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BRUCE HERTZKE Revenues and net income for the quarter were negatively impacted primarily by lower motor home deliv...
BRUCE HERTZKE The increase is due largely to the decline in consumer confidence during 2005 as a result of concern...
ANDREW WOLLASTON We believe that the end-market consumption for our products continues to support our revenue and ear...
JACK GIFFORD The company's growth was primarily driven by an increase in the number of people buying online, with...
ERIK PINEDA We finished the fiscal year at the end of June $7.5 million over budget for fuel costs. If we contin...
CANDACE SMITH With income from grain crops, farmers will have about a normal income. But we are looking at farm in...
BOB WELLS Fiscal 2005 was a challenging year for the industry and our company primarily due to a weak box offi...
JOE MALUGEN We had a terrific year in 2005. In fact, we realized the best annual financial results in more than ...
FERNANDO AGUIRRE Fourth quarter 2005 base earnings were robust due primarily to increased volume in our Consumer Pack...
HARRIS E. DELOACH The rise in consumer confidence in general indicates that consumers' willingness to spend additional...
CEES BRUGGEMANS We now expect sales and earnings in the fiscal 2006 third quarter, which ends April 2, 2006, to appr...
CRAIG LABARGE Humana's commercial business performed reasonably well this quarter, in part due to lower inpatient ...
CARL MCDONALD While we are lowering our [fiscal 2003 earnings estimates] on lower revenue, we continue to believe ...
LAURA CONIGLIARO Press reports are pointing to a BOJ move as early as March, but I think the majority of market parti...
TOMOKO FUJII We are pleased with the increasing pace of revenue growth throughout this fiscal year fueled by stro...
CHRIS LIDDELL Winnebago Industries' fiscal 2005 results represent the second best year in the Company's 47-year hi...
BRUCE HERTZKE![]()
Energy price volatility is taking its toll on consumer confidence, as is the prospect of higher [int...
JENNIFER LEE While masked by the high cost of fuel, our restructuring initiatives have begun to produce tangible ...
EDWARD BASTIAN![]()
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN As mentioned in our third-quarter conference call, bookings started to soften at the end of the thir...
GREG WILLIAMS While weak industry conditions impacted our financial performance in fiscal 2005, we made good progr...
DON MITCHELL In the last five years, we have seen GSM technologies take command of the Americas growing from 6% m...
EVA BENGUIGUI In terms of the full year, the cut is not as bad as it looks at first sight as it is being driven by...
CLAIRE KENT We turned the corner during 2003 and were profitable in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004. In the ...
GRETCHEN SHUGART We expect revenues and earnings to grow considerably for the full fiscal year 2005.
GUNTER THIELEN We can expect volatility in the short and intermediate sectors to remain at lofty levels.
ATSUSHI MIZUNO This relatively positive end to 2005, if sustained early in the new year, could help rebuild confide...
HEATHER RIDOUT![]()
We believe the size of Apple's pre-announcement of fiscal first quarter results, its second for the ...
KEVIN MCCARTHY We believe the current range of analyst estimates for the first quarter ended September 30, 2005 and...
FAROOQ KATHWARI Consistent with the seasonality in our business and with the results from fiscal year 2005, we expec...
GARY STEELE We have continued to see positive trends in written business during the month of July and, as such, ...
FAROOQ KATHWARI We suspect that right now we are in the midst of what is a normal 10 percent correction. This is nor...
CHARLES WHITE There's no question that the strength we continue to see in the economy is driven by the consumer, ....
LIZ MILLER![]()
China doesn't show any growth this year and could even show a decrease by the end of the year.
CARL-HENRIC SVANBERG![]()
I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. The two-year note is particularly oversold. The selling has gone a bit too far and we are definitely...
LEE BOON KENG While the economy has not turned around yet, the worst may well be over. The upturn in confidence is...
LYNN FRANCO After the New Year, pump prices in the state typically turn down due to a decrease in demand.
ROSE ROUGEAU The decision was driven by safety, primarily.
MICHAEL PEREZ Although fuel costs were up sharply from last year, the increase was dampened to a large degree by o...
