corporate accountability and in the markets, and the opportunities to use the surpluses to protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security and homeland defense,

There's every reason to be hopeful because it's a product that's good, and we have a distinctive audience. And we see growing support within corporate America, in part because they know how important it is to reach women.

If you are looking at the health of the corporate sector, this report is very positive. That sector is not going to slow down even if interest rates keep going up.

Sandra Lerner

If you look at any of the big companies, whether it is IBM or L'Oreal, they have a corporate religion and corporate self-image that makes it very difficult for them to execute in different areas.

In principle, rapid productivity should make wages rise, but it seems that until the job market tightens up a bit, all the productivity gains flow to corporate profits.

Investors are having to deal with the reality of lower corporate profits. And the stock market is starting to feel that impact.

Investors are focusing on corporate earnings and positive results will help lead stock markets higher.

In the longer term, we are more optimistic. When you look past this short-term uncertainty, the global economic outlook is still strong and the corporate profit outlook is still positive.

In terms of corporate earnings, last year's should not be a problem. This year, I'm not so sure. Interest rates are a major concern.

In the 1950s, about a quarter of corporate executives died before they hit 65 so they died in office. There was a notion that you better get out by 65 if you want a retirement. Now, people are living longer and they're also living healthier. People don't have to retire so they say the heck with it. You see these founding CEO-type folks hanging around forever.

If you take out New York City, New York State's economy is right down there with Mississippi and Louisiana. We need more reinvestment in people not corporate investment disguised as redevelopment.

If you see why the U.S. stock market has performed as well as it has even in the face of headwinds like the hurricanes and high oil prices, it's because we've had very strong corporate earnings.

Millard Fuller

In my opinion, this is the nose under the tent, and eventually they will move the whole thing to Atlanta. It demonstrates a shift from being a ministry to a corporate bureaucracy.