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I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.

Steve Jobs

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

Franklin P. Adams

We had about five or six opportunities in the third quarter and I think three or four of them were wide-open looks that just didn't go down.

Arno Kirchenwitz

Recent volatility in raw material prices, however, makes first quarter forecasting difficult.

William Joyce

While the quarter may provide a glimpse of the current state of the business, we believe that investors are far more interested in the potential impact of potential pending cost cuts on the company?s profit and loss.

Keith Bachman

What's going to drive things over the next several weeks is how third-quarter earnings come out.

Hans Olsen

What we'd like to hear from Cisco is that visibility going into the next quarter is better but we probably won't get that because there still isn't much clarity about business spending.

Alan Loewenstein

Our fourth quarter results reflect the extraordinarily difficult business environment in which Goldman Sachs operated this Fall.

John Thain

We depended on Diana a lot in terms of settling the team down in the fourth quarter. After the first quarter her leadership on the floor was big.

Myron Corbett

If we get a big kick start to the quarter with a strong April, that could offset us being a bit weaker than we expected to be in the first quarter.

Bob Schnorbus

If someone was worried about the fourth quarter this may have alleviated that.

Karri Rinta

The ministry paid $250 million two days ago and the rest of the money will be paid within days. The ministry had agreed with the firms as well to provide Iraq with oil products for the first quarter of 2006.

Asim Jihad

We played with them for about a quarter and a half, but they were physically bigger and stronger than us. They wore us down and we didn't help things by dropping about 10 passes.

Mark Buchanan

We learned some real tough lessons. We lost four of those games in the last possession, including one to Baraboo when we had an 18-point lead going into the fourth quarter. The kids have really responded to that and it's coming to fruition right now.

Dennis Bradley

And if things go as well as we hope they will and believe they will, then we would look for a broader roll-out at Wal-Mart early in the second quarter.

Terry Marks

I really don't know (what happened). ... We didn't get any looks. It was just an ugly quarter.

Greg Adams

[IBM itself is very positive about the recent quarter.] We achieved good earnings results despite a number of challenges, ... We have been able to deliver consistent financial results because of the breadth and diversity of our overall business portfolio, which is unmatched in our industry.

Louis Gerstner

Continued strong economic growth and falling gas prices in the fourth quarter leaves me hopeful that delinquencies will continue to fall.

James Chessen

We don't have anything new planned. We're just going to come out strong and improve on what we did last night. I thought we had a bad third quarter.

Cody Jones

I think getting up to a big lead in the first quarter is a huge step for us.

Anne Barnett

Jake Mistake will be on the sidelines by the end of the first quarter. It will be a classic grind-it-out game. I think (Pittsburgh's) defense will score at least seven points.

Andrew Williams

We had a couple of mental lapses in the second half. We made a couple of decisions on bad passes. We made a couple of mistakes in the fourth quarter.

Peter Arnold

While production growth has been overall in line with our expectations, higher commodity prices and sales of zinc concentrate in the fourth quarter are likely to lead to a better-than-expected result.

Vedanta Resources

I thought the first quarter for us was nearly flawless. Our team did an excellent job playing without Erin (Parker), and our bench played extremely well.

Gina Mitchell

We'll start to see improved margins and some very nice flow-through in the third quarter.

James Perry

While the full impact is impossible to gauge at this time, it will clearly have an impact in the current quarter and beyond.

Robert Brust

The big thing was three quick scores early and we weren't healthy. We didn't come to play the first quarter.

Brent Wilcoxon

We had a game plan to pack it in and make them beat us from the outside, and we pretty much stuck to it. But for about five minutes there (in the second quarter), we forgot what to do.

Doug Knox

You're not going to see a big rally through the end of the year, but I think the market will go higher than where it is now. I'm optimistic. I think the economy is improving even faster than people realize, and the fourth-quarter earnings are going to be really good.

Jon Burnham

We've learned from our losses when we were down in the first quarter and at halftime, when we were down by four or five goals, that we can't lose our cool. We have to just come out and play hard.

