David Jones Good Quotations

Using your credit card when you can pay some other way is never a good idea.

My favorite line is that economists were created to make weather forecasters look good, ... A good dose of humility is always required.

He's going to try to get a higher score on the ACT or SAT and the FCAT. Right now, he has some pretty good options. He's going to study hard and get in the gym and work hard and get ready to join the team in January.

Greenspan is giving the markets a reality check. Good for him.

We did not play our style of basketball and we need to rebound and play defense. Things just spiraled out of control the third period and we weren't able to get back in the game. On top of that, Hollidaysburg is a good basketball team.

Two good things have happened in Japan. We've overcome the uncertainty of who the leader's going to be; and secondly, they are listening to the markets, in terms of permanent tax cuts, in terms of banking reform.

No matter how you slice it, we've seen some acceleration in labor costs. The market took heart from good producer and consumer price numbers, but I don't think Greenspan is paying as much attention to those numbers as the Street has.

The fourth quarter... that's still partly the good news of 1997 and that was truly a good news year. The question is what happens in the first, second, third and fourth quarters of 1998 and I think that's a deteriorating process.