Quotes about digits (15 Quotes)



    We think pricing is going to be up in mid-single digits as early as June. People are not really looking at this at all. And historically, if you look at a price to sales multiple, this stock can trade as high as 40-to-50 (per share),

    Basketball is always a game of spurts. And as a coach, it's my job to coach the team to stop the spurts. And that's what I told the team at halftime. We knew it would eventually be a much closer game, maybe single digits.

    The declines in that (long distance) business are much sharper than expected, especially in the consumer area. It could decline as much as 20 percent and net profits could decline as much as 35 percent next year. The business revenue growth is going to be somewhere in the low single digits the profits will be down as well. The positive thing that came out today is the break-up. I think that will create value. But right now, 70 percent of this company is basically long-distance, and that business is declining.

    The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.


    Beyond Y2K, IBM's hardware business, PCs and storage servers, it's not been acting well. They are not a leader in many of those product lines. I think they still have more work to do to get into the position where the entire company can then grow at double digits.

    Eventually you get to the point where you won't be able to grip anything. Your ability to grip an object depends very much on the thumb the thumb is the most powerful of the digits, so when movement of the thumb becomes painful you can't hold on to things.

    That's exactly what I expected to happen. Caribou came in off a huge win. They'd lost to us twice in the regular season by double digits, but they had nothing to lose and everything to gain and they weren't afraid.


    Mozilla's popularity has gone from almost zero to double digits, so they have had to deal with a lot of sudden attention. Since Mozilla has become popular, people have been looking for more vulnerabilities.

    I still say, to have a good basketball team, you need to have at least three guys a night in double digits, if not four. There's no question that (Shanahan is) a key to our success, but so are the other guys on the floor.

    I was actually shocked when I looked up and saw we were up by double digits, and 15, and then it was 20. The kids did a great job in the fourth quarter finishing on the foul line. I told them I would take a heart attack otherwise so they were kind to me tonight.



    When you start making incremental changes like that with double digits then that starts chipping away at their base. We can't truly call ourselves a majority unless we take back the black vote as the party of Lincoln. We are going to reclaim that.



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