DONALD CARTY The company's sales were affected by deflation in food prices, lower disposable income for consumers...
FERNANDO TRACANELLA We believe Salesforce.com had a strong finish to their fiscal 2006, driven by robust subscriber addi...
BRENT THILL I think everybody is frustrated by the inability of the current system to insure more people in the ...
JEFFREY RUBIN The second quarter results reflected the initial benefit of the cost-savings measures introduced in ...
CEO LUXTON The second quarter results reflected the initial benefit of the cost-savings measures introduced in ...
CEO DAVID LUXTON We believe it is likely that the sales recovery will be pushed out by a few months as we expect mome...
LINDA KRISTIANSEN We expect increased net sales and profitability for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006, when compared...
GARY LARSON As mentioned in our third-quarter conference call, bookings started to soften at the end of the thir...
GREG WILLIAMS![]()
In a global marketplace with its increased insecurities and - indeed often - volatility and instabil...
GORDON BROWN![]()
Due to strong consumer acceptance of new products, growth for TV and appliance retailers in 2005 was...
PAT CONROY After a particularly volatile year in 2005 for consumer sentiment, we may be entering steadier times...
BILL EVANS Low-end, ultra-low-cost mobile phones are being pushed into emerging markets in large numbers. Meanw...
SCOTT SMYSER In fiscal 2007, we anticipate gross capital expenditures of approximately $300 million. Planned expe...
AUSTIN LIGON The numbers look okay. The EPS (earnings per share) is slightly better than what people were expecti...
STUART GORDON We believe FEI is poised for improvements in operating efficiency following the conclusion of its re...
JOANNE FEENEY These cutoff dates provide a reasonable period for making awards by the end of the fiscal year,
EMILY MURPHY We had $21,000 in funds at the end of 2002, and we had $392,000 at the end of 2005. And the grants t...
ELIZABETH HENRICKSON The decrease in pervasive attacks in 2005 is counter-intuitive to what society at large believes is ...
CAL SLEMP As rebuilding efforts take hold and job growth gains momentum, consumers' confidence should rebound ...
LYNN FRANCO Our anticipated results for our second quarter and the remainder of fiscal 2006 reflect smaller year...
ARA HOVNANIAN We expected that our earnings from operations would be lower this quarter due to costs and expenses ...
BOB WALKER We receive money from the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program from funds administered by the fed...
WALT AHRENS With the expectation that (fiscal year 2006) will be a year of 'spend' before the positive impacts a...
ERIC WOLD We believe management is being conservative and could deliver upside to the estimate for the fiscal ...
DAN RENOUARD We are in a period of increased volatility in resource stocks, mainly because commodity prices are a...
ADAM DIXON![]()
At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY You're looking at an economy driven by consumers and consumers are getting killed. The price of ever...
HOWARD DVORKIN Marketing spending in the fourth quarter of 2005 was a precipitous drop from the two-year high of Q3...
CARL HOWE![]()
Another year is ending, but something is pending
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 2005 was a year where our continued focus on execution paid off. In spite of an overall semiconducto...
ERIC MEURICE [Bruce] is primarily an outside defender, but we've used her in center midfield and forward. No one ...
JEFF VAGELL![]()
Bruce has always been so nice to me, which is crazy, because he's one of my heroes. I'll never forge...
MELISSA ETHERIDGE The short story is that 2005 started out unusually wet ... so that at the end of February we had the...
ED POLASKO Sonoco delivered on its key performance initiatives in 2005. The Company experienced sustained quart...
HARRIS E. DELOACH Grain shipments are beginning to bounce back to levels reflective of the high volumes produced in 20...
BRIAN HAYWARD![]()
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN Despite difficult weather conditions up and down the East Coast, Ford and industry sales remained st...
BOB REWEY 2005 was a great year, punctuated by a difficult December. We believe we lost up to a point of marke...
ANDY BRYANT A year ago, fuel costs were not even on the list of top issues.
GREGG STEINBERG We continue to obtain additional gross margin leverage primarily through our outsourcing and electro...
KEVIN WILLIAMS People need to realize that ethanol has been ? and still is ? the best buy for the consumer. Ethanol...
