This is our first stop, ... I think we'll go over to Oquawka and hit a few yard sales.

Sarah Cox

Ericsson's results for the fourth quarter were acceptable. Sales growth was stronger than anticipated but margins weaker. This is not likely to move the shares.

Greger Johansson

Going forward, [sales] volumes will be dampened by high gasoline prices and other energy costs, now absorbing a record share of disposable income.

Carlos Gomes

We've had a challenging year in the domestic beer business and our 2005 sales and earnings per share were disappointing. However, as we move into 2006 we are encouraged with the progress of the company's initiatives to enhance beer volume and market share growth.

Patrick Stokes

Profit was the motive, with sales goals as high as $20,000 a day. The dealers took aggressive steps to protect their lucrative enterprise.

Tom Corbett

We see ourselves as being SMB-enablers because we talk to our customers at the outset in order to find out what data is important to them. The main dashboard displays the main metrics that the person needs to see every day. Therefore, the dashboard contents will differ depending on whether the person is a CEO, CFO, sales manager, or sales rep, for example.

Craig Sullivan

We don't have any doubt that, in one way or another, the taxes on sales to non-Indians are going to be collected by New York. The question is: How soon?

James Calvin

The New England Sports Network would allow the Globe to better serve advertisers with combined print, television and Internet advertising sales.

Janet Robinson

Generally speaking the November sales pace makes one wonder what is going on with housing starts.

David Resler

Wal-Mart was rightly cautious with its outlook. Their first-quarter sales barely met the lower end of their 2 to 4 percent guidance.

Jeffrey Klinefelter

While they have made impressive progress, we believe that the sales cycle can be as long as two years given the inertia inherent in many large marketing organizations.

Holly Becker

What I don't see is a collapse in pricing. To get a collapse ... there would have to be a big job loss where people are forced to put their houses on the market for distress sales.

Alan Gin

It would appear that with ticket sales over 5,000, many others have expressed their right and find Nelly's music entertaining and worth spending their time and money on.

Tim Dean

Notebook (computer) sales were less than 300,000 in 2003. In 2006, we expect to sell 1.5 million notebooks in Russia.

Stacy Smith

We are expecting sales in the triple digits. If they go into quadruple digits, we will naturally be happier than ever.

Burkhard Goeschel

Sales have probably picked up a bit, ... People who live in The Villages and have never had a cart have come in and bought one.

Kyle Johnson

With Windows 2000 revenues not really kicking in until 2001 and the continued weakness of the business PC sales impacting Microsoft's core business, we expect the fourth quarter to be lackluster, coming in slightly above the third quarter.

Melissa Eisenstat

Up to now we typically operated from the sales, marketing, consulting, support and education point of view, out of six cities in India.

Derek Williams

We didn't have the sales we originally expected (at first). Sales are definitely getting better.

Luke Bostic

This program only applies to sales taxes collected from this site. And the money will be sent back to Russell Lands for their investment. This program does not apply to any of the businesses that may be located on this property.

Richard Langford

There is no production (at the Saudi plant) at all? We are losing $1.5 million in sales every day.

Jan Pedersen

With carryover supplies of corn expected to be more than 2 billion bushels, producers should plan to make some sales sometime from January to May.

Alan May

We continue to deliver on the promise we made when we began our turnaround in 1997 of achieving annual double digit earnings growth, ... Our results this quarter were again driven by strong growth in the U.S., where prescription sales increased 28 percent.

Fred Hassan

We're extremely excited to have Exit as our partner in promoting ImagePhone2. This will allow us to distribute the software package to over 200,000 households annually, calculated on only five sales per year by each of Exit's 20,000 agents.

Chip Greenberg

Our problem was we got our [prices] a little high and we had to bring them back in line. We had a decline in cereal shipments that was offset by price realisation on cereals, so our overall cereal sales were flat.

Steve Sanger

Affinity marketing is where DM crosses over into field marketing, giving us a broader understanding of how to use samples with consumers. It's not just a DM approach, but about devising creative ideas for sales and using DM skills to drive this.

Gordon Lee

According to the current indications that sales growth in the first quarter will be slightly below our previous year on year rate of 20 to 25 percent, we expect pre-tax profit to fall significantly.

Henning Kagermann

Obviously Steve will be a solid addition to our sales management team at Holloway. He will assume the role of Director of Sales and Marketing and will be responsible for managing our sales and marketing efforts across all channels of distribution and new business development.

