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It was a record year in earnings, sales and earning per share.

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.

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.

Newt Gingrich

Only the elites despise earning money.

Paul Singer

Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

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.

There seems to be a lot of economic momentum and earnings momentum fueling this market.

There's also a younger generation now earning money who grew up with computers, so they are comfortable with e-filing. They trust it.

There's a major rise in oil prices, increased investor worry about the upcoming earnings season and you're also seeing some profit-taking after the market's six-week run-up.

At least for the next month or two, the earnings picture is going to be pretty dismal.

AT&T's strong second-quarter earnings reflect steady progress in executing our strategy. In fact, two of our growth businesses, AT&T Wireless and AT&T Solutions, grew revenue more than 40 percent each.

As we get through the earnings in the next few weeks, we'll see some positive surprises, which should help stabilize the market. And then, once we get past the election, I think we're going to see a pickup.

Max Weber

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

Phil McGraw

Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.

Markus Zusak

Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.

I just don't know how far we'll be able to go with the Fed helping us out. At some juncture, the numbers as far as earnings are going to have to turn around.

Mack Strong

I realize it's part of the deal. We're still earning our respect. That's fine. It doesn't come easily.

Dominique Moceanu

I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.

Because Amex is so diversified in interacting with the consumer, if they're trying to talk down their earnings expectations, the implication is, 'What does that mean for what's going on in the economy?'

Jeff Adrien

I'm just earning my minutes, I knew I had the capabilities to play here, and it was just a matter of going out and doing it. Finally I'm doing it and I'm even more hungry to do even more, there are more things I can do.

The IBM earnings were good, but is this enough to turn things around?. I guess the futures could rally overnight, but as it stands, we're headed toward a lower open.

The events of September 11 were not helpful for the global economy and it will be harder to maintain our earnings growth of the last two years.

The election is exaggerating the short term, but it's not the issue. The issue is the deceleration of earnings and the contraction of multiples because prices got way out of whack with what future earnings were going to be.

The estimates are for earnings to be down 50 percent in the second quarter, 37 percent in the third quarter, and 12 percent in the fourth.

Brenda Lee

The growth of earnings per share this year does not justify the 100 percent shares increase.

A higher valuation is justified when a company's earnings growth is significant. AMD's growth prospects are substantially higher than Intel's.