43 Quotes by Michael Holland

We have been and are probably in the midst of some sort of significant recession, ... The stock market predicted it ? it's already down. Since the market has already priced in the recession, we get these really strong reactions on the upside when there's a glimmer of anything positive.

When Mr. Fisher joined Eastman Kodak, I was a shareholder with great anticipation that he would take a technological problem and make it into a technological opportunity, ... Lou Gerstner did that at IBM. I thought there was a possibility, actually a probability, that we'd get that out of George Fisher. Unfortunately it hasn't happened yet.

We've come from 7,500 in October to 10,000 shortly thereafter, ... I think the next 2,000-point move is not back to 7,500 but up 2,000 points.

There are lots of nasty stories but despite that we've had a stealth bull market.

Both owning asset management and not owning asset management are reasonable positions to take.

The government numbers are often lagging indicators rather than coincident indicators. I think there will be confirmation that we have a somewhat weak period right now.

Every time in the last couple of weeks that this has looked closer to a resolution, the market has done better.

Each 1,000 point market becomes less important because the percentages get smaller and smaller, so they have become truly irrelevant in some measure, ... But (10,000) is extremely important because a lot of people who have had a little bit of shaken confidence over the last several years (are probably going to) come in here.

A number of people were looking for the good news that occurred, ... When the dust settles, people also say, history argues for the market going up. So people who may have been inclined to sell just don't.