Paul McManus Quotes (15 Quotes)

We are working on pushing the ball up but if we don't have anything not to rush and if we play with patience than we can play with anybody in this league.

In general, most companies still have trouble passing on price increases, so as result, they're going to have to continually reduce their costs of production and that means their use of raw materials and the amount of people they hire and so on.

People are saying, 'I don't know what's going to happen, but I'm going to wait around and see what the Fed does,' ... When everyone is uncertain, you're going to get a lot of volatility.

We came out in the second half, went to our zone defense and I thought that the kids did a great job.

The bulls aren't running but they're stamping their feet, ... (The news) heartened a market clutching at anything that even looks like good news. With fundamentals remaining the same, we're not looking at a sustainable rally.

And what we've done is emphasize those companies because the technology is changing so rapidly and becoming so complex that these companies are going to do very, very well as design changes are made and demands are made in the semiconductor industry.

If you can't hide in drugs, where can you hide ... Drug stocks have been dependable, a good defensive play, a good place to hide, and now this.

If robins are the first clear sign of spring, then financial crises like the Enron scandal are the first clear sign of a recession's end,

I thought that we were more patient with our offense in the second half compared to the first which was important.

The market appears to be forecasting zero growth in earnings next year, ... I don't think that's going to happen, so that's where the opportunity lies.

I consider this event as critical, if not more economically damaging, as Sept. 11, 2001. We have no idea what the extent of the damage is down there, and we may not know until next week.

We're treading water today. With most of Wall Street on vacation, I think that's all we'll be doing until after Labor Day.

Hope is wrestling fear in the market right now, ... If Greenspan's upbeat comments...cut the odds of another rate cut next week, his optimism probably had a greater effect on investors than a quarter-point cut would have had anyway.

The end of the war won't produce a starburst of economic growth, nor will it unleash a tidal wave of business spending, ... Instead, we'll get just enough business and economic activity to keep us from slipping back into recession and to set us up for stronger growth next year.

They have been repeatedly saying they're going to continue their mission of trying to restrain inflation, ... They want to make sure oil inflation does not spread into core inflation.