Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Hanauer

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

Until we start seeing some better earnings news, I think the market's going to be in this bottoming phase.

Until we see earnings impacted by oil, I don't think the market is going to be responsive.

What we're looking at generally is whether the market can get past these levels. We think there's enough strong sentiment and stimulus in the pipeline for that to happen and that the earnings will ultimately lead the market, but it's a process, and it's going to take time.

We're still in the midst of a new earning season. There's probably going to be more disappointment in earnings than pleasant surprises.

We're just winding down the year, ending the year with these sort of small, middling gains, which to me makes sense because you've had opposing factors this year. On the one hand you've had good earnings and a robust economy, but on the other hand, you've been fighting the Fed. The two canceled each other out.

Peter Oppenheimer

Year-over-year revenue growth of 34 percent and earnings growth of 41 percent were the second highest in any given quarter in Apple's history.

With no major earnings news scheduled and losses in Tokyo, the (U.S.) market is lacking support for further gains.

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.

It's just eroding. It's all panic and follow-through on tech earnings fears. Biotech and Internet stocks are all getting slammed with some flight to safety into Dow stocks, but I don't see it being sustained.

It's a strong result and importantly for investors they've maintained their earnings guidance.

They have great products. They're going to make physical things that people will pay money to buy, that will result in earnings in real dollars.

Third quarter and fourth quarter earnings estimates need to come down dramatically.

This initial earnings guidance for 2006 reflects the fact that the integration of May is going to be a more challenging and longer-term task than some investors had expected.

They run about 111 hospitals. It has about a 20 percent rise in earnings this year. Five- year projections are 20 percent annually. It's got operating margin around 20 percent.

For me, I get immense pleasure out of giving. I do what I can. I try and give around 10% of my earnings a year. Some years, I give more, some I give less.

Robert Barry

Ford's restructuring plan was widely anticipated, but was more vague and protracted than we expected, which is disappointing. We also see sizable North American share loss continuing, weighing on earnings and offsetting many restructuring benefits.

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.

They are earning a lot of money, ... They've got great products, and they are going to get through all of this noise with the government.

This morning it was really a story of positive earnings on the tape and no major hiccups on the economic front. All in all, it's going to play out as a respectable but not blow-out earnings season.

There was nothing in the earnings report that would renew investor interest.

Naveen Andrews

There were no Indian actors from England of note earning money or having a career.

There's a lot of earnings for next week, but I don't see what's going to give us a lift. If the earnings have been good so far, and stocks have fallen anyway, what could the next wave of earnings do for us, even if they are positive?

John Davidson

There's a lot of earnings and other news out there today, but I think the market is particularly reacting to Greenspan's testimony, ... The markets are expecting a little more growth because of his comments, but that may not be as much as what they wanted to hear.

There's a lack of leadership right now. Investors don't know where to put their money. A lot of people are waiting to see what the flood of earnings is going to be over the next few weeks.