Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Brent Bracelin

Dell is the last of the big hardware companies to report, ... We expect them to deliver, but we view what they say as a non-event. There's a low probability that they'll talk about an industry-wide recovery.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

John Gerzema

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Chuck D.

Companies are willing to pay a higher price to be in those locations.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Douglas Duncan

Companies are losing money to keep market share. The consumer is being subsidized because the competition is so fierce. For the short run, the consumer is getting a better deal.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Barry Hyman

The moves in media stocks are never earnings based.

Jack Ablin

Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling the market.

Jim Volk

Right now the perception is we are not going to get the earnings recovery we thought we were going to get.

Takashi Ushio

Right now the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results.

Takashi Ushio

Right now, the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results. But investors are also in something of a wait-and-see mood, as we have earnings from industrial electronics firms tomorrow.

Brian Gendreau

Practically in every quarter lately, we've had this feeling that we're at the peak, this is it, no more growth. That's why you see a lot of volatility but, ultimately, the Dow or the other indexes end up not having moved much. But one day we may see earnings growth decelerate, and it could be this year.

Rick Meckler

It was too much for the market to overcome. Otherwise, it could have been an even better year profit-wise if so much of (companies') earnings weren't deflected into energy costs.

Laurel Scherer

As hostile as they've been it would not be a good working environment.

Li Keqiang

As a developing country, China needs a favorable neighbouring and international environment for its modernisation.

Dr. Paulos

The brace didn't function well in this environment and should have done better than it did, frankly.

Kevin Lee

a very clean, safe, loving environment to be in.

Peter Charlton

As long as there are no major shocks and the interest rate environment remains the same, I expect it to go on into the first half of 2006 at the very least.

David Minsker

The more connections students make with teachers and administrators, the better environment a school will have.

Ryan Lewis

Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know.

Robert F. Kennedy

the worst administration on the environment in our history.

Mark Rosenker

The very essence of the EMS mission is saving lives. Operating an EMS flight in an unsafe environment just makes no sense.

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Steve Cochrane

This is not a home run. But it's pretty steady growth over the last six or seven months. If nothing else, it's a stable rate of growth that San Jose hasn't seen this in a long time.

Geoff Mayfield

This is really where the growth has been in ring tones.

Shaw Wu

This is still likely one of the top growth stories of the year.

John Manley

This is still a real growth sector. There was a lot of fluff in there, but a lot of that has come out.

Brian Tora

The US seems to be where a lot of the growth is.

Brian Duffy

The Web for us is a growth business.

Gail Fosler

This could give you no growth in the US or a possible recession.

Jeffrey Kagan

This could be a growth opportunity for AT&T with a quicker payoff.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

Kieran Crowley

Our skill level let us down big time. The harder we tried the worse it got.

Schoolboy Q

The more harder you work, the less you're out spending your money.

Paula Creamer

Annika's at the place I want to be. I think that's helping me. I have to work harder than her. I have to get stronger than her.

George Foster

Anything that's on the lower end of the pay scale would probably be harder to fill.

Don Cole

The situation is making it harder for our officers to do their jobs.

Ed Meir

The specter of progressively higher inventories is blunting the impact of geopolitical tensions, making it harder for the market to climb.

Tad Jacobson

I've never been involved in anything like that. Obviously, we need to work a heck of a lot harder in practice.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Brett Gallagher

After a big up day like you had yesterday, you have to have some digestion. Once things run up by a big amount, then investors have to step back.

Yasuo Yabe

Right now the market is rather quiet, but it will be a problem when investors return after the New Year and trade volume increases.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Mo Ibrahim

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

Nick Nicholson

The sales produce virtually all of our net,

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Rick McCallum

Producers don't really publicize movies.

Robert M. Pirsig

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Wyclef Jean

I always have a producer to the side of me, and I never want to do a record by myself.

John Dos Passos

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

Stephen Covey

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Nell Newman

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Rosie Jones

I'm going to go out slower than I anticipated.

Eric Turner

Summer is the slower part of the year, so we have (fewer) openings.

John Jones

We're going to try to use solid technique.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Clint Chamberlin

The JV got after it and had a solid outing.

David Ritchie

All this means. . . we have a really solid footing.

Mike Donahue

Once again, we had a solid third period.

J. J. Johnson

We are solid up front. It has just taken some time to feel comfortable in our system.