Inventory Quotations

The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse.

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting for entirely new forms of publishing to develop.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.

The plunge in inventory accumulation does suggest that firms are not confident enough to add merchandise to their shelves. But they will not be able to do this indefinitely because everyone knows that sporting empty shelves in a rising growth environment is not prudent.

We believe that the PC environment hasn't improved, and visibility still remains quite poor. We expect this trend to continue through the first half of 2001. As a result, we expect pricing pressure to continue between Intel and AMD through Labor Day, as weak end demand and inventory overhang continue to push both companies down the slippery slope of pricing as the only means of leverage.

There are certain inventory concerns out there. But the situation seems to be under control.

We're in a shoulder season here and you kind of expect the inventory numbers in the U.S. to build at this stage and the markets to be a little soft, so I don't think it's totally unexpected.

We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'

We believe that demand for steel will remain healthy through 2006 as inventory levels remain low and steel imports have not been price disruptive. Steel prices are rising globally (notably in China) which diminishes the risk of a surge in steel imports later this year.

We're making a transition from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Inventory is starting to swell.

We're going to get an economic boost from not only production, but from inventory buildup during the current quarter, and probably for the balance of this year.

We're going to have to take a personal inventory as a team. This is September, and this is no time to fool around. We need to pick it up a little bit. It is fortunate to lose two ballgames the last couple of days after having a nice streak and not lose any ground to the leaders.

We're going to have to take a personal inventory as a team,

Work with your business process and legal advisers to develop a records management policy, and from that, develop procedures and a retention schedule (after performing an inventory of existing records) and assessing who creates, receives and manages what information for your organization.

We expect weak household consumption, business investment and inventory run down to result in a negative headline number.

We're just now realizing how badly off the economy was in the second quarter, ... The wider trade gap, along with the weakness we saw in the business inventory numbers that came out this week and weaker construction spending, will probably result in a second-quarter revised GDP number that will be zero or even slightly negative. It will be an eye-opening number, but it's no more worrisome than what we've seen.

We know from low inventory levels that they're going to have to rebuild inventories as economy strengthens,

Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.

We're seeing range trading in all of the energy contracts. The big question is whether this is the bottom or if we will go lower. In the short-term the inventory numbers and the weather will determine what we do.

We're seeing clearance sales that are early by at least three to four weeks. Going back to the beginning of summer they had a lot of inventory on hand and they need to get rid of it, ... Second-quarter earnings are going to reflect the markdowns. Everybody has been caught in the downdraft.

We're seeing a really healthy market right now. I do know our listing inventory continues to grow and even though that is happening, our market time has been stable for three months.

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

We have a smaller showroom than a lot of other dealerships. That gives us room for more inventory (on the lot).

We have multiple suppliers for each product to ensure inventory flow and guard against unforeseen obstacles. Establishing a presence near multiple ports helps us build contingencies into our distribution network. We are trying to diversify the mechanisms for transporting product inbound and around the country.

In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.

We want to stress that the order of these projects isn't set in stone. The list is an estimate, and after annual inventory of streets, priorities will change.

We were impressed that a young kid could make the jump from high-A to competing at the big-league level in Colorado. This was an opportunity for us to continue to build our inventory of young, major league-level pitching prospects.

We'll see what they can give us. It was a chance to add to our inventory and there's no risk.

For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.

We achieved a record year at Famous Footwear. The Famous Footwear management team did an outstanding job of execution, driving double- digit operating earnings gains through improved product assortments, good inventory management and expense control, and the effective use of themed marketing (across our advertising, in-store, and in our direct-to-customer pieces). As a result, our traffic levels were up every quarter versus last year, as customers responded well to our offerings.

We are going to make sure that we inventory our new materials and take out the ones that are no longer our core curriculum. It is a very common request for the company.

We did get surprising oil inventory data, but it's still below that $60 range. The market is running against options expirations, which are causing technical difficulty.

Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.

We heard commentary from several retailers that is consistent with what we have heard from industry contacts over the past six weeks: Inventory is expected to flow better in late February, and by late March inventory levels should be consistently filled.

Yesterday, the Department of Human Health Services in the U.S. contacted our public health agency and asked for an inventory of emergency supplies that, if they need them, we could send at a moment's notice.

We have probably hit the bottom in inventory liquidation, and hopefully we are actually now rebuilding inventory,

We've seen customers in our industry aggressively reducing inventory balances, so shipment, sales and profits were lower than would be suggested by improved consumer purchases of our products.

We have reduced our inventory capacity approximately 20%, and thus we have to continue to focus on increasing our yield per minute. We are building a new 30-second marketplace, which continues to move forward, albeit more slowly than we would hope. We are also hoping for a more robust radio and advertising environment that has not materialized yet.

We won't have a very strong inventory situation, certainly not enough to keep markets from testing higher.