Joe Walters

We had good defense, especially our pressure defense in the first quarter.

Billy Waller

It wasn't a great quarter, but the expectations have gotten so low on J&J that a real ho-hum quarter is actually not a bad thing.

Bruce Cranna

There were a lot of fouls in the second quarter and that kind of took our momentum away.

Richie Meade

We had our best fourth quarter of the year. We didn't get the bounces for three quarters, but the girls took control in the fourth.

Jeff Thorne

We were faced with some difficult markets in the fourth quarter. particularly the continuing financial problems in Asian markets.

Philip Purcell

We played in-your-face defense and ran out to a 16-3 lead in the first quarter. At half, we led 22-10.

Grant Coley

We got some easy buckets against their press in the third quarter. I told the girls that if we get some easy baskets in the third quarter we are going to win the game.

Jason Murgel

They adjusted well and we struggled against the zone. We came out anxious in the third quarter, made some turnovers and we broke down. Once we did, we could never get it back.

Donald Parker

We had a tremendous fourth quarter across all metrics, with revenue gains in each product category: retail, PC OEM, enterprise/carrier and consumer electronics.

Craig Barratt

They made shots in the fourth quarter, and we didn't.

Mark Slotsve

We achieved a significant milestone with the creation of the world's largest LCD panel this quarter. The technology involved in creating a 100-inch LCD TV panel will be a catalyst for further TV innovation as we continue to meet the high demand for better picture quality and larger sizes.

Bon Joon Koo

He's a gutsy horse for as little as he is. He's built like a quarter horse, and he keeps getting better and better.

Martin Pedroza

Although we have been able to meet or exceed our financial projections since Oracle launched their hostile tender offer more than a year ago, the extensive publicity of the antitrust trial during the last month of our quarter was impossible to completely overcome.

Craig Conway

We got some looks, but we didn't finish. We let them back in the game. We kept fouling and putting them on the free-throw line, where they got most of their points in the fourth quarter.

Julian Bumbrey

This was a perfect game heading into the tournament. Union Grove came out to play and we needed to struggle and show that we could come back in the fourth quarter. We played a fantastic fourth quarter.

Mark Peperkorn

They came out in the third quarter and picked up where they left off.

Jack Martino

We came out on fire, which is something I was worried about because of the 13-day layoff. We played great in the first quarter, right with them the whole time.

Donnie Cash

Bonds had a great night and that is what we have been waiting for all season from her. She scored 13 of those points in the first quarter.

Heath Gibson

All the regions recorded growth this quarter, apart from Japan that saw a small decline in demand compared to the second quarter in 2004.

Carolina Milanesi

We are ready for the fourth quarter. Reaching pro forma profit does not require heroics, just execution.

Warren Jenson

Flows indicate that investors are nervous, with significant flows out of equities into asset allocation and fixed income funds over the quarter. The roughly 200% run from the lows of March 2003 is being interpreted by 'the bears' as a sign that the market must be in perilous territory.

Jeremy Gardiner

Carroll was their go-to guy and they played very well. If they had put the first quarter and a half together, they would have beaten us.

Tom Maier

This would represent a significant reprioritization of expenditures given that the fiscal year is already one quarter through.

Alan Gibson

It looked to be a very strong quarter. I'm surprised by how strong the HIV franchise was.

Jason Kantor

The strong first-quarter results lead us to believe that 1998 will again be a very good year for both Chrysler and the industry.

James Holden

The third quarter was probably the difference in the game. When you get behind like that to a team the quality of BIC, it's hard to come back. We did a great job coming back and tying the game up and going into overtime.

Spencer Hoffman

There is a lot of positive growth in the first quarter, but since the marketing plans of all these manufacturers were tied into Vista, they need to revisit these plans.

Samir Bhavnani

European government bonds are going to be the worst performing area in the first quarter. There'll be one more rate hike in the first quarter and another in the second quarter.

Stuart Thomson

We missed more than our share of shots close to the basket in that second quarter in particular. So that was the ball game. We missed about seven or eight point-blank shots in the first half.

Dennis Cromer

It is helping some, ... Ego says you want to be out there playing the whole game, but reality is you can't play your best in the fourth quarter when you're exhausted basically.

La'roi Glover

The levee failures we saw were in areas of the projects that were at their full project design. So that part of the project was in place and had this project been fully complete ... it's my opinion, based on the intensity of this storm, that the flooding of the Central Business District and the French Quarter would still have occurred.

Carl Strock

Banner ads are down slightly. In the second quarter of 1999, banner ads represented 59 percent of all online ads. In the first quarter of this year, they represented 52 percent. In the second quarter, they represented 50 percent.

Tom Hyland

I think it's a decent quarter, but that's going to be offset by some of the cautionary statements the company made for the rest of the year.

Jeff Graff

Their guidance for returning to profit in the fourth- quarter will probably be due to seasonality factors. There's still a possibility of loss in the first quarter of 2006.

Teo Chon Kiat

Morgan Stanley achieved strong revenue growth this quarter, particularly across all aspects of our institutional securities business.

John Mack

They busted out on us in the second quarter. We weren't picking up in rotation, and we were fouling a lot.

Bernard Thomas

With a three-quarter-billion-dollar order backlog and the first of many A500 deliveries last year, we now look forward to Craig providing his production experience to quickly ramp up deliveries to six aircraft per month to meet this strong customer demand.

Joe Walker

Clearly we are disappointed by these results. The battery business remains an albatross around the company's neck and it will take a least a quarter before these issues are cleared up.

Bill Chappell

It appears that operating earnings per share rose 6 percent to 7 percent in the second quarter, following a similar performance in the first.

Abby Joseph Cohen

In the first three minutes of the third quarter we took their will away.

Andre Walker

We are proud of the strong quarter that we have delivered in our first reporting period as a public company.

Paul House

The highlight of the March quarter was clearly the performance of our studio.

Tom Staggs

Fighting back is the sign of an experienced team. We didn't panic when we got down by eight in the second quarter. Instead, we kept playing hard and got a two-point lead by halftime.

Mark Atherton

The first quarter demonstrates that Siemens' business portfolio delivers strong growth on the combination of innovative solutions, strong presence in growth markets and acquisitions.

Klaus Kleinfeld

Coming off good first-quarter sales, we're excited about this market.

Jay Moore

Production cutbacks have remained in place in the third quarter and this has helped to further reduce inventory levels worldwide.

Lakshmi Mittal

It was very big to get that win and something we kind of played off. I felt no matter what happened that we had a successful run, but it was of major importance to the kids to get that win. I could really tell in the fourth quarter and there was a lot of excitement.

Todd Engle

Cable carried the ball for everything during the quarter--That's the way they've been for a long time now.

Harold Vogel

We're looking to a better fourth quarter as opposed to the earlier part of the year.

John Gleason

We're not in a position at this time to provide revised numbers. (But) it's safe to assume we will not make our third- or fourth- quarter numbers.

Marc Grossman

There is a consensus with the member countries to maintain the current quota as there is enough oil in the market. I expect a barrel at US$50 at least for the second quarter of the year.

Chakib Khelil

Bankers Trust generated broad-based improvement in both revenue and profitability in the first quarter. Bankers Trust nearly doubled investment banking profit from a year ago.

Frank Newman

My gut feeling is they'll probably say there will be low visibility in the near term, but things will come back in the third or fourth quarter of calendar 2001.

Stephen Kamman

In retrospect, we won the game in the first quarter. We outscored them 19-6 and that turned out to be just enough of a cushion.

Frank Rossi

You want to be there in the fourth quarter. We feel if we're within striking distance, we believe we can win the game.

Jeff Carnazzo

We knew that they were going to come out and run. I told the girls at the end of the quarter, that we had to get back and play good defense and that would get us back into the game.

Ron Sicard

Our earnings growth is especially gratifying in this seasonally low-revenue quarter, when we continue to incur fixed infrastructure costs including acquisition carrying costs.

