Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Abbott

I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job.

The profits are exceeding everyone's expectations. It's one of those rare moments in time where corporations really have earnings momentum.

Benjamin Graham

To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

Benjamin Graham

The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.

Brian Tracy

Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.

Kirsten Gillibrand

For American families, Universal pre-K is an essential piece of the puzzle that not only allows their kids to get a good start, but it also allows mothers to remain on the job earning a paycheck and helping our economy grow.

We've sort of gotten through the meat of earnings season, and we're going to start focusing on the state of the economy.

There are a lot of cross-currents in the market. We're still a market that's torn between (concern about) earnings and interest rates.

Diane Cilento

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

Damien Rice

I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.

We're late in the economic cycle. We're slowing down or at least -- I won't say going into recession but we're slowing down -- and we've got some troubles overseas with Asia. These aren't huge ones, but these could slow earnings growth to about 5 percent for the S&P 500.

We still have two weeks of earnings warnings ahead.

Terry Crews

We still expect our greatest earnings growth during the second and third quarters. The fourth quarter is expected to be a loss, but it will not be as large of a loss as last year.

We're at the end of the quarter so there is some window dressing. The focus is now totally on earnings, and this earnings season looks as though it will be strong if not stronger than last quarter.

Ann Rutherford

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

We'll see earnings surprises for most of the rest of the major brokers.

We are more optimistic about growth recovery, and have taken a fresh 5-year look at our earnings forecast for the company.

There is likely to be turbulence ahead. Earnings disappointments are devastating. This is not a time to loosen the safety belts,

Wal-Mart's sales have doubled and earnings have more than doubled over the past five years but we haven't done a good job in communicating that,

This would be earnings enhancing from the start.

The prospects for tech did not suddenly deteriorate. In fact, tech earnings have been very good.

To be able to post another double-digit gain is pretty impressive. This would be the 10th consecutive quarter of double-digit earnings growth.

Gary Pruitt

We are having a good fourth quarter, which has led us to raise our estimates of full-year earnings for 1999.

A. A. Milne

In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.

Today's rally was supported by better-than-expected earnings reports and strong economic data.

Today's earnings quality is less than in the past.

Our forecast was for earnings to come in around 13 percent year-over-year growth, and they're on track to do it. They are surprisingly better than expected, and outlooks have been good, generally speaking.

Michael W. Smith

Overall, the results are in line with expectations, but the outlook is disappointing, and there could be some modest 1-2 percent downgrades to earnings forecasts.

Overall, fourth-quarter earnings growth will be weak because the economy has slowed much faster than people had expected.

Over 70 percent of our earnings come from outside the US ; we operate in over 200 countries.

Hugh Johnson

On the surface level it's a real simple story. Interest rates are rising and the outlook for the economy and earnings is darkening every step of the way.

Stay with the big stocks with the big backlog and big trend of earnings and with management that have been there before,

Some of the good earnings reports and good guidance are reversing market psychology. In general, we're probably heading for a good earnings season.