Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

We benefit from foreign direct investment. Many Americans are employed by foreign companies with plants in the United States, for example in the automobile industry. So, trade is a two way street. I think, it is important to protect Americans who lose their jobs, or whose jobs come under pressure from international trade. But, I think, we need to be careful not to embrace economic isolationism.

We're just so dependent on the automobile for everything we do we can't go the to store if we don't get in the car and drive and it certainly makes sense to me that we start incorporating some other modes of transportation.

It's not inconceivable to remove GM. But I'm not sure if there is another automobile company that better represents the industry and the auto industry is here to stay.

It is very important for us to have a partner who understands the business and someone who understands GMAC's strategy and how it relates to GM's automobile business.

It is very important for us to have a partner who understands the business, and someone who understands GMAC's strategy and how it relates to GM's automobile business.

This is yet one more problem for the lake that stems from private automobile use in the basin.

There's a reason why (track officials) went straight to automobile racing.

It's a transformation from the horse and buggy to the automobile. We're not going to do away with the automobile but for flight, for trips over fifty miles it's just so convenient and so easy and so safe.

It was the main transportation system for years, but the automobile put it out of business. It was the way you traveled. You could travel from Sebastopol to Santa Rosa in far less time than it now takes.

Susan Glaspell

I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were paved, leaving out a brick for each hill, it would increase the yield, do away entirely with the mud, and give the farmer plenty of time to meditate on lofty subjects. That is only one theory. I have many others.

Vint Cerf

You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.

Back then, with the bikeways, it was thought that it would take part of the automobile traffic off the road.

Technology started to pass Ford by. Earlier, he knew what people would buy -- a cheap, reliable automobile that would handle the rough roads of the United States. But by the early 1920s, people wanted more than the Model T.

Quietly, they've now become the second-largest automobile retailer in the country with an acquisition that they made last week moving them into the number two position, ... The acquisition, while it also provides diversification, is highly accretive to earnings. We were estimating (1999 earnings per share of) $1.50. We're now saying $1.75. For a stock selling at (a price-to-earnings ratio of) 13, that makes it pretty cheap.

The steel industry has been very fragmented (in Europe)...and the automobile and packing industries have been exploiting that.

This is an exciting number, but it was warmer in November than usual. The warm weather is the equivalent of zero-percent financing on automobile sales. You're going to see this work itself off in months to come.

Carroll Shelby

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

We're an automobile town. I think that people know the bus is out there, but they just have a real car mentality.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

Every single automobile on the road today is ethanol-capable. All vehicles can operate on a 10 percent blend of ethanol with gasoline, and Flexible Fuel Vehicles can use E85, an alternative fuel containing 85 percent ethanol.

Many people would be surprised how many secret taxes are levied on automobile and homeowner insurance premiums, some of which have tenuous links on auto safety,

Tiger Woods

soft drink, financial institution and automobile product categories.

One was underneath the automobile and I got him and pulled him out. I hope I don't see anything like that again. It was bad.

My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff.

Frankly, it looks like financial services earnings would have to be negative unless losses in the automobile business are just staggering.

If automobile efficiency gets serious then hybrid cars may not be the best choice,

Eric Roberts

But I had a white cat named Mercedes, who lived to be 16, who I got on the way home from the hospital after my automobile accident.

Survey results, while somewhat weaker than the rest of the nation, continue to point to growth for Missouri in the months ahead. Of course challenges and opportunities related to automobile industry restructuring will be an important driver in the near and intermediate term.

We've targeted several types of industries such as automobile suppliers and distribution centers because of our location.

Raymond Loewy

The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.

Jack Roush

I think Honda will be here too. I think that all of the world's automobile companies certainly will have a desire to get involved in our stock-car racing, and I think it would be good for the fans and good for the sport as it occurs.

He just liked to get in that automobile and drive.

He's driving, ... I am going to the Ontario Automobile Association to take some classes next week, because whenever I look at the 401 now I think, can I do it?