Most analysts project what the earnings growth rates are going to be and they tend to be too aggressive for our blood.

I knew exactly what I needed to do to beat [Jacobson] so I didn't give her any room to breathe and just went out, got ahead form the start and kept the lead.

It goes so quickly, you don't realize what has happened. There is no use worrying about what did and didn't happen. I'm going to forget today and start over (on Friday).

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets; May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Stocks would really get whacked, because they have priced in that some kind of economic growth is coming. A rate cut would be a sign that growth isn't coming.

It has been exciting with that type of growth and acceleration. We have had a few hiccups but not really growing pains.