Mark Vondenhuevel

To talk about [sales tax rates] independent of what we're currently facing is slightly unprofessional.

Laurence Kotlikoff

I like the opportunities that a sales profession offers. I have the capacity to work hard and truly feel that I'm self-employed even though I have a great company behind me.

Tricia Erps

MWholesaler will enable our retail mutual fund sales team to be more efficient, both internally and externally, ... Our mobile field reps can easily view and update client report details at any time and from any location. Additionally, sales management can view the latest sales activities and make better decisions based on that information.

Scott Moody

With the success of our online sales we expect to report another record year of sales and earnings.

Richard Thalheimer

The ministry had assured us that two other demands including the enhancement of sales commission would be fulfilled gradually.

Nazmul Hoque

Our business will push the sales of both retailers and suppliers.

Jan Blasko

Recreational shoppers are not so much motivated by sales and discounts as by value. A better shopping experience, not just cheaper prices, is the answer.

Pam Danziger

Sincerity is a powerful sales tool.

Stephen Barrett

First of anything is always a risk. There's going to be some 'D' (development) in those first sales. How much is acceptable?

David Patch

Sales have come to a standstill in almost all markets.

Jens Refslund

It appears that in practice, the value-added taxes applied to electronically delivered books and newspapers may be higher than those applied to sales of the same physical books and newspapers.

Stuart Eizenstat

There are fewer and fewer smokers every year. Also, studies show that as the prices of cigarettes go up, the sales of cigarettes decline. For every 10 percent increase, sales fall by 4 percent.

Deryk Parker

Sales representatives need to be better educated and better informed. In West Virginia they license beauticians, massage therapists and barbers, but not drugs sales reps.

Dan Foster

The actual operating loss narrowed by 6 billion yen because of a sales gain, signaling an improvement in operating conditions.

Hiroshi Sato

In the short term, sales of some European consumer goods producers could suffer. However, on the other hand, western consumer goods in the region enjoy a high prestige.

Jochen Clausnitzer

Both the wholesale and retail environment for consumer electronics is very tough, ... This is a brutal, competitive, low-margin business. Industry sales are struggling to grow because it's a saturated market with too many products.

Sean Wargo

After interviewing many of the best in class sales, marketing and merchandising candidates, I was thrilled to find our field of diamonds in our own backyard. This team understands the power of the La-Z-Boy brand, and I am confident that they will develop programs to build equity in the brand.

Steve Matlock

What we have seen is less than expected end-user demand. We don't know what is causing it. If I were to guess, I would put weak sales of (Lexmark-branded printers) on top.

Paul Curlander

We are putting our efforts into cost savings, and all these savings will be put into marketing and sales incentives.

Hiroshi Harunari

Oracle continues to be a margin expansion story and we expect that trend to continue this quarter. We expect the increased operating leverage to come in the form of lower sales and marketing expenses.

Melissa Eisenstat

As you can see, Christmas is spread out -- not just among December but among January as well. Promotions certainly helped to drive those sales and you can see what the consumer is looking for. It all depend on price.

Dana L. Telsey

The PT Cruiser continues to be an incredible hit with the public and proves our theory that the key to long-term sales in this marketplace is to have the most exciting and innovative vehicles in the market.

Theodor Cunningham

We're hearing that database demand may be experiencing some negative pressure from the bursting of the Internet valuation bubble this year and its influence on database demand from so-called dot.com businesses. At the low end of the market, this tends to influence unit sales more than revenues, but it is a factor.

Bob Austrian

[For that reason, he thinks the record labels will continue to see declining sales.] Ultimately the system has to blow up from top to bottom, ... The industry is going to get a lot worse and see a lot more pain before it gets better.

Michael Goodman

Our growth rate is still a multiple of any major competitor in our space, and we should continue to pull away from the industry over the next several years. Our operating expenses are declining as a percentage of sales, and we are generating cash at a rate of $4 billion annually, which adds to our investment income.

James Schneider

Remember, Pfeiffer came from the sales organization in Compaq before he became the CEO and it was hard for him to make a mind shift to a different kind of distribution model.

Lou Mazzucchelli

It was good to see the double-digit sales growth and the strong (profit) margin expansion. It provides further evidence that the global office furniture market is continuing to rebound strongly.

