David Katz Quotes (107 Quotes)

By many measures the market is overvalued. We've had a wonderful two year rally. Typically, after you have a two year rally like that, the markets will slow. Greenspan will be one of a number of things that cause that.

There is a great likelihood the merger won't happen if the families vote against the merger plus the foundation,

We have to realize the tendency to gain weight is biological, ... It helps people to understand they're not to blame. For far too long, people have beat up on themselves and each other.

We think the stock is going to do very well. We like that industry. We think you have 40 percent upside on Applied.

We stay hungry longer the more diverse the flavors in a meal or snack. If flavors are thoughtfully distributed, we fill up on fewer calories. This explains why, for instance, people can eat a holiday meal to the point of feeling unpleasantly full, yet still have room for dessert. No, that's not because you have a 'hollow leg.' It's because of sensory specific satiety the hypothalamus is hard-wired to respond to flavors.

We think the recent sell-off has created some tremendous opportunities in the money center banks and the brokers, ... We'd be putting money into J.P. Morgan, which has had some lending to many of these companies that have had accounting problems. Citibank, we think, is going to do quite well and Morgan Dean Witter. So play off this negativity, buy some of these very good companies at very good prices.

Abbott Labs is absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.

You could have it sexual dysfunction because of sleep deprivation, stress. Alcohol can cause it. Very often it has to do with a relationship that is psychological.

From a competitive standpoint, while perfect execution could transform HWPCPQ into a powerhouse three to five years from now, we think the substantial near and intermediate term risks associated with integrating multiple products and business lines, diverse sales force and sales channels, and management far outweigh this potential upside,

Our feeling has been and continues to be that there are going to be lots of home runs and strikeouts in technology. It's not a quarter-to-quarter-assured industry.

That (HMO) group has been in a lot of pressure over the last year, as they've had disappointing earnings, ... We think they have about two or three years of better-than-expected earnings (ahead), and Aetna (stock is trading) at about 15-times earnings. So it's a cheap stock, a large-cap company due for better times.

It helps Yahoo users make more informed decisions about what they want to view and gives networks and studios more information about what users are really most interested in.

How many would do the 'right thing' and attend school Why, in fact, do we require school attendance Don't we trust children, and their parents, to make the prudent choice

We're looking for best-of-breed content in everything we do, and we relish getting access to Rivals content. The next step we need to take is doing a better job promoting all our assets, including this one, and making people aware of what we have, so you'll see a major ramp-up in the marketing of our content.

Our core business today exists on the computer because that's where the majority of our users are, ... Our goal is to provide our users on any platform with whatever content they are most interested in.

It's probably beneficial to eat the morning after, and I'm not convinced that it matters much what you eat. The biggest thing is to drink plenty of water. That's going to be the best thing the next morning.

People are looking for good news and, as they start seeing it, you're going to see more of these rallies, ... Businesses are going to start spending one day and they are going to start hiring one day.

It's very important to remember that with the Dow at 8,000 -- with the market at about 22 or 23 times earnings -- there's just very little margin for safety. If anything in the economy, anything with inflation, anything with a world event goes wrong, you're going to see more downside than you normally would.

This is not the case for milk chocolate, which contains potentially harmful saturated fats, or candy bars that dilute cocoa with a long list of other ingredients.

You can't. Blood tests reveal 'overt' vitamin deficiency, but routine tests will not show inadequate intake.

Parents must recognize that any medicine is a potential poison when taken in high dose, or by the wrong person.

Shaw Group reinvented itself over the last year and, as a result, their earnings (per share) are going to go from about 95 cents last year to about 1.40 to 1.50 this year and then another 10 or 15 percent growth next year. We don't think the market has fully perceived how good business really is.

January has historically been a better month in the market overall, especially pronounced in terms of companies that have had poor prior years -- after tax selling abates, they're due for a very strong bounce in January.

Absent these fundamentals of public health preparedness, no computer model will help us.

The CEO basically antagonized (Wall Street) on every answer, and just left everybody feeling entirely unsatisfied,

Three years ago, you had irrational exuberance, ... Currently you've got irrational despondency.

