36 Quotes by Howard Silverblatt

We believe this project will have a significant impact on evaluations, income and balance sheets, and will become the major issue in financial accounting over the next five years.

When everyone has money, you get into a bidding war.

I would definitely agree that numbers are cleaner than they've been in several years. But a decade? I don't know.

Cash is an asset that sits on the sideline and waits to be invested,

But the bottom line is the charge existed. It's there.

Given the historically slow pace of change for dividends, the growth in dividend payers since January 2003 has been remarkable. Unlike the prior 20 years when the number of paying issues actually declined by 25%, since the start of 2003 the number of paying issues within the S&P 500 issues has risen by 10% to 386. For the remainder of 2006, we expect a continuation in both dividend increases and initiations among S&P 500 constituents, resulting in another double-digit gain in dividend payments.

The aim of the S&P 500 is to emulate the entire market, not necessarily do better than the market. If we beat the overall market, we're not doing our job.

We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.

Unlike pensions, which are regulated, OPEB has no legal requirement to create a trust entity to fund the current and future costs. Additionally, specific tax treatments and credits set up to encourage pension funding do not exist for OPEB funds.