Dealer Quotations

In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of this tragedy. It appears that most of the shelters ordered by FEMA have now been produced, but we do expect to see some carryover into 2006. In addition, industry sales in 2006 may increase due both to the need to replenish dealer lots that were depleted while manufacturers diverted their production capabilities to filling FEMA orders, and the permanent rebuilding of the hurricane-stricken areas.

Whether this customer drives in, phones in or clicks in, you as the dealer must develop an instant rapport with that customer and give them all of the information necessary to purchase from you. What you want to avoid is putting that younger buyer through a more traditional sales process from the past that when they finally weed through everything, they disconnect and go somewhere else. To succeed today, you must make sure these customers have the same experience on your lot that they had over the Internet.

When we first started looking for dealers it was a bit discouraging, ... We would get turned down as a dealer for one reason or another. But we kept saying when one door closes, God opens up two more. Now here we are with Duesenberg USA. It is definitely a good door!

We have to grow our dealer body - we are going to need a significant number of dealers to sell our product. We have to really improve what they call the consideration funnel, where customers actually will consider Ford.

If you can't trust your coke dealer, who can you trust?

The reality is in terms of a bus ride, they would not be experiencing a great dealer shorter ride into Kersey Creek.

We're continuing to monitor the dealer orders. It wouldn't be unheard of if we were to make a change, but at this point in time, nothing has changed yet.

We recommend that you go through a licensed Wisconsin dealer because then you have protection if any claims come of it after your purchase such as being misrepresented as a clean vehicle rather than a prior salvage vehicle.

McCarthy Limited has confidence in the future of the South African vehicle industry, and we expect meaningful growth through to 2010. The upgrading and expansion of our dealer network will put us in an excellent position to capitalize on future opportunities.

I don't know of a single Five Star dealer who hasn't taken advantage of the situation. Buyers have to step up to the plate if they want the car right now.

I don't know why they would give someone something and then take it away. They're as bad as any dealer on the street.

But there are times we will talk to our dealer body in a market where we see there is a situation that needs to improve. We talk to the parties involved about how you would resolve the situation.

I can tell those apart who can milk a cow, I mean with their bare hands. Sometimes people can tell by looking at someone, 'Aha, this must be a drug dealer or this must a lawyer.

If a dealer wants to offer additional incentives to compete in that local market, he's certainly free to do so." ()

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

Greg has been a true friend to the dealer body going all the way back to his days in Texas. We will miss his warmth, candor and support.

We then monitor the department and measure the results in order to produce reports that we use to communicate with the dealer on a monthly basis. We stay with the dealer throughout the lifetime of our relationship. The bottom line is that they know what's going on and what they need to do to improve. It's nice to be part of something that nobody else offers.

We are extremely proud to receive the Quality Circle Award this year, and particularly proud to be the only manufacturer to receive this award each year for the past decade. We consider the DSI survey to be a critical measurement tool for the quality of our products, our sales and service programs and our manufacturing processes. The survey provides us with an important annual benchmark that shows how our dealer partners perceive the quality of Winnebago Industries products and services.

How you are going to finance something is as or more important than what you will be driving. You need to check banks and credit unions, and of course, with the financing manager at the dealer itself, to be able to arm yourself with the knowledge you need to negotiate.

Half these people out here who are getting autographs are getting it for somebody else -- a dealer or somebody, or to put it on eBay or whatever,

I would say what prompted this was all the misinformation. We just wanted to stand behind our guy....I think we could've gotten 7,700 signatures (for the ad) if we went dealer to dealer.

I was down in blackjack, now I'm up 600 bucks so I'm pretty excited about that. My dealer was Alfie, and he was being good to me the other night.

It is always a great honor for us to receive this award. Being named a top 100 dealer in North America is a real credit to our employees.

Malcolm soon became a burglar, a drug dealer and a drug user. He was caught by the police and received a 10 year prison sentence.

We are committed to helping automotive dealer customers create and convert more opportunities using Cobalt solutions.

The project is just beginning. We feel that, ultimately, you'll be able to go to the dealer and buy a car that drives itself.

Today's announcement puts Polaroid on a more solid footing to enter 1999 poised for profitable growth. During the past 18 months, Polaroid has confronted a series of global economic challenges and has reduced dealer inventories substantially.

The dealer took $2 000 (R12 000) off the asking price, as long as I agreed to make an appearance at his dealership some time in the future.

The dealer took $2,000 off the asking price, as long as I agreed to make an appearance at his dealership some time in the future. It's taken long enough, but I've finally come back to town to settle up.

The dealer sector is using smart repair more and more on its news and used products and we felt a local technician managing relationships with local dealers is the best way to manage this side of the business. By centralizing control of standards, training and invoicing we can ensure the highest quality service to franchisees and customers.

The dealer response has been fantastic. I have been involved with other successful Internet businesses in the past, but none where users understand the value so quickly. We plan to have reps responsible for each market to ensure we provide personal service along with the website.