Alan Hassenfeld

Our defense came to life in the fourth quarter. Our defense and foul shooting won the game for us.

Tim Whitney

This started to change during the last quarter as domestic order intake showed a noticeable improvement driven by low inventory levels as well as a general increase in the demand for steel.

Davinder Chugh

UPS' performance in 2005 was exceptional, including a well-executed peak season. All of our people pulled together to achieve the growth and financial goals we set for ourselves. Our momentum accelerated during each quarter of 2005 and we look forward to more progress in 2006.

Mike Eskew

Everything is quarter-scale and up.

Jeff Phillips

So if that were to turn out that way, then obviously we would miss the 18th consecutive quarter.

Henry Wallace

Up until the second quarter, we had not been a very good team in our three league games.

Rick Soracco

We expect the PC price war to intensify in the second quarter as Dell joins the battle, (and) we believe all (PC vendors), including Acer, will continue to suffer from declining average selling prices and margin erosion.

Henry King

The story here is driven by poor trading results. Hanging on the horizon are these storm clouds that emerge from the trading business. Every quarter you are holding your breath.

Brad Hintz

We believe that Compaq also did a good job on the profitability front, which should enable operating margins to more than double from third-quarter levels ... this should lead to earnings-per-share at least several cents higher than the consensus First Call estimates of $0.16.

Dan Niles

Schering-Plough shares are most likely to be impacted by first quarter 2006 results.

Catherine Arnold

We had a really good third quarter. We were able to make up some ground playing against their starters.

Mark Manchester

We played with a lot of energy and a lot of enthusiasm. Then in the fourth quarter we were able to get the future Lady Bulldogs some experience.

Bryce Swafford

At that point, we were forced to foul as we were most of the fourth quarter. We had to put them at the line and hope they missed and we would get the opportunity to score. We had our chances, but we couldn't hit our shots.

Mike Gossett

In the third quarter we played really well, but then we let up in the fourth, and Pleasant Grove is too good a team to let up against. We made a lot of mistakes in the fourth quarter.

Keith Flood

It was certainly a good quarter, way better than expectations, but futures orders were less than we had hoped for. With that said, I don't think the model is broken.

Jamelah Leddy

Investing in key items proved to be very successful during the fourth quarter, and we continue to build upon this initiative.

Bud Bergren

We just felt that we usually come back and we were forcing the ball a bit. In the second quarter, we stepped it up defensively and that in turn helps our offense.

Curtis Marshall

The start of the fourth quarter put the nail in the coffin.

John Tiziani

This was a particularly strong quarter for eBay across all parts of its business.

Rajiv Dutta

We didn't make our shots. We tried to make a run in the third quarter, but we missed too many easy shots that we should be making.

Lance Valley

We are deeply disappointed our lowered guidance for third-quarter earnings precipitated such a dramatic drop in EDS' stock price.

Dick Brown

We plan to add an additional 33 centers in the first quarter.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The impact of $60 oil prices in 2006 is very different indeed from the impact of high oil prices in the 1970s or 1980s. Energy is becoming a less important part of the global economy. Oil expenditure is currently about two percent of US gross domestic product, one quarter of what it was in 1980.

Richard Batty

Starting from the first quarter we expect to be profitable.

Li Dongsheng

I was very impressed with our defense the first half. We didn't take care of the ball as much as I would like us to. We had eight turnovers in the first quarter, but we limited it to 11 in the first half. When you have possession of the ball it makes it a lot easier to score.

Connie Allen

It's killing the hotels. They're having to sell to giant corporations at a loss to businesses that can absorb it. One hotel owner told me the first quarter he was down $40,000.

Pat Murray

It's a solid quarter, with solid top-line sales growth and comparable store sales growth, combined with gross margin expansion. Their clients have money, and they like to spend it.

Scott Mlynek

In fact, there is a chance that the March rate cut might be just [a quarter-percentage point] and not the [half-percentage-point] the market expects.

