Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our long-term goal is to become one of the top three automobile manufacturers in China.

Investment mania has been evident in the ferroalloy, coke, calcium carbide, automobile and copper smelting sectors.

In terms of stocks, GE is the biggest problem today, as is the American automobile sector, ... You've got Ford trading at $7 a share, that's practically bankruptcy level for a company that is not in danger of declaring bankruptcy. And when GE, one of the great, major companies of the world is down, it has a big impact on the psychology.

Raymond Loewy

In every phase of the automotive industry, certain factors have been more important than all others in relation to the way the automobile has looked. Phase One is really the Ford story. Function and production were the most important considerations. The automobile was an invention, and it looked like one.

Martin Winterkorn

India is and will remain an important strategic growth market for the Volkswagen Group. We are convinced that VW will take on a key role in the Indian automobile market in the long-term.

The next 12 months will not only determine the very future of the domestic automobile industry as we know it, but Detroit will become the lightning rod for the most pressing issues facing this country -- health care costs, pension reform, global competition and its threat to the industrial foundation of America.

It's still very mixed, it's a very narrow market. It's like an automobile which has many cylinders. To really get our market in gear and running smoothly you need to have more cylinders hitting than fewer. We just had another cylinder kick in today with this spurt in gold.

It's significant to note that a 'bumper-to-bumper' automobile warranty doesn't include the bumpers

It's wrong to think of the automobile industry as a dinosaur. The automobile industry is the cornerstone of the high-tech industry in Michigan.

It was more geared to a fast-paced automobile society.

P. J. O'Rourke

The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our goal is to eventually remove the automobile from the energy and environment debate, to neutralize its impact on the planet. That's why we're so bullish about alternative fuels.

Fuel cells create a better automobile that's 50 percent more energy-efficient overall and sustainable from energy and safety perspectives.

P. J. O'Rourke

I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

Hank Johnson

Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.

Donald Trump

What I hate about Halle Berry is there's always drama around her. It's always fighting, automobile accidents, fistfights, boyfriends fighting ex-husbands for the child.

Volkswagen still has room to rise. We fund managers love Volkswagen now. The stock has gone from the most-hated automobile stock to everybody's darling.

Preston Sturges

I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.

Preston Sturges

I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.

The only reason the eagles leave is to find food. With so many people ice fishing and with the increase in automobile traffic which means a lot of road killed deer and other animals, there is plenty for the eagles to feed on, so they don't leave.