Famous Quotes & Sayings

The big thing is the second-quarter sales and earnings (forecast) being below expectations. It's not going to be greeted favourably in this environment.

The big question now is whether the ISM survey will follow the Philly down and dip below 50,

They not only missed revenue and guided below consensus, but they are giving us higher expenses, higher tax rates, so the numbers are going to come down.

If fuel prices persist at current levels then the potential exists for the current year's performance to be around 40% below 2005,

If fuel prices persist at current levels, then the potential exists for the current year performance to be around 40 percent below the 2005 result.

Mark Bradford

I'd say right now that moderate damage was sustained. The businesses down here below have significant damage.

Crude below $60 is helping a little bit. There's some speculation that there's a potential build-up in crude inventories, so that might be a factor leading into the rally in the Nasdaq and S&P.

Thomas Jefferson

Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometric progression as they rise

Employment slipped for the third time since November, and is now back below October levels, ... Since weakness in services employment has dominated the soft employment trends in this cycle, this data will tend to deflate rising expectations of a decent payrolls number.

Jack Straw

Electricity generation still around 25 percent below war levels, and transmission undermined by looting and sabotage,

Ashok Kumar

Due to continued unexpected demand weakness, we now expect sequential unit growth in the mid-single digits, which is well below consensus expectations.

Early in 2004, I predicted that energy's share of the S&P 500's market capitalization would rise from just below 6% at that time to 15% before the end of the decade. In January, its market-cap share was up to 12.1%, while its share of earnings had risen to 9.1% from 6.0% in early 2004.

Even a decade after divorce, the median wealth stays below $10,000.

John Dryden

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below

John Dryden

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below

Ethanol makes up only 10 percent of a gallon of gasoline. If gasoline prices are up 36 cents, then ethanol would only make up 3.6 cents of that. And 85 percent of users have long-term contracts that are significantly below the spot-market prices.

Dave Roberts

Even if it's below .500, and we get to the postseason, if we go out there and do something special, then I think people will forget about it, ... We've got nothing to lose. Whatever our record is, nobody expects much of us. As long as 25 guys in the clubhouse do, that's all that matters.

Federated (Department Stores) was below plan. Target was well below plan, ... We have enough data to know the month was not good.

February's data support the view that the U.S. labor market remains strong, particularly on the services side, with unemployment solidly below the 5% level. The Fed is likely to continue raising rates for the foreseeable future.

Fear drags me into the slums of the emotions. But when I move into love, the penthouse of emotions, I choose a completely different neighborhood. The valley below transforms into a spectacular, unobstructed view reminding me of how far I have come.

Even other adulterers considered him several levels below despicable. How could a man sink that low?

Even though it snowed quite a bit, it was a relatively warm winter down low, so the snow line goes from a lot of snow to no snow very quickly. So, some of our low-elevation sites are below average.

Below the headline data there are some positive features that should not be overlooked.

Below the 7,000-point mark, the market is at an extremely undervalued level. That's what many investors recognized (this morning).

Greg Biffle

Below me, it's looking grim, ... For four guys in front of you to have a problem is pretty unlikely. For one or two guys, it can happen. Three, yeah, but to have four (or more) guys in front of you have a problem . . . that's a long shot.

Everybody's worried about him. You can see the center, the quarterback always pointing at him -- 'Watch number 43! Watch number 43!' -- and looking where he's at. I think he draws most of the attention, so everyone else flies below the radar.

As the rules say, you can't improve your position below the white line. If I could've, yeah, I think I would've had him.

When consumers are burdened with heavy debt loads, rising interest rates, higher energy costs, no personal savings and household income growth that falls below inflation, something had to give.

David Brown

We think that relative softness in the euro zone recovery next year combined with inflation falling below two percent, will leave the ECB stuck on 2.5 percent rates for a considerable period.

It would have been better to have left the growth forecast unchanged, but that would have lowered the inflation forecast to below its target. They are having to work hard not to have to cut interest rates.

Paul Anderson

They are a level below us. It should be a good game and we are going to hang with them, but they dominated their league so we get to see how the two leagues match up.

The wild card here is if they can rebuild their consumer franchise. In order to do that, they need to have some aggressively priced products below $1,000 in the marketplace for Christmas of next year. I think they can do that.

Elon Musk

The way it's looking right now, our engine might be one percent below our specifications, but still be the best engine ever done. We prefer not to...but it looks like we may be one percent low.