The dealer is still bending over backwards to sell the car and could even be taking a loss on the deal. It is a tremendous buying opportunity if you are in the market for two cars.

The dealer is acting like an agent for this warranty company, and all they are really interested in, to some extent, is making money. It's a commission for them.

The dealer installation brings an additional layer of uncertainty into the process, ... The dealers have to be trained, and some will consider it to be more of a priority than others. There's less variation in factory installation.

The dealer has a good amount of leverage he can use with the factory to get goodwill consideration.

We'll then show how this will result in what's most important to the dealer and that's more gross profit.

I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.

The Only Things That Were Available To Me Were Either Be A Laborer Or Be A Drug Dealer. So I Became An Armed Robber. It Was A Lot Simpler.

We have been hearing various rumors today about bad positions. The last one deals with a convertible (debt) desk at a major primary dealer imploding. This continues to be a catalyst for the buying of Treasuries.

The program is growing month-over-month. Dealer feedback is positive. It allows customers to experience the Subaru brand at a lower price point, bringing new customers to the brand. It gives dealers an edge over used car sales and individual sales competition.

There is only so much of a spread between what the dealer pays for the vehicle and the dealer's profits. If you throw a broker in there, you're just throwing in another mouth to feed.

The good news for these referral services is that they are the dominant show on the Web, compared to AutoNationDirect.com and other dealer sites. The bad news is that with so much competition, they match each other feature-for-feature, and it's very hard to see any profits for them any time soon.

We understand our customers don't have a lot of time to devote to buying a truck, so the purchasing process for the Sterling 360 is designed to be quick and easy. Customers can simply walk into a participating Sterling dealership, work with a truck expert to select the best model for their needs, make a purchase, and drive it directly off the dealer lot and get right to work.

We do not, however, share the belief that any of these objectives can be achieved in the near term, given the structural impediments to rationalizing GM's cost base. These structural impediments include union contracts, legacy liabilities, and dealer agreements.

We don't think it's a good depiction of out brand. It's not an association we feel comfortable with, for obvious reasons. Every dealer I've talked to is not in favor of this relationship.

When consumers purchase a GM Certified Used Vehicle they get the peace of mind that comes with buying a fully inspected and reconditioned vehicle from the GM brands they know and trust, from a dealer they know is going to be there for them.

Every dealer we talked with had finance promotions going on. That's a little unusual. I don't recall, in recent years, anyway, when the company had zero-percent-down financing on the entire line of motorcycles.

At the time we made an announcement, we said we were sensitive to dealer concerns and that we would make modifications, ... The dealers were pretty direct in indicating they didn't want the manufacturer going into the retail business, owning dealerships 100 percent.

There will invariably be a better deal on offer elsewhere. If you stick with the same insurer, your car dealer - not you - has chosen your insurance policy for you, and it's highly likely that you'll end up paying over the odds.

The search is still continuing. The suspects tried to sell the car at a dealer but failed because it was still under the missing man's name.

These albums are some of the most exciting and rare finds I have had in the 20 years I have been a book dealer - because they are personal collections that are completely unique.

The show traces the emergence of an evolving art market and a new brand of dealer who was totally committed to the artists he represented.

Some will want to build it back up but I have one dealer who is 81 years old; what's she going to do?

Right now we'll sell directly if there is no dealer within 100 miles. Our main focus is now and will always be to direct (consumers) to a dealer.

Perhaps more important, our annual dealer sales of cars and trucks to retail customers has nearly doubled in that period, ... We have been consistently outperforming the industry in sales, and our share of the market has grown substantially.

Prices remain on the rise but there is hope that we may be nearing a peak. Wholesale gas prices have averaged about $2.60 per gallon for the past week. Taxes add about 60 cents to that, transportation and dealer profit is another 5-10 cents. Prices in the L.A./Long Beach area could peak at $3.25-$3.30 by mid-May then they could decline after Memorial Day.

Our dealer stocks are a little bit high but we believe this is necessary to support the spring selling season.

Our approach is not thinking how much do we shave dealer margins. Our approach is that as we come up with our products going forward that they have a strong point of view in the marketplace, that they represent good value and good quality to customers so that dealers can earn a good (margin) on them.

Dealers, consumers and third parties have reacted very enthusiastically to these segment-leading new vehicles. Sales, production, inventory turn rates and dealer orders are all ahead of plan. It's January, it's early, but we're optimistic that these great new products will be successful.

Dealer reaction to the program has been overwhelmingly positive. They welcomed the opportunity to bring in new customers who might not have previously considered buying a Hummer. We anticipate 100 percent of Hummer dealers will participate in the certified pre-owned program.

Any dealer who would sell on a Sunday would jeopardize their license by doing so. Consumers like the fact for six days a week, they can go into any dealership in Colorado and negotiate for a car and they also like the fact that on that 7th day, they go in and look at cars and not negotiate. They really like the peace and quiet. We get a lot of calls from consumers on a lot of issues, never on Sunday closing.

