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BILL AYLESWORTH The fourth quarter represents the second consecutive quarter of strong business execution and improv... JASON COHENOUR We are very disappointed with our software sales results. In spite of our best efforts to work close... BETH CHAPPELL Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN This plan has failed. We should not keep half of a failure or a quarter of a failure, ... Let's chan... RICHARD GEPHARDT It would be too much of a culture change for them not to. We just want to do what's reasonable. MARILYN POLLACK The second quarter is a growth [period] for Asian semiconductor companies. DANIEL HEYLER we just have to change the way we do business. BOB HUGHES Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL We came back and played great in that fourth quarter. 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BRYN HAMMOND It was a pretty even game the third quarter. In the fourth quarter we just didn't do the things down... BRIAN BLUME The second quarter was definitely the difference. We knew we didn't have a very good first quarter a... HOLLY TREAT By all indications, the inventory position going into the fourth quarter looks strong, ... Having (p... CRAIG MOFFETT People had expected everyone to miss the quarter so it's not surprising that they missed. Market con... CHRISTIN ARMACOST We had a very good quarter. Our solid fourth-quarter results, which have exceeded company top and bo... CHARLES ZHANG If a company has stable earnings quarter after quarter, ... and each quarter its earnings go up anot... JASON ZWEIG In the third quarter 2005, we produced our best third-quarter result ever, JOSEF ACKERMANN If Well begun means Half done, then Possible means Half + quarter done. Then just do the remaining q... SATHESH KUMAR M Given the lack of positive new data points since the company reported third quarter 2005 figures, we... GREGORY BADISHKANIAN These results reflect an excellent fourth quarter and outstanding year for Compaq . We're very pleas... ECKHARD PFEIFFER The company reached its own forecasts for the first quarter 2006 and confirmed its outlook for the s... JULIUS BAER Your first quarter came in light and it looks like your second quarter is going to be light relative... MARGARET WHELAN While we could see some shifting of revenue from quarter-to-quarter due to Xbox, expect Microsoft to... ISRAEL HERNANDEZ The economy looks to be in very good shape. And we expect a good second quarter and year. JAMES ROHR I think the first quarter was the best quarter of basketball I've seen played since I started here. CURT LLOYD It's a little hard, even being this far into a quarter, ... I think all of you can appreciate (that)... JACK BOVENDER We really didn't do anything different defensively in the second quarter. We just went out and start... JAY MELTON Too bad the second quarter had to end. We would have liked to have a 10-minute quarter there because... CHAD MEADORS And the second quarter is supposed to be the weakest quarter, with a pickup in the third quarter. BOB SINCHE Besides, the first quarter looks not as bad as we had thought. Demand for LCD TVs and notebook compu... ERIC LIN If Felix had a mouthful of nickels, he couldn't give you change for a quarter. He doesn't speak much... MIKE HARGROVE We encourage investors not to sell the brokers on the news this quarter, as visibility is good leadi... CHRIS MEYER As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE It was a lack of defensive intensity. But I would like to praise the intensity of the bench in the f... MALCOLM DEANS If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE We want the third quarter to be our best push. I'm not sure what happened. ALICIA WRIGHT The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE The applications business continues to stumble and this quarter shows that. Oracle doesn't have the ... DAVID HILAL With our youth comes not having much confidence. And with that lack of confidence comes not playing ... SHARON ALLEN (Best Buy's) quarter was disappointing. While (Best Buy) is clearly focused on reducing expense grow... COLIN MCGRANAHAN Despite the global economic conditions and its potential effect on our [third-quarter] revenue, Adob... BRUCE CHIZEN There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I really don't know (what happened). ... We didn't get any looks. It was just an ugly quarter. GREG ADAMS We had a strong first quarter with results significantly improved from the previous quarter, reflect... JOHN SURMA I'm positive on the quarter but I think there is going to be a debate over the outlook. The real sur... BOB STIMSON Xerox had ample opportunity in its release to comment on third-quarter results, but obviously opted ... BENJAMIN REITZES You got to have about a quarter of a million dollars to do this. EDDIE LEE We're always going to have some companies in the morass of reporting companies that aren't up to spe... STUART FREEMAN The third quarter was a rough quarter, but Troy is one of the best-coached teams that we play. They ... AMY HANCOCK In the first quarter, we came out a little sluggish so in the second quarter I was determined to not... TYRA GRANT It will cut across a large group of consumer product and transportation companies. It's going to slo... ROBERT MILLEN While we knew first quarter would be weak, the results are worse than we anticipated. We clearly hav... CLAIRE BABROWSKI Looking ahead, the prospects for growth looks exciting, ... We exited the quarter ended September 20... AZIM PREMJI Try to keep them no more than a half inch. Quarter inch is the best. TERESA FOLLMER The third quarter just wasn't our quarter. We just didn't play, I don't know what to say ... we just... ENOKA LUCAS To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The supply chain solutions business acted as a bit of a drag on the results for the quarter. ART HATFIELD We took the second quarter off. It's like we took a vacation. We played an excellent first quarter a... MIKE ALBRING The inventories number was weaker than expected and suggests they may detract from growth in the thi... ADAM CARR We were able to get the ball inside some that quarter. We did what we could against them early on an... FRED LUCAS
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