Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you have a young team, you have to hold the lead. We started off well, but we didn't earn our baskets later on. We didn't get to the free-throw line.

The prevailing sentiment tends to be somewhat negative after the earnings reports.

While inventory levels rose in the first quarter, investors are likely to be encouraged that management increased its revenue guidance from the low 50s to the 50-60 percent range, with earnings per share guidance increasing by 2-to-5 cents.

With some US quarterly results robust, expectations for Japanese firms' earnings results to be strong are also growing.

While notable, this is still not enough to move the needle in a meaningful way as far as earnings -- and therefore stock performance -- is concerned.

Who wouldn't want to live and earn a living here if they had the chance?

Jarome Iginla

We weren't as ready as we should be. If we take 'em, we've got to kill penalties. They had pretty much the whole first period in power plays, and they earned that.

We view this as a legal way of artificially boosting earnings by moving expenses to a place where investors generally won't see them.

Chris Dixon

Those worried about 2002 earnings aren't paying attention. The issue is what's going to happen going forward.

Dick Bennett

UCLA's execution in the first half was a thing of beauty. Their screens, their cuts, their timing was perfect. In the second half, we made them earn it.

Bill Self

We don't need to be under the radar anymore. We didn't get too much too soon, and it made us earn everything.

We don't mind being the underdogs. We'll take it and ride it. Do we want respect? Yeah, we want respect. But the only way you can get it is by earning it. We don't mind doing that. That's what we've had to do all year.

We are working earnestly on all that as quickly as we can.

Pat Summitt

We can take this and get focused and get ready and earn our respects as we get ready to play Army.

You can't earn enough money getting paid minimum wage to pay your rent, utilities and eat.

Jeff Francoeur

We wanted to be able to win on our home field, ... We knew we had it, but at the same time, we wanted to earn it.

To some extent, granted they weren't in the A-10, but they had earned an opportunity to be ranked that high after making the NCAA Tournament the last few years. Nobody in the A-10 had done that. They put themselves in position to be looked at that way.

The recent tech gains were supported by a wave of upward revisions to earnings forecasts. But for those shares to go further from here, investors need to know how they are going to perform next year.

Ultimately what we're trying to come to grips with is the fact that we understand that second-quarter earnings are not going to be good but the timing of a recovery is hanging over our head. We'll get some forecasting, looking out, but it's what those forecasts say that puts proof in the pudding.

Sean Williams

We're proving ourselves right now. We don't get a lot of respect usually so we're trying to earn it.

Women have always had to earn their freedom.

Why pay 30 times earnings for little growth?

Why not? I reckon we will have earned a nice long holiday by then.

Seth McClung

This time last year, I didn't even know if I had a spot on this team. I want to earn whatever they give me, but I figure, why not me? People are in for a big surprise from me this year." ()

We didn't give up the big plays tonight. If you can limit the big plays you give yourself opportunities. Make people earn things and make them go 60, 70, 80 yards.

We are slightly raising our prior guidance on earnings per share for 2000 to $3.14, which would represent a 67 percent increase, versus 1999's EPS on ongoing operations of $1.88.

We put up 24 runs in three innings before rain ended it. It was 24-3, and they handed us the trophy. ?You earned it,? they said.

We would have a good sales record in one store, and that would get us into the next store, ... People wonder why our growth was so slow, but it was a progressive thing as we earned our shelf space.

This will be a nasty spike down in quarterly earnings and hopefully that will be the end of it.

John Davidson

We're nearing the end of the earnings period, we've already heard from the Fed, and there aren't a lot of big surprises out there for the rest of the month.

We knew it was going to be a rocky opening after yesterday's earnings reports but I think it was a very encouraging day. Valuations are reasonable but the fundamentals are going to get better.

We keep getting earnings reports that are horrific.

We think Wall Street is still underestimating HP's earnings power.