Jeff Matthews Quotations

I don't think it's a sign of give-up. They don't need all that cash to grow.

I don't think Sears happened as quickly as Lucent, peak to trough. But it's a valid analogy.

We take our share of heat from the New Yorkers. But we let them know. That's the Red Sox way. We're loud and obnoxious.

He's a tough runner. He runs so hard. Last year, he was a great running back doing different things, but he's running hard. Add that element to his great moves and it's tough to bring him down.

I think it's a great fit. I think Aaron could have gone to a couple bigger places, but all the attention he got from them helped out.

I think it really helps the administration's case on this tax cut. It's a real company saying OK, we're responding to government incentive.

We came out and split Pat out in a spread formation and tried to see what we could get. When you have as many weapons as we do, it loosens up defenses. Our offensive line has been working extremely hard and they've been doing a great job of opening holes.

The quality of reported earnings went down pretty badly during the bull market.

We all played against each other. That kind of competition really makes for good results. ... Section Four was represented well.

We are going to be kicking off a voter outreach program that will be phased in over the next several weeks. Our staff is going through different levels of training. That's an ongoing process.

Corporation spending decisions are driven far more by taxes than outsiders realize. If there's a way to save money by utilizing this tax break, they'll do it.

Don't do this at home. You need to know what you're doing and be on top of it every minute of every day.

And there was nothing happening in Texaco, Exxon, Mobil, Royal Dutch and Shell. If you owned those so-called great companies, you weren't too happy.

There will be a knee-jerk, let's-buy-GE reaction. But it won't be any kind of market leader.

It's just stupid. When's all this stuff going to happen? What's going to happen between now and then? You invest because you see a trend that's real, because you see a real business.

It's a good way of rationalizing the marketplace, so it's good in the long run. It puts weak companies in the hands of stronger managements, so that's good in the long run, too.

It's SARS, right? It can't be the fact that every cell phone in China comes with a camera built in. This is what it was like watching a buggy whip manufacturer go out of business. I'm sure there were buggy whip guys saying that it was hoof and mouth disease that was killing them.

It's tough to say (how he'll do the first season) because you're still talking about an 18-year-old kid who doesn't know the system yet.

Eisner is nothing if not a survivor and a political animal. He's such a control freak, he'll want to control how it plays out. So he'll start looking for a partner.

They were very methodical and had great line surges. The back ran very tough and they just pushed the pile.

They worked hard and played well all year. It's nice for our defense to get some honors. It's easy for people to get caught up in the offense. It's nice they had the opportunity to showcase.

Their work has been exemplary as this negotiation carried over to two boards.

General Electric was last cycle's story. It was last cycle's story because of natural gas generators. Everything else didn't hurt, but their power generating business is what really blew the doors off everything.

For the most part, what we're seeing is folks are ... selling their houses down in Montgomery County, moving farther west and making that commute down (Interstate) 70.