Tony Crescenzi

I thought our post players played excellent in the fourth quarter. I thought Nathan (Carlton) and Trent (Garner) started getting some high-low looks, and we got some easy baskets. We just didn't play very good on the defensive end.

Todd Plattner

Intel gave us a good preview of the quarter, but oil suffocated the positive news.

William Hummer

We believe that Boyd should also benefit from this continued Las Vegas locals growth, so we're currently projecting 9 percent (third-quarter) revenue growth for its Boulder Strip and Coast properties.

Marc Falcone

This has been a good quarter for Sony Ericsson, proving that our strategy of expanding the product portfolio upward ... is paying off.

Miles Flint

We're expecting operating profits to increase by 20% [to $4.4 billion] for the quarter, aided by strong sales in the U.S. and Asia and the weaker yen.

Tsuyoshi Mochimaru

I wasn't too happy with our defense in the first quarter. The second quarter we played better defense and that helped offensively.

Brad Ulland

There seems to be momentum building. The question is whether it's strong enough to carry through to the first and second quarter of 2004.

Jeffrey Joerres

Pursuing previously announced earnings targets despite the challenging fourth quarter and extremely difficult market conditions.

Heinrich Von Pierer

They were just running a trapping three-quarter court press. We saw from (Wednesday) that if we could get the ball to the middle, we could break it down.

Dawn Karpell

We have to strive for the completion of legal and institutional facilities this year. I hope it can be completed in the first semester or the third quarter of 2006 at the latest.

Burhanuddin Abdullah

By [mid-November] you'll start to feel the inflection of the holidays, as long as you've planned well, it frees you up to start thinking about January and the first quarter.

Kamie Twomey

It was a good second quarter for us. We got a good start in the first half, but the second quarter was definitely the difference for us.

Bruce Hess

Once again, we shot a lot free throws in this game. Over half of them were in the fourth quarter. We shot free throws pretty well today, 19 of 30 is not bad. It's not great. Definitely it was not like what we had the night before, but we made them down the stretch. That's what counts.

Ron Hop

We stacked the middle on defense after the third quarter when we noticed that they were running inside the tackles.

John Rafferty

There were about three minutes there in the second quarter where we kind of unraveled. That really hurt us.

Mike Brewster

Everyone criticizes the Chinese political system, but in the last quarter of a century, it has achieved a miracle.

Pan Wei

In the first quarter, we let them get a big lead. We didn't get one defensive rebound in the quarter and they had a lot of second and third chances.

Jeff Christensen

We're concerned (the charges) will overshadow what was a very strong quarter.

Colin Devine

They jumped to a zone and we've been practicing a lot of shooting. We banged our shots. We played very good 'D' that quarter, too.

Chuck Drury

If I had known they were very poor at the free throw line, we would have started fouling earlier in the third quarter. The kids never rolled over after being down by more than 20.

Mike Stallings

While we still have a long way to go, we remain optimistic that we will complete the merger late in the first quarter or early in the second quarter of 2001.

John Stanton

This is obviously a strong quarter, but investors did have high expectations for what the company could do.

Brent Bracelin

Our sales growth in the first quarter was driven by strong order momentum across our product lines.

Gideon Argov

There is nothing wrong that you can criticize and say it's a bad quarter.

Anton Schutz

They executed their offense real well. We were in the game into the fourth quarter, but they hit some big shots at the end of the game.

Ruben Patterson

Slightly, to my mind, implies 3- to 5-percent growth. I think most people were looking at the 7- to 8-percent range for the fourth quarter.

Dan Niles

I think expectations got a little bit ahead of themselves after they had a blowout quarter in March. In March they put up 40 percent sequential revenue growth.

Greg Vogel

We started playing their game in the third quarter, sending them to the foul line and stopping the clock. We had to get back to what we were doing in the first half to get the win.

Jim Thyfault

The second quarter is normally a slow season. But, we expect the price to hit bottom in June.

Frank Huang

We were down at half, down in the third quarter. We were just trying to pull out of our funk a little bit.

