The no. 1 domestic growth driver will be grocery. Wal-Mart has a lot of room to grow there. It's already the No. 1 grocer in Texas.

George Whalin

The balance of risk is shifting from inflation to slower growth.

Robert Mcgee

Our top line growth was more than respectable. Our bottom line growth, however, was not.

Frank Newman

Water is the decisive factor for future growth and economic expansion.

Chuck Gordon

Coming into 2005, the thought was it's an 18 to 20 percent growth company. Now the question is whether they are going to dip below 10 percent.

Tony Ursillo

With the growth of the area, another (YMCA center) would do well.

Paul Versnik

We now have a foothold in a key area of future growth.

Ian Cockerill

We are now beginning to see the fruits of the sacrifice it has taken to maintain discipline and achieve sustained economic growth.

Alejandro Toledo

This is just the start of a period of strong growth.

Tom Cross

The food and liquor business is expected to deliver double-digit earnings growth for fiscal 2005 in an intensely competitive environment.

John Fletcher

Sales growth potential is there. There are all these diseases like bird flu around.

Franki Chung

We are confident of delivering further growth from our business in 2006.

Richard Harvey

There's no big surprise as to what's causing the growth.

Scott Silverman

There is an opportunity for them to gain some ground in the SMB market, which is where most of the business PC growth will take place.

Simon Yates

The profit growth in the first half demonstrates that our strategy is delivering strongly.

John Varley

Avon's international business is the key to its growth going forward. There's no disputing that.

William Steele

You want to find micro-cap companies early in their growth cycles.

Bob Kern

I am turning cautious on China equities. Growth has been fully priced in and re-rated, and a 'China premium' is re-emerging.

Jerry Lou

This is a vibrant automotive market that we believe will experience continued local growth and regional expansion.

Steve Rodgers

Free banking has provided the greatest growth over the last two years.

Pete Kight

Our A-B domestic volume is off to a good start, and we continue to expect growth versus 2005.

Randy Baker

Demand is strong. Rate growth is even stronger.

Duane Vinson

I am very excited. The Bismarck-Mandan area is a great community with a lot of growth and a good economy. We see a lot of potential.

Kathy Dickson

It was more and more challenging to get growth from that asset. We're replacing a slow-growing business that does not fit into our core franchise.

Gerald Hassell

It should be an engine of job growth and an improved economy in the Hispanic north.

Gerry Bradley

Asian buyers had been quiet after the bubble economy, but we are definitely starting to see steady growth.

Sachi Braden

Earnings growth may also slow for technology companies in the region.

Akio Yoshino

Our business community has demonstrated outstanding support for Oklahoma City's economic growth.

J. Larry Nichols

Oil demand growth outside (industrialized countries) has been weaker than expected and that is where a lot of the new consumption is coming from.

Neil Mcmahon

This has important implications for overall growth.

James O'sullivan

Growth will come not only from voice, but from global bandwidth business and value-added services.

Deven Choksey

There will no doubt be growth in small cars, but for how long can it be sustained.

Arvind Mathew

Returning to profitability is not dependent on significant revenue growth.

Frank D'amelio

We have had overcrowding and as growth continues, we will continue to have overcrowding unless adequate funding is brought to the table.

Marshall Krupp

The China growth story, which has been driving commodity prices, remains as strong as ever.

Shane Oliver

Growth expectations are improving around the world. There is further to go in this sell-off.

Harry Harrison

The potential for growth at Harrah's Cherokee as an employer, contributor to the local economy and a business asset for the Eastern Band is tremendous.

Norma Moss

We see China as an important growth area for Lucent's global businesses and an important resource center.

Patricia Russo

We think parts [of the blogosphere] will break because of load and growth.

Mike Graves

Our big growth value opportunity is in AOL, ... That's the No. 1 focus for us right now.

Richard Parsons

China doesn't show any growth this year and could even show a decrease by the end of the year.

Carl henric Svanberg

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Gordon Nixon

We expect this good performance to continue in 2006 with double digit earnings growth.

David George

The story of New Jersey is one of stability and modest growth.

Jason Bram

In some areas, investment is growing too quickly. Investment growth is still at a high level.

Ma Kai

Baja Fresh is an excellent addition to our company and a great fit for our long-term growth strategy.

Jack Schuessler

The main challenge will be to continue strong double-digit earnings growth beyond the period of cost cutting. Right now, a lot of the growth is coming from cost cutting.

Nomi Ghez

As far as the Fed is concerned, payrolls growth is probably just about right -- not too hot and not too cold.

Paul Ashworth

Companies that are paying out their profits in dividends usually don't have great growth opportunities.

Haywood Kelly

To me, the rate of growth was anticipated to a certain degree, but not to this degree.

Dan Wood

We're prepared for future growth.

Traci Downs

The big growth area for us has been international participation.

Roland Swenson

A lot of the large growth stocks are taking a breather.

Christine Benz

For a long time, eBay would blow away the numbers. But the growth is not coming as easily as it once did.

Barry Randall

Freight rates are expected to increase in the coming year, so we will continue to boost our capacity to take advantage of the continued growth in the Chinese and global economies.

Wei Jiafu

This is an exciting opportunity for growth and to reduce risk.

Jim Sutcliffe

We've invented a better mousetrap. This is a new way to capture the higher growth rate of developing countries.

Robert Lovelace

But the thing about Cascade Bancorp is that they are in some of the best growth markets in the country, so we're probably looking at a steady growth.

Brett Rabatin

Growth in our industry is clearly back.

Paul Otellini

As a company they look to continue at this pace of cash flow growth and should be able to exceed its guidance for the year.

Aryeh Bourkoff

Growth for the sake of growth in my opinion is not progress.

David Reid

In China, in the past, we had a very rapid growth rate.

Liu Jun

We think when all is said and done, you're talking about something like 13 percent growth.

Joe Cooper

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.

Henry Miller

I was surprised by the disappointing forecast for 2006. I expected 5 percent revenue growth.

Richard Stice

There are not an awful lot of growth opportunities out there.

Matt Nellans

There was extremely dynamic growth in 1998 to 2001.

Michael Lee

It creates two classes of citizens: one who lives outside growth areas and those who live in a growth area. It's a distinction in class of citizens, which I objected to.

Bill Adler

The real story here is the (slower) growth of consumption in the quarter.

Kevin Logan

Of the original 12, eight decided to return and bring a friend or family with them, ... The growth has been like that each year.

Bill Camp

The external disk storage systems market growth continued to accelerate through the year.

Brad Nisbet

That's huge growth in a couple of years. It's more competitive now.

Sharon Spratley

I guess he got religion on slowing down growth and cutting the tax rate.

Phil Andrews

They saw the growth vision, they saw the rooftops and the pent-up demand. They got in early enough to beat the competition.

George Long

We believe we're making significant strides to building a sustainable growth engine for the foreseeable future.

Hector Ruiz

You add all that up, and it has everything to do with our growth.

Troy Bell

The important thing is that global growth continues. Demand for technology goods remains strong.

Yoji Takeda

Arizona depends on (economic) growth of 8 to 10 percent a year. You can't do that if you have an inflation problem.

John Mathis

[And the company is not done growing.] We are relatively adolescent, ... We have a lot of growth ahead of us.

Walter Robb

Profit growth is going to slow down dramatically. It's not a great level to be entering the equity market.

Teun Draaisma

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Mark Batey

It's time for me to go on to Act III, ... Act III is personal growth and getting back to the things I care about.

Jonathan Sacks

With their amount of cash, if Pfizer couldn't get growth organically, I figured they would buy their growth through more acquisitions.

Tim Anderson

The government will be making every effort to bring down interest rates more and more so that sustainable growth can be consolidated.

Guido Mantega

You can't argue with 29 percent growth in worldwide new business.

Colin Morton

This is not good; it raises concerns about the sustainability of China's growth.

Rob Subbaraman

The economic growth prospects is what is exciting people because this is what will flow to corporate earnings.

Deepak Lalwani

What you're seeing is a natural growth of the Fire Department and the training of firefighters and not any sort of duplicity or abuse.

Pat Mcosker

The coalition agreement will not make enough of a contribution to support growth and increase employment.

Dieter Hundt

It's had fairly stellar growth in the last few years.

Mark Madden

The concerns that everybody had over the summer that maybe growth was finished -- clearly that was wrong.

Mark Stahlman

So the new growth going forward after the freeze takes place goes into the trust.

John Godber

Moving forward, most growth in the SUV segment will come from car-based vehicles.

Jeff Schuster

The growth has really been with the farmer-owned plants, but we're going to see some non-farmer entities get back into it big.

Brian Jennings

That is a good transaction for the company to get out of a low-growth business.

Aryeh Bourkoff

Arts and Crafts was never there to prevent industrial growth. It was there to tailor it.

Karen Livingstone

I think this is something we have come to because of our growth.

Doylene Fuqua

This merger is a leap for Gold Fields into the international arena that could not be achieved through organic growth alone.

Chris Thompson

Generally, you don't see them talking about it in the same breath. It's always tough to manage growth in an area that's hot.

John Tuccillo

We want to foster these inmates' growth as people.

Kyes Stevens

These properties are being built where the growth is.

Pat Rice

Emerging market growth is once again the primary driver.

Tim Luke

UTC has often said balance works. But growth works, as well, and we definitely saw that across our company this quarter.

James Geisler

The potential for growth is astronomical.

Don Mcclellan

The cruise-industry growth is adding to the diversity of our visitor market.

Marsha Wienert

Their revenue growth was very strong.

Tim Luke

He made some mistakes on the growth side.

Benn Steil

The tract homes might be fueling a little bit more (of the growth) than the increase in the actual custom homes.

Chuck Ewings

That will determine whether he should go aggressive or conservative, whether he should go for growth funds or balanced funds. This has absolutely nothing to do with the fund or fund managers.

Dennis Yaw

The stuff that's driving growth in 2005 was developing regions and falling prices. Nothing changes there in 2006.

Richard Shim

Energy trading is strong and a real opportunity for growth for the firm. We will continue with that in the form of Bear Energy.

Russell Sherman

We also generated significant positive cash flow, which we will leverage to fuel the profitable growth of our business going forward.

Joan Hooper

The days of the housing boom are over. It doesn't appear to be this burst bubble that everybody was afraid of, but it's certainly not this growth industry.

Glenworth Ramsay

We've started to see growth again in the corporate space, which is a positive sign.

Todd Bradley

That's where the majority of the growth is, so it's no surprise.

Dave Loveland

A key hindrance to growth is disappearing.

Andreas Scheuerle

All of the bands have experienced significant growth. And the jazz program has doubled.

Travis Almany

Mobility is the area where we expect to see better growth prospects.

Mark Schultz

In areas with no growth, we're bringing the students to the seats.

Steve Ayers

Nortel should be able to bounce back.... But I'm not sure we're going to see any huge growth numbers anytime soon.

Robert Whiteley

We all benefit from the economic growth of this community; that in part means more air traffic, so we should all focus and pay our fair share.

Kevin Rohrer

We don't know why the numbers are up. There hasn't been any apparent growth in the county, yet some of the enrollment figures have grown and we aren't sure why.

David Armstrong

With the growth of the Internet and the use of e-commerce, you're going to get more and more of these situations.

Bob Lewin

We'll probably be in negative territory for growth when all is said and done.

Charles Hill

An RRSP loan is a really good idea. It allows for flexibility, forced savings and tax-deferred growth.

Kirk Anderson

You need a program that will accommodate your growth.

Stan Loar

The whole problem with growth in Florida is the money comes after the impacts.

Steve Hedrick

Measured growth, conservative growth at this time is more appropriate under the circumstances.

Lewis Jordan

We're seeing a lot of growth out of Buford and out of Braselton that's putting challenges on the quality of development we're seeing in this community.

Tom Oliver

In Europe the ABS market is still in the growth phase. In the U.S., it is huge and growing more slowly.

Howard Esaki

The Asian situation has been a real driver and should continue into 1999, as companies scale back their growth plans.

John Challenger

Broad-based, with nearly every consumer and commercial business line achieving double-digit profit growth.

Howard Atkins

China's economy has so far performed better than people had expected. Export growth is also stronger than expected.

Qu Hongbin

Those folks don't make those kinds of investments unless their forecasts are for continued growth.

Jim Kimbrough

Clearly, the U.S. is our No.1 growth market and we're looking to expand.

Bill Hensley

Abbott has purchased this land in anticipation of future growth and expansion.

Dale Johnson

We're on the verge of a huge explosion of growth.

Lee Swift

It's difficult to make predictions, but it seems we're on the same growth pace.

Frank Streshley

Fast Forward has delivered revenue growth at Reuters for the first time in four years.

Tom Glocer

The company also maintains its growth forecast of 20-25% in Latin America for 2006 and 2007.

Patrick Beyer

The eight lanes prepare us for future growth. This facility will last us for years to come.

Daniel Jiron

Growth is a painful process.

Wilma Mankiller

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Edward Abbey

The results were good and in line with the growth story. With conditions improving for the company, it should continue to do well.

Viswanathan Vasudevan

Clearly we are suffering from hyper-growth, over-investment and expansion of the dot-com bubble.

Sam Palmisano

Tourism now ranks as one of the areas of economic growth.

Ignatius Chicha

The plan really addresses the growth the city is experiencing.

Don Stone

We previously feared growth could dip below 2 percent.

Paul Ashworth

As we approach 2006 we have domestic demand, which is strong and being built up by employment growth, and businesses becoming more confident, and at the same time you have external demand becoming quite strong.

Stefan Worrall

We're looking for continued growth for the company.

Peter Oppenheimer

Passenger demand is robust and the cargo business should show healthy growth.

Pauline Dan

Uncontrolled cell growth is the hallmark of cancer.

Alan Lau

We would expect to be ahead of it, and would like to target double-digit growth in sales.

Andre Parker

Economic growth uncertainties plus war fears do not bode well for the market and that's set to continue for the time being.

