33 Quotes by Paul Nisbet

We don't know if it's a momentary problem or one that's more long-standing, ... The fact that they haven't indicated whether it's momentary probably has everybody spooked, figuring it's a heavy hit for the year.

Both of them were better than the Street had expected, they are both doing very well. Lockheed is doing a bit better because they don't have the shipbuilding problems that Northrop has.

Boeing?s talking about assembling these planes in a few days because everything they?re getting will be so complete.

There's some money being spent in the replacement of weapons and munitions that are heavily used.

They were flying a lot of empty planes. They don't want that to happen again.

They (results) were well above expectations, it was a good quarter. I would expect most of these defense firms to flatten out as far as top-line growth is concerned, but for a while at least they are going to maintain growth in the bottom line.

They threw sand in the production engine. They're getting the planes out, but at a high cost.

There really wasn't any improvement on the defense side from a year ago. I can see why Wall Street isn't too delighted by it. But it's a temporary thing.

It's a tough business, ... You are bidding set prices on multi-dimensional construction projects and the competition is very steep.