George Whalin Business Quotations

Some companies will certainly take advantage of any reason to raise prices. However, when your business is dependent on fleet of vehicles, gas prices may become a legitimate reason for raising prices.

One thing everyone looks at when you get down to that part of the county is how much business you will get from Mexico. That is a very important part of the equation.

I think the women's business is much tougher than anything else they have been in. It doesn't seem like a natural extension to me. They have begun to get a better selection of merchandise and the business is getting better, but they don't have a real track record here yet.

The whole consumer electronics industry is seeing a flattening of their business this summer.

There's business to be had. The driving factors are the catalog and Internet guys.

It's a highly volatile business and simply not Wal-Mart's specialty. Let's not forget that Sears tried getting into a lot of other businesses -- it was selling insurance, it had a car rental service, a credit card business. It turned out to be a disaster.

It's a highly volatile business and simply not Wal-Mart's specialty, ... Let's not forget that Sears tried getting into a lot of other businesses -- it was selling insurance, it had a car rental service, a credit card business. It turned out to be a disaster.

The retail business in general is strong, and Federated is doing well, considering it has stores in major cities such as New York and San Francisco, where the affluent shopper is driving a lot of sales.

The department store business has gone through enormous changes in the last 10 years and we aren't through yet. It's a retail format that doesn't have a great future in it. Consumers have decided traditional department stores aren't their favorite places to shop.