Doug Galloway

The stock market is ignoring all of the bad news that is coming out, either corporate or on the economy. There is a debate right now, quarter-or a half-percentage point cut from the Fed. It's becoming more and more evident it will be a half-percentage point and that might be helping the market.

Stanley Nabi

Wireless should continue to contribute solid growth in the fourth quarter, but this growth is expected to be more than offset by weakness in the PC and PC peripherals markets.

Bill Aylesworth

The biggest news from our third quarter 2005 was the completion of the US Airways/America West merger, and obviously our third-quarter results do not yet include any of the expected positive effects from that merger.

Doug Parker

The pretty robust market environment in the first quarter was helpful.

Christopher Dodds

It will be all right. It doesn't feel too bad. It was at the end of my playing time, maybe my last play (in the second quarter).

Marlin Jackson

In September, our largest month in the quarter, advertising has been challenging and visibility remains limited.

Janet Robinson

We had a stretch early in the fourth quarter where we had three straight turnovers. We have to cut down on the turnovers.

Mike Stebila

We played 32 minutes of very good defense. We attacked in the fourth quarter, and Arielle Powers played incredible defense on Sam Cutting.

Deb Rathburn

The quarter was good. Outlook was conservative for the full year which is good and we like the first-quarter guidance, ... I'd rather they start out conservatively (for the full year) and be able to move the numbers up rather than put a high bar up and set themselves up for disappointment.

Brian Modoff

We had a very good first quarter. We got out and got going an hit those threes.

Doug Pesicka

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

John Ciardi

We know the Champions League remains a very difficult competition. But given the make-up of the group, it's possible for Lyon to figure in the top two and qualify for the quarter-finals.

Claudio Cacapa

These are very, very bad numbers. There is a risk that private consumption may have shrunk for a fourth consecutive quarter, which would be a new negative record.

Andreas Rees

Our Internet business has surpassed our own expectations this quarter and we are on our way to becoming the online destination for small business -- the place where business does business.

Thomas G. Stemberg

The second quarter took it out of us. Losing takes its toll on anybody...we kept playing hard, though.

Jacob Tamme

It's like downtown LA has been in a vacuum for the last quarter-century. The core has been ignored. But now the time for downtown has come. ... We saw solid fundamentals there - a huge opportunity in new urban housing.

Tom Cody

The third quarter killed us. I thought we did a good job in the first half to stay in the ballgame. But obviously they caused us a lot of trouble in the third quarter.

Scott Severance

Guidance for the April quarter was appreciably better than expected.

Gurinder Kalra

That's the biggest uncertainty about HP. You have this big chunk of people leaving, so the question is, will that affect morale, and how is it going to affect this quarter and the next? They have a lot of uncertainties away from the PC business.

Mona Eraiba

Credit to them. I thought we had them on the ropes in the second quarter but then they came back and got the big interception.

Scott Alberssen

We didn't play very well defensively in the first quarter. We gave up 18 points in the first three or four minutes, but we played better the rest on the game.

Joe Shoemaker

The second quarter at this point looks like it's going to come in, perhaps, at 1.5 to 2 percent (real GDP growth).

Bill Kirby

Given that oil production has reversed somewhat in the past few months and the hurricane insurance pay-outs will not recur, we expect the deficit to narrow sharply again in (the fourth quarter of) 2005.

Alan Clark

We really started to play in the second quarter. Our pressure defense really started to work.

Jason Dominick

The fourth quarter was a pivotal one for Netscape, as we underscored our focus on the enterprise market with the introduction of our next-generation client and server software suites.

Jim Barksdale

World Health Organisation estimates suggest we prepare for a situation where one quarter of our population is infected.

Mike Rann

Strong performance across most of our power operations delivered a quarter-over-quarter increase in net earnings of almost 200 percent.

Hal Kvisle

India got all shook up there. I knew we should have scratched right then. She was all nervous, and she has never been like that. She ran a quarter of a mile and didn't put up a fight. She must have displaced or something because she was making all kinds of noises.

