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MACK BRADLEY![]()
There was a negative swirl in the market; every pronouncement using the bubble term made buyers paus...
JONATHAN MILLER Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.
BOB BURKE Sales of meat birds and egg-laying birds have fallen 25 to 30 percent since the news of the bird flu...
BHARAT TANDON The problem with the study is that big-box retailers and online retailers are not within the area st...
HANK BARRY Intel was able to minimize its revenue decline in NOR flash to only 0.3 percent during the year, whi...
DALE FORD Beef sales have been flat year over year, while chicken product sales are growing 8 to 10 percent a ...
RALPH ALVAREZ We are expecting a 30 percent increase this year (in total sales).
HU YONG Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN While growth in sales of mobile devices are likely to slow, we expect TV sales to increase by more t...
EIICHI KATAYAMA Every year we see our prescription sales increase ... up to 63 percent of our sales now. At the same...
CAROL HIVELY Investors will tolerate a small increase in inventories -- about 5 to 10 percent -- as long as there...
KRISHNA SHANKAR The sales of bottled water are increasing by 30 percent a year here.
LI DEQUAN It's the early signs of some cooling in this super-heated market. Fewer people qualify for loans and...
DAVID RESLER We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES Footwear brands and the retail sector are forced to reflect the cost of the duties in their sales pr...
HORST WIDMANN I expect it will cut my truck sales 30 percent. Next January my diesel sales will be 10 percent, the...
BARRY LEHMER Also, as general license sales are down by 5 percent this year, it is unreasonable to expect the ove...
CARL ROE A smoker who cuts back on the number of cigarettes by half reduces the risk of lung cancer not by ha...
NINA GODTFREDSEN What's interesting is the increase in the sales price of homes, 13 to 14 percent, based on our offic...
DAVE NASH Poultry gross sales climbed 17 percent over year-earlier levels due in large part to increased value...
LARRY BURT The profit outlook is especially good for makers of electronic components. Sales will rise by at lea...
ATSUSHI OSA [We reached] the high end of our target margin range of 3.5 to 4 percent reinforces the fact that we...
MERLE GILMORE We believe that higher wood product prices may impact comparable store sales in the third and fourth...
MICHAEL LEWIS Much like the beef herd, heifer retention for herd replacements was up 4 percent and will allow an i...
CHRIS HURT Against this background we are confident of our earlier expectations that we will be able to grow pr...
HENNING KAGERMANN We know campaigns that combine extensive advertising with stepped up law enforcement get positive re...
CARLOS LOPEZ The major factor driving this improvement was a dramatic 66 percent increase in storage onion prices...
LARRY BURT Online travel sales fared even better this year. The sector was up 35 percent versus 2002 and has mo...
DAN HESS Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer...
CRAIG ALBRIGHT We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES Holiday sales have become a vital component of the retail sales cycle for millions of small business...
GAIL GOODMAN Our research shows that as much as 15 percent of Sears store sales are influenced by customer resear...
BILL BASS The first provided a 10 percent signing bonus and a pay increase of 3 percent in the first year and ...
CHARLIE MCDONALD The weakness in the stock price, despite the better-than-expected earnings, is due to the company sa...
DANA L. TELSEY While the domestics are still spending far more proportionally, the numbers are not as far off as th...
JANE LIU![]()
Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT."
DAVE BARRY Over the past 10 years we've experienced tremendous growth in respiratory sales, averaging close to ...
DENNIS COOK Historical studies would probably show you could get a 10-to-15 percent boost in revenue for the top...
JEFFREY LOGSDON The LCD glass business, again, had a record quarter. We had sales increase by almost 60 percent for ...
DAN COLLINS Sales are starting to get back up there after the holiday period and prices show no real sign of wea...
HOWARD MORLEY Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table ...
CRAIG SHNIDERMAN We believe that Hurricane Isabel could negatively impact September sales by approximately 0.5 to 1.0...
