Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ned Rifkin

It both included things from the studio and the real world of the studio right into the realm of pictorial creations. And that step -- even though it sounds simple and looks very humorous and benign -- it was so radical at the time that it forever changed the history of 20th century art.

Al Goldman

I think the main thing that's going right for the market is that we still have a very healthy economy, with rising earnings and benign inflation. On a technical side, I think the correction ended three weeks ago. The market has been slowly recovering its sea legs. We had five days up in a row on the Nasdaq composite, and that is the reason why the profit taking yesterday. But the big picture still remains very positive,

Stephen Wright

Reasonably benign economic environment, nothing too threatening with either (political) party. . .either party coming in will still mean continuation of reasonable economic growth.

Stephen Stanley

Clearly, Fed officials are more worried about the threatening things that they see (energy spike, eroding slack, etc.) than the benign core consumer price index readings.

James Crosby

Impairments have been very much in line with our expectations. This will continue in retail terms to be a very benign credit cycle,

Stuart Hoffman

Inflation, it's been a clean sweep for July. We learned earlier this month wages were unchanged, yesterday producer prices fell again, and this morning you're right on the money, relatively benign consumer price inflation report. No problem.

Lara Rhame

Inflation is looking more benign outside of the energy sector.

Arul Chinnaiyan

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Tom Higgins

The Fed's statement turned out to be more benign than people were expecting. Before the meeting, people were thinking the Fed would be more hawkish but their comments seemed to suggest that they were not overly concerned about inflation,

Elizabeth Mackay

I would say start with some of the core holdings in technology. I think the technology stocks that will do well are the ones that haven't disappointed with earnings.

Billy Donovan

I would say it's gone the other way with him. I'm not anticipating him back Saturday and I'm not anticipating Corey back at 100 percent right away. We're probably going to have to keep going through this for at least the next couple of games.

John Spinello

Greenspan's focus on inflation definitely pressured the market. It was definitely a speech on higher prices and about core inflation turning the corner.

Bill Polian

What we've tried to do is minimize the damage (from) a system which at its core is designed to penalize good drafting teams. I think we've minimized the damage as much as we can.

Robert Myers

Having an advising core for 7,000 students in one shop just boggles the mind, ... If they did that, they would be saying, 'Oh, these guys are engineering wannabees.'

John Harbaugh

He's going to jump right in and play special teams. He's an experienced player. He's going to jump right in and be a core contributor to this team.

Rick Miller

It combines flexibility, strength and endurance, cardiovascular and core all in one. If you swing it 10 to 15 times, your heart rate will elevate quicker than typical weight and cardiovascular training.

Ron Jirsa

I thought Corey Rouse was great down the stretch and really looked good.

Stuart Hoffman

I think the Fed will look at the core number and determine that it was understated, and still raise rates by a quarter-percentage point at the meeting on November 1.

Linda Duessel

I would say that for the next several weeks, earnings and the earnings outlook probably will be the most important things weighing on us.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

Andrew Barrett

I think investors should be focused on several key areas, because at the end of the day you really want to be focused on earnings momentum,

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Sarat Sethi

I think it's going to be a quiet week heading into the long weekend. Through the summer, people are going to be focusing on the next earnings period, monetary policy, and if we are going to see more strong economic growth, as well as payrolls.

Michael Sheldon

I think the last few weeks have probably been frustrating for investors. Earnings have been very positive, but the focus has been on interest rates. Over the next few sessions, it looks like the fear of higher interest rates will probably outweigh the earnings.

Robert Froehlich

I think the key is going to be earnings now. We're really getting into full swing with earnings, and I think earnings are going to surprise on the high side.

Barry Hyman

I think the picture is optimistic and earnings in general have been better than expected.

Peter Mancuso

I think you're looking out two quarters, maybe even three quarters before you start to see a substantive increase in earnings for some of these companies. That, to me, is in a nutshell what's going on in the markets.

Gus Faucher

Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half of next year,

Bill Cheney

Job growth has kind of stalled out. It's a puzzle.

Mark Zandi

I suspect this is a pause and we still see a resumption of top line growth and, ultimately, better hiring in tech.

Wayne Pace

He wants it to be profitable growth, sustainable growth and responsible growth,

Jill Dougherty

He did say that it must meet Russia's national interests and also that it should not restrict its growth and social development,

Carolina Milanesi

Growth will slow down going into the second and third quarter.

James Avery

Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here.

Will Strauss

Growth will be about 16% this year. That's good, but not spectacular. I don't see any shortages this year.

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Martin Pyykkonen

In terms of prudence, you would like to see other revenue streams.

Judd Gregg

I'm willing to look at a revenue solution and I'm not going to get too specific about it,

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thrift is a great revenue.

Dan Burke

The market's not always going to go up, up, up, ... It is important to diversify the revenue stream.

Bill Spencer

There's just not enough of us. There's just not a whole lot of revenue to be made off of taxes, in my view.

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.