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BYRON WIEN We played much better in the second half than we did in the first half. We should have played the fi...
ELLEN BRIDGEWATER We're expecting a pretty tough first half of the year -- tech profits will be up about 10 percent th...
STEVE MILUNOVICH Expectations next year will be higher. We have some good freshmen coming in and we will be working h...
HANNA ZAVECZ We grew earnings per diluted share by 85 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2006, so it represen...
DARREN JACKSON The deceleration in earnings growth is a significant concern. Techs are up against steep comparisons...
KEN PERKINS Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN First-quarter earnings seem to be very much in line with expectations.
GUY STERN We expect our results for the remainder of the year to be in line with the earnings per share range ...
MIKE WRIGHT I think the key is that next year, even though Boeing will see about a 15-16 percent decline in reve...
PETER JACOBS We started slow today. In the second half we played with better intensity than we did in the first h...
LINDA FLOHR![]()
So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The core is up 0.3 percent over the last year, and so there really is no inflation, ... In the first...
GERALD COHEN Although we did not attain our goal of increasing earnings at the same rate of sales, our 8.9 percen...
LEE SCOTT We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted ear...
DAVID HOOVER We had forecast a loan growth of 30 percent (this year) and in the first half it was 32 percent.
ANIL KHANDELWAL We think the first half of the year is going to be somewhat slow, pick up later in the year and in t...
BOONE PICKENS How much better can it get? I find it hard to believe next year we will be talking about earnings th...
CAROLE BERGER With demand still weak, there's room to cut rates in the first half of next year. That'll keep yield...
STUART THOMSON With supply generally loosening, we believe the overheated environment that boosted the programmable...
CLARK WESTMONT (I)n Washington Mutual, you're getting in there at less than 10 times this year's earnings estimate....
CHARLES LEMONIDES We certainly expect the second half of the year to be considerably better than the first
FRITZ HENDERSON First and foremost, we are still on track for general availability in the second half of calendar ye...
AMITABH SRIVASTAVA We had a good mix of talent, but I was coming off coaching boys and in my first year as head coach. ...
JIM COLE We did a little better in the second half than we did in the first. We had to set new goals at halft...
CRISTY MCKINNEY Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW![]()
Our earnings performance in the fourth quarter met expectations with increased gross margins, lower ...
ANNE M. MULCAHY If someone had said to us a year ago: 'Would you be happy with investment growth of 15 percent over ...
ANDREW STEER It may have already touched the highest points in the first half year, but still have chance to clim...
CHENG WEIQING We remain comfortable with consensus earnings estimates for 1998 and expect to increase earnings by ...
DAVID GEORGE At halftime we talked about being aggressive. We needed to get more aggressive and get to the free t...
CURT FREDRICKSON We had three guys run well and the rest didn't. I was disappointed we didn't do better than we did. ...
LEE SHAW That (HMO) group has been in a lot of pressure over the last year, as they've had disappointing earn...
DAVID KATZ For the full year, the currency impact should be less than the 4 percent impact in the first quarter...
DOMENICO SCALA Given the slowing economic environment, 2001 will be a challenging year, particularly in the first h...
ALAN LACY We just couldn't make a shot in the first half, and we turned the ball over too much. Our decision-m...
ED COYLE I think we expect earnings in general to be better than expected. Two or three companies will beat e...
ED KEON We're working on the passing game. The backs are pretty quick. We'll have to throw a little more [th...
JOSH HILDEBRANDT The earnings are good and better than expected in some business areas, and also reflect improvements...
LUCIO DI GERONIMO Consistent with the seasonality in our business and with the results from fiscal year 2005, we expec...
GARY STEELE We did better against Franklin this year than we did last year, but the kids are pretty disappointed...
FRED PIMENTAL We moved nearly 1.7 million tons in containers in 2005, up 15 percent from 2004. We've had a very go...
BOB CUMMINGS Enrollment growth of 9.5 percent year-over-year, while likely better than many companies this quarte...
