Nancy Ford Quotations

We know we can't cost-cut our way to a product-led recovery. Great products made us who we are and it's going to take us where we're going.

There are more people shopping, but they're spending less.

We are talking about drift nets the size of football pitches, trailed between two boats, scooping up everything in their way. Dolphins breathe air so if they get tangled up in nets and kept under water they drown.

One's own employees ought to be one's own best customers. Paying high wages is behind the prosperity of this country.

Of course I miss it, there?s nothing like the adrenaline rush of coaching on Tuesday and Friday nights. But I also sleep a lot better on Tuesdays and Fridays now.

If we cannot follow her physical footsteps throughout the troubled Middle East, what we can imitate are her attitudes, which in essence pertain to faith and love, ... She was a dwelling place for God, and so are we.

Friday's same-store sales data are an early indication that shoppers are meeting retailers' expectations, ... The sales growth is in line with the healthy state of the economy and consumer confidence.

Guys in this situation often do change their mind.

It appears that same-store retail sales have continued to do reasonably well.

I think this is the court starting to take a look at this and saying it's crazy. And I don't see the majority saying it's great -- I think I see the majority saying, 'We can't stop it.

Swapping merchandise and cashing in on your gift certificates.

I wasn't comfortable putting him out there in the starting lineup. He's yet to scrimmage in the full-court yet and if you look at the number of days he's been out, it's quite a few. I was concerned that if he would go out there and try to play, that we could now lose him for another five games down the road. I want to see him get out there and compete and go up and down in a scrimmage first.

I wasn't comfortable putting him out there in the starting lineup, ... He's yet to scrimmage in the full-court yet and if you look at the number of days he's been out, it's quite a few. I was concerned that if he would go out there and try to play, that we could now lose him for another five games down the road. I want to see him get out there and compete and go up and down in a scrimmage first.

We've known that sleep disturbances are among the best biological markers for depression, but this is the first time we've shown that those disturbances can show up decades before the depression.

When a base closes in a community, it's never a good thing. You lose jobs and there's a big economic impact.

We're not going to close the door on anybody. We'll take the FBD League with the panel we have at the moment and then look at making changes. Nicky more than likely will be involved.

We just weren't able to get a big inning. This doesn't take away what we did in the previous two series. We played well there and can still turn it back around.

With both Christmas and Hanukkah coming late in the week, and considering that two of last year's top four shopping days fell immediately before Christmas, it is still possible that we will see a boost in spending.

This will be our largest and toughest meet. The tournament consistently has a ton of kids who place in the state. The top Division II and Division III teams will be there. It's a real good tournament. It's a real back-breaker. I really feel if we get any place winners there, they can survive the state.

The players of today are in such tremendous shape. Look at the size of players like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. They have such power behind everything they do.

When Mel came up in 1964 in the middle of the season, I was his pitching coach, but I was also pitching every fourth day besides. Yogi Berra was our manager. That's why it was all screwed up.

We had a special group when we played. There were a lot of competitors on that team.

We want to give brands more time around audiences, while still having our promotions outside the classroom.

The river gives and the river basically takes away. There really isn't a vocabulary that I have access to that describes this. And as always, it's the least able to recover from this disaster who will suffer most intensely.

Rush Limbaugh's remarks were insensitive and stupid, ... They were far beneath the standard that ESPN has set over the years for legitimate and thoughtful sports broadcasting. He should be fired.

Despite this mini-surge in spending, the modest gain in same-store sales did not meet early projections.

You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

This is not a sacrifice we will ask only the UAW and its members to share. There will be sacrifices throughout the company, top to bottom.

This is really about choice. More choice allows people to select the best browser for their needs. It also gives them an alternative to OS-bundled browsers.

Although you hear great things about hotel recovery, the industry is still not back. Lots of inner-city construction is not feasible for a pure and simple hotel. It doesn't work.

This means that we can now offer flexible, scalable, reliable and cost-effective connectivity solutions (from fractional T-1s, all the way up to DS-3 circuits at 45 Mbps) to the 135,000 businesses within our footprint. In addition, from our newest tower site on Santiago Peak (at 5,687 feet, it is the highest point in Orange County), we are now in a position to further extend our footprint to every major city within Southern California.

It's going to be painful for some people. Is everybody going to be happy? No. And they shouldn't be.

Consumers have been on a shopping frenzy for so long, they may be trying now to 'pace themselves' in preparation for the upcoming holiday shopping season.

That's one of the few beaches on the west side of the lagoon.

It's not for the weak of heart. It's something that you have to be able to look past all of the problems and realize the potential of a piece of land.

I've had dozens of conversations in El Salvador over the years with people who said it would be simply unthinkable for any group of low-ranking guardsmen to kill four North American women without having been ordered to do so, that the system just didn't work that way,

In spite of vibrant economic conditions, holiday shoppers continued to hold back and remained very value conscious, taking advantage of retail promotions and deep discounts.

I have felt bereft. The city Richard and I knew and loved, that city's gone, I think irrevocably.

Honestly, it didn't sink in until about 30 minutes before the ceremony kicked off. I did not want to accept the fact this unit and all the wonderful soldiers that we were fixing to be separated. It has been the most rewarding job in my 21 years in the Army.

He's an interesting commodity. He's got very, very quick feet. He's very very athletic. He pushes the envelope all the time, every play. Because of that, you get some phenomenal plays, but you've got some things you're not going to be very happy with.

I could never get him as good in Australia as he was in New Zealand, ... At one point he popped a splint but he'd had a long season anyway and maybe he was telling us he'd had enough.

Graeme said if we left him in Australia and gave him a decent spell he could come back as good as any horse in the country, ... but I said we could do that here so we brought him home. He came back in December and we gave him four months out and then four months of jogging up. He's filled out a bit but he could fill out a bit more. He's so big that he might take until he's six or seven before he's fully mature.

For the most part, spending continued steadily throughout the weekend. It is not unusual to see a slight slowdown in sales after an initial surge on the day after Thanksgiving -- particularly with a long shopping season.

For the most part, spending continued steadily throughout the weekend,

A long pre-Christmas shopping weekend helped buoy December retail sales by 2.1 percent, just edging out November's 1.9 percent gain. As a result, the year ended on a positive note, albeit modest; and consumer confidence is on the rise again - a good sign moving into the New Year.