IIRC, he felt like if he was honest and good at calling the numbers, wall street said it wasn't that great because they didn't exceed the numbers much if at all.

Then again if he played the game and played down expectations stock would drop just on that prediction and wall street's own made up numbers never adjusted to his predictions anyway.... so things would at best be flat.

Generally he was just tired of it all I belive. This was after the .com crash and they had weathered that really well compared to many companies but also this was the time when Wall Street was turning into "short term lots of growth only please" kinda folks and our company was plenty profitable but never going to grow massively.