Anthony Chukumba

At the most, France represents 2% of music sales.

Gene Munster

We are taking action to ameliorate the effects of this more challenging trading climate by continuing to bear down on costs across the group as well as finding more cost effective ways of increasing sales.

Derek Netherton

He sounds to me like the kind of person Nortel needs. A new Nortel CEO should be top-line, sales oriented to sell to people who may be reluctant to use Nortel because of their reputation.

Robert Callander

Kodak is in good shape to continue its growth, ... The majority of camera sales come in the final three months of the year, and its simpler, lower-cost cameras should benefit.

Chris Chute

They are definitely being affected by lower profits on sales of mortgages, and the shape of the yield curve. It's tough to totally offset these factors.

Thane Bublitz

All American companies that provide high tech products and also capital equipment for the Asian economic miracle are going to be hurt because there's an adjustment process that has to be gone through in Asia. It's going to take two to three years, and in the meantime they're going to see lower sales in Asia.

Roger Kubarych

That's the real bear case -- rates rise in the United States, exasperating home and car sales. For the government to bail the economy out, there would be more massive deficit spending.

Frank Holmes

DVD sales are already hurting and this is not going to help spur sales.

Josh Martin

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

Catherine Lee

Our new products are now demonstrating their full potential. Moreover improvements in the sales channels are having an effect independent from the models.

Michael Kern

If the displays don't make it onto the floor in time, Wal-Mart has not maximized sales and is carrying too much stock at the end of the promotion.

Simon Langford

A lot of people we deal with have a direct international sales group, such as General Electric or a group in Canada.

Rob Marr

We've been seeing steady sales growth over the last five years. In other words, we've been making money for the head company.

Grace Lee

We were at a very high level in the prior months, it seemed likely that a correction was going to come at us. The level of new homes sales is still healthy and the housing market is reasonably strong and it's just that we are not maintaining the same robust sales levels that we saw in prior months.

Michael Moran

Bolstered by record warm temperatures in many parts of the country, a majority of restaurant operators reported January gains in same-store sales and customer traffic. In addition, operators reported a boost in plans for hiring and capital expenditures -- positive developments for both the restaurant industry and the overall economy.

Hudson Riehle

Our debt-to-revenue ratio is very good. Our bonds are backed by our sales tax.

Bob Patterson

In 2001, we are focused on building comparable sales and returns through improved operations, people development and innovation around the world.

Mike Conley

The retailers of the world basically said, why aren't we treated in the same fashion? State governments are getting sales tax. Local governments are getting sales tax. Local governments are getting meals and lodging taxes. And all of that is a derivative of our investment in their community.

Brent Frank

As you know, we are definitely concerned about ticket sales.

Tony Mason

Although we are coming out of deflation, it is still going to be difficult for retailers to boost their sales.

Shigemi Nonaka

If a salesman has failed to follow up on his leads, the executive in charge of sales can reassign any customer to his or her favorite sales rep right on the dashboard.

Craig Sullivan

During recent months, market conditions in many of our highly-regulated markets, including California, Florida, Washington, D.C., and the Northeast, have cooled from their previous white-hot levels, with respect to both sales pace and price increases.

Ara Hovnanian

We see growing revenue from vertical and horizontal applications developed by Salesforce.com and partners, as well as continuing momentum for the core sales force automation offering, ... We believe the deployment of these applications will result in more subscribers to Salesforce.com.

Robert Schwartz

The sales force there all drive gray cars because it is the cheapest color. The chief executive and the chief financial officer share the same desk; paper and phone calls are rationed. Cost-cutting is a way of life, not a one-off activity.

Concepción Moreno

As the parcels included in the quarterly sales have been increasingly controversial over the last few years, from including important habitat for Gunnison Sage Grouse, split-estate lands, and citizen-proposed wilderness areas, BLM going above the minimum the law requires and providing an ample opportunity for the public to be involved would be prudent.

Reed Morris

We were pleased to see sales momentum remain strong during the quarter, ... Branded product sales continued to respond favorably to our selling efforts and stepped-up marketing initiatives. Additionally, our private label products recorded another quarter of double-digit revenue growth.

David Singer

I'm a little flabbergasted with the turn of events. The comparable-store sales are going well, it's a premium-priced product and with deals announced [Wednesday], both of which could be very positive, you'd think Caribou would be getting closer to breaking even.

