Quotes about Sales

"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect."
-W. Clement Stone

"One percent of all the sales that you make on their credit card are devoted back to the local community school that the customer chooses. That creates a lot of customer loyalty."
-Daniel Boone

"Senator Seward has advanced a plan that would cap state sales tax on gas at the first $2 of the per-gallon price. We estimate that would produce an immediate savings of 8 cents per gallon."
-Duncan Davie

"We didn't have a rocket start. But we see sales steadily picking up as more games become available."
-Asako Miyata

"Businesses are debating their online strategy. Many believe they became too focused on sales. Now they're looking at their Web sites as a way to drive in-store traffic and increase their engagement with customers."
-Carrie Johnson

"We believe there is opportunity for a sales-trend improvement as the assortments turn around season after season."
-Howard Tubin

"Pharmaceuticals again led the way with strong sales growth across all the major therapeutic areas."
-Richard Jay

"Wal-Mart has been losing same-store sales momentum due to store cannibalization and it's stock has been dead money for over five years compared to Target."
-Howard Davidowitz

"While production growth has been overall in line with our expectations, higher commodity prices and sales of zinc concentrate in the fourth quarter are likely to lead to a better-than-expected result."
-Vedanta Resources

"As domestic markets are likely to remain weak through 2006, the company is targeting non-Japan Asian markets to support continued growth in log sales volumes."
-Mark Bishop

"ICD sales were up 30 percent, so they gained about a point of market share from Guidant."
-Jeff Jonas

"The decision has been made to curtail or reduce the annual contribution. The foundation has been doing an awful lot over the past 10 years and it's time to give it a rest. . . . The Denver Center needs to increase our earned income, which is ticket sales and income through donations."
-Randy Weeks

"Our comparable store sales results for the quarter exceeded those of our traditional and luxury department store peers, ... This performance reflects implementation of our customer-focused strategies."
-Brad Martin

"Our program with ADC combines our proven sales and account management expertise in this particular vertical. We are pleased that ADC recognizes the value of our core services and selected us through a very rigorous, competitive bid process."
-Michael Silton

"In 1999 Roswells percentage was 6 percent of the local options sales tax. However, its now around 9 percent or 10 percent. The county kept telling us it wasnt necessary to renegotiate until they had to update their comprehensive land use plan, which they had to do by the end of this month."
-David Davidson

"We've entered a lull again, with tech issues drifting lower on the back of the slowdown in mobile sales."
-Richard Champion

"As we understand the proposal at this time, proceeds from any individual land sales would be pooled into a national fund that would be used to continue current levels of payments to counties which contain national forest land."
-Terry Seyden

"The PC industry is champing at the bit to provide downloaded movies that might compete with DVD sales, and Pay-TV services want to add movies to their video-on-demand services, to their new disk-drive-equipped set-top boxes, and to their emerging high-definition TV services."
-Gerry Kaufhold

"More of the same nightmare scenario of fewer orders and fewer sales, but no different to other sectors."
-Robert Sellar

"AMD is a little bit ahead on dual core, so they will see better sales."
-Doug Freedman

"If builders were thinking of empty sales offices, they clearly would not be raising prices by an average of $4,300. It's a demonstration that builders are not seeing anything out there that scares them."
-Carl Brown

"The first half of the twentieth century was Boston's freak zenith. The city was home to 140 candy companies by 1950, with sales of $200 million per year. The beginning of the end for Boston came with the rise of the national candy conglomerates: Hershey's and Mars."
-Steve Almond

"The days of rosy sales tax growth have come to an end."
-Richard Kessel

"We're up 500 percent in bioheat sales over the last heating season, ... Bioheat is working from a pricing standpoint. It's 6 to 8 cents less per gallon than conventional heating oil."
-Michael Devine

"I don't think any of us here believe that the weekend after Thanksgiving is the time to have a sales tax holiday."
-William Murphy

"It means that, hopefully, there's going to be a lot of new tree sales generated in the local retail businesses, which is great for them."
-Diana Cohen

"They work nights and weekends because they know that every day they're missing is a missed day of sales."
-Nick Reilly

"One of the issues the city is facing, our sales tax revenue is so low on a per-capita basis - well below any other city in Whatcom County. People go somewhere else to buy things because of limited shopping opportunities in Ferndale."
-Greg Young