Projections Quotes

Most market analysts are holding on to their economic or corporate projections while adopting a wait-and-see attitude to assess if oil prices will remain at current high levels.

I always give myself a 5-per-cent cushion either way. So I can tell you that we will definitely spend the $27-million by opening night (March 23). That`s when the budget runs until, because we begin to recoup the next day. And we could go slightly over $28-million. But all projections are within the 5-per-cent window.

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.

The American people deserve honesty, and this budget is dishonest by omission, and dishonest in how it portrays the overall budget projections.

Today?s (venture capital) money chases older, more-established companies with real cash flows, rather than pie in the sky projections. Silicon Valley has evolved.

I take issue with their very aggressive projections. There`s no way they can generate that kind of money. It`s not realistic. It doesn`t mean anything.

Almost all the projections have UAB in now and if UAB isn`t invited after what they did against Memphis, then they ought to shut the NCAA tournament down.

Projections through 2010 are good, ... It`s unusual that we will be able to open a new building without a tax rate increase. All you have to do is go up and down the county and you see the construction. We need a new, permanent building.

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.