Steve Davies Good Quotations

Great companies look at where they do business and think not only that it's necessary to do business, but it's also necessary to be a good corporate citizen and support where they live,

Outside its two major markets, Kingfisher reported very strong growth in Poland (against weak comparatives) and good performances in Italy and China.

As you get older, it's tougher to get off to a good start.

Each time, the city's population has shown a significant population increase over the previous decennial census. It's always a good thing.

This has not been confirmed by the company, but it should be good news for the share price.

This is good going in the current environment.

When they called me last year and talked to me about the job, I thought that it'd be a good challenge to come back over here. To see if we could get it going and to see what we could make of it.

We think this is a first in the history of business. We've selected a product spokesperson without even knowing the person's identity, age, gender, marital status or occupation. What matters to us is that the winner represents what our new Buttered Lobster Bites are all about - that everyone in America can enjoy a taste of the good life.

Management has developed a good knack of over delivering on its strategy so far and that gives us significant confidence going forwards.

Our store visits suggested that the company's various fascias were discounting earlier and more heavily than the competition and that is rarely a good sign at this time of year.