55 Quotes by Liz Miller

It had been the black sheep of the household products companies for several years now, ... But they've really worked hard to get their cost structure in shape and get inventory under control, and they'd be a great beneficiary of a weakening dollar, which is what we've slowly been seeing here.

It is much more difficult today to build a portfolio that pays enough cash to live on.

I think we're in the middle of this painful period and we're just going to churn around for a while.

I think they're starting to do things right and they understand what the challenges are in the U.S. restaurant market, ... So I think looking out 18-to-24 months there's a decent return here and some nice growth potential.

Merck, too, is down on recent news, down in this case from around 85, ... You keep hearing a little bit of concern about their patent expirations over the next two years. Those are very real. But most of analysts say their drug pipeline is pretty solid and their earnings are project to be some 15-to-18 percent for the next couple of years. This is a great investment with which to balance out your high-tech holdings.

We thought the TCC was a natural location

We just don't have a good catalyst in these last few days to end us on an up note. The latest excuse is focused again on any military action in Iraq -- but certainly that's not new news and some portion of that should be discounted in this market. So, it's just these rival shots from different corporations -- today we get a little bit of better news.

We expect the fourth quarter to be pretty dismal, and the first six months of 2002 could be unexciting. Then it picks up from there. On a comparative basis, it'll look nicer than this year. I think we'll be up high single to a low double digits.

We're going to be looking for further evidence that it is a tight (labor) market, ... Or there has been some release on that pressure, but I think today's numbers tell us we had better expect the worst.