John Manley Quotes (42 Quotes)

What usually happens is we have a honeymoon period when a president comes into office, but due to the closeness and contentiousness of the election, I don't think that will happen this time.

I think they'll take it very seriously and I think that they'll find, in Parliament at least with the Liberal party, not a lot of serious opposition to this.

It would boost confidence in the overall equity market. The best statement a management can make that it believes in itself is for it to take the company away from you.

People are incredibly intolerant of even the slightest hint of bad news,

You just look at him, his facial expression, and knew he was a natural person to be in law enforcement, ... He wanted to help people. We will truly miss him.

This is the place to invest, ... The big caps in the classic pharmaceuticals I think are attractive on a longer-term basis.

I think there is some optimism growing, ... Wall Street faces two problems How fast the economy is growing and also the level of the economy.

The higher bond yield is weighing on stocks. There is a perception the Fed is unhappy with how strong the U.S. economy is.

We're still running down leads, and we're getting information each and every day,

The fact that the bond market is rallying today is a plus. If this ends up being a bear market, it will be one of the first ever that began when interest rates are down.

The reward money is for his arrest it has nothing to do with a conviction or anybody testifying in court, ... His arrest, that's what this money is about.

We're hoping the reward money will generate some interest in the community someone who knows where he is, where he's hiding,

Technically, 5,000 is an arbitrary number. It's like turning 50 or 40. Does it matter Are you a lot older one day to the next But it is a milestone.

This is the fourth 10 percent correction we've seen in as many years, ... After the last three, the slower you were to buy the dumber you were.

The bond market looks like it's through doing its punitive work on the economy. Four months ago, the long bond was 10 percent above its 52-week average. That back-up slowed the economy down. Now it's back to its average yield. That's very positive for stocks.

Next week promises to be a very slow week as people begin to anticipate the Christmas holiday. The key will be the lack of any bad earnings news. The market probably tends to trend higher.

This is still a real growth sector. There was a lot of fluff in there, but a lot of that has come out.

I think it's just the first taste of the (economic) data. The demand for technology still seems to be there but (inflation concerns) mean the market will bounce all over the place.

I think it's going to be a decent market. And I think it's also going to be a tougher market to make money in than it's been in the last year-and-a-half. But it's not bad, and it's still worth sticking around for.

I think Chase is a very good story, ... I mean, at (a) 45 percent discount to the market, (it's) a very good place to be.

While it may not be a 20 percent year, it can be a better year than we've experienced so far. The ability to pick stocks, not just the good ones but avoid the bad ones, becomes very important.

If I had to pick a number, I'd say probably around 5600,

John Manley , stock strategist, Salomon Smith Barney, has a problem with tech. Sort of. Here's the problem, ... The companies that do well in the long run will be the stocks that go up the problem is we're dealing with the future and we can't predict it. I think a lot of these guys will deliver on their numbers. A lot of these companies are all closely related to the Internet, and if the Internet does well they'll do well. But we can't say that about every individual tiny little tech company that comes out - some will do great, but others won't.

It's going to be very interesting. Tomorrow will depend on the number. If it is good, I think the bond market (yields) wants to go lower.

And no influence from nowhere will keep me from doing what's right.

I'm not against building a new school I know they need it but I'm looking at spending less on a school. I just can't bring myself to vote yes on this.

But Salomon portfolio strategist John Manley points out that one big reason that third quarter gain looks so good is that the third quarter last year, which included the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, was so incredibly bad. These are not outrageous numbers, ... You just have very easy comparisons from a terrible point in time.

The Fed is not targeting the market with these rate cuts but it is targeting the economy the economy will not respond to rate cuts for another six months so what will the Fed look to for the next six months to give them a sense of whether these rate cuts are succeeding, ... My answer is 'the market'. Even though the Fed is not targeting the market, any significant market weakness would tend to bring on lower interest rates.

It was clearly wrong to assume that this would be a walkover, ... but now I think the market is being a bit too pessimistic.

It's a very cheap company in the sense that if you look at multiples on both sales and earnings, it's slightly less than a market multiple, ... For 40 years this company's been near the cutting edge of technology. And more than any other technology company, you're seeing acceleration in earnings.

It's a grown ups market that looks hard at the fundamentals -- the difference between making and not making a number are so enormous.

Hewletts accelerating, ... That kind of multiple, that kind of history, and that kind of infusion of new blood. That sounds like a pretty good story to me.

I've liked financials -- I think I have a terminal love affair with financials. They're very cheap stocks and I think you have a great decade coming at you with the baby boomers hitting retirement,

Here's a real growth story, ... They have good technology and more importantly they have new technology. And as you see those parts go out the door, you'll see the earnings accelerate.

Get the car number, get the officer's name and tell the truth, ... We are trying to do something about this, but we have to do things peacefully.

The rapid rise does tell you something that we know already -- the market is so starved for good news that it doesn't take much for the market to go up.

There are a lot of tech stocks out there to choose from. You can buy IBM ( IBM Research , Estimates ), a good company, with rising growth rate expectations - you don't have to focus on this or that dot.com.

Fear, greed, loathing aside, (the question is) does the economy slow down before inflation shows up. The trick is to watch these things continuing.

December, as the last month of the quarter and the last month of the year, is true- confessions month. For the first time we are seeing real, numerical signs that Asia is having a bigger impact on earnings than we expected.

I was ready for that three years ago when I sought the post, but you know times change and life moves on. It may not be forever but right now it wasn't the time to go back.

I think Intel is still very good. It's done very well, but it is still a very, very strong story, ... I think Bank One is a very strong recovery story in the financial area. That usually does well as we see an economic recovery. Weyerhaeuser is in the forest products industry. A great secular story there in the next five to 10 years as home building picks up with the baby boomers getting older and the baby busters are getting bigger.

I share the ambassador's hope, ... But I don't expect to see it in my lifetime. I don' think we'll go back to Sept. 10. I think the world changed in an irrevocable way it's unfortunate but that's what we live with.