Famous Quotes & Sayings

Builders live on cash flow. If you were to stop their cash flow coming in for a period of 90 days, they stand to lose houses, cars and businesses.

Builders got caught in a price-cost squeeze: selling at yesterday's prices and delivering at tomorrow's costs.

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use.

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Sarah Susanka

Build about one-third less square footage than you planned for, but build it at a slightly higher dollar cost per square foot, in order to get the character and quality of the space you want.

But having said thatnow we need people to take this from the concept stage to the time we're actually building hardwareand getting ready to launch these systems,

But as far as copying the blueprint, your team is your team. You have strengths, you have weaknesses. You have to figure out what your identity is as a team, make sure that stays the same, and then build strong around it.

John Perkins

Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful.

Basically, we wanted to build a whole bunch of these and ship them to areas; to sell them to contractors that were coming in to give these guys a place to go and clean up.

Basically, we rely on our depth. We all expect to play well when we're out there. (Friday) guys were making all their shots. Hopefully, we can build on this.

Basically, we put millage into building projects, ... We thought we should build up our capital reserve fund so we can better stand the construction once it gets started.

Because of that we cannot issue a building permit.

Michael Ward

Basically, I say if you're going to build a student life center, and then you don't have enough money for it ... call it something else,

Because we are a document depository, the building is necessarily an open place. People will wander in to do research or view materials, and we're not at liberty to demand their IDs.

Stephen Harper

Chinese-Canadians are making an extraordinary impact on the building of our country. They've also made a significant historical contribution despite many obstacles.

Wu Bangguo

China's National People's Congress is ready to join parliaments of other countries in making full use of this important stage of the IPU to carry out all forms of multilateral cooperation in a sustained endeavor to build a peaceful, prosperous and harmonious new world.

China is trying to build a 'socialist market economy,' so we would persist in building an economic system in which public ownership is the mainstay.

China is ready to work with Russian and other countries to safeguard world peace and stability, to build a harmonious world of common prosperity, and become a major constructive force for a new international order,

Rebecca MacKinnon

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

China does not have any plan to build this type of special prisons.

I'm always thinking about the next game. Hopefully we can build from this game. I'm proud of every one of those guys.

Tara VanDerveer

I'm already thinking about how we can build on who is coming back and who is coming in. And I don't want to waste a day.

I'm all for it. If I know my taxes are going toward something good, like the education of my children, I'll pay for it. We've got an excellent school system as it is, and once we get the buildings in shape, it'll only get better.

I'm always cautious to downplay range fires, because if it's your ranch building or grazing allotment that got burned up it's pretty important. But timber fires require a lot more people, equipment, time and money to put out, and so far even when we've had lightning ignition, we didn't get the large fire initiation.

Mike Evans

I lost my poise a little, but it was frustrating. I thought it came after the buzzer. It feels like we always have a bullseye on our back. That was a big momentum builder for them. In a big game like this I wish they would let the kids decide the game.

David Cook

I have a hard time figuring out how building a massive expansion to the Wal-Mart will help your downtown retailers.

I have just looked to be really patient, to build my innings, have looked to play within myself.

John Gay

I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame