Quarterly Earnings Quotes

#1. I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.

Gerry Schwartz

#2. Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

J. Irwin Miller

#3. Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Barack Obama

#4. The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular and they don't like to be the nail that sticks up, as they say.

Christopher Galvin

#5. What's blocking action on climate change is what's blocking action on all the other issues that matter: it would cut into profits. Never mind the deep future, not when what's at stake is quarterly earnings.

Rebecca Solnit

#6. Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

John Maeda

#7. There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

Thomas Perez

#8. There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

Edmund Phelps

#9. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

#10. I went at one stage to turn on the radio, but he glared
at me so ferociously that I hurriedly lean't back in my
seat and looked out the window instead.
- heller 1

J.D. Nixon

#11. Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some.

Lisa Randall

#12. The butterfly is the totem of transformation and change and a symbol of courage.

Mary Alice Monroe

#13. I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.

Janette Rallison

#14. The sponge of my heart had been filled up sometime last evening and had begun to drip.

Paullina Simons

#15. I love my son and am proud of my son.

Robert H. Schuller

#16. You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

Anna Quindlen

#17. Great sex is, of course, a top priority.

Anderson Cooper

#18. Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.

Aiden Wilson Tozer