JEFF SILBER In a challenging retail environment, I am pleased to report our first year with net earnings in exce...
LEE SCOTT The total category is up a little bit over last year, and it's continuing to grow slowly. I think yo...
GARY HECK We did a lot better than people expected. Last year was more of a disappointment, but we still feel ...
MARIANNE MADSEN Analysts' forecasts for earnings I think are still a little too high. They are expecting 8-percent e...
ED KEON We've obviously played a hundred times better than we did in the first half.
COREY MACDONALD He says he feels better today than he did at any time last year. So we should be real deep up front.
DON LUCIA The expectations of inflation in the coming year are very high.
ALBERT CHENG A lot of power plants are under construction, both in New England and nationwide, and these should b...
STEPHEN ALLEN We now expect sales and earnings in the fiscal 2006 third quarter, which ends April 2, 2006, to appr...
CRAIG LABARGE While our cost performance remains in line with the projections we announced in April; our significa...
JAMES GOODWIN Shaw Group reinvented itself over the last year and, as a result, their earnings (per share) are goi...
DAVID KATZ Shaw Group reinvented itself over the last year and, as a result, their earnings (per share) are goi...
DAVID KATZ The price has plunged over 50 percent in the fourth quarter [of last year from the previous year], b...
FRANK HUANG That was the difference. We shot well enough in the first half (51.2 percent) to be up by more than ...
MIKE D'ANTONI It was just moderately lower than our expectations. With the first-half result, it is clear revenue ...
CRAIG SHEPHERD I think this year we match up better than we did in the past. We're much more athletic now which is ...
KYLE HENCY For the full fiscal year 1999, we are targeting earnings growth with more promising prospects eviden...
BRUCE ROHDE Online travel sales fared even better this year. The sector was up 35 percent versus 2002 and has mo...
DAN HESS The stock ran up since the last earnings call, and the holiday sales were in line with expectations,...
JOAN STORMS We're headed to around 6.5 percent sometime in the first half of next year.
HENRY WILLMORE While the near-term front-end order environment remains strong (December and March both likely up 25...
AVINASH KANT The first quarter results exceeded expectations in terms of revenue and were in line with expectatio...
ANTHONY SPIER We remain comfortable with our estimated fourth-quarter earnings per share range of 28 cents to 30 c...
JOHN CATO Investment spending continues to be very vigorous. There was 26 percent growth in investment in the ...
ALBERTO RAMOS The onus is now on the management of companies to produce good earnings growth to see if they will j...
ANGUS BLAIR The first half of the year will be solid as the momentum we have seen in the last two quarters will ...
JOSEPH TAN We're getting to the latter half of the year. and typically, the industry sells close to 20 percent ...
DAN NILES While there may still be some downside to earnings, we think the sharp reduction will likely be view...
DANIEL OPPENHEIM We are very pleased with our results for the year. We achieved important financial goals for the yea...
HECTOR MEDINA We expect another record year in 2006 with profits increasing 13-14 percent, and revenues up 11 perc...
DAVID GUTRIDGE The consensus is looking for 13 percent earnings growth in Q4, which is a pretty high hurdle. Earnin...
BRIAN GENDREAU The situation was that we down 15 points at the half. We decided to play our worst first half of bas...
JOEL PARDALIS So far this fiscal year, we have experienced sales tax increases over the same time last year of 5.3...
JIM WEHMEIER They are the quickest team we have faced this year, and it caused us a lot of problems in the first ...
DAVE BEZOLD The El Paso hotel market did very good. El Paso hotels in general made money last year. I think we'r...
HENRY KING![]()
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sat there
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in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We may do slightly better in sales and in profitability than present consensus expectations of the i...
CHRISTOPHER GALVIN Although we did exceed expectations for the first quarter, and we expect to be substantially in line...
JAMES CROWE We can't keep up with production, and sales are up 60 percent this year. We are trying to figure out...
DEB CAREY Alex finished the year at 15-14 in a very tough weight class. Things didn't go exactly the way we wa...