Henning Kelch

The two things that stop growth are water and schools.

Dennis Bradley

You're not going to see the same rate of 7.5% top-line growth in 2006. But you'll still see mid-single-digit growth for advertising and circulation.

Gavin O'reilly

With crude oil staying high, gas company shares are going to gain. Growth is also going to be fueled by the current economic expansion.

Masayuki Ito

Our biggest growth area is in the Middle East.

Natalie Massenet

It is crucial for us to help existing companies in the county grow and expand. It is important to bring new ones in but it is also very important to work with existing ones. About 60 to 80 percent of our growth comes from existing businesses.

Jennifer Dunn

I'd call it flat. This comes after pretty steady growth after 2000. So it's probably not surprising that we've leveled off a bit.

Linda Johnsrud

FDX Corp. is benefiting from the accelerated move to fast-cycle production and distribution methods, the growth in electronic commerce and supply chain re-engineering.

Frederick Smith

The revenue growth is not, I think, where Microsoft wants it to be.

Chris Alliegro

What we did was expand existing areas. We didn't go out and include a new one. When you say smart growth, that doesn't mean no growth.

Mayor Bobby Ralph

There's been a lot of buzz about Generation X and the growth of this market.

Jacki Mieler

Even with all the lanes open, it will still back up with all the growth in that area.

Bob Shepherd

We've had more of an emphasis on industrials that are expanding earnings and are in the early part of the growth cycle.

Jim Margard

We are very active and alert to any opportunities for non-organic growth.

Francisco Gonzalez

In semiconductors, growth is expected to be broad-based across nearly all product categories.

Ron Slaymaker

We have had such tremendous growth that it was almost hard to keep up with it.

Samantha Strickland

At the very least the idea is the expansion (of his chest cavity) will keep up with his growth.

Chris Langston

Oil is definitely a factor, ... People are concerned about its impact not just on growth here, but on global growth.

Ann Hurley

We expect strong growth to continue through acquisitions and tendering opportunities.

Bob Davies

In addition, we will implement a plan to balance our capacity and capabilities as we prepare the organization for a re-acceleration of growth.

Koichi Nishimura

You need that much sunlight for optimum plant growth.

Janet Cangemi

We believe the issue is more one of market growth and expectations.

Kevin Buttigieg

The growing complexity of our customers' environments has imposed an artificial ceiling on their growth potential.

Joe Tucci

There's great potential for growth for us in the Dayton area. That's especially so with AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratory).

Murray Johnson

Each deterrent in some way results in slowing the industry's growth.

Kapil Kaul

To me its seems they (Cisco) is making organically good growth.

Karri Rinta

As our figures showed, our focus is on organic growth.

Philip Scott

Concerns the U.S. economy will slow are easing and growth seems to be going strong. That should benefit exporters, especially technology companies.

Song In Ho

Their growth continues, and so does ours.

Jim Dunn

She doesn't go down the chocolate aisle, but if she happens to pass one in the cosmetics section then that's great. That's what we are banking on to drive growth in the future.

Jim Cali

U.S. imports have contributed to the growth of output and employment in many countries around the world.

Martin Feldstein

We're trying to keep our county from being overwhelmed by growth.

Dan Lobeck

The competitive environment is getting a lot nastier and opportunities for growth are a lot fewer.

Robert Grindle

Bringing in a lot of land not currently within the urban-growth area will be difficult, but I can't say it would be illegal per se.

Jim Doherty

We're on the cusp of another two years of impressive growth (for IDEC).

Brian Clifford

We see 2006 as an inflection point for sales growth.

Ari Bensinger

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

Mukesh Ambani

Tropicana is a great grocery brand. Tropicana is already showing growth, so PepsiCo is buying a company with momentum.

Douglas Lane

It's tremendous when you can build an event around a sport like cycling. Hopefully this will foster the growth of the sport.

Jim May

The universe of stocks we'll contemplate buying are growth companies.

Stephen Silverman

We're hiring because we're in a growth mode.

Cheng Meiwei

The company has been very dynamic and proactive in their target marketing of customers and they're really being led. Their growth is led by accounts and what really is separating the credit card companies apart from one another these days is their ability to find those customers.

Jennifer Scutti

It was a great quarter for the company. Revenue growth was much stronger than anticipated.

Andrea Williams

There are good growth prospects in the provinces. They are likely to get the higher demand going forward.

Koji Uchida

There's no way they can spin this one positively. It will put unit growth behind estimates.

Doug Freedman

It's the same old (story). Growth and inflation. That's what's bothering the market.

John Ing

What drives this business now is pricing its products correctly and making the right assumptions on costs. They also are entering into areas that will be more growth driven in the future.

David Heupel