Sales Quotes

"The retail sales report was the most significant piece of data we had in weeks and that certainly had the stock market going. It points to a solid first quarter, with earnings growth."

"They've got to be very pleased. They are buoyant on sales of their most important products. It really does signal a very robust first quarter for them."

"The ripple effect on GM supplies is profound. GM represents anywhere between 15 and 20 percent of the sales of most big supplies, so these are lost sales and lost profits. And you'll see it in their second quarter results."

"The fleet sales that inflated the January results will probably diminish for GM, Ford and Chrysler. There's three reasons why their market-share has declined: product, product and product."

"Auto sales at these monstrous levels, these gargantuan levels, cannot be sustained. They will come back to normal levels."

"This is the weakest monthly increase in same-store sales since November 2004."

"We had a strong finish to 2005, a year of major transition for Fairchild, by delivering solid fourth-quarter sales and gross margin growth."

"All our businesses continued to grow strongly, with double-digit year-on-year percentage sales gains across the board."

"In other years, by this time, sales are exploding, but this year it's very slow."

"We think that there's an unexploited niche in many markets, certainly here in Dallas, and the sales of the residences have pretty much borne that out."

"Were the sales in January created by a tax motive? Probably,"

"We are confident our earnings momentum will continue and look forward to reporting another record year in sales and earnings,"

"Our December department store sales were disappointing, which we think is attributable at least in part to heightened consumer concerns over a slowing economy,"

"Sales are going to be down a bit, and it's because of gas prices that haven't seemed to come down. The end of the month hurt the auto manufacturers. People were saying, 'Are gas prices finally going to fall?' And they didn't."

"Credit card companies are really looking hard at this industry. It's been $30 billion in cash sales, but they want to see that $30 billion in credit."

"The fact that the market has been able to sustain a record—breaking sales pace during the first eight months of the year is ample proof that the American dream of homeownership is alive and well in the Buckeye State. Housing continues to be a true bright spot in the overall economic picture."

"Wal-Mart concerns some investors in here. Retail sales seem to have been good overall. However, Wal-Mart reported that they are only going to grow 0.7 percent and the market was expecting 2 to 4 percent."

"Canadian Tire is doing brilliantly. Their big new stores are great, and they are delivering fabulous sales and are well laid out."

"The thing we're going to want to know is where do unit sales go moving forward, ... We'd like to see plans for unit growth to continue along with margin growth."

"Today, the catalyst in technology was the report that PC sales in the second quarter slowed. The PC sector feeds into the semiconductor sector, which feeds into other parts of technology."