TOM CHICANTEK Earnings estimates are factoring in generous prices and in the second half of the year comparisons a...
GENE GILLESPIE The finish of this season was great and most of our team is young. With the sophomores we have comin...
BRUCE DURHAM I think that with the guys we've got coming back, we should be equal to (last year) or even better.
BILL KINNEBERG Our key region North America is stronger than ever, so that we have raised our group sales and earni...
HERBERT HAINER If we see anything above 4.75 percent, approaching 5 percent on the 10-year Treasury, investors shou...
JOSEPH KEATING We're seeing the 2-year anniversary coming up. In the first half of '06, it will be interesting to s...
MICHAEL WALKLEY What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE should remind people of the role the fire service plays. They are the first responders when somethin...
BILL METCALF We roughly have death rates that are about 150 percent higher in the United States for 15- to 19-yea...
LLOYD KOLBE We are confident of delivering in 2006 another year of dynamic growth with record sales and earnings...
DANIEL VASELLA We really controlled the line of scrimmage in the second half. We did not [do that] in the first hal...
BILL DINARDO If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... We were nervous coming in. We knew they were going to be in better basketball shape than they were t...
JOE LAYNE We are very pleased with the progress achieved by RIM and its partners over the summer, and we are p...
JIM BALSILLIE We have continued our focus on driving the operational performance of our hotels to maximize returns...
KWEK LENG BENG We still think a trough should be reached in the first quarter but to be sure we get a recovery, we ...
GERNOT NERB In Europe, (earnings) numbers are still being revised up, ... Estimates have risen by 11 percent in ...
IAN SCOTT
BYRON WIEN We played much better in the second half than we did in the first half. We should have played the fi...
ELLEN BRIDGEWATER We're expecting a pretty tough first half of the year -- tech profits will be up about 10 percent th...
STEVE MILUNOVICH Expectations next year will be higher. We have some good freshmen coming in and we will be working h...
HANNA ZAVECZ We grew earnings per diluted share by 85 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2006, so it represen...
DARREN JACKSON The deceleration in earnings growth is a significant concern. Techs are up against steep comparisons...
KEN PERKINS Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN First-quarter earnings seem to be very much in line with expectations.
GUY STERN We expect our results for the remainder of the year to be in line with the earnings per share range ...
MIKE WRIGHT I think the key is that next year, even though Boeing will see about a 15-16 percent decline in reve...
PETER JACOBS We started slow today. In the second half we played with better intensity than we did in the first h...
LINDA FLOHR
So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The core is up 0.3 percent over the last year, and so there really is no inflation, ... In the first...
GERALD COHEN Although we did not attain our goal of increasing earnings at the same rate of sales, our 8.9 percen...
LEE SCOTT We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted ear...
DAVID HOOVER We had forecast a loan growth of 30 percent (this year) and in the first half it was 32 percent.
ANIL KHANDELWAL We think the first half of the year is going to be somewhat slow, pick up later in the year and in t...
BOONE PICKENS How much better can it get? I find it hard to believe next year we will be talking about earnings th...
CAROLE BERGER With demand still weak, there's room to cut rates in the first half of next year. That'll keep yield...
STUART THOMSON With supply generally loosening, we believe the overheated environment that boosted the programmable...
CLARK WESTMONT (I)n Washington Mutual, you're getting in there at less than 10 times this year's earnings estimate....
CHARLES LEMONIDES We certainly expect the second half of the year to be considerably better than the first
FRITZ HENDERSON First and foremost, we are still on track for general availability in the second half of calendar ye...
AMITABH SRIVASTAVA We had a good mix of talent, but I was coming off coaching boys and in my first year as head coach. ...
JIM COLE We did a little better in the second half than we did in the first. We had to set new goals at halft...
CRISTY MCKINNEY Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW
Our earnings performance in the fourth quarter met expectations with increased gross margins, lower ... ANNE M. MULCAHY If someone had said to us a year ago: 'Would you be happy with investment growth of 15 percent over ...
