Steve Baker Quotes (25 Quotes)

This is a very exciting time for the industry, ... The pricing across products looks great. Back-to-school was very strong for the group and I expect the same going into the holidays.

There's a huge amount of demand defined by lower prices and growth in broadband and wireless networks. Consumers in the U.S. are adding PCs to their home inventory and finding new and different ways to use them.

The con artists have discovered the Internet, ... Digital Jam.

At this point in time, it is in the best interests of the association for me to pursue new opportunities in my professional career. I have no doubt as to the organization's continued success.

It's the whole function of how you get your money back. You don't just get it from the gate. You get it through extended stays in hotel rooms. People who plan to come when something is new, they'll get them. Now it'll take an extra half-day to see everything, and they'll get that extra night in the hotel.

Apple came along with the right interface and the right storage solution at the right time. You could make a pretty good argument that most of the players before the original iPod never did what they were advertised to do. You couldn't get one with enough flash memory, and it cost so much more than a CD player that there really wasn't any competitive advantage.

More and more of the scam artists we deal with are outside the United States. It's especially a problem with the Internet, ... because there really is an international component to it.

In most cases, these are products that people really need and they have a finite period of time in which to acquire them. So expect prices to be firm.

These attractions can open in six months, but it's questionable whether there will be any tourists there by then. It's going to be years before the New Orleans tourist industry comes back. Once engineers get inside a lot of those buildings, they'll discover damage that wasn't visible. A lot of buildings will have to be torn down or completely rebuilt.

It represented something that we believed to be a piece of Americana pop culture.

I always tell people I'm married to my job. I've met wonderful people here who have taken me under their wing.

I put out a little bucket and just get out there and start playing. I have gotten kicked out a couple times, but most of the time at least the managers are cool about it. They are like 'we love hearing you when you play, but we just can't allow you to pla

It's hard to make money in this market if you are not Apple. Now There is little barrier to anyone wanting to enter the market.

People are excited about it because this really makes sense safety wise, health wise and economically.

Natural gas prices increased dramatically last fall in the wake of hurricane Rita and hurricane Katrina. Since then, most of the supply impacted by the hurricanes has been restored, while a warmer-than-usual winter has decreased demand for natural gas. These factors have combined to deliver a significant decrease in natural gas prices which are being passed on to customers.

I'm liking this. This is by far the best weather. I can't wait for some of those clouds to roll in.

He pretty much had the fire out by the time the fire department got there. When they got there, they checked everything out, just to make sure.

Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and even Sony to some extent are the companies out there leading the convergence in the stores of computer products and consumer electronics products,

You have to question whether it's legal for the state, in essence, to take away benefits from a pension system that people have been paying into, where they've been promised, with nothing in return - not a negotiated reduction, nothing.

We expect holiday sales for consumer electronics to be OK. Last year was such as a good year that the big gains maybe aren't sustainable.

Jeff is excited not only by the passion of the organization, but the passion of the fans and the storied tradition of football in Cleveland.

I think you'll see companies like HP and Compaq diversify their consumer product lines to take advantage of all the digital technologies that are migrating from the consumer electronic side of the business, into the computer side of the business.

It's not as big a gamble as you would imagine it would be. It's all geared to hotel rooms and increasing the length of stay in hotel rooms.

We're hard pressed for labor more than for warehouse space. But we're going to be hard pressed for warehouse space.

I knew of 15 that were coming and expected more, but never expected this many, ... Based on what we're hearing, we'll probably have 60 or so by the time this is over.