Jeff Matthews Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.