ANDREW STEER It may have already touched the highest points in the first half year, but still have chance to clim...
CHENG WEIQING We remain comfortable with consensus earnings estimates for 1998 and expect to increase earnings by ...
DAVID GEORGE At halftime we talked about being aggressive. We needed to get more aggressive and get to the free t...
CURT FREDRICKSON We had three guys run well and the rest didn't. I was disappointed we didn't do better than we did. ...
LEE SHAW That (HMO) group has been in a lot of pressure over the last year, as they've had disappointing earn...
DAVID KATZ For the full year, the currency impact should be less than the 4 percent impact in the first quarter...
DOMENICO SCALA Given the slowing economic environment, 2001 will be a challenging year, particularly in the first h...
ALAN LACY We just couldn't make a shot in the first half, and we turned the ball over too much. Our decision-m...
ED COYLE I think we expect earnings in general to be better than expected. Two or three companies will beat e...
ED KEON We're working on the passing game. The backs are pretty quick. We'll have to throw a little more [th...
JOSH HILDEBRANDT The earnings are good and better than expected in some business areas, and also reflect improvements...
LUCIO DI GERONIMO Consistent with the seasonality in our business and with the results from fiscal year 2005, we expec...
GARY STEELE We did better against Franklin this year than we did last year, but the kids are pretty disappointed...
FRED PIMENTAL We moved nearly 1.7 million tons in containers in 2005, up 15 percent from 2004. We've had a very go...
BOB CUMMINGS Enrollment growth of 9.5 percent year-over-year, while likely better than many companies this quarte...
JEFF SILBER In a challenging retail environment, I am pleased to report our first year with net earnings in exce...
LEE SCOTT The total category is up a little bit over last year, and it's continuing to grow slowly. I think yo...
GARY HECK We did a lot better than people expected. Last year was more of a disappointment, but we still feel ...
MARIANNE MADSEN Analysts' forecasts for earnings I think are still a little too high. They are expecting 8-percent e...
ED KEON We've obviously played a hundred times better than we did in the first half.
COREY MACDONALD He says he feels better today than he did at any time last year. So we should be real deep up front.
DON LUCIA The expectations of inflation in the coming year are very high.
ALBERT CHENG A lot of power plants are under construction, both in New England and nationwide, and these should b...
STEPHEN ALLEN We now expect sales and earnings in the fiscal 2006 third quarter, which ends April 2, 2006, to appr...
CRAIG LABARGE While our cost performance remains in line with the projections we announced in April; our significa...
JAMES GOODWIN Shaw Group reinvented itself over the last year and, as a result, their earnings (per share) are goi...
DAVID KATZ Shaw Group reinvented itself over the last year and, as a result, their earnings (per share) are goi...
DAVID KATZ The price has plunged over 50 percent in the fourth quarter [of last year from the previous year], b...
FRANK HUANG That was the difference. We shot well enough in the first half (51.2 percent) to be up by more than ...
MIKE D'ANTONI It was just moderately lower than our expectations. With the first-half result, it is clear revenue ...
CRAIG SHEPHERD I think this year we match up better than we did in the past. We're much more athletic now which is ...
KYLE HENCY For the full fiscal year 1999, we are targeting earnings growth with more promising prospects eviden...
BRUCE ROHDE Online travel sales fared even better this year. The sector was up 35 percent versus 2002 and has mo...
DAN HESS The stock ran up since the last earnings call, and the holiday sales were in line with expectations,...
JOAN STORMS We're headed to around 6.5 percent sometime in the first half of next year.
HENRY WILLMORE While the near-term front-end order environment remains strong (December and March both likely up 25...
AVINASH KANT The first quarter results exceeded expectations in terms of revenue and were in line with expectatio...
ANTHONY SPIER We remain comfortable with our estimated fourth-quarter earnings per share range of 28 cents to 30 c...
JOHN CATO Investment spending continues to be very vigorous. There was 26 percent growth in investment in the ...