John Velazquez

We shouldn't have to wait a quarter of a century to find out whether he's exonerated or put to death.

Adam Stewart

Capital markets performance was excellent, a blow-out quarter.

Gavin Graham

We got stops for the first six minutes of the fourth quarter. Our kids played great defense.

Kelly Cooper

For (the fourth) quarter, there's just nothing to get excited about. Now, the question is: Where do the companies see things going?

Andrew Barrett

The first quarter we really played well, but then I thought we were spotty and didn't finish. We moved the ball up and down the field all night. We just didn't finish drives.

Jim Aldrich

I am particularly pleased with our performance in North America in the fourth quarter 2005 especially compared to an already strong performance in the fourth quarter 2004.

Chris Killingstad

The third quarter all year has been our strongest quarter. We knew it was our strongest quarter, and we were ready for it.

Robert Rexroade

We're off to a good start with first quarter results and very good progress on integration activity.

Sprint Nextel Corp

They just keep getting better each year. This year, they scrimmaged some (high-profile) programs (to get ready for the season). They had a lead in both games this year, but ended up losing in the fourth quarter. They play hard, and they can hit.

Paul Reid

Now we are emphasizing more things. We are getting there. Going into the fourth quarter (against Scott Central), the game was still close, 20-12.

Jud Gartman

I think they're probably going to do one more at the next meeting for another quarter per cent because they think that inflationary figures are still running a little higher than they would like.

Bob Moulton

We had a 15-point lead in the second quarter and probably could have put them away. But we made some poor decisions tonight.

Tim Reuter

We may have lost a little bit of focus in the second quarter, but overall I think we played well. We got three touchdowns in the first quarter and did what we had to do to win in the second half.

Gary Gravert

The bottom line is it is a very solid report, but with continued inflationary pressure building up, it will make it easy for the Fed to conclude (Tuesday's meeting) with a quarter-point increase.

Stuart Hoffman

They will probably need to do it sooner rather than later if the cycle turns, and the quarter looks much improved for memory, so timing would be good.

Scott Geels

The exceptional performance of household purchases in February bodes very well for growth in private consumption as a whole in the first quarter.

Mathieu Kaiser

Niche players can have one bad quarter and they don't have the wherewithal to survive that, or at least survive it easily.

Robert Walberg

Pocket Office is about a quarter compatible with Microsoft Office.

Ken Dulaney

We played pretty hard in the first quarter and did some of the things we tried to do in our offense and hit some shots. When they picked up the pressure there in the second quarter we just kind of backed down.

Phil Leonard

We started out slow on offense, but I thought our defense held us in. It could have been a 20-point quarter, but we held them to 8. We played a lot better in the second quarter. We loosened up and got it down to a manageable deficit. It was only four a halftime.

Dan Waterman

It's good to have this data because most insurance companies' investment dollars come from interest and dividends, which are usually fairly consistent quarter to quarter. Outside of that, we like to know what else they're earning on their investments and the biggest swing factor is usually partnership income.

Peter Streit

That is really the only sector in this employment outlook where you can see a softening that is carried through a quarter as well as on a year-over-year basis.

Jonas Prising

Everyone pitched in and did what he does best. Morris is a competitor and with the game on the line he was our go-to guy. Jesse McGrath took care of the inside with 12 rebounds and Kareem Diggs was a real spark plug until he fouled out late in the fourth quarter.

Jim Flynn

I think momentum is going to slow down, but I don't think markets are going to be as defensive as they were in the first quarter. There is room for the market to recover.

Subodh Kumar

(I liked the pace) other than the last three minutes of the second quarter when I felt we got a little too out of control. We went into halftime and said this game is ours if we can clean it up a little bit.

Troy Schwemley

Investors have gotten used to this company coming in and surprising year after year, quarter after quarter and beating analysts' expectations by a large amount.

Sanjiv Hingorani

We didn't execute well. (Davis and Richardson) really hurt us in the fourth quarter. We just didn't communicate.

Josh Howard