DANIEL BARRY Trucks make up more than 60 percent of our sales.
BRENDA RIOS Record wood product prices may spur comparable store sales at Home Depot and Lowe's, ... Wood produc...
MICHAEL LEWIS Record wood product prices may spur comparable store sales at Home Depot and Lowe's. Wood products r...
MICHAEL LEWIS![]()
The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When...
MARK ZANDI That's just the continuing trend. We believe the price will continue to be up even in the face of fe...
HARVEY SHAPIRO In the 13 years ended 2004, that group was growing at a 1 to 4 percent rate every year. Last year, f...
BOB SIMONSON About 50 percent of our sales associates turned up today and our executives are helping them.
ANNE KEATING The likely slowdown in Korea due to the recent elimination of handset subsidies could reduce worldwi...
EDWARD SNYDER While many companies use multiple logistics cost measures, the primary metric chosen can have a sign...
DAN GILMORE We're looking, hopefully, for a positive sales growth of about 2 percent this year. The stores that ...
BILL BAKER So far this fiscal year, we have experienced sales tax increases over the same time last year of 5.3...
JIM WEHMEIER For every 10 access points in one mile, the accident rate goes up 10 percent.
JOE BLUBAUGH These figures suggest that a large number of smokers are purchasing their cigarettes through alterna...
BILL PHELPS It's not like prices are going to fall 72 percent or 39 percent. I think the greatest drop we've see...
INGO WINZER Two thousand and five was the year of the emerging market. Booming demand in the Southern Hemisphere...
NEIL MAWSTON The jobless rate could fall below 4 percent in March or April, and that could prompt views that grow...
NAOKI IIZUKA As Omron Corp. aims to reach 750 billion yen in consolidated sales in fiscal 2007, we want to contri...
KEIICHIRO AKAHOSHI The good news is that sales for January seem to be right on track with our previous forecast of 4 pe...
LEONARD RIGGIO Ethanol makes up only 10 percent of a gallon of gasoline. If gasoline prices are up 36 cents, then e...
BOB DINNEEN The money comes from reducing the state sales tax incentive on ethanol from 20 to 10 percent.
CINDY DAVIDSMEYER About 95 percent of the time, weather is an unrealistic excuse, ... Less than 5 percent of the time,...
BURT FLICKINGER We're concerned that McDonald's may not be able to sustain these levels of comparable sales gains ov...
DEAN HASKELL It looks pretty clear that sales volume will decline from record level but will still be high while ...
HARVEY SHAPIRO We are on budget and the percent average of ticket sales is over our expectations.
CESARE VACIAGO We set a target of 40 percent for conquest sales, and based on sales figures from October through Fe...
GARY BARHAM The stock market is going to surprise people right at the beginning of the year -- certainly go abov...
BYRON WIEN According to the current indications that sales growth in the first quarter will be slightly below o...
HENNING KAGERMANN Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT![]()
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen...
STEW LEONARD![]()
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen...
HENRY KISSINGER We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes - which is, for 50...
GRAY DAVIS Out of every one hundred Americans, fewer than two get aid from today’s cash welfare program. Just...
KATHRYN EDIN Sales at the 2006 Miami show exceeded our company's all-time performance by 40 percent. We attribute...
DAVID KNIGHT The budget changes every year and to match the $16 million we have to make up 20 percent of that, wh...
JOE DIAZ Other than seasonal weakness, the New Taiwan dollar's recent appreciation is expected to cost TSMC 4...
LORA HO The state numbers have come down significantly, from around 28 percent in 2002 to approximately 10 p...
KAYE THOMPSON Imagine a 40-to-50 percent sales tax -- that would cheer everybody up,
ROBERT MCINTYRE We had sales of over NZ$1 billion for the last quarter -- the result of developing new businesses, m...
CHRIS LIDDELL The sales people can spend 100 percent of their time with customers on the sales floor. This system ...