Gerry Khermouch

Forget the smoke and mirrors. From a glossy sales presentation, you can believe that anything is possible. The whole purpose [of the evaluation] was to let our people loose under the covers and see how difficult it would be to implement the portal.

Martin Davis

Despite experiencing increased footwear sales in the running category as well as strong sales during the recent Father's Day weekend, overall sales during the months of May and June continued to be disappointing, particularly for the athletic group of retail stores.

Roger Farah

We love commercial fleet sales (to corporations). They're profitable, and we're not looking to decrease those.

Deborah Silverman

Sentiment will swing back in favor of a Federal Reserve rate hike in August if June retail sales rebound.

Marc Chandler

Provide additional advertising sales opportunities as we are able to meet the growing demand of companies to market online by offering ad-sponsored links.

Christie Hefner

The vast majority of Chinese air-to-air missile sales are to its own government, and those that are exported have little effect on the overall market. Japan is forbidden to export weapons and Taiwan has yet to sell an air-to-air missile to a foreign customer.

Larry Dickerson

The services business is a relatively new segment for the company, and I think it can help sales.

James Ragan

We had a pretty turbulent 2005, yet sales still hovered around 17 million. Regardless of the exterior shock to the market, it seems to weather everything. We don't see any pullback (in sales), but we don't see any gains.

Jeff Schuster

Combined with the fact that today's retail sales data point to a surge in July personal consumption, this means that the consumer entered Q3 with substantial momentum.

Joshua Shapiro

As long as the job growth continues, we'll continue to see rapid sales of new single-family homes and absorption of apartment units.

Charles Heimsath

This is E-commerce, ... It's potentially the future of drug sales, and we realize we have to get in front of this very quickly.

Howard Safir

Our coalition is growing. It grows stronger each day and we think, ultimately, we will see the full removal of sales tax on food.

Tim Funk

It's starting really fast. And we think this sales strength will continue for at least a few more months, if not longer.

Michael Luckey

In 2002 we didn't have a new book, but our book sales still came in at $82 million, about 4 percent of our revenue on the back of the Harry Potter movies. With this new book, we expect a big jump in sales and revenue.

Ray Manchuk

We already have tremendous interest in Grand Arbors, and 2005 sales in The Estates caused a buzz. Those who have not been paying attention to Immokalee Road may have missed out.

Al Primavera

Financially, it's not a bad quarter. The concern from a retail perspective is that top-line sales number. It's not where you want to be as an ongoing, viable retailer. ... Long-term, you don't want to be losing customers.

Neil Stern

Basically I think it's the fact that the devices are still selling. (Given) the fact that they were able to maintain revenue guidance for the (coming) quarter, it really looks like the sustainability and momentum, at least in the hardware sales, has persisted.

Benjamin Bollin

The strong net sales increase in the first quarter is the continued reflection of our dynamic growth trend of the last year. These excellent figures will propel us towards reaching our set goals for 2006.

Hubertus Erlen

We had sales of over NZ$1 billion for the last quarter -- the result of developing new businesses, markets, products & services. Our exports continue to grow with New Zealand export sales for the first half up over 19 percent on the same period last year.

Chris Liddell

Other than seasonal weakness, the New Taiwan dollar's recent appreciation is expected to cost TSMC 4 percent of its sales in the current quarter.

Lora Ho

Our sales organization frankly speaks of effectively having lost October and November in those parts of the country in total.

David Mott

Over the last five years, those numbers have been growing steadily. With the economy performing so well, sales of new and existing homes have been pretty robust and it's very common when people go to sell their home to do a little extra landscaping to improve the look of their place. Likewise, when people buy a new home they typically do a little fresh landscaping to make it their own.

Joel Albizo

Obviously, the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas is a very busy period for us. We generally do in the corporate sales aspect of out business 25 percent of our business in November or December.

John Petterson

The integration is having a negative effect on Reebok's sales.

Karim Bertoni

From the very beginning, we always said that when you introduce a new mark, sales will increase.

Greg Hand

And our feeling is that there are alternative sales positions that could be explored and we're trying to push the company in that direction.

Paul Davner

We should see some small increases in retail sales over coming months, but without a decent pickup in the labor market and incomes, we won't see much of an improvement.

