47 Quotes by Ken Perkins

We've already seen some big disappointments in both Limited and Ann Taylor. Up front, retailers are also facing their most difficult hurdle of the year in the form of a 6.1 percent gain racked up in September last year.

We are going to see the effect of higher energy prices trickle up to the middle-income consumers.

We're getting some very good results today despite the very difficult 6.7 percent February same-store sales comparisons from last year.

When you say a school and a district is going to be judged on this, and then it's not a valid test, that doesn't seem right.

One obvious explanation (for the weakness) is that investors are aware that Best Buy faces much tougher sales comparisons, particularly in the second half of the year. Looking at the numbers, second-quarter sales were up 7.8 percent, third-quarter sales rose 5.8 percent.

Next month is the first time the company marks the anniversary of positive sales comparisons. From here on, the comparisons get increasingly difficult.

Fourth-quarter retail earnings are expected to grow 13.5 percent. That's below last year's growth and could come down further if we see plenty of promotions.

If the housing market just levels off, which seems to be happening right now, we'll be OK. But if there's a precipitous drop, then spending could really fall.

We've finally got a great February. The first set of numbers indicates that this was a blowout month with the kind of sales gains that we haven't seen in a while.