DEBORAH WEINSWIG I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot, ... I think you're looking at a first quarter that's ...
DAVID ROSENBERG I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot. I think you're looking at a first quarter that's goin...
DAVID ROSENBERG Molson Coors' third-quarter results were driven primarily by a very favorable effective tax rate of ...
BONNIE HERZOG Wal-Mart was rightly cautious with its outlook. Their first-quarter sales barely met the lower end o...
JEFFREY KLINEFELTER For the year, sales to Dell were $782 million and represented 15 percent of our revenue. This compar...
PAUL CURLANDER In 1999 ... booster seats were used by only 5 percent of 4- to 8-year-olds. By the middle of last ye...
DR. DENNIS DURBIN [Increased interest rates might also mean a smaller pay raise as well as a more gradual increase in ...
DAVID ORR It's going to be probably one of the greatest harvests ever. We're looking at a 2 percent to 4 perce...
GEORGE ROSE By contrast, dealers spend 20 percent of their time on referrals, be-backs, and repeats, which resul...
JEFF SACKS Reduction in prices of electronic parts for mobile phone handsets (was) also drastic which undermine...
ICHIRO TAKAHASHI Reduction in prices of electronic parts for mobile phone handsets were also drastic which undermined...
ICHIRO TAKAHASHI GM, which chose not to push fleet (in February), saw its market share plummet to just 23.7 percent. ...
JOHN MURPHY The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of t...
L. NEIL SMITH The rate of (mental) decline was reduced by 10 percent to 13 percent per year among persons who cons...
CLARE MORRIS There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that's not right.
MICHELLE FAIRLEY Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence, ... Each year, fewer tha...
COLMAN MCCARTHY Although we expect consumer spending to slow sharply in the fourth quarter, to below 2 percent, as a...
JOHN RYDING
MACK BRADLEY
There was a negative swirl in the market; every pronouncement using the bubble term made buyers paus... JONATHAN MILLER Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.
BOB BURKE Sales of meat birds and egg-laying birds have fallen 25 to 30 percent since the news of the bird flu...
BHARAT TANDON The problem with the study is that big-box retailers and online retailers are not within the area st...
HANK BARRY Intel was able to minimize its revenue decline in NOR flash to only 0.3 percent during the year, whi...
DALE FORD Beef sales have been flat year over year, while chicken product sales are growing 8 to 10 percent a ...
RALPH ALVAREZ We are expecting a 30 percent increase this year (in total sales).
HU YONG Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN While growth in sales of mobile devices are likely to slow, we expect TV sales to increase by more t...
EIICHI KATAYAMA Every year we see our prescription sales increase ... up to 63 percent of our sales now. At the same...
CAROL HIVELY Investors will tolerate a small increase in inventories -- about 5 to 10 percent -- as long as there...
KRISHNA SHANKAR The sales of bottled water are increasing by 30 percent a year here.
LI DEQUAN It's the early signs of some cooling in this super-heated market. Fewer people qualify for loans and...
DAVID RESLER We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES Footwear brands and the retail sector are forced to reflect the cost of the duties in their sales pr...
HORST WIDMANN I expect it will cut my truck sales 30 percent. Next January my diesel sales will be 10 percent, the...
BARRY LEHMER Also, as general license sales are down by 5 percent this year, it is unreasonable to expect the ove...
CARL ROE A smoker who cuts back on the number of cigarettes by half reduces the risk of lung cancer not by ha...
NINA GODTFREDSEN What's interesting is the increase in the sales price of homes, 13 to 14 percent, based on our offic...
DAVE NASH Poultry gross sales climbed 17 percent over year-earlier levels due in large part to increased value...
LARRY BURT The profit outlook is especially good for makers of electronic components. Sales will rise by at lea...
ATSUSHI OSA [We reached] the high end of our target margin range of 3.5 to 4 percent reinforces the fact that we...
MERLE GILMORE We believe that higher wood product prices may impact comparable store sales in the third and fourth...
