Car buying is influenced by consumer confidence. And confidence varies month to month but on a trend basis, it is down a lot in the last year, year-and-a-half. And my own view, unless it bounces back and unless history is wrong, we're going to really struggle to get these buyers in next year because they're just not as confident about the future to make a big ticket purchase as they were six months or a year ago.
Quotes about year-and-a-half (15 Quotes)
Finally I just was so bad I couldn't do it anymore. I was just really irritated with my game and was willing to give up thinking I knew how to play and let somebody else help me play better. Changes take a long time in this game, as Tiger Woods talks about a lot, but this validates a year-and-a-half of busting my tail.
I think there are definitely things over the last year-and-a-half we would have done differently, ... I think we've at least learned as we go and hopefully we don't make the same mistake next time. ... I think if I said anything different to you, I'd be removed from reality.
This is a dream come true. It exceeds all my expectations, especially when you look at where I was a year-and-a-half ago, ... I didn't think I would make it in the Tour Championship, and I certainly didn't think I would win the Tour Championship.
I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.
As far as directing, yeah, I'd like to do that. But you've got to spend at least a year, year-and-a-half doing that. It's got to be something you really love. To direct a sequel to somebody else's work is not interesting to me. To do a teen comedy, I don't think is really something I'd want to spend a year of my life doing at this point.
I think there are a couple trends worth paying attention to. Number one is the re-emergence of financials. We've seen that already over the last few months. They've had a tremendous run but they're coming off such a lousy last year-and-a-half that I think it's fair to say that it hasn't really left the station. But there's a lot of whistle blowing going on. The other one is that investors are very nervous about any kind of whiff of disappointment of not meeting expectations, so there is tremendous short-term volatility going on, and that's a buying opportunity.
I think it's going to be a decent market. And I think it's also going to be a tougher market to make money in than it's been in the last year-and-a-half. But it's not bad, and it's still worth sticking around for.
After about a year-and-a-half, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs felt we could do better selling the show to stations. And that's when they swung over.
I feel I've got better in the last year-and-a-half since I moved to number three.
This has been expected for a year-and-a-half now. Lee Scott has been with the company, he's very well regarded by the street. This is not surprising and there will be no changes in company strategy.
They're like my kids and we are a real family. Everyone assumes my son is going to play basketball but there is a chance he won't be able to do a lot of things. We won't know until he's about a year-and-a-half old, but he is great kid. He's brought us all a lot closer together.
Mobile search is an area that, depending on who you read, is ramping up for imminent takeoff in the next year-and-a-half. We want to make sure we're there in advance of that. When our clients start asking us, 'What can you do for us on mobile' we want to make sure we're there with the carriers, partners and aggregators.
I hadn't really played in a year-and-a-half, so it was good to get out there and get back in the flow. I'm still a little bit rusty and I'm not thinking the right things in the right situations. But that's what happens when you have a long time off.
I'll say the same thing to you today I've been saying for the past year-and-a-half. There's no news. There's nothing that the company is adding today.