ALBERTO RAMOS The onus is now on the management of companies to produce good earnings growth to see if they will j...
ANGUS BLAIR The first half of the year will be solid as the momentum we have seen in the last two quarters will ...
JOSEPH TAN We're getting to the latter half of the year. and typically, the industry sells close to 20 percent ...
DAN NILES While there may still be some downside to earnings, we think the sharp reduction will likely be view...
DANIEL OPPENHEIM We are very pleased with our results for the year. We achieved important financial goals for the yea...
HECTOR MEDINA We expect another record year in 2006 with profits increasing 13-14 percent, and revenues up 11 perc...
DAVID GUTRIDGE The consensus is looking for 13 percent earnings growth in Q4, which is a pretty high hurdle. Earnin...
BRIAN GENDREAU The situation was that we down 15 points at the half. We decided to play our worst first half of bas...
JOEL PARDALIS So far this fiscal year, we have experienced sales tax increases over the same time last year of 5.3...
JIM WEHMEIER They are the quickest team we have faced this year, and it caused us a lot of problems in the first ...
DAVE BEZOLD The El Paso hotel market did very good. El Paso hotels in general made money last year. I think we'r...
HENRY KING
wesat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We may do slightly better in sales and in profitability than present consensus expectations of the i...
CHRISTOPHER GALVIN Although we did exceed expectations for the first quarter, and we expect to be substantially in line...
JAMES CROWE We can't keep up with production, and sales are up 60 percent this year. We are trying to figure out...
DEB CAREY Alex finished the year at 15-14 in a very tough weight class. Things didn't go exactly the way we wa...
TOM CHICANTEK Earnings estimates are factoring in generous prices and in the second half of the year comparisons a...
GENE GILLESPIE The finish of this season was great and most of our team is young. With the sophomores we have comin...
BRUCE DURHAM I think that with the guys we've got coming back, we should be equal to (last year) or even better.
BILL KINNEBERG Our key region North America is stronger than ever, so that we have raised our group sales and earni...
HERBERT HAINER If we see anything above 4.75 percent, approaching 5 percent on the 10-year Treasury, investors shou...
JOSEPH KEATING We're seeing the 2-year anniversary coming up. In the first half of '06, it will be interesting to s...
MICHAEL WALKLEY What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE should remind people of the role the fire service plays. They are the first responders when somethin...
BILL METCALF We roughly have death rates that are about 150 percent higher in the United States for 15- to 19-yea...
LLOYD KOLBE We are confident of delivering in 2006 another year of dynamic growth with record sales and earnings...
DANIEL VASELLA We really controlled the line of scrimmage in the second half. We did not [do that] in the first hal...
BILL DINARDO If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... We were nervous coming in. We knew they were going to be in better basketball shape than they were t...
JOE LAYNE We are very pleased with the progress achieved by RIM and its partners over the summer, and we are p...
JIM BALSILLIE We have continued our focus on driving the operational performance of our hotels to maximize returns...
KWEK LENG BENG We still think a trough should be reached in the first quarter but to be sure we get a recovery, we ...
GERNOT NERB In Europe, (earnings) numbers are still being revised up, ... Estimates have risen by 11 percent in ...
IAN SCOTT
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. 
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. 
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate t... 
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. 
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ... 
Theirs not to reason why, 
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. 
Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world. 
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster... 
The heart bow'd down by weight of woe,
To weakest hope will cling,
To thought and impulse whil... 
Tis better to have loved and lost
... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)... 
Hope
It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up ... 
What we learn with pleasure we never forget. 
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for the... 
For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is th... 
Man know much more than he understands. 
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t... 
With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown. 
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. 
Tears are the summer showers to the soul. 
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. 
…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy... 
We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosop... 
Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died.
[Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.] 
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' 
By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's bir... 
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. 
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a no... 
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c... 
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. 
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. 
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. 
Wherever there is light, one can photograph. 
The goal of art was the vital expression of self. 