Joe Cooper Quotations

Through 2001 profit gains are expected to continue slowing, but get back to more sustainable levels. People are viewing this as terrible that growth is slowing, but that's going on the assumption that high double-digit growth is normal.

Now we're in slash and burn time. We think that analysts are going to take down estimates to 5 or 6 percent growth.

If the dollar gets above the level we saw in the fourth quarter, then there will start to be a slight detriment to earnings. The dollar index would have to rise by about 3 percent from where it is now to start even showing up as a slight impact.

I thought this program was very eye opening and very informative. It deals with issues that we don't often think about, but that we should.

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Retailers are doing a much better job in terms of inventory control.

We think when all is said and done, you're talking about something like 13 percent growth.

There are a lot of upside surprises. It's just across the board.

Everybody hears that tea is healthy, but they hear that green tea is healthy. What they don't realize is that white tea is much healthier.

These companies are having a tough time following through with the kind of sales projections they had forecast only months ago, ... No one, including the analysts themselves, had predicted such a significant and all-encompassing slowdown, and there's a lot more to come.

Tech companies are not saying that things are recovering quickly. They are saying that things are recovering gradually. But tech stocks are not priced for slow improvement.

It's par for the course in terms of warnings. There have been 301 pre-announcements so far, and 56 percent of those have been negative.

It's par for the course in terms of warnings, ... There have been 301 pre-announcements so far, and 56 percent of those have been negative.

The numbers that VA Linux reported included a charge of $4.2 million. If you take that out, they actually lost 23 cents a share, as compared to the analysts' expectations of a loss of 21 cents.

The numbers that VA Linux reported included a charge of $4.2 million, ... If you take that out, they actually lost 23 cents a share, as compared to the analysts' expectations of a loss of 21 cents.

I'd say they're maniacs, really, ... You push buttons, and it just does what it wants.

The underlying themes are interest rates and commodity pricing. Home buying has slowed down, thus the consumer furnishings area has started to hurt, and in some cases consumers aren't buying any clothes anymore.

The underlying premise of why we're seeing all of these warnings is a slowing economic cycle. The analysts didn't foresee that growth would slow down as much as they thought.

Analysts have always been biased. It's in their nature to be partial. They're covering an industry because they believe in that industry, and they're covering the stocks that are the best in the industry.

All the same, a rate cut won't have any immediate effect on companies' profits. These rate changes take six months to a year to be felt, which means it won't be until the second quarter of next year that the last interest rate hike makes its way through the economy. So it may look pretty bleak until then.