Famous Quotes & Sayings

Builders don't want to hang on to standing houses -- they have to pay their bills, financing, and taxes.

Builders can start with a comprehensive land analysis, reviewing all land owned, in the process of being acquired, under option, or otherwise in the pipeline.

Builders are talking big. They all said they will build more houses in early 2006 than in early 2005. You don't have to worry that 2006 will be a good, strong market. But expect it to be a highly competitive market.

Builders are finding that they have to work harder. They have to use different sales tactics to gain market share from competitors.

Builders and environmentalists say don't mess with these programs.

If the home builders are doing badly, it shows the housing market is slowing down. Whatever happens to them determines how much the consumer will have to spend for the holiday season.

Last year we did 35 indoor gyms. We've worked with lots of builders on the North Shore.

O. Henry

Mounting the instructions like this is an excellent idea. I have seen this used in a number of plants for internally generated changeover, operation and maintenance Standard Operating Procedures, but I don't recall having seen any builders putting it on the machinery.

What we decided to do ... was visit houses in which people had lived for a year, to find out exactly how they used those spaces, and see whether that reality was the same as that portrayed in builder model homes.

Matisse is a new visual GUI builder that allows developers to save a lot of time laying out their GUIs. This has been a huge problem in the Java industry for many years. This is the big, new, hot feature that the developers are really clamoring for.

We have seen and I expect will continue to see a softening of demand for single-family housing that has been unmatched by a decline in construction. Eventually builders get with the program.

Burning Spear

There was a lot of stones what the builders refused. I think I was one of the stones what many builders did refuse.

At any one time, Manny had a core group of professional builders who would contract the work,

The new-home sales market is the canary in the coal mine. Builders have a better clue as to what the right price is to move a house.

The big builders are marking down their outlooks for 2006 and rolling out some sales incentives -- the sort of things we see when the market starts to weaken on the demand side.

That helps offset the slowing housing market. They have diversification that a lot of other builders don't have. But I do think their earnings growth will slow. There's no doubt about that.

It's time to start thinking of parents and families as community builders and not just as service recipients. While the craniofacial community may be small by comparison to other health issue communities like heart disease or cancer or diabetes, we are nonetheless a community. Dont underestimate individuals with facial differences or their parents what they have learned in their lives can be put to meaningful use to help others.

Bob Lewis

It's the site - that's the issue. It isn't who the builder is.

It was just a good confidence builder for the girls.

This is kind of like the Scripps of lab builders. This is one of the leading biotech lab builders in the world, if not the leader.

It was a confidence builder to go in and run the table on a team like that like we did.

The Zanesville plant is one of six manufacturing facilities for All American Homes nationwide. Our Zanesville facility opened in July 1998, employs 175 people, and builds 250 to 300 homes per year. It serves 75 independent builders who cover a radius of about 250 miles from Zanesville.

We need to have better situational hitting. We could have lost all three of those games, so we need to use these mid-week games as prep and confidence builders for this weekend.

Under the old process, we would have to send the builder numerous brochures that were already obsolete by the time they opened them. Now, the builder can show their customers the latest styles with a few simple clicks of the mouse.

David Brock

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.

This was a big confidence builder for me.

Michael Hayes

We kept running our plays and I kept getting open to knock down shots all night. This game goes as a huge confidence builder for us as we go on the road. We just need to keep playing as a team and see what happens from here on out.

Mark Helprin

Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only upon the flow of commentary that raises them up or casts them down.

After several record-breaking years for home sales, builders are anticipating a return of the market to a healthy and steady pace.

Now it's 30 builders who dominate the scene.

Developers or builders would speculate on the higher-end homes, figuring that the market was there. We've seen a definite pullback in that speculative market.

A lot of national and regional builders are in the market, and all are trying to gain market share quickly. To do that, they are building units quickly and keeping prices down. It's volume and a competitive price.

Chris Hernandez

A lot of guys stepped up and we had guys down. We started scrapping and finding a way to win. I think that was a confidence builder for some of the younger guys.