Famous Quotes & Sayings

Because inflation is modest, and worries about that are starting to diminish, I think the focus will turn to earnings, and the earnings are going to be very strong.

Hugh Johnson

Every time (crude prices) move toward $50, it raises serious questions about the economy and earnings in 2005.

Everyone's making living wages, nobody's earning less than that, and they work with respect and dignity. We've done everything possible to show other restaurant owners how things could be better for them and for their workers.

As soon as they take the next step upward into a new earning category, they want to reward themselves with a new house.

Subodh Kumar

I see volatility until the end of the month. With earnings season near and energy prices high there will be volatility.

The worst of the earnings news is probably out of the way and expectations are probably back in line.

They are also reasonable value, and earnings momentum is holding up better than expected.

We solidly outperformed on revenues, expenses, and earnings per share, and we feel good about where we ended the quarter on unearned (revenue),

We solidly outperformed on revenues, expenses, and earnings per share, and we feel good about where we ended the quarter on unearned (revenue),

When all is said and done, the fact of the matter is we will have double-digit earnings growth for the S&P 500.

John Logan

When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.

We are slightly raising our prior guidance on earnings per share for 2000 to $3.14, which would represent a 67 percent increase, versus 1999's EPS on ongoing operations of $1.88.

Roger Enrico

With a much sharper focus on the marketplace, we're generating healthy volume gains, better returns and higher earnings growth,

We got some good earnings news from Cisco and from Pepsi. Oil has also been pretty tame today.

We expect revenues and earnings to grow considerably for the full fiscal year 2005.

You get it over with, get it out of the way early, and then we're on to reporting season. We've seen for the past 12 quarters or so that this has meant what's left is good news and earnings surprises have been quite positive.

At 27 times our 2003 earnings estimate Intel is still expensive relative to its growth prospects and its own history.

At this point, the earnings potential of this plant may be even better than we thought.

There's increasing recognition that the Fed is not quite done. It means that the economy is going to get weaker, and that may put pressure on earnings in the second half.

Markus Zusak

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

Paul Singer

Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

If earnings are going up consistently over time, then even if you pay a little too much it won't matter over the longer term,

Paul Levine

I don't think these particular earnings are going to mean much for the market in the short term.

Inflation is tame. Economic growth continues. Earnings are great. It really doesn't get any better than this. The one problem in the market is valuation, which has gotten pretty high.

If people we're really trying to manipulate earnings you would think they would have done a better job.

I like stocks that have potential earnings possibilities. Those are the ones that could someday be market leaders.

I like Merck, in particular, because here's a stock that's retreated dramatically from its high, but still has its earnings growth-rate intact, ... This company, I think, can grow about 13 to 15 percent. And its price-to-earnings ratio now is getting down to a level that I think is very reasonable relative to its long-term growth rate.

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.

It just so happened that we had a number of big-name, negative reports come in to start things off, and it just went from there. Turns out that wasn't indicative of where things are. Earnings are very strong.

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

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.