What I didn't know in the early days is now much business background is necessary, something I've learned along the way. It's one reason for this partnership. It lets the gallery move sideways. Now the inventory is twice as potent; I'm selling it and have someone else selling it as well.

When units come back they usually do an inventory of what gear they have and what is damaged or missing. When a unit comes in to check out, they need to have a missing or damaged gear statement stamped certified or true copied by their commanding officer. They have to have the statement done within ninety days of return. Instead of having the CO sign thirty missing or damaged gear statements, the unit only has to make one letter which the CO signs and attach the other Marines statements along with it.

We're confident we'll have enough product in stores. We've taken inventory into consideration when rolling this out.

Make sure that they monitor the delivery of their products, take an inventory and at the end of the business day when they're done, make sure the property is as secure as possible.

Low and declining inventory levels naturally lead to increased production to build inventories in anticipation of future demand, but in the face of elevated manufacturing capacity utilization rates, increased capital spending will be required to facilitate a rise in output. Since our last capital spending forecast in December 2005, significant increases in spending for 2006 have been announced, suggesting growth in capital expenditures of about 10 percent this year.

Seven weeks ago at our Dec. 7 earnings announcement, we projected a falloff in the current quarter of 10 percent based on slowness in the wireless market, PCs and peripherals, and a broad-based distribution inventory correction.

Sellers are beginning to show that they understand what's happening and they're adjusting to the marketplace. As there's more inventory now, the condition of the property comes into play even more.

So far there's very little evidence of excess inventory and 1Q 04 expectations seem reasonable to us relative to historical norms.

Some aspects are easy to quantify, some are not. What I can't quantify is the impact of the wireless transition on our sales due to fact that we have less inventory and less active promotional activity.

Since quarter end, market conditions for our primary products have continued to weaken resulting in significant declines in average selling prices and higher inventory levels,

Most of the traders are looking at the Iranian issue over the bearish inventory report.

Mr. McKenzie has an incredible track record in developing the Lake Fork area, and this auction will enable him to sell a substantial portion of his inventory in a single day. With 28 sites selling absolute, it's a rare opportunity for some people to obtain a site for their lake home at a great price.

MDA strongly supports a community's need to be ready for development and to have an inventory of available sites and locations. But traditionally the state hasn't invested in sites before a project is actually determined.

One-size-fits-all is fairly accurate. Obviously, teams will still have a half a dozen to 10 or a dozen cars still on board. The difference is, the cars will be so similar that if they do get behind the eight-ball, they'll be able to pull another one out of inventory and keep going.

One significant provision calls for ships to meet ballast water discharge standard according to a schedule of fixed dates -- beginning with certain ships constructed in 2009. These fixed dates serve as a signal to both the shipping industry and the emerging ballast water treatment industry of the need for investment, plans and ballast water treatment equipment inventory to meet ballast water management requirements.

Obviously whenever inventory builds, in the back of your mind, there's always a little bit of a concern.

Of course it's benefited from commodity prices, but it's growing organically well above average. They have a good inventory of projects to continue this above-average production growth.

One-year-ago I characterized it as a feeding frenzy, when there are too many buyers, not enough sellers. Today it's just the opposite the accumulation of inventory is growing.

On its own, a comp-store inventory increase of 2-to-5 percent is no big deal. But when you've got comp-store sales declines of closer to 10 percent, you're dealing with a possible 10-point spread, which we believe is going to cause retailers to push the promotional panic button earlier than they would have.

No doubt these numbers will be taken by the market as a clear sign of a softening housing market and, by implication, an indication that higher interest rates are biting. We are much more skeptical: housing starts lag home sales, which have been depressed in recent months more by lack of inventory than by higher interest rates.

Returning a small number of high-cost products can greatly increase inventory value.

My understanding is that the last, absolute inventory that was taken -- that surely established where these hard drives were -- was part of the Y2K survey, which would be at the beginning of the year.

Nobody in the channel likes to have a lot of inventory risk.

Nissan is the only major Japanese automaker that has suppliers producing modules and parts in a Nissan factory, which helps cut logistics cost and inventory cost.

On the other hand, it's possible the first quarter's growth was just a one-time inventory rebound and that we're now stuck in a range of 1.5-to-2 percent growth. If that continues, it will be much like the early 90s,

On the other hand, every major retailer subscribes to weather consulting firms that give seasonal forecasts over a period of a year in advance. They can better plan inventory accordingly.

One of the dominant worries here is the question of whether we're going to see any building of inventory that will result in 1Q weakening. But as the data points have rolled in, that appears to be less and less the case. That's pretty important, and you can see it, in particular, in some of the communications stocks that are moving.

I wish I could come back tomorrow. I want to see only a fair increase in these prices, ... long range transportation plan and inventory update.

If we had issued this music on CD, ... it would have been a multióten thousand dollar project. Instead, our actual out-of-pocket was a few thousand dollars. As a way of distributing music, it's incredibly elegant; there's no inventory to catalog and store. The fidelity issues are real, but I expect they'll get resolved.