You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.

This gives the dealer a line of defense against Internet brokers. We launched the site in mid-January, and we now have 250 cash-and-carry stores signed up.

This change-or-die mentality is a very good one, in my opinion. I like the urgency. It's something we've been dealing with for a while. As a dealer now, I think the lessons we have learned is our parent company has to be healthy and profitable.

This guy knows knows sports the way an art dealer knows a painting, ... He will tell you intricacies of the game that most guys even the guys who bet money on games don't know. I've done a lot of movies, but I was learning from him on this one." ()

They may be a little slow for new models, ... (Chrysler) may still be pipeline filling, building up dealer inventories for Concorde. They have a lot of hopes pinned on those cars.

As we go forward, we will make intelligent decisions, looking at our dealer network, working with our dealer partners, to make sure that just as we are right-sizing our manufacturing footprint, we have the right size for our dealer footprint as well.

It's very difficult when you have as low a market share as they do to get dealers interested. A dealer has to sell a Mac, whereas he doesn't have to sell a Windows machine, since the Windows machine is a known quantity.

For a community hospital, Meditech is an ideal system, ... As an integrated system it has only one dealer which makes support and upgrading easier.

Then they're not only paying off this car but the last car. The dealer will assist them in finding out how to do that. If they do that enough they could be paying for several cars at once. The payments may seem lower, but something has to give at some point.

It's the adrenalin rush. It's the same rush you get when the dealer in a card game turns over the hole card.

It's like buying a car. You don't buy one from the first dealer you visit. You usually shop around.

It made perfect sense to combine these two key poker tournament functions into a single piece that could be circulated on the tabletop, from player to player. The DB Dealer can be set in five-minute increments up to 95 minutes, so no one will ever need to scramble to set and then reset any other alert system.

It's still craps and we give the player some control by telling the dealer how many cards they want to burn.

Everyone in the process makes a cut of the pie. The attorney who does the closing, the real estate appraiser makes his cut, the lender makes points and origination fees, the landowner sells his land and the manufactured-home dealer gets his commission.

It's been very, very quiet. We've heard a number of players pulling back from the market, both investors and the dealer community alike.

They can not dictate price, ... I went to a meeting three weeks ago with a (DaimlerChrysler) rep and a dealer asked 'How much should we price this at?' He responded, 'I don't want to hear any discussion of pricing.' That would be like price fixing, and it's blatantly illegal.

Small firms are always checking to see if another brand or dealer represents a better choice. But past experience with a brand continues to be an important factor in new PC selection.

Smart dealers know this is not a short-term product, not a low volume vehicle where there will always be a short supply. We've had complaints, and we've been very pro-active to try to prevent pricing issues. The zone manager will call them and talk to that dealer when we find out about it.

The consumers are never going to notice it. Over time, the dealer will notice it. Some of these stations are pumping close to a million gallons a month. Pretty soon, a penny here and a penny there starts adding up to real money.

In consumer surveys, most prefer dealer referral rather than direct. They want the best information available. Today, they want to do 60 percent of work online, and I see that migrating to 90 percent. But it's a big purchase decision. They want to validate it by going out and looking in person.

Initially, when they opened table games, no one had ever dealt cards. We advertised in the Las Vegas papers and it built upon itself. Every dealer in Las Vegas knows what's going on in Southern California. If they want to get a pretty good job and change their lifestyle, they come here. Our dealers make an awful lot of money.

I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.

I needed the devil to be charming, ... and there's no more charming a devil than Nic. Something about him makes an arms dealer likable. He was drawn to the material and took a big pay cut to do it.

If you can get a 25-year-old to your brand, get them a product that performs reliably and good dealer service, it's relatively easy to get that customer to buy the next five vehicles from you.

If you're at an antiques fair, and have been unable to beat the dealer down earlier in the day, pay a return visit at the end. They may be more inclined to accept your offer, rather than having to pack the piece up and take it home.

In addition to building one of the largest audiences of active car shoppers anywhere, our focus on quality is clearly reflected by this study. Whether it's through our $100 million dollar investment in advertising and promotion, or our powerful partnership network, we're committed to bringing quality, in-market car shoppers to our listings, and ultimately to our dealer partners. By providing our visitors with industry leading vehicle search functionality, more than 1.4 million vehicle listings and the resources they need to support their buying decision, we turn shoppers into buyers.

He separately negotiated a sale with a private art dealer from Europe.

I don't know if it's a seasonal uplift so much as that dealer incentives have been more focused on trucks than cars.

George Bush is a fan of mine -- he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

I do have a dealer car. But I'm putting 20,000 a year on those cars, so it's saving our department money because we're not claiming mileage (reimbursement).

He also meets a young drug dealer called Mile End Lee, and finally his girlfriend discovers Dave having sex with Mile End in the club toilet.

Go to Edmunds.com . Find out the dealer cost, print it out and bring it to the dealer. Now you're a serious player.

Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do.