LUCY NORTON In fiscal year 2006, we expect to spend in excess of $29 million on community benefits, which includ...
BRIAN GRIFFIN The outlook for our capital markets, investment banking, and wealth management businesses remains po...
GERALD T. MCCAUGHEY![]()
Fixed mortgage rates remain at historically low levels and thus should continue to fuel reasonably s...
ALAN GREENSPAN Since we started with Power PR, the pace of sales activity in the first three months of this fiscal ...
JOEL BLETH At the end of the day you have to be driven by principle and you've got to be driven by passion and ...
BELINDA STRONACH The current increase in ATE sales is primarily being driven by increasing capacity requirements for ...
KLAUS RINNEN After the sharp rise in gasoline prices, we believe that crude and transportation fuel prices will r...
FRANCISCO BLANCH The volatility we've seen in European bonds this year (2005) has been quite spectacular and it hasn'...
ARUP GHOSH![]()
I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same bo...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Kids need as much help as we possibly can give at the lower levels to maybe deter some of the proble...
ELLIS VALENTINE The Mid-America regional economy began 2005 like a lion, but higher interest rates and elevated ener...
ERNIE GOSS Investor confidence about profits at exporters is getting much stronger for the coming fiscal year. ...
HIDEO ARIMURA This is an increase in the adjustment in the fuel (cost) . . . that is a direct pass along to the cu...
BILL SWANK We believe the stock's sell-off is attributed to the moderation of top-line growth at MPS due to its...
JAMES JANESKY Service margins declined due to lower sales of upgrades for older legacy systems, higher training an...
ABE REICHENTAL The rally in stocks is hampering bonds. Investors also have become risk averse ahead of the fiscal y...
MASATO FUKASAKU Students should apply now to lock in on lower interest rates. I believe they have from right now unt...
GEORGE KNOX One of the reasons that the central bank raised rates is to try to decrease market volatility that c...
CAROLA SANDY
BRUCE HERTZKE Revenues and net income for the quarter were negatively impacted primarily by lower motor home deliv...
BRUCE HERTZKE The increase is due largely to the decline in consumer confidence during 2005 as a result of concern...
ANDREW WOLLASTON We believe that the end-market consumption for our products continues to support our revenue and ear...
JACK GIFFORD The company's growth was primarily driven by an increase in the number of people buying online, with...
ERIK PINEDA We finished the fiscal year at the end of June $7.5 million over budget for fuel costs. If we contin...
CANDACE SMITH With income from grain crops, farmers will have about a normal income. But we are looking at farm in...
BOB WELLS Fiscal 2005 was a challenging year for the industry and our company primarily due to a weak box offi...
JOE MALUGEN We had a terrific year in 2005. In fact, we realized the best annual financial results in more than ...
FERNANDO AGUIRRE Fourth quarter 2005 base earnings were robust due primarily to increased volume in our Consumer Pack...
HARRIS E. DELOACH The rise in consumer confidence in general indicates that consumers' willingness to spend additional...
CEES BRUGGEMANS We now expect sales and earnings in the fiscal 2006 third quarter, which ends April 2, 2006, to appr...
CRAIG LABARGE Humana's commercial business performed reasonably well this quarter, in part due to lower inpatient ...
CARL MCDONALD While we are lowering our [fiscal 2003 earnings estimates] on lower revenue, we continue to believe ...
LAURA CONIGLIARO Press reports are pointing to a BOJ move as early as March, but I think the majority of market parti...
TOMOKO FUJII We are pleased with the increasing pace of revenue growth throughout this fiscal year fueled by stro...
CHRIS LIDDELL Winnebago Industries' fiscal 2005 results represent the second best year in the Company's 47-year hi...
BRUCE HERTZKE
Energy price volatility is taking its toll on consumer confidence, as is the prospect of higher [int... JENNIFER LEE While masked by the high cost of fuel, our restructuring initiatives have begun to produce tangible ...
EDWARD BASTIAN
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN As mentioned in our third-quarter conference call, bookings started to soften at the end of the thir...
GREG WILLIAMS While weak industry conditions impacted our financial performance in fiscal 2005, we made good progr...
DON MITCHELL In the last five years, we have seen GSM technologies take command of the Americas growing from 6% m...
EVA BENGUIGUI In terms of the full year, the cut is not as bad as it looks at first sight as it is being driven by...
CLAIRE KENT We turned the corner during 2003 and were profitable in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004. In the ...
GRETCHEN SHUGART We expect revenues and earnings to grow considerably for the full fiscal year 2005.
GUNTER THIELEN We can expect volatility in the short and intermediate sectors to remain at lofty levels.
ATSUSHI MIZUNO This relatively positive end to 2005, if sustained early in the new year, could help rebuild confide...
HEATHER RIDOUT
We believe the size of Apple's pre-announcement of fiscal first quarter results, its second for the ... KEVIN MCCARTHY We believe the current range of analyst estimates for the first quarter ended September 30, 2005 and...
FAROOQ KATHWARI Consistent with the seasonality in our business and with the results from fiscal year 2005, we expec...
GARY STEELE We have continued to see positive trends in written business during the month of July and, as such, ...
FAROOQ KATHWARI We suspect that right now we are in the midst of what is a normal 10 percent correction. This is nor...
CHARLES WHITE There's no question that the strength we continue to see in the economy is driven by the consumer, ....
LIZ MILLER
China doesn't show any growth this year and could even show a decrease by the end of the year. CARL-HENRIC SVANBERG
I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. The two-year note is particularly oversold. The selling has gone a bit too far and we are definitely...
LEE BOON KENG While the economy has not turned around yet, the worst may well be over. The upturn in confidence is...
LYNN FRANCO After the New Year, pump prices in the state typically turn down due to a decrease in demand.
ROSE ROUGEAU The decision was driven by safety, primarily.
MICHAEL PEREZ Although fuel costs were up sharply from last year, the increase was dampened to a large degree by o...
DONALD CARTY The company's sales were affected by deflation in food prices, lower disposable income for consumers...
FERNANDO TRACANELLA We believe Salesforce.com had a strong finish to their fiscal 2006, driven by robust subscriber addi...
BRENT THILL I think everybody is frustrated by the inability of the current system to insure more people in the ...
JEFFREY RUBIN The second quarter results reflected the initial benefit of the cost-savings measures introduced in ...
CEO LUXTON The second quarter results reflected the initial benefit of the cost-savings measures introduced in ...
CEO DAVID LUXTON We believe it is likely that the sales recovery will be pushed out by a few months as we expect mome...
LINDA KRISTIANSEN We expect increased net sales and profitability for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006, when compared...
GARY LARSON As mentioned in our third-quarter conference call, bookings started to soften at the end of the thir...
GREG WILLIAMS
In a global marketplace with its increased insecurities and - indeed often - volatility and instabil... GORDON BROWN
Due to strong consumer acceptance of new products, growth for TV and appliance retailers in 2005 was... PAT CONROY After a particularly volatile year in 2005 for consumer sentiment, we may be entering steadier times...
BILL EVANS Low-end, ultra-low-cost mobile phones are being pushed into emerging markets in large numbers. Meanw...
SCOTT SMYSER In fiscal 2007, we anticipate gross capital expenditures of approximately $300 million. Planned expe...
AUSTIN LIGON The numbers look okay. The EPS (earnings per share) is slightly better than what people were expecti...
STUART GORDON We believe FEI is poised for improvements in operating efficiency following the conclusion of its re...
JOANNE FEENEY These cutoff dates provide a reasonable period for making awards by the end of the fiscal year,
EMILY MURPHY We had $21,000 in funds at the end of 2002, and we had $392,000 at the end of 2005. And the grants t...
ELIZABETH HENRICKSON The decrease in pervasive attacks in 2005 is counter-intuitive to what society at large believes is ...
CAL SLEMP As rebuilding efforts take hold and job growth gains momentum, consumers' confidence should rebound ...
LYNN FRANCO Our anticipated results for our second quarter and the remainder of fiscal 2006 reflect smaller year...
