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As we go into the second and third quarter ... those are traditionally slow quarters.
BOB SWAN While the stock could remain under pressure near term, we maintain our 'buy' rating on IBM owing to ...
ANDREW NEFF We came out soft and slow, got going in the second and had the defense really save us in the third a...
DENNIS CROMER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES There is naturally a tension between short-term and long-term, ... The key is, you can never sacrifi...
CHARLES PRINCE Growth will slow down going into the second and third quarter.
CAROLINA MILANESI We are concerned that for the United States, the key issue is oil; second, the war on terrorism; and...
BULAT ABILOV While our business will be affected by macro-economic conditions in the near term, we are confident ...
DAVID PETERSCHMIDT We played even with them in the second and third quarters.
LANCE LUITJENS We got into an offensive sync in the second and third quarters.
SCOTT CHAFFEE Details on the intellectual property income by quarter shows that IBM will face relatively easy comp...
STEVE MILUNOVICH While we still think that Best Buy Co. has the better business model for the long term, there is les...
BILL SIMS![]()
We didn't have one of the best third quarters. Third quarters have been our Achilles' heel. In the s...
KEVIN GARNETT We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic streng...
MICHAEL CORBAT While IBM has clearly had several disappointing quarters, we believe that services, Freeway, storage...
GEORGE ELLING While we remain optimistic about the long-term growth opportunities in the sector, we are disappoint...
ERIC BENHAMOU Right now it's wonderful to celebrate good earnings growth in the first quarter and nice growth in t...
WENDELL PERKINS Earnings estimates are factoring in generous prices and in the second half of the year comparisons a...
GENE GILLESPIE![]()
The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that...
KEVIN RUDD We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it a...
ROGER MCNAMEE As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is...
RICHARD ATTIAS Some leaders are fairly good & slow learners,they use their first term in office to learn,but in the...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We stepped up the defense in the second and third quarters. That kind of got us to where we wanted t...
JOE SULLIVAN After several years of slow revenue growth, this year's acceleration will help improve the city of W...
JOE DUFFY We were able to force a lot of turnovers, especially in the second and third quarters. We had some e...
BUDDY CARLISLE Looking forward, our overall pipeline is healthy and we expect stronger software sales in the second...
HENNING KAGERMANN The incentive for CEOs who focus on improving their quarterly reports is short term, at the expense ...
QUENTIN KIDD The small business infrastructure remains the engine of growth for many of the cities and small town...
DAN KRAUS We started out slow but came back and played well in the second and third game.
BRUCE UDVARI Our emphasis going into the game was to not shoot 3-pointers. The idea was to get inside shots, and ...
JAMIE MAYNE Our stance has been in big enterprise applications, it was obvious that people were buying ahead to ...
DAN NILES 2005 was another good year for Honeywell. Our businesses demonstrated strong organic growth, and as ...
DAVE COTE well into an investment cycle that should lead to long-term consistent growth from a stable of high ...
CHRIS CORRIGAN The Board strongly believes that, based on this offer, Patrick shareholders are better off without T...
CHRIS CORRIGAN The earnings picture is really good now, but, you know, enjoy it while it lasts. Third and fourth qu...
HUGH JOHNSON Companies will start to see more and more of this fourth-quarter talk about energy and raw materials...
BARBARA MARCIN 3Com has not been immune to the trends affecting the telecom sector, ... However, we believe this se...
BRUCE CLAFLIN Our estimation of how Windows 2000 will be adopted is fairly slow. While that trend is going on, we ...
DAN KUZNETSKY The deceleration in earnings growth is a significant concern. Techs are up against steep comparisons...
KEN PERKINS![]()
A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long...
JEREMY CORBYN We did everything we were suppose to do in the first and second (quarters). I have always preached t...
DANNY LABASAN For the full fiscal year 1999, we are targeting earnings growth with more promising prospects eviden...
BRUCE ROHDE [Lehman analyst George Elling repeated his] buy ... while Sun's shares may continue to be volatile, ...
SUN MICROSYSTEMS As the major market auto show season nears an end, it seems that we have some clear winners among co...
JOE WIESENFELDER This past year has been a challenging period ... as economic slowdowns in several key markets had a ...
M. DOUGLAS IVESTER I will maintain the position that, long-term, a strong and dependable dollar is in the best interest...
STEVE MNUCHIN The momentum we saw coming into the second quarter has all but disappeared as businesses continue to...
LOREN LOVERDE We reached our financial target thanks to continued revenue growth in key businesses, strict control...
JOSEF ACKERMANN We welcome the review. Our unit leads the nation in recoveries, has in 2004 and will in 2005. Recove...
DARREN DOPP While we believe there are some near-term risks to earnings upside due to the transition to Intel pr...
