Ron Hill Best Quotations

Retail sales is the single best indication of overall demand in the economy. It's one of the things the Fed is keying on because (of) when they started raising interest rates.

Retail sales is the single best indication of overall demand in the economy,

We couldn't get any takers. As it happened, he just fell to us. A lot of times, the deals you don't do are the best deals.

This is a time when you really start to favor industrial conglomerates overall, so if news would turn on GE and Tyco International, that could even be interesting because they're all out there in the same group. But right now 3M actually has the best fundamentals and so that's why we highlight that one,

I think next year is going to be a reasonably good year. When the Fed starts lowering rates, even though profit growth will be really poor, often some of the best gains in stocks come when earnings are doing poorly, because you're getting a lift from price-to-earnings ratios rising.

Gene 'Mr. America' Stanlee was one of my favorites as a younger boy. I think he was one of the best 'showmen' in the business, but I never would bet on him in a 'shoot' even if it was against my Aunt Tillie after we dug her up from the grave. I saw him in a match with Guy LaRose when Guy had to put him over two straight. That was when LaRose was leaving Paul Bowser's office and heading for Chicago where he became 'Hans Schmidt.' Guy didn't like it one but, but did his job. Gene was extremely hot at that time and was selling out wherever he went.