The speculative activity in short-term calls might reflect the recent talk about an alliance with Microsoft.
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WILLIAM YOUNG The recent move above $1,000 is mostly driven by speculative buying.
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JOHN KINGSTON Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
JACK WELCH Volatile price movements look set to become the norm short to mid-term, as geo-political tensions an...
JAMES MOORE Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - wo...
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FREDERIC RUFFY The company delivered a profit report that surpassed even the most optimistic expectations.
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FREDERIC RUFFY I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
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BOB STRAUS Tech stocks were oversold on a short-term basis and on Monday everybody had to get out of them becau...
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DAVID VICTOR This is the classic long-term/short-term tradeoff. We're accepting lower short-term earnings in retu...
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HOWARD SCHULTZ The market is completely in the dark about the short-term outlook. It's completely lost.
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LYNN FRANCO not in the short term.
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SCOTT APPLEBY It's going to affect tourism in the short term, and the long term.
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RICHARD MILLER I wouldn't expect any symptoms in the short term, or long-term.
BRIAN TOAL Some of the concerns out there about CPI hitting 3% ... at least in the short term look overdone.
ROSS WALKER Some of the concerns out there about CPI hitting 3% ... at least in the short term look overdone,
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EUGENE LAW The gigantic speculative bubble is popping. We're at a point where some short-term upside pressure i...
JEFFREY CHRISTIAN Wall Street can be very short-term oriented, and there's a lot of pressure to perform in the short t...
ED HATCH If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can conve...
ERIC KANDEL This increase ... is most likely a result of an increase in the difficulty of stunts being attempted...
BRENDA SHIELDS Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL In the short term, I'm not optimistic.
DENNIS JETT The Democrats' proposal is more effective. I might quibble on some of the details, but it's complete...
MAX SAWICKY It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to ...
J. GORDON MELTON All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,
Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL The market is overbought short term. People are looking for an excuse to sell. That came in the form...
MICHAEL JAMES We need to talk about solutions that adequately reflect concerns on both sides.
JEANETTE DEMELO It seems more likely now that the current slowdown in the world economy will worsen. In these circum...
DON BRASH She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
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BRAD GEISEN This money is going to determine how you live in the long run. So if you can deal with short-term em...
DAVID WRAY A lot of funds are short natural gas so they amplified the downside move. Then, the bounce was on so...
AGBELI AMEKO In the short term, it creates a pinch.
DONNA FARRELL You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-te...
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CRAIG BROWN Microsoft in the long term wants the kind of strong position in mobile devices that it has in PCs,
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BRUCE HERBOLD The most effective way to prevent the exploitation of our long-term shareholders is to charge an app...
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JOHN FERLING In the short term, there's revenue, obviously. But long term, we're creating more Cubs fans.
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DAN O. DINGES If you get an idea, you might as well stick with it until somebody calls you on it.
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DOUG EVELYN Long-range planning works best in the short term.
DOUG EVELYN Toyota doesn't face significant risks in the short term.
TSUYOSHI MOCHIMARU Long range planning works best in the short term.
DOUG EVELYN Investors in the U.S. have a short-term memory.
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FREDERIC DICKSON My sense right now is that we're in a trading range market. I would be looking for a pullback.
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HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the ...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaff...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.
FREDERIC AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Accept life, and you must accept regret.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calcu...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It takes two for a kiss
Only one for a sigh,
Twain by twain we marry
One by one we die.
FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Joy is a partnership,
Grief weeps alone,
Many guests had Cana;
Gethsemane but one.
FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power,...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
FREDERIC R. MARVIN My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass.
[Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois da...
FREDERIC R. MARVIN Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what
is impossible for talent is genius...
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulnes...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL