Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's why we play (those) tough games in December so that we can get better and learn. Learn to see where our weaknesses are and make the adjustments now, in December, January, so we're ready to go come February.

Linda Davis

That's in line with normal December to January trends.

It just got too hard. It works a lot better if we do this on December 2 instead of January 27.

It looks like we'll have the third period in a row where revisions to estimates are positive. And top-line growth rates, which were negative for a while, will be positive for the third period in a row and will be higher than we saw in either December or March.

Paul Johnson

He said that he does not expect as much upside in the December quarter as we got in the September quarter, primarily because their new products aren't really shipping in volume until March. I think the sales force interpreted that as meaning that maybe the quarter is at risk.

David Harris

On December 24, did you have a problem with the dog?

November and December are still ample time to get your flu shot.

November and December are pound-for-pound just as important as the summer, ... You see about 20 percent of the gross for the year in about seven or eight weeks. And this year looks to me to be a strong finish to a year that has really had its ups and downs.

Once we got it going in December ? the Idaho win was huge ? we thought we were good.

Once the new year rolls around, it will sharply increase. We think it has a lot to do with the fact that people are more scattered in December ... it leaves less time for them to volunteer.

December was a quarter where we held our own ... but overall sales were disappointing.

December looks weak but the November revision will stave off too much speculation of weakness.

December 20th was the last time we had any appreciable rain. We had about a quarter-inch over the area. That wasn't enough to help that much.

As retailers had feared, the spending surge seen in December was short-lived and not sustained into the new year.

For a toy company, you really don't know until November and December. You can do all the things you want now, but you better have it right then. One day in December can be worth a week now.

This is exactly why we went to Reno (in December for the Reno Tournament of Champions). There are some familiar names and teams. I think that's good.

This is at odds with reported wage growth of 5.4% for the year to December 2005.

Evo Morales

The 21st of December marks the end of the time and the beginning of no-time

By December 2006, the new long-haul product will be on all routes.

The last few weeks of December tend to be more defensive.

The main reason for the decline in the price index in December was the decline in energy prices -- while the index is down, it's still at a historically high level.

The construction gods have been really good to us in February and March. December wasn't very good to us weather-wise. But we've been very lucky to have such good weather recently for building.

The guys have worked hard to be in this position at the end of the year. We had a tough schedule in December and they pushed themselves to get here. We are a young team and it has worked through some tough times, stuck with it and focused on the end-of-the-year goals.

The Cisco news isn't that significant, but maybe it's enough to influence people who were looking to get out. The S&P 500 had recently been right near its late December highs, so it's not too surprising to see this consolidation.

You typically see, from the trough of a recession to the time when the recession ends, a 1.3-percent gain in payrolls, ... From when the recession likely ended, in December of last year, we've had 0.004 percent gain, instead of that 1.3 percent gain. There's a pent-up demand for labor, given such a jobless recovery.

Lois Lowry

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

The durable goods report for December was extremely strong. The headline rise of 1.3 percent was decent, but some of the underlying statistics were even more impressive.

The fourth-quarter results were in line with our December outlook and reflect the pervasive impact of a slowing worldwide economy.

Vinton Cerf

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.