414 Quotes About Earnings

The '90s was the slippery slope from managing expectations to managing earnings to outright fraud.

I think you're looking out two quarters, maybe even three quarters before you start to see a substantive increase in earnings for some of these companies. That, to me, is in a nutshell what's going on in the markets.

We keep getting earnings reports that are horrific.

I just don't know how far we'll be able to go with the Fed helping us out. At some juncture, the numbers as far as earnings are going to have to turn around.

The worst of the earnings news is probably out of the way and expectations are probably back in line.

It was too much for the market to overcome. Otherwise, it could have been an even better year profit-wise if so much of (companies') earnings weren't deflected into energy costs.

Once all the results are in, I think this is going to be a positive earnings season. Some of the headline names have disappointed.

In-zone markets will probably have slower earnings growth.

Earnings right now is as good as you could possibly imagine. I mean, the economy is strong, the technology economy in particular is strong. I think what we have seen, though, is a phase shift on Wall Street and, frankly, investors are looking for reasons to sell.