Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Logan

When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.

We got some good earnings news from Cisco and from Pepsi. Oil has also been pretty tame today.

We expect revenues and earnings to grow considerably for the full fiscal year 2005.

Ron Hill

The key thing here is, we're sort of short on liquidity, so we don't have enough money to raise everything. Investors have to focus on good sectors with leading stocks especially with good earnings revision profiles, and where there's support for rising profit and expectations going forward,

Carl Icahn

Their earnings are way down. It's time for management to go,

The confluence of three themes today -- energy prices, earnings and economic numbers -- should make for an interesting market.

I like stocks that have potential earnings possibilities. Those are the ones that could someday be market leaders.

I like Merck, in particular, because here's a stock that's retreated dramatically from its high, but still has its earnings growth-rate intact, ... This company, I think, can grow about 13 to 15 percent. And its price-to-earnings ratio now is getting down to a level that I think is very reasonable relative to its long-term growth rate.

It's overall a mixed bag. The margins on the earnings were better than expected. The top line was worse than expected.

Dieter Zetsche

DaimlerChrysler made significant progress in 2005. But our earnings are still not where we want them to be.

The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first job they ever had, all through their lives,

The numbers look good. The earnings show the operating leverage is still strong.

Stock markets can still rise. Earnings are still growing. Investors shouldn't be worried about slightly slowing earnings growth.

Stockholders are earning very healthy returns. There is simply no need for huge rate increases for consumers.

Sure, earnings will be slower than they were in the fourth quarter, but margins can't expand forever. But on a risk/reward basis, stocks are still attractive.

The retail earnings are likely going to be strong and that helps the market.

On balance, the earnings period so far has been very reasonable, even better than expected.

Once interest rates start to rise, the present value of developers' future earnings will start to decrease.

The negative pre-announcement season has been relatively light. That should bode well for the earnings season over the next two weeks. Oil prices are falling back. That's also helping ease some of the inflationary concerns.

For me, I get immense pleasure out of giving. I do what I can. I try and give around 10% of my earnings a year. Some years, I give more, some I give less.

Robert Barry

Ford's restructuring plan was widely anticipated, but was more vague and protracted than we expected, which is disappointing. We also see sizable North American share loss continuing, weighing on earnings and offsetting many restructuring benefits.

Inflation is tame. Economic growth continues. Earnings are great. It really doesn't get any better than this. The one problem in the market is valuation, which has gotten pretty high.

That's not what we expected to see in a year when earnings growth would slow slightly, and we were seeing some of that slowing already.

That kind of news will spook the market and we will hear more of it because we're at the peak earnings reporting season.

It's Motorola. They've been habitual offenders when it comes to earnings warnings.

It's simple: They have to generate earnings growth. They haven't had any in two years.

Earnings momentum bottomed in (the fourth quarter) and will improve in 2000,

Earnings in 2006 will be influenced by a combination of higher rates, energy prices and perhaps even lower demand. The market is not excited with stocks right now.

Earnings have come in mixed and you have to pick your stocks carefully. The overall outlook for the markets is good.

There's a lack of leadership right now. Investors don't know where to put their money. A lot of people are waiting to see what the flood of earnings is going to be over the next few weeks.

This may prove that their policy barring preannouncement and giving earnings guidance may not be the wisest policy. It's not as if providing guidance is a sign of poor governance.

This may prove that their policy barring pre-announcement and giving earnings guidance may not be the wisest policy. It's not as if providing guidance is a sign of poor governance.

This market needs real earnings and an economy that looks like it is turning around. The market is extremely volatile right now, but on thin volume, so it doesn't take too much to move it.