“With 2001 revenue growth rates now expected to be in a range of 9 to 18 percent and earnings per share growth expected to be negative 12 to 33 percent, we believe Yahoo!'s price-earnings multiple will contract until the company is able to demonstrate significantly higher growth rates.”

“With the rapid growth in our master trust and other funds, we want to ensure the processing part of our business is able to accommodate growth without compromising the quality of member services. This deal is a great outcome for our employees, clients and fund members as it will provide the support for our growth potential.”

“We previously assumed Whole Foods' growth rate would trend down precipitously after five years because we believed the company, similar to many high-growth companies, couldn't sustain its rapid growth. We think we are being overly conservative with that assumption.”

“We believe investors will again recognize the company?s capacity to sustain mid-teens operating-profit growth and solid organic growth well north of its peers.”

“Because the economy is so strong, import growth is also very strong, and that import growth is eroding trade surpluses. Surpluses of more than a billion a month might be over.”

“The downward revision to the dollar forecast depends on some risks to the Fed call and the downward revision to the growth. There are some risks to growth in the fourth quarter, mainly due to the effect of the hurricane.”

“As long as the growth is taking place in a slack economy, with a high unemployment rate and a low capacity utilization rate. That growth is not likely to be inflationary, and not much reason for us to worry about it,”

“That kind of growth is definitely not sustainable. I think we're definitely going to see a slower rate of growth, rather than an actual decline, but I can't say when.”

“Vendors are likely to see a fundamental shift in the market as they come to grips with the steep decline in mature-market desk-based growth and are forced to seek growth in other market segments.”

“Taking into account of population growth, the goal of doubling per capita GDP is achievable if only annual growth reaches 7.5 percent in the 11th five-year plan period,”