The Best Line I've Heard on an Earnings Call

Chad Dreier, the CEO of The Ryland Group--a large, national homebuilder--presented RYL's third-quarter earnings on a conference call.

An analyst from Ram Partners commented that he perceived some frustration in Chad's voice about the decline in RYL's stock price despite the great results that the company has produced this quarter and in the past five years. Chad said it was like:

"I offered you Cindy Crawford and you complained about her mole."