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BRAD ANDERSON We plan on achieving profitable growth in the European market by opening stores, growing same-store ...
DON MEIJ We have very positive sales results at Mercedes-Benz in March. Overall we are above the year-earlier...
CHRISTOPH KOEPKE The weakness in the stock price, despite the better-than-expected earnings, is due to the company sa...
DANA L. TELSEY We consider the whole demeanor of the store: what the product is, how they keep the store looking an...
JEFFREY KATZ It gets people out of their homes and closer to stores. You would think it would boost sales.
FRANK BADILLO It's hard to continue to better your best year after year. You're called on to have incrementally be...
LINDA PRUITT Nobody shows up for (a concert) expecting it to be dull and boring. They want to hear something exci...
MARCUS ROBERTS They don't have enough promotional inventories in the stores. They'll only be selling full-price and...
DANA TELSEY Beef sales have been flat year over year, while chicken product sales are growing 8 to 10 percent a ...
RALPH ALVAREZ The key is to keep them in the stores a little longer. Certainly they're in a turnaround situation. ...
DAN POPOWICS![]()
Every year, it keeps growing, ... It's becoming a Lutz tradition.
GORDON BROWN It's so hard for Pep because once you start to do big things, the expectations keep growing and grow...
MIKE RUCKER The consumer spending numbers seem to be good, but so much of it is going to oil. It's difficult to ...
PAUL FINKELSTEIN At least some of the problem is the artificially high sales last year, which is making this year's s...
BOB SCHNORBUS With the year-end and new-year retail sales showing good results, the market mirrors optimism about ...
TSUYOSHI SEGAWA I'm not surprised they had good results.. The stores were packed during the holidays and even on Dec...
CHRISTINE CHEN We're all about providing resources to make our parents be great parents and I'm here to assist them...
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One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standar...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Our performance in both the quarter and for the year demonstrates that our business model is solid a...
MAXINE CLARK The problem with the study is that big-box retailers and online retailers are not within the area st...
HANK BARRY Unfilled orders earlier in the year contributed to weaker sales results for the balance of the year ...
JACK WARD I tell everybody there are only three things that we do. We build sales at the store level, we build...
FRED DELUCA After the season, ... when you stop and look at the numbers and look at everything, I'm not going to...
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LEANDER KAHNEY It was a real good weekend. Corey had an incredible year. He really came into his own and beat some ...
DON JANTZEN Every year we see our prescription sales increase ... up to 63 percent of our sales now. At the same...
CAROL HIVELY Online sales are growing at a healthy clip, even though sales may have pulled back somewhat from the...
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It felt like it's been so long. It's an incredible feeling after the tough year last year,
LINDSAY DAVENPORT When you look around campus, it seems like the freshmen class gets bigger every year. If we keep gro...
ASHLEY MCGHEE We know it's coming, but the people don't want to change. The community's growing by leaps and bound...
BARB FOX We're looking, hopefully, for a positive sales growth of about 2 percent this year. The stores that ...
BILL BAKER We might not see retail sales numbers that are that strong yet, but they will pick up toward the end...
JAMES CARRICK The comparison will be difficult because of the calendar shift of Easter, which is in April this yea...
FERNANDO TRACANELLA The best time to look at what we can do better next year is during this year's fair. We're going to ...
DANIEL WEST The difference that she's made really shows in our numbers. The jump that we've had between last yea...
DESIREE WILLIAMS The area has many facilities, coaches and good weather year-round. Year after year the level of play...
BRIAN SCHLEIFER So far we've been pleased with our productivity inside our stores. When you look at getting the cust...
GARY MUTO I'm here trying to gauge my music and the ice and get into the season. Last season, we had the same ...
EVAN LYSACEK In a year of record high gas prices, we grew in-store sales. This goes to prove the theory that cust...
GREG PARKER We run generally about 15 teachers pretty much throughout the year. Many of them have classes that t...
BETH SMITH![]()
My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
DAVID FRIEDMAN We are very pleased with our results for the year. We achieved important financial goals for the yea...
HECTOR MEDINA A late Easter this year, following an early one last year, contributed to weakness in chain store sa...
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
IMAN It gets so frustrating, week after week, year after year. I don't know what people have not noticed ...
CRAIG THOMPSON Based on the robust results, we are are confident of achieving our full-year objectives for new reco...
DANIEL VASELLA Online travel sales fared even better this year. The sector was up 35 percent versus 2002 and has mo...
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What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD As indicated earlier, we were disappointed in our 2005 financial results. Despite certain areas of o...
JACK WARD So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They ...
PAT OLIPHANT Last year was our best year since the 1990's in the overseas market and with aggressive marketing an...