Dominic White

The profit outlook is especially good for makers of electronic components. Sales will rise by at least 5 percent, and that will probably lead to profit gains of at least 10 percent.

Atsushi Osa

I thought we had a potential pop culture classic, ... But I think it's fair to say none of us anticipated the level of sales we've seen. Clearly, people are responding to the concept.

Steve Ross

You're going to see more of these seminars and more of these sales pitches. Wherever retirees are congregated, you're going to have these people preying on them.

James Nelson

Local housing markets will cool off, leading to a slowdown in spending and some job losses in construction and other real estate-related industries. With this in mind, we are currently forecasting a plateau in home prices, a moderate decrease in sales and new building and two years of weak growth. However, this forecast represents the middle of the road.

Ryan Ratcliff

The chain stores sales data is coming in a little bit weak and oil prices are up. That's positive for the bond market, negative for the economy.

John Spinello

The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.

Jonathan Potter

If you look at the subcategories, you see a backlog in sales orders while inventory levels are down and purchasing commitments are up.

Michael Keenan

Criticisms have been raised, but we have looked at it ourselves, and we believe the ONS figures do a good job of measuring online sales.

Vicky Redwood

Before, merchandise sales were limited just to people who came to athletic events.

Rich Schneider

WorldCom condemns unauthorized carrier switches, and we cooperated fully with the FCC's review, ... The incidents highlighted by the FCC were perpetrated by a few sales employees, who have since been terminated.

Bernard J. Ebbers

We had strong sales across the company and ended the year with the lowest net debt in 10 years.

Bill Swanson

I think there's a sense that with oil prices as high as they are, that's carrying over to the consumer, which you're seeing in the retail sales.

Joe Sunderman

Production is up, sales are up.

Jerry Winters

As we continue to focus on the US market with our direct sales efforts we are pleased that our Australian partner INBIO has agreed to take on majority ownership of the KK, including financial and operational responsibilities. The experience of INBIO executives in the Japanese markets as well as their proximity will enable more efficient management of our now jointly owned Japanese subsidiary.

Amit Kumar

The [service and solutions partner] designation is available for partners with high sales commitments and specific professional services capabilities to handle demanding enterprise accounts.

John Fomook

Although an improvement on trend from our first quarter, our sales performance this quarter is still not at the level we know we can achieve.

George Heller

You don't need a strong home base for sales anymore. You just need Germany to be a good base for manufacturing.

Dirk Schumacher

We chose a Del Webb home because of the builders' reputation. They went above and beyond our expectations with the level of service we were given. From our sales representative, to the construction manager, everyone was amazing.

Harriet Stein

Those sales come from somewhere, so people may be doing it at work. We like to think they do it on their lunch break, but that's probably not the case. We've got 45 people around here with access to computers and I'm sure everything they do isn't work related.

Kerry Sewell

Which makes our sale different from other sales in the area which are just functional.

Heather Davis

We believe our disposition program is tracking well as we have a number of properties under contract or letter of intent to sell at this time. The proceeds from these sales will provide us the opportunity to recycle capital and lessen our need to raise new equity.

Drew Alexander

Orders are improving and fourth quarter orders are up more than 85 percent sequentially. According to management, order timing should continue to improve and revenue levels for global sales are expected to increase for the fourth quarter.

Robert Maire

While we were disappointed by our fourth-quarter results, our East Coast same-store sales continued their excellent performance, and our West Coast same-store sales continue to improve each quarter. Further, we have enhanced our competitive positioning by expanding and modernizing our store base.

Martin Grass

The recent strong rise in German car sales suggests that consumers are finally replacing their aged car park and the rising fuel prices certainly provide an incentive.

Juergen Pieper

Retail sales figures for January indicate that the momentum that built in the months preceding Christmas was not maintained into the new year.

Richard Lowe

With nearly two months of Prozac sales data available, the erosion in prescriptions is the most severe ever for a blockbuster product in our industry.

Sidney Taurel

Food and beverage sales through promotion and mobile commerce.

Tom Moore

For most companies, cost reductions and cutbacks have done little to fuel real growth in either sales or revenues, ... Increasing worker productivity and innovation represent the best paths to business growth.

Malcolm Collins

Far less than 1 percent of electronics sales is done online.

Christopher Payne

No matter what strategy is employed in either corn or soybeans, producers must understand their production risk and how crop insurance, particularly the revenue products, can aid them in making sales prior to harvest.

