Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Gerstner

This was a solid quarter, with earnings per share up 20 percent and an acceleration of revenue growth relative to the first half of the year,

Dennis Prager

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

Benjamin Graham

To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

Benjamin Graham

The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.

Significant investments throughout 2006 and an improving employment environment should produce substantial earnings growth over the next few years.

She had to earn every one of her points. It was a great night for her, a great night for her teammates and a great night for the program as a whole.

She earned the respect of her teammates through her performance. The team was smart enough to realize they needed her if they were going to reach their goals.

Since we have only a general volume guidance for 2006, we do not have a specific earnings-per-share guidance, other than our expectation that earnings per share will increase in 2006.

Nick Harkaway

Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs.

Jim Hamilton

She is hard working and tough. She is still green and has a lot to learn. She's earned it. I hope she can step up, but I don't like to put pressure on freshmen girls. I need a front runner.

Maureen Dowd

She more than earned her sobriquet, 'Miss Run Amok'.

Andre Agassi

Most people have weaknesses, ... Federer doesn't have weaknesses. So that equates to a problem. I mean, I could lie, I could say something else, but he's earned that respect.

This win was even more enjoyable than last week, because we had to work harder for it. We really earned this one.

We hope we can keep the intensity going and hopefully earn a trip to the state tournament.

Sarah Harding

We've spent two years together and we've really struggled. We honestly haven't earned very much in that time. Next month we are finally picking up something for all the hard work. I can tell you, we've all been waiting for that money for so long.

We've sort of gotten through the meat of earnings season, and we're going to start focusing on the state of the economy.

There are a lot of cross-currents in the market. We're still a market that's torn between (concern about) earnings and interest rates.

Earl Nightingale

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

Lots of people aren't academically inclined and there are still lots of ways to earn a living. But what you see in these young people is it's a very hit-or-miss road they're on.

Many of the energy sector earnings have been revised up recently, and that includes forecasts for the second quarter and for the full year.

Marsha Blackburn

Many women are heads of households. Many are the primary wage earners for their families.

Seven of our ten units had double-digit earnings growth and an eighth had record earnings.

Rose George

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.

Bill Coleman

Security guards for celebrities can earn six figures.

Selling the drug unit is going to focus the company. The earnings were also better than expected. It is a good day for investors.

So far the earnings season has gotten off to an underwhelming start. I think the positive news from Intel is just what the market needed and is likely to lead to a favorable opening on Wednesday.

So far the earnings season has gotten off to an underwhelming start, ... I think the positive news from Intel is just what the market needed and is likely to lead to a favorable opening on Wednesday.

So I think that kind of spooked the market a bit, but we're in heavy earnings season, so we're going to hear a lot of that stuff going forward.

Brooke Smith

She was in a position that wasn't really ideal, but she's earned what she's gotten. She's talented and smart and she works really hard.

She's earning some chits she can redeem later.

Bonnie Tyler

I went to all the shops in the village looking for work. I didn't have any qualifications. I ended up working in a grocery shop for about a year and then went to a confectioner, where I earned three pounds 10 shillings. I gave the money to my mother and father, but I also managed to save five shillings a week.

Bill Cosby

There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living.

Barack Obama

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.