BRUCE MACMILLAN New models will help boost sales in overseas markets this year as they did at home last year.
STEPHEN AHN Wal-Mart plans to open 20 stores in China this year. We could hire up to 150,000 people there to fil...
AMY WYATT The numbers look fine. It is a reassuring set of results.
JAMES GOLOB The lowest actual sales numbers for the year are almost always in January or February. That's becaus...
WALT MOLONY While book sales continued to perform well at U.S. superstores in the third quarter, overall sales t...
GREG JOSEFOWICZ Some stores aren't impacted at all, some stores need some more people and some stores will adjust th...
CHRIS BRATHWAITE I reckon we'll have twenty-five thousand or even thirty thousand people this year. We just keep on g...
MATHAUS WALDORF Our comparable store sales results for the quarter exceeded those of our traditional and luxury depa...
BRAD MARTIN Over the coming year, we will strive to profitably grow the sales of our transformed U.S. network.
JEAN COUTU Every year we have new ones. Agricultural tourism is growing. The object is to maximize direct sales...
DESMOND JOLLY Carlos is a valuable member of this team and we look at him the way we look at all of our players: E...
DAVID SAMSON However, in the future, IKEA will keep an expansion speed of opening one or two stores each year.
IAN DUFFY [Two hours after that,] we became inundated, ... We weren't prepared for it ... the images were just...
ALFIE DENNEN In the first quarter of this year, sales rose 35 per cent compared with the same period last year. A...
LI XIANG This time of year, there are days when the majority of the people who come into our stores are homeo...
JEANETTE MORRISETT You've got to look at year-to-date numbers. If I just looked at November, I'd slit my wrists.
MICHAEL SAUNDERS Facebook keeps asking whats on my mind, i just keep posting : you wouldnt wanna know dat
OLASOT Compared with the slowdown at the start of the year, these numbers look a little healthier. In the s...
ROSS WALKER I had a lot of emotion from missing a lot of games last year, just the emotion of coming back. Was I...
JULIAN PETERSON After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on ...
AUSTIN LIGON I wouldn't even call it a title defense. Nobody can take the title away. I just look at it as a new ...
DAVID NOEL For a full-year basis we're looking at sales basically being flat this year versus where they were l...
DAVID GARRITY If you are not ready and anticipate what's coming, you fall behind a little. I think I picked up a l...
DAVID PAK We've noticed each year it gets better, ... People appreciate this event for what it is. They leave ...
JAMES WHALEN The St. Johns store is being consolidated into the Alma and Lansing stores.
SCOTT SHAFER The full-year results season coming through in Europe so far looks pretty positive.
ADRIAN DARLEY We expect our results for the remainder of the year to be in line with the earnings per share range ...
MIKE WRIGHT It's exciting for the kids who are coming in next year because they feel part of the program already...
GRANT STANDBROOK![]()
Aging is a myth, he argued, and he showed it by posting his personal best at 3:01 in his 61st year.
GEORGE SHEEHAN Our goal is to keep increasing numbers and that's what we did this year.
JACKIE RODRIGUES This is a company that has consistently delivered strong results, one quarter after another, and ove...
DEBBIE WANG It appears as if Wendy's missteps over the past two years could be ending and that the growing new p...
ANDREW BARISH At the same time, we saw solid sales increases in the front-end of the store, especially during the ...
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your inte...
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BRETT GALLOWAY Maybe last year was the year of injuries and things. Maybe from now on, nothing will happen. That's ...
CARLOS BELTRAN Price, price, price. We're looking at value instead of price and trying to offer good value to a bro...
GAIL LAVIELLE What gets people into trouble are small claims several times a year. It indicates there's a pattern ...
JEANNE SALVATORE We knew they were coming out for us. Especially after what happened last year.
JULIE FUTCH Food is definitely an additive feature, and it keeps people in the stores longer and keeps them from...
DON GHER Looking at the results leads me to say that the probability for cell phone unit sales to continue su...
ALBERT LIN He's fun. He keeps me laughing, and it seems like he's going to keep everyone entertained this year,...
ANGIE WATSON We are at the mercy of whatever they do. We need the loans, and with having two in college next year...
AMY COX This year, he's had to handle the ball more at times. For the most part, he's at the wing, posting u...
MARK NOLD Motivation is what gets you started and results is what keeps you going.
ROSA M. BETANCES It's frustrating. We know we're better than we were last year, and the year before. I think people c...
ALLIE FLYNN
DANA TELSEY Our segmented stores significantly outperformed the rest of the chain once again in terms of [same]-...
BRAD ANDERSON We plan on achieving profitable growth in the European market by opening stores, growing same-store ...
DON MEIJ We have very positive sales results at Mercedes-Benz in March. Overall we are above the year-earlier...
