Ron Hill Sort Quotations

I think you know you can find some interesting areas. And I've been trying to figure out - you know, the race doesn't go to either the tortoise or the hare right here, but maybe to the ants, the guys who sort of work hard all the time, and grow steadily,

We have had really spectacular profit reports, by and large, from most companies so far in this quarter. I think retail will be a disappointment, going forward. But, up until now, without any retailers, we've had a nice run. But people have been saying, you know, first of all, the growth rate has slowed from the first quarter to the second, and then the projections are that they will continue to slow down in the third and fourth quarters - we're coming up against really tough comparisons. And I think you know as people look to sort of the slowing of the growth rates, they begin to worry about valuations.

Everything's playing into the idea that the stress in the economy is beginning to ease. The Fed will take that bias away from inflation and make their risk assessment more balanced between inflation and growth. I think in all of the major indexes the bottoms have sort of been made here in October, and now we're ready to advance. I don't think it's a huge advance...trends are definitely in the investors' favor.

The whole thing with the government has not really weighed on this company at all, ... The company has continued to grow itself and sort of change its stripes from a ugly competitor to a more sort of new, friendlier Microsoft.

They're on the right track for subscriber growth, ... But more importantly, they're starting to focus now on getting more money out of each subscriber. So one of the tricky things will be to get people to stop focusing purely on subscriber growth and start thinking more about revenue per subscriber. They've got their own sort of gathering area for shopping for e-commerce, for Christmas time. Remember e-commerce season starts now with back-to-school and peaks with Christmas. This is going to be a time of a lot of excitement in the Internet space and we think AOL is well positioned to take advantage of that.

The key thing here is, we're sort of short on liquidity, so we don't have enough money to raise everything. Investors have to focus on good sectors with leading stocks especially with good earnings revision profiles, and where there's support for rising profit and expectations going forward,