purely because we will face more difficult comparisons resulting from last year's solid performance. |
The partnership between Missouri State University and IBM creates tremendous opportunities for both students and faculty alike. I applaud IBM's effort and commitment to advancing the study of technology in schools. I would encourage others to follow in their example of providing support to students who will be called upon to compete in an increasingly technology-driven, global workplace. |
The thing I remember is that Johnny Bench hit that ball further than I'd ever seen a human being hit a baseball. I don't know how far he hit it, but it was a shot. |
They have a commitment for a Super Bowl, we have commitment for an All-Star game. It's a big-time opportunity for Kansas City. |
They shocked us, we never expected them to throw this much. We anticipated them running the ball. We just did the best we could. |
We achieved our fourth consecutive quarter of net income in excess of $1 billion and the highest net income ever reported by the company in a non-Christmas quarter in our history. |
We are excited about the earnings growth achieved in the first half of the year, but temper our enthusiasm for the second half purely because we face strong comparisons resulting from last year's solid performance. |
We are well positioned for the holiday season and look forward to continued double-digit growth in sales and, more importantly, earnings, |
We're really excited about growth internationally, |
We've made our share of mistakes and we've tried hard to correct them, but we've never covered them up, ... What we need to do much better is to get our story out about how we feel and how we really run our business. |
When major-league baseball came to Kansas City, Ewing Kauffman always said Joe deserved most of the credit for making that happen. |
While we're trying to do the right thing by our customers and shareholders, we did nothing about our image. Therefore we've been vulnerable to attacks, ... I thought all we had to do was run our business and it would go away. But we already know the result of that. |
Yes, [Basin Street was] first, and maybe they will be the largest. As far as concerns about what some have called 'Whitesville,' they don't understand what's happening here. |