Craig Johnson Quotes (29 Quotes)

No doubt, Pier 1 has a substantial brand equity, ... My suspicion is that Buffett sees through the current problems and has confidence in whatever new vision and strategy the company is working on that isn't apparent yet to outsiders.

On the West Coast, land availability takes a back seat to labor union issues and that's why Wal-Mart has consistently run into problems in California,

I was stunned . . . how many alumni told me how much he meant to them and not only musically. He is a real model for all of us.

Clearly this meeting signals a bona fide interest on Wal-Mart's part in the Indian market, ... India is a huge market and its fast-growing consumer sector is a precise fit for Wal-Mart's overall strategy.

These things are important because users can never get enough bandwidth and control, ... And the great news for users is pricing for Gigabit and Layer 3 switches is coming down because of intensified competition.

These are very strong numbers that point to a company operating on all cylinders. I don't care what kind of business you are. When you have annual sales of 43 billion, and you're growing you're top line at this rate, you're doing an exceptional job.

We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

It would be like when Ford bought Jaguar a while ago and changing its name to Ford-England.

Several firms that have gone public recently and others that have been public for some time have seen their shares rise considerably.

I think this is the most colossal marketing mistake since the geniuses at Coke came up with 'New Coke,'

The more costs Wal-Mart can take out of the system, the more it's able to pass a portion of the cost saved on to the customer in the form of lower prices.

I just wanted to see him on a day like today with it being a little bit colder than it was down there in Mobile have the same type of day and make all the throws that are necessary to make.

Even with the Supreme Court's decision potentially in their favor, smart retailers would rather go into communities wearing a white hat rather than a black one,

One of our primary goals is to equip students to be organizational leaders who are willing to lead at the local and global levels. Graduates will take leadership roles in the workplace, as well as in their communities and society as a whole.

Katrina, however, knocked out a substantial portion of the nation's petroleum infrastructure, especially refineries that produce gasoline, when gas supplies were already stretched thin. The larger worry may not be Katrina itself, ... but if energy prices were to continue their sharp climb.

Wal-Mart has to redefine itself to consumers. If the lowest price pitch is its only value proposition, that's yesterday's news.

We perceive this to be an ongoing threat that will be there for many years to come.

We can't extrapolate from the retailers' performance in the first part of the year how retailers' will fare in the second half of the year, ... Will the holiday season be as solid as last year I'm not sure of that yet. It may be a middle-of-the-road performance.

They have years of recovery ahead of them. You see pictures on TV and hear people talking about it. But even today, when you get down there and turn around 360 degrees, it hits your heart.

Corporations tend to get involved when things are smooth and money is flowing. Fewer stick with it in tough times,

If the city were to diversify, this wouldn't hurt us so bad.

Cory always had an answer for everything. We will miss your cheeky face, your wit, your laugh and your smile.

I was militant about the vocals. I really beat that dead horse.

A lot of our water is too polluted to be used for fishing, and swimming.

What makes us fundamentally different is that we give citizens the tools to become informed, organize themselves and then to take action, ... People can form or join groups, contribute money or time, or dialog with their representatives with just two clicks of their mouse.

It's really become a game of chicken, ... But to mix my metaphors, the consumer has also become trained like Pavlov's dog. He expects the pre-Christmas sales and deeper price cuts through the holidays.

We are continuing to expand our products and services through a combination of acquisitions and capital investment in new equipment throughout the Rocky Mountains to satisfy our customers' growing needs. With locations from Alice, Texas, to Williston, North Dakota, we continue to enhance our ability to service our customers across the major basins of the lower 48.

We're still in the first or second inning of providing the tools necessary to provision DSL that are comparable to what the old phone system has for provisioning voice services, ... We need a mechanism where you do a submittal, get approval and all the rest without getting 50 people involved.

Management distractions can have a tremendous effect on a company. The good news is that Wal-Mart took some action and they're putting more effort into their public relations.