Quotes About Market

To determine the price-earnings ratio of a particular company's stock, you take the price per share of the company's stock and divide it by the company's earnings per share.

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than relying on manufacturers to act as their (often very imperfect) agents. Moreover, individual users do not

so. In contrast, the custom manufacturer wants to lower its

Studies of innovating users (both individuals and firms) show them to have the characteristics of "lead users." That is, they are ahead of the majority of users in their populations with respect to an important market trend, and they expect to gain relatively high benefits from a solution to the needs they have encountered there. The correlations found between innovation by users and lead user status are highly significant, and the effects are very large.

likelihood of innovating is higher for users having higher lead user index values. The rise in average innovation attractiveness as one moves from left to right indicates that innovations developed by lead users tend to be more commercially attractive. (Innovation attractiveness is the sum of the novelty of the innovation and the expected future generality of market demand.)

are at the leading edge of the market with respect to important market trends, one can guess that many of the novel products they develop for their own use

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

As the very term implies, this is a court-ordered effort to get the weary old mom out of the house and back into the job market, so that she can contribute to her own support.

The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

If you've got a squirt gun in your pocket, you may have to take it out. If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out," he said. Sometimes market fears can be self-fulfilling, and a strong demonstration can avoid the worst outcomes. I was reminded of the military doctrine of "overwhelming force" as the way to prompt quick surrender and minimize casualties.

WE THOUGHT THAT our actions at the December 11 meeting would be roughly in sync with investor expectations. The market reaction quickly told us otherwise;

Sometimes market fears can be self-fulfilling, and a strong demonstration can avoid the worst outcomes.

market participants grew even more concerned that the Fed wasn't being proactive enough.

The market thinks Bernanke is a rock star!" Bob Pisani of CNBC declared (prematurely, to say the least).

Merging the SEC and CFTC was a political nonstarter because they were overseen by separate committees in Congress. The congressional oversight committees jealously guarded their turf because the market players regulated by the two agencies could be counted on to provide lucrative campaign contributions.

Market reaction was positive but subdued. Many traders apparently had hoped for an explicit signal that rate cuts were imminent.

We saw the cooldown in housing as mostly good news.

We viewed some cooling in what had been an overheated sector as inevitable and even desirable.

I told her that I was frustrated by market participants' inability to grasp the plain English meaning of my statement.

But I worried that, with no anticipated end date, it would be hard for us to stop buying without shocking the market.

AIG FP's risk was compounded by the difficulty in valuing its highly complex positions,

Relative to the enormous size of the mortgage market, the number seemed small to me.

The bad employment report and our new liquidity measures competed for markets' attention on Friday.