MICHAEL LEWIS Much like the beef herd, heifer retention for herd replacements was up 4 percent and will allow an i...
CHRIS HURT Against this background we are confident of our earlier expectations that we will be able to grow pr...
HENNING KAGERMANN We know campaigns that combine extensive advertising with stepped up law enforcement get positive re...
CARLOS LOPEZ The major factor driving this improvement was a dramatic 66 percent increase in storage onion prices...
LARRY BURT Online travel sales fared even better this year. The sector was up 35 percent versus 2002 and has mo...
DAN HESS Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer...
CRAIG ALBRIGHT We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES Holiday sales have become a vital component of the retail sales cycle for millions of small business...
GAIL GOODMAN Our research shows that as much as 15 percent of Sears store sales are influenced by customer resear...
BILL BASS The first provided a 10 percent signing bonus and a pay increase of 3 percent in the first year and ...
CHARLIE MCDONALD The weakness in the stock price, despite the better-than-expected earnings, is due to the company sa...
DANA L. TELSEY While the domestics are still spending far more proportionally, the numbers are not as far off as th...
JANE LIU
Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT." DAVE BARRY Over the past 10 years we've experienced tremendous growth in respiratory sales, averaging close to ...
DENNIS COOK Historical studies would probably show you could get a 10-to-15 percent boost in revenue for the top...
JEFFREY LOGSDON The LCD glass business, again, had a record quarter. We had sales increase by almost 60 percent for ...
DAN COLLINS Sales are starting to get back up there after the holiday period and prices show no real sign of wea...
HOWARD MORLEY Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table ...
CRAIG SHNIDERMAN We believe that Hurricane Isabel could negatively impact September sales by approximately 0.5 to 1.0...
DANIEL BARRY Trucks make up more than 60 percent of our sales.
BRENDA RIOS Record wood product prices may spur comparable store sales at Home Depot and Lowe's, ... Wood produc...
MICHAEL LEWIS Record wood product prices may spur comparable store sales at Home Depot and Lowe's. Wood products r...
MICHAEL LEWIS
The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When... MARK ZANDI That's just the continuing trend. We believe the price will continue to be up even in the face of fe...
HARVEY SHAPIRO In the 13 years ended 2004, that group was growing at a 1 to 4 percent rate every year. Last year, f...
BOB SIMONSON About 50 percent of our sales associates turned up today and our executives are helping them.
ANNE KEATING The likely slowdown in Korea due to the recent elimination of handset subsidies could reduce worldwi...
EDWARD SNYDER While many companies use multiple logistics cost measures, the primary metric chosen can have a sign...
DAN GILMORE We're looking, hopefully, for a positive sales growth of about 2 percent this year. The stores that ...
BILL BAKER So far this fiscal year, we have experienced sales tax increases over the same time last year of 5.3...
JIM WEHMEIER For every 10 access points in one mile, the accident rate goes up 10 percent.
JOE BLUBAUGH These figures suggest that a large number of smokers are purchasing their cigarettes through alterna...
BILL PHELPS It's not like prices are going to fall 72 percent or 39 percent. I think the greatest drop we've see...
INGO WINZER Two thousand and five was the year of the emerging market. Booming demand in the Southern Hemisphere...
NEIL MAWSTON The jobless rate could fall below 4 percent in March or April, and that could prompt views that grow...
NAOKI IIZUKA As Omron Corp. aims to reach 750 billion yen in consolidated sales in fiscal 2007, we want to contri...
KEIICHIRO AKAHOSHI The good news is that sales for January seem to be right on track with our previous forecast of 4 pe...
LEONARD RIGGIO Ethanol makes up only 10 percent of a gallon of gasoline. If gasoline prices are up 36 cents, then e...
BOB DINNEEN The money comes from reducing the state sales tax incentive on ethanol from 20 to 10 percent.
