Famous Quotes & Sayings

The story on slowing earnings growth and revenue growth is not over.

Gary Payton

The simple fact is back in the day when (guard) Alvin Robertson and (guard) Derek Harper were guarding you, they could hand-check you and do everything else and you had to shoot over them. They were making it tough for you. You had to earn everything.

The big question making the rounds now is: How does one really judge value and are strong first-quarter earnings (expectations) already factored into technology stocks?

Ben Roethlisberger

As long as we win. That's how you earn your money, by winning.

That's where the earnings are, that's where the jobs are. We've been living like this now for quite some time. I think it's going to continue.

That's not as great as 2003 earnings growth, but still positive.

That's not something that's gonna happen a lot with me. I pride myself on making you earn first base.

Mardy Fish

That's not going to get me into anything over there, and I'd rather stay over here and earn my way through challengers.

Dave Tippett

We've got a great group of guys, great leaders who've focused on preparing for the playoffs. This is the time when you earn your stripes. We've put ourselves in good position; now we have to go prove it in the playoffs.

We had to earn it, but we earned it all year.

We had to earn hard buckets at our end. But with our foul trouble, they turned around and hit the easy baskets from the line.

To an extent, no matter what happens with earnings reports over the next week, the Middle East is still going to hold us back.

Rick Carlisle

Those things work their way out. One thing about getting another quality player is you're going to have to earn your time on the court.

What's confounding most people out there is how do you get your hands around earnings, ... there's not that much out there in terms of earnings predictability.

What's all the fuss about in terms of this third quarter earnings warning? By any standard, these are very, very good results.

We want to play Mitchell. They have been the measuring stick of where you need to be with your team. We've earned this and we're going to enjoy it. Now, we need to get our kids prepared in just a few days.

Bill Coleman

The worst thing you can say is 'I want $X for this job,' leaving no opening for negotiation by the other side. Better language is 'I hope to earn between $X and $X.' That gives the other party more flexibility.

The worst of the earnings news is probably out of the way and expectations are probably back in line.

They are also reasonable value, and earnings momentum is holding up better than expected.

Chris White

The way it works, ... is I did not look at a roster. Everyone had to earn their way on to the team. We have a pretty good mix of classes. We have eight seniors on the team and have strong leadership from our three captains.

Tom Lehman

The way I look at it is I would love to earn my spot.

The risk is on the upside, because the market knows that we are at the end of the earnings cycle, it's just that earnings are not turning as fast as many had hoped.

The scary part of the whole thing is now this week we play a struggling team, Chicago, and everybody's going to try and give us the W before we've earned it,'' said Tice of Minnesota's nationally televised home opener Sunday night.

I've told the players since the start of the playoffs that they have earned the right to be here. They've responded. Everyone has stepped up and is doing what it takes.

To get respect, you have to earn respect. Hopefully that's what we did this weekend.

With higher interest rates, fundamentals are starting to erode. We're looking for margins and earnings to be constrained going forward.

With six consecutive quarterly earnings misses and a 2006 forecast to be a transition year, management has much to prove.

When you make teams earn their runs, it puts you in a much better position.

We solidly outperformed on revenues, expenses, and earnings per share, and we feel good about where we ended the quarter on unearned (revenue),

We solidly outperformed on revenues, expenses, and earnings per share, and we feel good about where we ended the quarter on unearned (revenue),

Throw hard, be aggressive, make the hitters earn it.

We just tried not to lose him. We just tried to make him work, make him earn everything that he got, and try not to let him get into any kind of rhythm.

There's increasing recognition that the Fed is not quite done. It means that the economy is going to get weaker, and that may put pressure on earnings in the second half.