If you look at long-term trends in the markets the last 20, 30, 40 years, they are typically seven- to-10-year cycles where large caps do well, and then small caps do well,

Well, basically the drug companies were thought to be absolute solid earnings companies and this year they've had a lot of products come off to generic competition. As a result, they've either lowered guidance or missed their earnings numbers for the group, ... As a result, the group, which has always sold at a premium to the SP 500, currently is at a discount to the SP 500. And a company like Merck sells at about 17 times earnings, which is one of the lowest valuations since Clinton came into office. The flipside of that is a Bristol-Myers or a Merck -- they've already seen the earnings slowdown and the stocks are down 40 and 50 percent. Many of them are getting to levels that you really can start to buy.

They've grown earnings at about 15 percent a year for the last decade, ... They're always gaining market share. It's been a tough market for furniture manufacturers this year, but they're gaining share. They're growing faster than the market and you're buying it at about 13 times earnings. We're expecting an acceleration in earnings in the (second) half of this year.

Lawn mower injuries require an interaction between person and machine, and research such as this can serve to make adjustments to both.

The stock has behaved as though it would be a strong quarter and the company delivered on that.

They seem to be getting their act together, but the stock market has not reacted, ... What we're seeing in the broader market is companies can have one or two good quarters. Nobody pays attention. By the third quarter, where business is getting better, the stocks go up a lot.

Someone who is hiding something is usually paranoid that it's showing too much, or maybe not enough.

First we have to prove that it will work in humans, ... If that happens, then I would estimate that it will likely be a five-year process to turn the discovery into something people can use.

It's just a broad-based sell-off. Bank stocks are weak, tech stocks are weak.

Our best advice for investors is to pay less attention to the day-to-day volatility and look at companies with good fundamentals,

We like their long-term prospects. They're ahead of everybody else in terms of offering Internet services. They're also a wonderful credit card play and you're getting all that at about 13 or 14 times earnings with a pretty reasonable yield.

Gap in better times can earn 1 to 1.25 a share. The stock is off from 40 to 13, ... And we think they're a survivor. Their balance sheet is going to weather this difficult time. They are going to get their merchandising right at some point. Our expectation is by the summer, fall, they are going to be doing better.

The clearest evidence of the harms of epidemic obesity comes in the form of rising rates of diabetes in both adults and children.

Dark chocolate may be conferring vascular benefits via several pathways.

We think that the rhetoric is going to be fairly negative and that is going to push prices of drug companies modestly lower over the short term. That's a very good time to be adding to positions. We think a year or two from now, not a lot is going to change and the drug companies are good growth businesses at more reasonable prices.

we do think the housing market is going to be okay. It's not going to fall off a cliff. That environment will be quite good for Shaw and they're picking up a lot of market share, versus competition.

In some populations, increasing restrictions on tobacco use may be another factor. And while the overall trend cannot be explained by medication use, certainly the declines in the elevated blood pressure values are partly due to better medical care.

It's just a sense of completion. That's our answer to terrorism. We're going to come, and we're going to keep coming, and we're going to grow the country.

Clearly, they paid a full price for it, and there are uncertainties associated with Guidant. But (the deal) does change the whole business and the franchise of Boston for the better, assuming they pull it off.

It's very difficult to try to make a stock market forecast based on an interest rate outlook because things change. We don't think you gain a whole lot of value by trying to make those type of predictions. Take a step back, get rid of a lot of noise, and focus on good businesses, good industries and not pay too much, you sleep a whole lot better and you've got a much greater probability of success.

We think this is the cutting edge that's going to define how our products shape next generation networks, ... What happens here will be happening in other industries in a very short period of time.

People covered by Medicare tend to have more health problems than younger people. But many of them can ill afford the medications they need. The result is that they may not take them, allowing readily controllable health problems to evolve into unmanaged crises.

It's something that we have to do. It's our answer to the terrorism that goes on there,

People who say obesity has been hyped are wrong.