Stuart Miller Quotations

New home sales activity continued to point to strong consumer demand as our new orders increased 24 percent year-over-year. As the industry continues to benefit from favorable market conditions, we continue to strengthen our position in strategic markets through organic and acquisitive growth,

One of the extra benefits of modern tennis is people learn more quickly ... the newer rackets are far more forgiving.

Our strategy, as we have navigated these market conditions, has been to use locally crafted strategies in a measured and orderly fashion to keep inventory levels very low while keeping our home-building machine working.

The assistant referee was in a better position and saw it was a clear handball. But the referee told him to put his flag down. A decision like that could cost us the title.

We have our own wholly owned products, like the card section and the Virtual Garden; then we have another level that we call our affiliates,

We were able much like a newspaper would to respond immediately. We were one of the featured memorials on Yahoo.

Thousands and thousands of people came to view the JFK memorial, the Carolyn Bessette memorial, the Lauren memorial,

We want to keep sports going. Kids have interest and for some that is the reason they stay in school.

When people think of death and dying issues, we want them to think of us,

There has been a slower sales pace in certain markets in which we operate, and price appreciation in these markets has moderated relative to the appreciation experienced in the past few years.

We have seen significant improvements in the system.

While we generally don't preannounce our quarterly results, given yesterday's market volatility and given the fact that our Miami corporate office was closed and management was inaccessible because of Hurricane Rita, we felt it prudent to preannounce our third quarter results,

Even the currently cooling housing conditions will give us an opportunity to perform well into 2007. We've already seen some recovery in the traffic patterns in our major markets.

The strength of the national housing market continues to fuel our record bottom-line performance and record second-quarter sales,

Despite signs nationally of a more normalized level of activity with regards to sales pace and price appreciation, our capital investments in these strategic markets afford us a significant competitive advantage and allow us to be well positioned for future success.

This is an industry that's done business pretty much the same way for the past 100 years. Most of the funeral homes are still family-owned, so they rely on word-of-mouth or local advertising to reach their consumers. What we realize is that as geographic trends have changed for families and they no longer live in the same hometown, how would they know where to go if a loved one died?