ARA HOVNANIAN We expected that our earnings from operations would be lower this quarter due to costs and expenses ...
BOB WALKER We receive money from the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program from funds administered by the fed...
WALT AHRENS With the expectation that (fiscal year 2006) will be a year of 'spend' before the positive impacts a...
ERIC WOLD We believe management is being conservative and could deliver upside to the estimate for the fiscal ...
DAN RENOUARD We are in a period of increased volatility in resource stocks, mainly because commodity prices are a...
ADAM DIXON
At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the... JOHN F. KENNEDY You're looking at an economy driven by consumers and consumers are getting killed. The price of ever...
HOWARD DVORKIN Marketing spending in the fourth quarter of 2005 was a precipitous drop from the two-year high of Q3...
CARL HOWE
Another year is ending, but something is pending ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 2005 was a year where our continued focus on execution paid off. In spite of an overall semiconducto...
ERIC MEURICE [Bruce] is primarily an outside defender, but we've used her in center midfield and forward. No one ...
JEFF VAGELL
Bruce has always been so nice to me, which is crazy, because he's one of my heroes. I'll never forge... MELISSA ETHERIDGE The short story is that 2005 started out unusually wet ... so that at the end of February we had the...
ED POLASKO Sonoco delivered on its key performance initiatives in 2005. The Company experienced sustained quart...
HARRIS E. DELOACH Grain shipments are beginning to bounce back to levels reflective of the high volumes produced in 20...
BRIAN HAYWARD
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN Despite difficult weather conditions up and down the East Coast, Ford and industry sales remained st...
BOB REWEY 2005 was a great year, punctuated by a difficult December. We believe we lost up to a point of marke...
ANDY BRYANT A year ago, fuel costs were not even on the list of top issues.
GREGG STEINBERG We continue to obtain additional gross margin leverage primarily through our outsourcing and electro...
KEVIN WILLIAMS People need to realize that ethanol has been ? and still is ? the best buy for the consumer. Ethanol...
LUCY NORTON In fiscal year 2006, we expect to spend in excess of $29 million on community benefits, which includ...
BRIAN GRIFFIN The outlook for our capital markets, investment banking, and wealth management businesses remains po...
GERALD T. MCCAUGHEY
Fixed mortgage rates remain at historically low levels and thus should continue to fuel reasonably s... ALAN GREENSPAN Since we started with Power PR, the pace of sales activity in the first three months of this fiscal ...
JOEL BLETH At the end of the day you have to be driven by principle and you've got to be driven by passion and ...
BELINDA STRONACH The current increase in ATE sales is primarily being driven by increasing capacity requirements for ...
KLAUS RINNEN After the sharp rise in gasoline prices, we believe that crude and transportation fuel prices will r...
FRANCISCO BLANCH The volatility we've seen in European bonds this year (2005) has been quite spectacular and it hasn'...
ARUP GHOSH
I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same bo... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Kids need as much help as we possibly can give at the lower levels to maybe deter some of the proble...
ELLIS VALENTINE The Mid-America regional economy began 2005 like a lion, but higher interest rates and elevated ener...
ERNIE GOSS Investor confidence about profits at exporters is getting much stronger for the coming fiscal year. ...
HIDEO ARIMURA This is an increase in the adjustment in the fuel (cost) . . . that is a direct pass along to the cu...
BILL SWANK We believe the stock's sell-off is attributed to the moderation of top-line growth at MPS due to its...
JAMES JANESKY Service margins declined due to lower sales of upgrades for older legacy systems, higher training an...
ABE REICHENTAL The rally in stocks is hampering bonds. Investors also have become risk averse ahead of the fiscal y...
MASATO FUKASAKU Students should apply now to lock in on lower interest rates. I believe they have from right now unt...
GEORGE KNOX One of the reasons that the central bank raised rates is to try to decrease market volatility that c...
CAROLA SANDY
There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' ... 
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The only thing that is obscene is censorship. 
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When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch. 
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I don't have an act. I just talk. I'm just Lenny Bruce. 
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Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ... 
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There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. 
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. 
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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good... 
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. 
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In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part. 
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For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men... 