If they did not know the record of the Bull's Eye retailer, then they certainly were negligent because it was a very blatant, shoddy business that was being conducted insofar as the inventory of rifles was concerned, ... If they did know about it, then most assuredly they have an obligation to withhold the sale and to require them to monitor correctly the sale and the inventory of their weapons.

I am getting the sneaking suspicion that there is an inventory situation going on here, which means that growth could be even weaker. That is a bit troubling to me.

Businesses were liquidating inventory last fall at a frenetic pace and adding to weakness in the economy's production. It looks like the rate of inventory liquidation is starting to slow, and a basis is forming from that reduction for a rise in the economy.

Business demand consistently exceeded our expectations throughout most of calendar year 2000, and in an effort to meet our customer expectations we continued to increase our inventory and capacities to keep up with rising demand.

Business confidence is very low, and thus they're maintaining as cautious an approach as possible to their activity, whether that's hiring, building inventory or anything else.

Because we have more inventory right now prices are starting to come down. The market is re-balancing itself. It was out of balance there for a while and we had too many buyers and not enough inventory and now it's the other way around.

Because we do relatively small volumes of many different products, if we're not careful, inventory can gobble up our cash. We used to have huge growth rates of our inventories as business grew. Now we are able to hold them level even though we add more products each year, so we can manage our cash flow more effectively.

If inventory continues to build going out a few quarters and companies that are planning for better demand don't get it, then that would be a concern.

Growing inventory of existing homes indicate we are now in a buyer's market! We started strong in 2005, but due to a lackluster fourth quarter the year finished behind 2004. Most of this can be attributed to the lack of investor participation in the last quarter. Sales for 2005 were about 5 percent below that of 2004.

From various surveys that have been conducted over the years, the view of the action from the third deck was among the worst in baseball. The demand for those seats, whether on a game-by-game basis or part of a season ticket package, did not justify making that inventory available any longer.

If a driver has left and a customer calls, they can trickle the request to a cellular network over the device. Instead of warehouse workers pulling inventory from the warehouse for delivery using one device and drivers out of range using a cellular phone, each could use the integrated device, and the enterprise would only have to maintain a single infrastructure to support that.

I don't think you'll see very many bars immediately going out and start cracking big bottles. They've got an inventory of little bottles they've got to get rid of first, and the only way they can get rid of them is to sell them.

Given the steady decline in hoops ratings and the doubling of our football inventory with the Western Athletic and Atlantic Coast Conferences, this was no longer in line with our strategy.

Given the relatively low inventory levels, we expect an elevated likelihood of materially higher prices rather than a lower correction.

GM's success earlier this summer has really taken its toll on inventory levels for several models, limiting their ability to have another terrific month. And there appears to be relatively little momentum left in GM's employee discount incentive program now that it is in its third month.

GM likely doesn't have enough inventory to maintain a strong sales pace. And inevitably, the employee-pricing program is losing its effectiveness, as eventually happened to zero-percent financing, hot-button bonus cash programs, talk-show host car giveaways and other promotions.

GM likely doesn't have enough inventory to maintain a strong sales pace.

GM has a high degree of confidence in the business despite the volatility in the marketplace and the intense competitive environment, ... GM's inventory levels came down significantly during the first half and are now at appropriate levels.  This should allow us to maintain reasonably stable production rates for the balance of the year.

If it weren't for the market's focus on short-term inventory data, the market would be a lot higher. We're retracing, even if the move upwards was not as big as it could have been.

we can keep an inventory of what we got, what we need.

There is a high likelihood of lower prices, ... The department store segment is a supplier's worst nightmare. Department stores demand more allowances from vendors, they want to be able to return inventory if it doesn't sell well. A Federated-May merger could be an even worse scenario for the suppliers.

Today focus will be on the US inventory data, with gasoline stocks expected to have fallen by 1.9 million barrels in the week to August 5 as refineries struggle to avoid breakdowns and meet demand,

To create competition, the distributors - namely the banks - must be allowed to compete over fees and service. The current system does not encourage competition. With the banks getting a blanket annual fee for the customer's inventory of fund units, their interest will be to sell as many units in stock mutual funds as possible and to prevent clients from selling them, even when unbiased advice would reach the opposite conclusion.

What you're seeing is more refineries coming online and this is slowing the inventory build as they process the oil into more products.

Having these three resorts back in business will attract thousands of day trip customers, some of our meetings business, and many tour groups. Although we still will be far short of our previous room inventory and meeting space, we know that the demand to visit our destination is high and that business will take off with the reopening of the Imperial Palace, the Isle of Capri, and the Palace.

Historically, a parallel relationship exists between inventory and service: if you want high service levels, you need a lot of inventory. We want to switch that, and deliver high service levels with less inventory.