Sales Quotes

"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman -- not the attitude of the prospect."

"We are seeing the convergence of improved economic conditions, the leveling off of sales incentives and the huge amount of new vehicle launches scheduled over the next few years all playing a factor."

"When (former Gov. George Ryan's) administration tried to roll back the sales tax, it just went into the pockets of refiners and retailers and had no effect on prices."

"Mortgage purchase applications continue to track downwards, suggesting that most of the expected pop in housing sales in January was weather-related."

"Using the liberal definition of what you include in worldwide sales, GM may not be the biggest automaker a year from now."

"It looks like they kind of scraped by. Earnings were in line. Sales were a bit light, mostly on the drug side of the business. It's nothing to jump up and down about."

"When (former Gov. George Ryan's) administration tried to roll back the sales tax, it just went into the pockets of refiners and retailers and had no effect on prices,"

"Existing sales peaked nationally back in September and have been coming down. The Northeast is following that pattern."

"Peugeot had a bad year but their sales volumes improved. GM and Ford are operating at about their break-even market share."

"Overall, I think what the sales number is telling us is that the consumer is starting to take up some of the slack we're seeing in the trade sector and inventories."

"I think everybody is worried about April. In the U.S. so far in April Chrysler car sales are down pretty significantly."

"We've entered a lull again, with tech issues drifting lower on the back of the slowdown in mobile sales."

"Maybe handset sales in China are okay but that's not enough for the U.S. tech market to rally on. Companies here are still cutting capital expenditures."

"The market is behaving as is we are going into a recession. Retail sales were off and so the market is worrying that the consumer is tapped out. IBM's earnings were off and so we're worried that the earnings will slow."

"Our July was a record month as far as total vehicle sales for cars and trucks."

"The stock sales have nothing to do with the state of the market. It has everything to do with diversification."

"During the 2004 legislative session I proposed and the Legislature approved a bill to waive the state sales tax on efficient hybrid automobiles, ... Today, hybrid-buyers in New Mexico are saving big bucks when they purchase one of these efficient hybrids. The savings on this Escape, for instance, are about $800."

"We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity."

"If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent."

"As we stated... like-for-like sales in the first half are below the rate planned for the full year and the market is expected to remain similarly tough through the rest of the year."