Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

For tech multiples to significantly reverse direction, investors will need to feel comfortable about fundamentals again...including earnings estimates, IT spending trends, and macro issues.

Gustav Heinemann

Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

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.

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.

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.

Robert Morgan

Once all the results are in, I think this is going to be a positive earnings season. Some of the headline names have disappointed.

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.

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.

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.

The number looks pretty much in line. Ex-food and energy was better than expected. The focus is on earnings now this economic number is out of the way. The market looks to be doing OK off the get-go here.

It's the triple-whammy of tax planning: tax-free contributions, tax-free earnings and tax-free distributions. There are very few opportunities like that,

It's not your first consideration, what my raises are going to look like. But once you realize, as a faculty member, that your pay is going to be quite stagnant, that the full professor down the hall is only earning sometimes less than you are, the writing is on the wall.

It was pretty panicked this morning, but as the day wore on some bottom-fishers stepped in. Probably what you're going to see next week is the same as this week. It's gonna be that way for a few weeks until we start to see some earnings or get some good news.

It makes a lot of sense particularly if you're younger and not at your peak earning years. A high-income individual might want to think twice about enrolling in a Roth 401(k).

It's going to have to reach a point sometime in the future when the earnings aren't going to justify the valuations of stocks,

It's going to have to be the third-quarter earnings to save the market.

It should be evident by now that the rest of the earnings are going to come in at the same sort of magnitude over estimates. The focus is going to shift.

It's been a more typical September than I expected. Earnings preannouncements have been disappointing, and surprisingly so, and economic news has been disappointing, and surprisingly so. I expected September to be on the strong side because the year overall has been so bad.