Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quarterly earnings are still made up to be too important, in my judgment. There's too much focus on the short term by far.

Ron Pearson

quality funds in a well-diversified portfolio that earned 9.3 percent (all accounts) in the last 12 months, whereas the S&P 500 lost 14.8 percent.

Real estate stocks have had a good run, but once interest rates start to rise, the present value of developers' future earnings will start decrease. Shipping lines are in for a tough time.

Our earnings were pretty flat from 1999 through 2002.

Elon Musk

Our earned revenue will be $35 million after a little more than two years of operation. By comparison, the X-Prize was a one-off of $10 million, and it took Burt something like five years to do it.

E. B. White

People seem to be looking through this and saying what we see is a blip here, and we're going to see strong earnings later in the year,

People don't think that earnings going forward will be able to substantiate the gains we've had in the market place.

Mark Martin

People earn their respect. Tony has earned my respect. He has earned every ounce of the respect he has on and off the race track.

Operation Overdrive contributed to our double-digit earnings growth in every quarter of this fiscal year,

Sathya Baba

Of the twenty-four hours a day,Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.

Peyton Manning

(Offensive coordinator) Tom Moore made a good point: In the NFL, you don't pick up where you left off, ... You have to go out and earn it this year.

The moves in media stocks are never earnings based.

A family of four earning $15,000 annually will have a $260 savings. That's a meaningful amount.

After a long product portfolio transition, we forecast that Bristol-Myers could return to a period of sustained high teens earnings per share growth in 2007-2010.

Gary Patterson

After a game like this you always feel like you are No. 1. We wanted an opportunity to finish high and jump into the top 10 in the final rankings. I feel like we've earned it.

Once you earn the No. 1 ranking, the toughest part is holding on to it.

Ian Scott

Oil prices should be supported by renewed imports into China. The banks, however, should see some moderation in their very strong earnings momentum.

Actually, earnings estimates will be rising, and normally when rising earnings are occurring for the technology company, the stock will follow along.

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

Dell, unlike the other major names I follow, tells you what earnings they are going to hit and then simply delivers,

Definitely, there is a turning around of the ship here. Earnings are improving and investors are starting to respond to that.

Debauchee, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.

They haven't promised me anything. I think they want to see how I am, too. I am not going to be given anything. I think you have to earn it. And I'm fine with that.

Rick Nelson

They have met or exceeded earnings estimates -- in some quarters quite substantially -- every quarter since the IPO,

They have that kind of edge to them. I sat them down and talked about not saying too much. Just come out here, work hard and earn the respect of your peers. People know who you are.

There's a tendency to think that since we've done well it's automatic. But we've had to earn it. It's tougher since we have a target on us.

There seems to be a lot of economic momentum and earnings momentum fueling this market.

There's also a younger generation now earning money who grew up with computers, so they are comfortable with e-filing. They trust it.

There's a lot of things that haven't been told in the paper. It will come out. People who have known me for a long time, they realize that some of the stuff is ridiculous like promising scholarships, free meals. I've never done that, ever, ever, ever. These players have had to earn everything, every minute they've gotten on the court.

Randy Johnson

There is still this fear of voting for something that gives legal status even after you earn it--that it's going to be called 'amnesty.

There's a major rise in oil prices, increased investor worry about the upcoming earnings season and you're also seeing some profit-taking after the market's six-week run-up.

There was a lot of unsung heroes for us. It was a team effort. Sometimes people get lost in the shuffle. But it takes an entire group. They earned it and there was nothing given to them.

At least for the next month or two, the earnings picture is going to be pretty dismal.