CINDY DAVIDSMEYER About 95 percent of the time, weather is an unrealistic excuse, ... Less than 5 percent of the time,...
BURT FLICKINGER We're concerned that McDonald's may not be able to sustain these levels of comparable sales gains ov...
DEAN HASKELL It looks pretty clear that sales volume will decline from record level but will still be high while ...
HARVEY SHAPIRO We are on budget and the percent average of ticket sales is over our expectations.
CESARE VACIAGO We set a target of 40 percent for conquest sales, and based on sales figures from October through Fe...
GARY BARHAM The stock market is going to surprise people right at the beginning of the year -- certainly go abov...
BYRON WIEN According to the current indications that sales growth in the first quarter will be slightly below o...
HENNING KAGERMANN Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen... STEW LEONARD
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen... HENRY KISSINGER We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes - which is, for 50...
GRAY DAVIS Out of every one hundred Americans, fewer than two get aid from today’s cash welfare program. Just...
KATHRYN EDIN Sales at the 2006 Miami show exceeded our company's all-time performance by 40 percent. We attribute...
DAVID KNIGHT The budget changes every year and to match the $16 million we have to make up 20 percent of that, wh...
JOE DIAZ Other than seasonal weakness, the New Taiwan dollar's recent appreciation is expected to cost TSMC 4...
LORA HO The state numbers have come down significantly, from around 28 percent in 2002 to approximately 10 p...
KAYE THOMPSON Imagine a 40-to-50 percent sales tax -- that would cheer everybody up,
ROBERT MCINTYRE We had sales of over NZ$1 billion for the last quarter -- the result of developing new businesses, m...
CHRIS LIDDELL The sales people can spend 100 percent of their time with customers on the sales floor. This system ...
DEBORAH WEINSWIG I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot, ... I think you're looking at a first quarter that's ...
DAVID ROSENBERG I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot. I think you're looking at a first quarter that's goin...
DAVID ROSENBERG Molson Coors' third-quarter results were driven primarily by a very favorable effective tax rate of ...
BONNIE HERZOG Wal-Mart was rightly cautious with its outlook. Their first-quarter sales barely met the lower end o...
JEFFREY KLINEFELTER For the year, sales to Dell were $782 million and represented 15 percent of our revenue. This compar...
PAUL CURLANDER In 1999 ... booster seats were used by only 5 percent of 4- to 8-year-olds. By the middle of last ye...
DR. DENNIS DURBIN [Increased interest rates might also mean a smaller pay raise as well as a more gradual increase in ...
DAVID ORR It's going to be probably one of the greatest harvests ever. We're looking at a 2 percent to 4 perce...
GEORGE ROSE By contrast, dealers spend 20 percent of their time on referrals, be-backs, and repeats, which resul...
JEFF SACKS Reduction in prices of electronic parts for mobile phone handsets (was) also drastic which undermine...
ICHIRO TAKAHASHI Reduction in prices of electronic parts for mobile phone handsets were also drastic which undermined...
ICHIRO TAKAHASHI GM, which chose not to push fleet (in February), saw its market share plummet to just 23.7 percent. ...
JOHN MURPHY The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of t...
L. NEIL SMITH The rate of (mental) decline was reduced by 10 percent to 13 percent per year among persons who cons...
CLARE MORRIS There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that's not right.
MICHELLE FAIRLEY Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence, ... Each year, fewer tha...
COLMAN MCCARTHY Although we expect consumer spending to slow sharply in the fourth quarter, to below 2 percent, as a...
JOHN RYDING
When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.... 
The real business of life is trying to understand each other. 
You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you&... 
I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-c... 
I used to a lot. I used to go dancing. 
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing. 
As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel l... 
I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me. 
Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of thin... 
Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the... 
We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audie... 
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it... 
My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut. 
You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think. 
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. 
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts a... 
As society advances the standard of poverty rises. 
Only Christ could have conceived Christ. 
Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t... 