Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brooks

In 2005 we witnessed in excess of a fivefold increase in the amounts invested by foreign buyers from developing countries such as China and India in the UK market.

If producers are thinking about planting corn rootworm-resistant corn, they will first want to make sure their buyer is willing to buy that corn. You wouldn't want to plant corn rootworm corn without checking with them because it doesn't so much matter what the European Union wants, what really matters is what your buyer wants.

If physical buyers think the run is overextended, they will sell. It looks like some of them have sold gold when it was trading around $575.

If you can find a buyer for the business, that's obviously a way to get your money at less risk.

If you get an unchanged statement that will lead people to price in the next rate hike and maybe another one. It's hard to be a buyer of Treasury notes if the Fed is going to keep raising rates.

If your buyer is limited in terms of what they can buy, will prices continue to increase at the pace of the last few years? Not really. You will see a moderation in some markets.

If you look at surveys about buying priorities right now, fuel economy ranks sixteenth. For Honda buyers, its fourteenth. Only 2 percent of Honda buyers even think of fuel economy at all. It's not even on the radar. A fuel hike might get it on radar, but it probably won't make it item one, two, three of four. They see the larger vehicles meeting other needs and even with $2.50 a gallon gas, they're not going to necessarily give it up.

B. F. Skinner

In the U.S., the markets that are most risky are those where there is a higher proportion of buyers using adjustable loans and interest-only loans.

Paul Campbell

Before we had this, our buyers were at the mercy of the vendors.

Housing has peaked and we're expecting some moderate weakening in 2006. It's starting to turn into a buyers' market, with fewer buyers chasing more homes at these mortgage rates.

Hotel buyers have to be much smarter now than they did a year or two ago.

Eric Ross

In 2000 flash was a huge contributor to AMD's earnings, ... In 2003 it was a contributor as well, but if pricing continues, it will be a drag for the company, and there are no natural buyers of the AMD flash business.

I'm not sure they have what they think they have. It may or may not be Randy's first touchdown ball. I would say let the buyer beware.

Instead of bidding on offices and retail properties in Los Angeles, the leveraged buyers will consider Phoenix or Dallas, where the cap rates are higher.

Circuit City's profits have struggled over the last couple of years and it's uncertain when it can recover, ... There aren't any major bidders for the company yet but any buyer for it will have some real challenges on their hands.

I always view a really large foreign participation number as being a dangerous thing. If you're looking at somebody who is maybe not a natural buyer or a long-term buyer, the danger is that if it takes that participation to make them (the deals) just go OK, what happens when they don't show up?

Call-a-Car is able to cater to the needs and aspirations of emerging first time buyers who are looking to buy more affordable, yet reliable cars.

Cash buyers carry more leverage when it comes to negotiating a deal.

Robert Hall

Car buying today is more than being outside in a parking lot, surrounded by a sea of cars. There's a certain upscale experience that manufacturers want the buyers to have.

Car buying is influenced by consumer confidence. And confidence varies month to month but on a trend basis, it is down a lot in the last year, year-and-a-half. And my own view, unless it bounces back and unless history is wrong, we're going to really struggle to get these buyers in next year because they're just not as confident about the future to make a big ticket purchase as they were six months or a year ago.

They said they would keep it open for buyers to come in, and everything would stay as is. Even after Friday, my understanding is that what's there will stay there, at least until they see potential buyers back off from coming in.

William Jackson

They said they had buyers who would pay cash. It's not for sale.

George Murphy

The Dodge Nitro's styling delivers something extra; that little something mid-size buyers are still searching for -- attitude. In addition, the Dodge Nitro offers many features that are not typical of a mid-size SUV, such as two V-6 engines, 20-inch tires and chrome-clad aluminum wheels and a performance suspension.

All that has changed. But that buyer who had to save the 20 percent had a 20 percent cushion from the start.

The market clearly has some legs left. Buyers who were sitting on the fence, hoping mortgage rates would decline, have decided to make the move now.

The Iran situation is not going to go away so I see buyers coming in at the dip.

The key buyers are funds. With new highs being hit, more momentum will enter the market.

Joel Klein

These historic divestitures will give the primary buyer a platform to compete for all customers in New England,

Despite the weak yen, technology issues suffered because of the lack of their main buyers -- foreign investors -- due to the Christmas holiday season.

An element of it is investment driven but our research has found that most of it is from incredibly wealthy people who have done their homework and have become incredibly sophisticated buyers in a short space of time.

Anything goes this week. You had a great week last week and it shows there were buyers willing to come in just on the thought of stabilization.

The buyer that makes most sense is the buyer that has a strong presence in the traditional retailing of toys.

The buyers were pausing, and the sellers didn't seem to notice.