CHRISTOPH KOEPKE The weakness in the stock price, despite the better-than-expected earnings, is due to the company sa...
DANA L. TELSEY We consider the whole demeanor of the store: what the product is, how they keep the store looking an...
JEFFREY KATZ It gets people out of their homes and closer to stores. You would think it would boost sales.
FRANK BADILLO It's hard to continue to better your best year after year. You're called on to have incrementally be...
LINDA PRUITT Nobody shows up for (a concert) expecting it to be dull and boring. They want to hear something exci...
MARCUS ROBERTS They don't have enough promotional inventories in the stores. They'll only be selling full-price and...
DANA TELSEY Beef sales have been flat year over year, while chicken product sales are growing 8 to 10 percent a ...
RALPH ALVAREZ The key is to keep them in the stores a little longer. Certainly they're in a turnaround situation. ...
DAN POPOWICS
Every year, it keeps growing, ... It's becoming a Lutz tradition. GORDON BROWN It's so hard for Pep because once you start to do big things, the expectations keep growing and grow...
MIKE RUCKER The consumer spending numbers seem to be good, but so much of it is going to oil. It's difficult to ...
PAUL FINKELSTEIN At least some of the problem is the artificially high sales last year, which is making this year's s...
BOB SCHNORBUS With the year-end and new-year retail sales showing good results, the market mirrors optimism about ...
TSUYOSHI SEGAWA I'm not surprised they had good results.. The stores were packed during the holidays and even on Dec...
CHRISTINE CHEN We're all about providing resources to make our parents be great parents and I'm here to assist them...
DONNA GRADY
One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standar... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Our performance in both the quarter and for the year demonstrates that our business model is solid a...
MAXINE CLARK The problem with the study is that big-box retailers and online retailers are not within the area st...
HANK BARRY Unfilled orders earlier in the year contributed to weaker sales results for the balance of the year ...
JACK WARD I tell everybody there are only three things that we do. We build sales at the store level, we build...
FRED DELUCA After the season, ... when you stop and look at the numbers and look at everything, I'm not going to...
CORNELIUS GRIFFIN Consider this: Apple says its stores are now making more than $1 billion in sales per quarter. Just ...
LEANDER KAHNEY It was a real good weekend. Corey had an incredible year. He really came into his own and beat some ...
DON JANTZEN Every year we see our prescription sales increase ... up to 63 percent of our sales now. At the same...
CAROL HIVELY Online sales are growing at a healthy clip, even though sales may have pulled back somewhat from the...
JEFFREY GRAU
It felt like it's been so long. It's an incredible feeling after the tough year last year, LINDSAY DAVENPORT When you look around campus, it seems like the freshmen class gets bigger every year. If we keep gro...
ASHLEY MCGHEE We know it's coming, but the people don't want to change. The community's growing by leaps and bound...
BARB FOX We're looking, hopefully, for a positive sales growth of about 2 percent this year. The stores that ...
BILL BAKER We might not see retail sales numbers that are that strong yet, but they will pick up toward the end...
JAMES CARRICK The comparison will be difficult because of the calendar shift of Easter, which is in April this yea...
FERNANDO TRACANELLA The best time to look at what we can do better next year is during this year's fair. We're going to ...
DANIEL WEST The difference that she's made really shows in our numbers. The jump that we've had between last yea...
DESIREE WILLIAMS The area has many facilities, coaches and good weather year-round. Year after year the level of play...
BRIAN SCHLEIFER So far we've been pleased with our productivity inside our stores. When you look at getting the cust...
GARY MUTO I'm here trying to gauge my music and the ice and get into the season. Last season, we had the same ...
EVAN LYSACEK In a year of record high gas prices, we grew in-store sales. This goes to prove the theory that cust...
GREG PARKER We run generally about 15 teachers pretty much throughout the year. Many of them have classes that t...
BETH SMITH
My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing. DAVID FRIEDMAN We are very pleased with our results for the year. We achieved important financial goals for the yea...
HECTOR MEDINA A late Easter this year, following an early one last year, contributed to weakness in chain store sa...
HASEEB AHMED
People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving. IMAN It gets so frustrating, week after week, year after year. I don't know what people have not noticed ...
CRAIG THOMPSON Based on the robust results, we are are confident of achieving our full-year objectives for new reco...
DANIEL VASELLA Online travel sales fared even better this year. The sector was up 35 percent versus 2002 and has mo...
DAN HESS With everyone back and the awesome recruits that we had coming in this year it has been absolutely i...
KRISTEN MERLINO
What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happ... SCOTT WESTERFELD As indicated earlier, we were disappointed in our 2005 financial results. Despite certain areas of o...
JACK WARD So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They ...
PAT OLIPHANT Last year was our best year since the 1990's in the overseas market and with aggressive marketing an...
BRUCE MACMILLAN New models will help boost sales in overseas markets this year as they did at home last year.
STEPHEN AHN Wal-Mart plans to open 20 stores in China this year. We could hire up to 150,000 people there to fil...
AMY WYATT The numbers look fine. It is a reassuring set of results.
JAMES GOLOB The lowest actual sales numbers for the year are almost always in January or February. That's becaus...
WALT MOLONY While book sales continued to perform well at U.S. superstores in the third quarter, overall sales t...
GREG JOSEFOWICZ Some stores aren't impacted at all, some stores need some more people and some stores will adjust th...
CHRIS BRATHWAITE I reckon we'll have twenty-five thousand or even thirty thousand people this year. We just keep on g...
MATHAUS WALDORF Our comparable store sales results for the quarter exceeded those of our traditional and luxury depa...
BRAD MARTIN Over the coming year, we will strive to profitably grow the sales of our transformed U.S. network.
JEAN COUTU Every year we have new ones. Agricultural tourism is growing. The object is to maximize direct sales...
DESMOND JOLLY Carlos is a valuable member of this team and we look at him the way we look at all of our players: E...
DAVID SAMSON However, in the future, IKEA will keep an expansion speed of opening one or two stores each year.
IAN DUFFY [Two hours after that,] we became inundated, ... We weren't prepared for it ... the images were just...
ALFIE DENNEN In the first quarter of this year, sales rose 35 per cent compared with the same period last year. A...
LI XIANG This time of year, there are days when the majority of the people who come into our stores are homeo...
JEANETTE MORRISETT You've got to look at year-to-date numbers. If I just looked at November, I'd slit my wrists.
MICHAEL SAUNDERS Facebook keeps asking whats on my mind, i just keep posting : you wouldnt wanna know dat
OLASOT Compared with the slowdown at the start of the year, these numbers look a little healthier. In the s...
ROSS WALKER I had a lot of emotion from missing a lot of games last year, just the emotion of coming back. Was I...
JULIAN PETERSON After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on ...
AUSTIN LIGON I wouldn't even call it a title defense. Nobody can take the title away. I just look at it as a new ...
DAVID NOEL For a full-year basis we're looking at sales basically being flat this year versus where they were l...
DAVID GARRITY If you are not ready and anticipate what's coming, you fall behind a little. I think I picked up a l...
DAVID PAK We've noticed each year it gets better, ... People appreciate this event for what it is. They leave ...
JAMES WHALEN The St. Johns store is being consolidated into the Alma and Lansing stores.
SCOTT SHAFER The full-year results season coming through in Europe so far looks pretty positive.
ADRIAN DARLEY We expect our results for the remainder of the year to be in line with the earnings per share range ...
MIKE WRIGHT It's exciting for the kids who are coming in next year because they feel part of the program already...
GRANT STANDBROOK
Aging is a myth, he argued, and he showed it by posting his personal best at 3:01 in his 61st year. GEORGE SHEEHAN Our goal is to keep increasing numbers and that's what we did this year.
JACKIE RODRIGUES This is a company that has consistently delivered strong results, one quarter after another, and ove...
DEBBIE WANG It appears as if Wendy's missteps over the past two years could be ending and that the growing new p...
ANDREW BARISH At the same time, we saw solid sales increases in the front-end of the store, especially during the ...
CEO DAVE BERNAUER
Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your inte... ANON. Wireless network equipment is an incredible value if you look at the numbers of users for each acces...
BRETT GALLOWAY Maybe last year was the year of injuries and things. Maybe from now on, nothing will happen. That's ...
CARLOS BELTRAN Price, price, price. We're looking at value instead of price and trying to offer good value to a bro...
GAIL LAVIELLE What gets people into trouble are small claims several times a year. It indicates there's a pattern ...
JEANNE SALVATORE We knew they were coming out for us. Especially after what happened last year.
JULIE FUTCH Food is definitely an additive feature, and it keeps people in the stores longer and keeps them from...
DON GHER Looking at the results leads me to say that the probability for cell phone unit sales to continue su...
ALBERT LIN He's fun. He keeps me laughing, and it seems like he's going to keep everyone entertained this year,...
ANGIE WATSON We are at the mercy of whatever they do. We need the loans, and with having two in college next year...
AMY COX This year, he's had to handle the ball more at times. For the most part, he's at the wing, posting u...
MARK NOLD Motivation is what gets you started and results is what keeps you going.
ROSA M. BETANCES It's frustrating. We know we're better than we were last year, and the year before. I think people c...
ALLIE FLYNN