BEN REITZES It was one of those games where we got up a little, then they dragged it back. That happened in the ...
BRIAN MUSTY We let them get 11 in the first quarter. Then we only allowed nine points in the second and third qu...
CRAIG STINNETT We believe that higher wood product prices may impact comparable store sales in the third and fourth...
MICHAEL LEWIS We are confident that tight and well-scheduled operations with sufficient capital expenditure will l...
FU CHENGYU The key source of our concerns was flat short-term signings in the first three quarters of 2005. And...
BILL SHOPE It was a very good game. We had problem scoring in the second and third quarters. We played great de...
DON BOGAN I would have been satisfied with a one-point win. But to see our offense take off in the second and ...
LAMAR OWENS![]()
More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with d...
BRIAN L. WEISS![]()
Hurricane Katrina damaged platforms and ports and curtailed production at refineries in the Gulf of ...
JACK REED With the prospect of relatively slow top-line growth over the next two quarters, we believe the upsi...
WILLIAM BECKLEAN While it is difficult to anticipate unanticipated events, investors could become increasingly concer...
SAM STOVALL I think the key was that our defensive guys were fresh in the third and fourth quarters. That's beca...
DOUG PHILLIPS![]()
My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in educati...
GARY HERBERT We had a real tough second quarter, a really devastating second quarter, probably the worst we've ha...
BOB KOSKOSKY The country is entering a period of debt deflation, where households and businesses are forced to mo...
LACY HUNT [But Wall Street seems to be more concerned about sequential growth, as opposed to year-over-year gr...
WALTER PRICE![]()
With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong c...
HOWARD SCHULTZ![]()
IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compel...
GINNI ROMETTY![]()
Remember to dream big, think long-term, underacheive on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is ...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI We are troubled by the continuing decrease of the value of our investments in the company and are pl...
ALAN HEVESI![]()
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I ...
TIMOTHY LEARY![]()
There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I...
TIMOTHY LEARY![]()
We reiterate our 'hold' rating and note that the third quarter was supposed to mark the start of ver...
KEVIN MCCARTHY For the long term, the best way to help is to support local nonprofits, ... [Katrina evacuees] will ...
BEVERLY WILLIAMS![]()
The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term g...
STEWART UDALL We are extremely pleased with our strong second-quarter results. We are on track to achieve our fisc...
ORIN SMITH We are pleased to be able to address a pressing near-term need while improving significantly the lon...
JOE SCAMINACE We've been having decent second quarters lately. We started out a little slow tonight but really pic...
DEBBIE STROMAN There is a good chance in the second half of next year, we see growth slow down fairly dramatically.
CHRISTOPHER LOW While an uncertain market may overshadow the impact of some of our restructuring initiatives in the ...
CHARLES JOHNSON We made a good run at them in the third and fourth quarters, but we couldn't get a final stop. The b...
DARREN MARSHALL Today's investment environment presents excellent opportunities for investors with long-term buy-and...
MARK SUTTON This is the classic long-term/short-term tradeoff. We're accepting lower short-term earnings in retu...
ROBERT ALLEN We are concerned that our ability to compete with businesses in other places in the county and state...
LARRY PEARSON Overall we enable the alignment between business processes, systems, data and infrastructure which i...
SAMER ALKHARRAT We're looking at the possibility of selling the petrochemicals division. The liquidity issue is behi...
JUERGEN DORMANN Liberalized trade - in broadly multilateral, regional, or bilateral agreements - is a key ingredient...
KEVIN HASSETT We are exiting three businesses that were not delivering growth and financial returns.
BRUCE CLAFLIN We leave the meeting believing that Yahoo! is a must own. While the stock will undoubtedly be subjec...
LISE BUYER There is so much momentum in consumer spending and business investment that economic growth in the t...
DICK GREEN Sales and profit growth exceeded our long-term growth targets again this period, and the company's s...
BILL MCLAUGHLIN We are aware that many national farm organizations are putting forth various plans to provide both s...
MEL CARNAHAN The greatest near-term opportunity that we have is data centers. This is not an opportunity that wil...
ANGELOS ANGELOU We play each game quarter by quarter, and Clark had a huge third quarter. It set us back, but we pla...
BRIAN DIVELBLISS![]()
In New Hampshire, we know that small businesses and entrepreneurs are the engines of economic growth...
MAGGIE HASSAN The strong growth that we reported across all our businesses in the first quarter was maintained int...
PETER ERSKINE![]()
Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short ter...
BILL MARIS The company offers many compelling positives, including a recurring revenue, high operating leverage...
DAVID LANG We all recognize that investors need to know certain key facts and concepts. But it may be even more...
