Exceeded Quotes

While this loss of life exceeded that of the Oklahoma City bombing, it is very remarkable that it was not worse. - Paul Mlakar

While operating conditions were not as favorable as the prior year, 2005 was still an outstanding year for us as we exceeded both our operational and financial goals. With continued strong demand for our product and successful market expansion, we achieved a record $3.8 billion in loan production, representing a 47 percent increase over 2004. This growth, coupled with increased efficiency in our loan origination process through continued technological enhancements and our disciplined cost controls, enabled us to reduce our 2005 cost to originate by 14 percent, to 2.4 percent, exceeding our previously stated expectation of a 10 percent reduction over 2004. - Hugh Miller

When we started doing this, we weren't sure what response we'd get from students and parents. It has exceeded our expectations. - Ronda Reid

What's happened so far has exceeded my expectations. - Paul Allen

What a tremendous accomplishment this is. We felt like we were going to have a great year, but this has already exceeded what we thought. ... To win and HVL championship is pretty special. - Pat Bowlin

We've had a pretty significant rally over the last few months. The fundamentals have been better, but perhaps the stocks got a little bit ahead of the fundamentals as a number of companies have met or exceeded second-quarter expectations but haven't necessarily raised the bar for future quarters. - Brian Alexander

We've exceeded the sales estimate for the month. We turned the production at a very healthy pace. - Paul Ballew

We've definitely exceeded my expectations. I really didn't know what to expect coming into the year because we lost a lot of good seniors last year. I was very pleasantly surprised at the new guys we brought in. It's made the season very enjoyable. - David Moline