Alan May

Our recent sales results have been disappointing.

David Mott

Sales ex-autos were decidedly stronger than people had given credit for. This is an important piece of information on where the economy was prior to Katrina.

Steve Ricchiuto

In the last 20 years, all these spots and sales promotions and contests were designed to deliver to advertisers, but we've lost sight of the fact that we have to get the listeners first.

Mike Henry

Those other generation products are showing some soft sales overall.

Darrel Ryce

If the U.S. order is as big as rumored, the sales will be recorded over 2005/2006, and possibly into 2007 depending on how much product Roche can deliver.

Andrew Fellows

The sales produce virtually all of our net, ... we just try to break even on the races.

Nick Nicholson

It's pretty much all due to autos. We got a solid rebound in auto sales last month due to the new discounts put in place in mid-November.

Stephen Gallagher

Property owners shouldn't have to carry this burden. With the sales tax increase, the load can be spread out over everyone that shops in Liberal.

Toby Miller

We're fully committed to our sales process, which the board believes is the best way to deliver full and fair value to all stockholders. We've already attracted interest from potential financial and strategic acquirers and believe that Red Zone's proposed action could concern potential buyers and disrupt the sales process.

Jeremy Jacobs

This September is going to be my biggest sales month in 10 years. Usually October is the biggest month but this September already beat out last October.

Gary Wood

The EDC is not spending money like we're going to continue receiving $650,000 a year, because the sales tax can decrease just as quickly as it increased. If sales tax declines, we know we can meet our obligations.

William Myers

The increase in sales is encouraging. This is getting reflected in the stock prices. The momentum can take it higher.

Ambareesh Baliga

We believe the combination of limited sales upside and conservative guidance may prove disappointing to investors, consequently limiting near-term upside in the stock.

Sumit Dhanda

[Sales of SUVs especially] have been taking it on the chin, ... That phenomenon has pretty much run its course. They powered the industry for close to 10 years.

Joe Phillippi

We've had real good corn sales this past month and export inspections are averaging what we need to reach the USDA goal of 1.85 billion bushel estimate for the year.

Shawn Mccambridge

These figures must mean that profit expectations are going to go up for this year. It has really gained a huge amount of market share. This is real sales growth.

Richard Perks

This is a great opportunity not only for Auction Way Sales, but for dealers in the area. TRA will allow us to continue providing more options and quality service to our customers.

Mike Weber

We expect consumer sales to continue ramping up this quarter, but it is now obvious to us following the Thanksgiving weekend that they will not grow sufficiently to allow us to meet previous consensus for EPS and guidance for revenue.

John Todd

Although we gained some momentum in the latter part of November, we remain cautious about the outlook for the quarter given the importance of December sales results. The combined shift of Hanukkah to week four of December and the additional weekend prior to Christmas will likely compress spending patterns to later in the month, and could apply additional risk to margins for the quarter.

Heidi Kunz

Casio would be able to take its current mobile phone models to America, so I wouldn't expect margins to drop off. And this could provide a significant boost to sales volumes.

Koya Tabata

We set a target of 40 percent for conquest sales, and based on sales figures from October through February we've hit that number already.

Gary Barham

I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.

Bernard Liautaud

Historically, lacrosse has been one of our three or four best-selling sports. But over the last month, sales have increased to three or four times our normal rate.

Tom Craig

If everyone pays their dues, you can't even pay one months bills. You better figure out how many car washes and bake sales you need to keep going.

Patrick Meehan

We've expected existing home sales to weaken for some time. It does appear that we're starting to see that trend manifest itself.

Gordon Kettle

I heard barbecue sales have been very strong in the UK over this lovely sunny weekend, and Jenson decided to join in with you.

Martin Brundle

We will be doing more to increase our sales and brand exposure. One downside is not being in total control of the message we are giving out. But this can be dealt with if brands involved set out objectives from the start.

Jeremy Osborne

We bought all the furnishings and accessories for the bungalow before we actually closed on it. We shopped at all the home stores -- Home Goods, Tuesday Morning, Art Van -- as well as flea markets, estate sales and the Salvation Army.

Laryl Morrison

It's a matter of conjecture as to whether the Justice Department's investigation is affecting these sales. I would tend to think the supply is thin, and that the investigation really doesn't affect people.

