Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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The market mood has been boosted by hopes that most of the corporate houses will unveil better than expected quarterly earning numbers in the weeks ahead.
We believe that we will continue to experience incoming order rates in excess of quarterly revenues for several quarters, although quarterly bookings will remain volatile. Critical to our success will be the ability to meet the needs of our major customers, alleviate the supply chain constraints restricting revenue growth, and drive increasing operating margins at higher business volumes.
So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.
Local advertising is bought more on a quarterly basis than an annual basis, ... A lot of economists have been lulled into a false sense of growth due to strength of '03 upfront the advertising bought in the spring for the fall 2003 television season. But that is only one-quarter in '03, and three-quarters in '04.
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
On investments, 1998 Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, 30 cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.
We are pleased with our fourth quarter results which, we believe, again demonstrate the Firm's operating leverage and our ability to improve pricing as demonstrated by another sequential improvement in our flex gross margin and earnings per share. We believe that we can continue to migrate the Firm's flex revenue footprint to higher margin business, and are accelerating our hiring of permanent placement associates as the staffing cycle dynamics remain positive. We believe that our ability to generate cash flows from operations of 22.3 million in the fourth quarter, which are the highest quarterly cash flows from operations in the Firm's history, and our strong balance sheet will enable the Firm to capitalize on opportunities to accelerate our growth.
Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.
We have found that these releases focus attention on short-term sales variations rather than the overall business trends that are critical to management decision and to quarterly and longer-term earnings results,
100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than 100,000,000, by which time it will be worth nothing.
Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
The superb quarterly results are indicative of the company's ability to deliver on its strategy of providing shareholders with superior returns through increasing gold production, strong earnings and cash flows, and the lowest cash costs in the industry,
I hardly expect to have any surprises, ... The surprise will come from GE helping people understand what can be done and will be done in the future. Instead of telling you a bunch of random numbers, we in fact may have ability to build a relevant quarterly earnings model.
He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly.
In Volvo's most recent quarterly report we announced measures to adapt the level of Group costs, and since then signs of a weakening market have not declined.