Consumer spending has been pulling the wagon for a while now. That won't be the case next year.
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SHERRY COOPER Pretty healthy retail sales growth in November reinforces belief that consumer spending is picking u...
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DOUGLAS PORTER But, as it has been our wont this year, we have one bad quarter and it came in the third quarter.
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BILL CUNNINGHAM The consumer can pop for a spree now and then, but spending at its basic level is pressured by a neg...
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CHARLES WHITE Increasing home prices and the ability of consumers to cash out their growing home equity has been a...
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ELVIS PICARDO I'm not going to jump on the wagon now and say, yes indeed, here we are. Certainly, it has been a ni...
FRANK ROBINSON The way China is looking to boost consumer spending is astounding. They are going to boost the minim...
WILLIAM FUNG It has a good script now, so we should have that one up and running next year for release in 2008.
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ADAM ROWLEY The biggest saltwater tide this year has now reached the province and it will last for eight days un...
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HANS VESTBERG It could happen tomorrow, next year, five years from now. But somewhere there has to be a fall.
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JENNIFER GARNER Right now we see ourselves on a continuing declining path in the deficit out over the next several y...
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PETER TOWNSEND What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to d...
PETER DRUCKER There are no creeds in mathematics.
PETER DRUCKER Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
PETER DRUCKER So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
PETER DRUCKER The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
PETER DRUCKER The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
PETER DRUCKER There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKER Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
PETER DRUCKER INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an oppor...
PETER DRUCKER