Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

There's no surprise there. Residential (building) has made a huge impact lately. There are a lot of things in place to discourage builders from commercial development.

If there is a deep freeze, the builders will find it hard digging the pitch and putting foundations in,

Andrea Riseborough

I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.

The high-end system builders we work with have the expertise to put together these types of PCs so we chose to work with them first.

You will see those large builders spread their marketing dollars throughout the country.

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.

The builders would swoop in and wipe them out. There is just no way to police that at the cash register.

The builders of the Santa Fe lines in the early days no doubt planned ultimately to penetrate to the Pacific coast, knowing that the real opportunity for the road lay in that direction.

The builders do understand that we need continued job growth if they are to sustain the market.

The Builders Association has a perfect track record from my point of view: There's not one environmental protection that they haven't opposed.

The builders are willing and ready to pay their fair share of the cost of the growth, but they also have to be able to build at prices that the market can support.

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.

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,

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.

There may have been a little over-enthusiasm trying to serve the high end previously, but we haven't seen any evidence the high end is having problems. We have also seen some national builders trying to buy market share by pricing more aggressively.

This is an exciting time for the building industry. Builders say more customers want green homes, and we are ready for that challenge.

This is the first time I've ever seen or heard that a developer wants to do the show back to back. And the builders wanted to be in on it again. That's unheard of.

Michael Williams

We think it's time. You've got two years left on the contract, so you have time to look and see whether The Community Builders is actually providing you what you wanted in that contract.

We already know the number of permits drawn by builders has decreased and is going to continue to decline because of the cool-down in the housing market. We won't need as many construction workers.

I've been organizing these kinds things for a while now, and every time we need help, the Home Builders Association is always right there.

It would provide more certainty so that highway planner and builders would know what's coming.

We tried to tell the builders to lay them down or try and move them next to a building, ... There wasn't a lot we could do. If we wanted to pick them all up, we'd have to get started once a (tropical) wave comes off Africa.

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 a nice touch. From the professionals' standpoint, builders and contractors and unions, I think they just want to do their part for the community. It's their way of giving back.

It was the custom for organ builders to take an old organ and enlarge it at a later time,