DON BLANDIN Slower U.S. growth may reduce growth in oil demand in the second half of the year. We are seeing pro...
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK
BOB SWAN While the stock could remain under pressure near term, we maintain our 'buy' rating on IBM owing to ...
ANDREW NEFF We came out soft and slow, got going in the second and had the defense really save us in the third a...
DENNIS CROMER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES There is naturally a tension between short-term and long-term, ... The key is, you can never sacrifi...
CHARLES PRINCE Growth will slow down going into the second and third quarter.
CAROLINA MILANESI We are concerned that for the United States, the key issue is oil; second, the war on terrorism; and...
BULAT ABILOV While our business will be affected by macro-economic conditions in the near term, we are confident ...
DAVID PETERSCHMIDT We played even with them in the second and third quarters.
LANCE LUITJENS We got into an offensive sync in the second and third quarters.
SCOTT CHAFFEE Details on the intellectual property income by quarter shows that IBM will face relatively easy comp...
STEVE MILUNOVICH While we still think that Best Buy Co. has the better business model for the long term, there is les...
BILL SIMS
We didn't have one of the best third quarters. Third quarters have been our Achilles' heel. In the s... KEVIN GARNETT We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic streng...
MICHAEL CORBAT While IBM has clearly had several disappointing quarters, we believe that services, Freeway, storage...
GEORGE ELLING While we remain optimistic about the long-term growth opportunities in the sector, we are disappoint...
ERIC BENHAMOU Right now it's wonderful to celebrate good earnings growth in the first quarter and nice growth in t...
WENDELL PERKINS Earnings estimates are factoring in generous prices and in the second half of the year comparisons a...
GENE GILLESPIE
The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that... KEVIN RUDD We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it a...
ROGER MCNAMEE As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is...
RICHARD ATTIAS Some leaders are fairly good & slow learners,they use their first term in office to learn,but in the...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We stepped up the defense in the second and third quarters. That kind of got us to where we wanted t...
JOE SULLIVAN After several years of slow revenue growth, this year's acceleration will help improve the city of W...
JOE DUFFY We were able to force a lot of turnovers, especially in the second and third quarters. We had some e...
BUDDY CARLISLE Looking forward, our overall pipeline is healthy and we expect stronger software sales in the second...
HENNING KAGERMANN The incentive for CEOs who focus on improving their quarterly reports is short term, at the expense ...
QUENTIN KIDD The small business infrastructure remains the engine of growth for many of the cities and small town...
DAN KRAUS We started out slow but came back and played well in the second and third game.
BRUCE UDVARI Our emphasis going into the game was to not shoot 3-pointers. The idea was to get inside shots, and ...
JAMIE MAYNE Our stance has been in big enterprise applications, it was obvious that people were buying ahead to ...
DAN NILES 2005 was another good year for Honeywell. Our businesses demonstrated strong organic growth, and as ...
DAVE COTE well into an investment cycle that should lead to long-term consistent growth from a stable of high ...
CHRIS CORRIGAN The Board strongly believes that, based on this offer, Patrick shareholders are better off without T...
CHRIS CORRIGAN The earnings picture is really good now, but, you know, enjoy it while it lasts. Third and fourth qu...
HUGH JOHNSON Companies will start to see more and more of this fourth-quarter talk about energy and raw materials...
BARBARA MARCIN 3Com has not been immune to the trends affecting the telecom sector, ... However, we believe this se...
BRUCE CLAFLIN Our estimation of how Windows 2000 will be adopted is fairly slow. While that trend is going on, we ...
DAN KUZNETSKY The deceleration in earnings growth is a significant concern. Techs are up against steep comparisons...
KEN PERKINS
A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long... JEREMY CORBYN We did everything we were suppose to do in the first and second (quarters). I have always preached t...
DANNY LABASAN For the full fiscal year 1999, we are targeting earnings growth with more promising prospects eviden...
BRUCE ROHDE [Lehman analyst George Elling repeated his] buy ... while Sun's shares may continue to be volatile, ...
SUN MICROSYSTEMS As the major market auto show season nears an end, it seems that we have some clear winners among co...
JOE WIESENFELDER This past year has been a challenging period ... as economic slowdowns in several key markets had a ...
M. DOUGLAS IVESTER I will maintain the position that, long-term, a strong and dependable dollar is in the best interest...
STEVE MNUCHIN The momentum we saw coming into the second quarter has all but disappeared as businesses continue to...
LOREN LOVERDE We reached our financial target thanks to continued revenue growth in key businesses, strict control...
JOSEF ACKERMANN We welcome the review. Our unit leads the nation in recoveries, has in 2004 and will in 2005. Recove...
DARREN DOPP While we believe there are some near-term risks to earnings upside due to the transition to Intel pr...
BEN REITZES It was one of those games where we got up a little, then they dragged it back. That happened in the ...
BRIAN MUSTY We let them get 11 in the first quarter. Then we only allowed nine points in the second and third qu...
CRAIG STINNETT We believe that higher wood product prices may impact comparable store sales in the third and fourth...
MICHAEL LEWIS We are confident that tight and well-scheduled operations with sufficient capital expenditure will l...
FU CHENGYU The key source of our concerns was flat short-term signings in the first three quarters of 2005. And...
BILL SHOPE It was a very good game. We had problem scoring in the second and third quarters. We played great de...
DON BOGAN I would have been satisfied with a one-point win. But to see our offense take off in the second and ...
LAMAR OWENS
More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with d... BRIAN L. WEISS
Hurricane Katrina damaged platforms and ports and curtailed production at refineries in the Gulf of ... JACK REED With the prospect of relatively slow top-line growth over the next two quarters, we believe the upsi...
WILLIAM BECKLEAN While it is difficult to anticipate unanticipated events, investors could become increasingly concer...
SAM STOVALL I think the key was that our defensive guys were fresh in the third and fourth quarters. That's beca...
DOUG PHILLIPS
My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in educati... GARY HERBERT We had a real tough second quarter, a really devastating second quarter, probably the worst we've ha...
BOB KOSKOSKY The country is entering a period of debt deflation, where households and businesses are forced to mo...
LACY HUNT [But Wall Street seems to be more concerned about sequential growth, as opposed to year-over-year gr...
WALTER PRICE
With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong c... HOWARD SCHULTZ
IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compel... GINNI ROMETTY
Remember to dream big, think long-term, underacheive on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is ... ROBERT KIYOSAKI We are troubled by the continuing decrease of the value of our investments in the company and are pl...
ALAN HEVESI
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I ... TIMOTHY LEARY
There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I... TIMOTHY LEARY
We reiterate our 'hold' rating and note that the third quarter was supposed to mark the start of ver... KEVIN MCCARTHY For the long term, the best way to help is to support local nonprofits, ... [Katrina evacuees] will ...
BEVERLY WILLIAMS
The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term g... STEWART UDALL We are extremely pleased with our strong second-quarter results. We are on track to achieve our fisc...
ORIN SMITH We are pleased to be able to address a pressing near-term need while improving significantly the lon...
JOE SCAMINACE We've been having decent second quarters lately. We started out a little slow tonight but really pic...
DEBBIE STROMAN There is a good chance in the second half of next year, we see growth slow down fairly dramatically.
CHRISTOPHER LOW While an uncertain market may overshadow the impact of some of our restructuring initiatives in the ...
CHARLES JOHNSON We made a good run at them in the third and fourth quarters, but we couldn't get a final stop. The b...
DARREN MARSHALL Today's investment environment presents excellent opportunities for investors with long-term buy-and...
MARK SUTTON This is the classic long-term/short-term tradeoff. We're accepting lower short-term earnings in retu...
ROBERT ALLEN We are concerned that our ability to compete with businesses in other places in the county and state...
LARRY PEARSON Overall we enable the alignment between business processes, systems, data and infrastructure which i...
SAMER ALKHARRAT We're looking at the possibility of selling the petrochemicals division. The liquidity issue is behi...
JUERGEN DORMANN Liberalized trade - in broadly multilateral, regional, or bilateral agreements - is a key ingredient...
KEVIN HASSETT We are exiting three businesses that were not delivering growth and financial returns.
BRUCE CLAFLIN We leave the meeting believing that Yahoo! is a must own. While the stock will undoubtedly be subjec...
LISE BUYER There is so much momentum in consumer spending and business investment that economic growth in the t...
DICK GREEN Sales and profit growth exceeded our long-term growth targets again this period, and the company's s...
BILL MCLAUGHLIN We are aware that many national farm organizations are putting forth various plans to provide both s...
MEL CARNAHAN The greatest near-term opportunity that we have is data centers. This is not an opportunity that wil...
ANGELOS ANGELOU We play each game quarter by quarter, and Clark had a huge third quarter. It set us back, but we pla...
BRIAN DIVELBLISS
In New Hampshire, we know that small businesses and entrepreneurs are the engines of economic growth... MAGGIE HASSAN The strong growth that we reported across all our businesses in the first quarter was maintained int...
PETER ERSKINE
Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short ter... BILL MARIS The company offers many compelling positives, including a recurring revenue, high operating leverage...
DAVID LANG We all recognize that investors need to know certain key facts and concepts. But it may be even more...
DON BLANDIN Slower U.S. growth may reduce growth in oil demand in the second half of the year. We are seeing pro...
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK
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