Richard Feigen

Over the past year, our U.S. pro forma operating loss decreased from 24 percent of net sales in the fourth quarter of 1999 to less than 2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2000.

Warren Jenson

Pizza sales, we would have yard sales and everything we could to raise the money to get this together.

Mike Harding

We are very pleased with way the community has been accepted, and sales have exceeded our expectations.

David Vitek

Interest rates have been creeping up slowly, and we've definitely seen somewhat of a softening in home sales.

Lauren Young

Amazon has been consistently beating sales and earnings estimates and the stock should respond to overall macroeconomic trends.

Dan Geiman

For a full-year basis we're looking at sales basically being flat this year versus where they were last year. But we're still staying at a fairly high rate.

David Garrity

We haven't yet seen the negative effect of gas prices on consumer spending. It's certainly not here in these numbers. That doesn't mean it's not there. Certainly the weekly retail sales numbers have been sluggish.

Delos Smith

Looking at the results leads me to say that the probability for cell phone unit sales to continue surprising experts for a third consecutive year remains very high.

Albert Lin

To gain momentum quickly, Toshiba is working with us to develop and execute on an effective partner program that offers VARs the support and resources they need to move the needle and drive sales.

Kevin Murai

It's hurt our revenues and merchandising. We sold a lot more weather-related gear in the last month, but our sales are down.

Joe Goldman

Carly was trying to drive revenue growth, and she was bleeding the printer business by using the higher profits in that business to fund unprofitable growth everywhere else. (Hurd) has dialed back the sales growth objectives and focused those units on operating more efficiently.

Tony Ursillo

Sales decelerated in Europe and Asia, futures excluding currency were below expectations, and currency took a big bite out of futures.

Lizabeth Dunn

Our sales and profit should grow due to higher subscribers this year.

Sigve Brekke

It's always buyer beware and look and see what values are being offered today. There's no doubt the sales will continue but whether you'll get what you want or close to what you want is a question mark.

John Winter

We expect to increase impulse sales by encouraging new readers to give our newspapers a go whilst also increasing the frequency of sales to existing casual readers.

Mark Webster

Our sales probably didn't drop off as fast as they should have when we grew so fast and weren't performing at the store level. We really fixed most of the issues starting in 2003 and on into 2004. We were very comfortable where we were, but we weren't seeing the sales results. We were starting to get very frustrated around here.

David Flanery

If someone told you they could sell you a car without sales tax, or you didn't have to pay your income tax, would you believe them?

Terry Stanton

We're disappointed that the Check Point thing fell apart. They had worldwide sales and distribution in place. They also had a name brand and established customers.

Michele Perry

We think that sales might ease a little bit in November, but they should stay within a fairly narrow range through the first quarter.

Walter Molony

We have already had strong July car sales, and now with consumer confidence this strong we get the impression households could repeat the spending spree we saw last summer.

David Naude

We're working currently, and I would expect within the next three months to book sales for the remaining 80.

Larry Dickenson

From our perspective, there is nothing in the sales agreement and closing documents that obligated us to stay with Best Western.

Bob Michaels

By injecting the digital sales into the Top 100 we immediately saw a greater variety of music, especially in the top half of the chart.

Geoff Mayfield

It is a kind of a way to play games with monthly payments. Stretching out the mortgage maturity is simply a way to lower month payments and stimulate sales.

Dick Bove

The financial justification of opening store B near store A is based on incremental sales generated from store B.

Tom Schoewe

We are in the midst of an exciting expansion that will move our company forward. As we increase our capacity, these hires and promotions will help us provide the needed sales support to our customers.

Andy Rogers

We were a little concerned. It was a tough Christmas holiday and you never get Christmas back. Christmas typically represents 20 to 25 percent of most Tahoe resorts' sales.

Greg Murtha

Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.

Bob Burke

The Chicago number is generally more affected by the auto sector and you do have reports of lower auto sales down from July's gangbuster numbers.

John Shin

The improvement in underlying sales has been driven by some price investment and by 'easy' improvements in availability that you would expect in the early stages of a recovery. Indeed, it is still too early to call any major recovery.

David Mccarthy

Second-quarter sales results were significantly impacted by the greater- than-expected slowdown in the global personal computer market.

David Orton

We achieved robust earnings growth while making significant investments in search technology, products, network capacity, sales and distribution, and most importantly, in people.

Robin Li