Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Two Chainz

Chain hang to my ding-a-ling, chain hang, chain hang to my ding-a-ling

Neely Tamminga

In terms of market dynamics, there are many hands in the market share grab. Wal-Mart, Target and department store chains like J.C. Penney and Kohl's will see incremental dollars coming into home furnishing as well.

Bob Barker

In their natural habitat elephants graze up to 20 hours a day. A circus keeps an elephant in chains 90% of the time. They are deprived of water and deprived of food. They are shocked.

Samuel Johnson

The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

Jacque Fresco

We are all an integral part of the chain of life.

Ellen G. White

There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.

Howard Davidowitz

Also, most big retail chains placed their Christmas orders months ago and the Christmas inventory was already in the pipeline before (the) SARS (outbreak),

Greg Frazier

They don't have the size and scale to obtain mindshare with component suppliers, or with contract manufacturers. They want the same command, control and continuity of their supply chains they enjoy with their North American or Western European operations.

Diane Swonk

I think the market is tired of Christmas. We've already seen the Christmas reports. As far as the market is concerned, that's old news.

Julio Ziegelmann

We're on the eve of the millennium, right between Christmas and New Year's when things should be dead, but liquidity just keeps holding out.

Marcus Trescothick

It is pretty nice to end the tour with a win. We will think of the Indian tour after Christmas.

Joe Wojtkiewicz

I thought we played awfully well together, especially coming off Christmas break.

Stockard Channing

I think we'll be gone by Christmas, ... The West Wing.

Will Ferrell

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

Robert Staughton Lynd

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

Sarah Hall

There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding only three red berries, which peel back in the night to reveal gifts of frankincense, gold and myrrh, Christmas in hot deserts, dust-blown countries, the necklace of tears, and the story of the robin.

Sandra Lee

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

Zig Ziglar

Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory. Remember, time is irreplaceable.

Michael Keenan

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

Gary Bauer

The inventory is up and prices are up. It's a little surprising. It was a nice January.

Kevin Logan

You can only run down inventory for so long.

Napoleon Hill

Take inventory of yourself, see if any remnants of fear are standing in your way. Then you may grow... because nothing, absolutely nothing, can stand in your way.

Cathy Arnett

That inventory has increased, but they're also selling fast.

Dave Barry

The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.

Bob Moulton

We're making a transition from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Inventory is starting to swell.

Phil Garner

We're going to have to take a personal inventory as a team,

Susanna Moore

I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.

Penny Brown

Here we are, months later, and we're still talking about the same thing,

Bob Israel

It could be six months before many dealers reopen doors,

Martin Freeman

I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.

Eddie Jordan

We've been waiting for two months for this quarter.

Phil Dow

We've got to get through that and it's probably several months before we get a turnaround in any sectors,

Denise Monteiro

We've established a visiting schedule months ago and we're going to keep it that way.

Shawn Holliday

He's been wandering around for nearly three months without a name, and today, we're going to give him one.

Whoopi Goldberg

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

Bobby Hernandez

He refused several orders to get out of the street, and he was arrested.

S. Walker

We've seen 25 percent more orders and order values over the past six months.

Tom Engibous

DSP revenue was up 10 percent sequentially and orders were up 11 percent sequentially.

Don Gibson

We'll get orders from there of where we're going to go next,

Robert Gottlieb

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

Gary Thayer

Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment.

Edward Yardeni

Look for orders to rebound in May, reflecting broad-based recovery within the manufacturing sector.

Chu Sik

We can't keep up with orders now, especially TV panels.

Jan Egeland

In the pipeline we have 10,000 tents and 100,000 blankets but it takes time to go to these areas.

Guy Ritchie

I'd like to work with the missus, but there's nothing in the pipeline at the moment.

Robert A. Schuller

I think family-run ministries are fabulous, but they have to be placed in proper governance.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.

Bill Steele

Unlike soap or deodorant, which can be placed by marketing, shaving is very much performance.

Jannie Brenner

We placed second. This is the first year of the team, and today, we've got first- to eighth-graders here.

Angie Myers

In retail we can't really get together at Christmastime, so we make a vacation of this.

Jeff Barker

This is a competitive business, like any other retail business. It's very important to stay on point.

Peter Cardillo

The retail sales are a real blow-out number.

Michael Beyard

The retailers want to be on the street now.

David Cook

It's time for big-box retailers to start to do the right things by their employees.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Fred Delk

When this is finished, it will be a beautiful, pedestrian-friendly retail environment. It will have been worth it.

Leslie Preston

Retail sales look to start off the year with a bang.

Warren Jenson

We have seen some softness in retail in October,

Robert Milton

We had SARS and no passengers. Therefore doing something draconian like that seemed reasonable.